Swedish 78 bay taxi

I’ve ordered the wrong parts so many times too! JK are good at accepting returns when I’ve made that mistake before


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Nice bus! Im in Skåne and doing a similiar bare metal restoration on my 78 Westy.

 

Hi Clive.
I read your resto thread a while ago. I have not sen any posting from you in a while.
I’ m near Gävle.


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Its still getting welded..the over 30 temps in Sweden have made it hard for the welder so I said just hold off until the weather gets cooler.

 

I understand. We have had some stupid hig temps. Not so good these weekend.
I hope to ser the sun again this weekend. Im going to Bug Run Classic in Tierp. No big chance of meeting any friendly TLB’s there i guess? Maybe you Clive??


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Would love to but im currently at work in Trinidad..

 

Hard life bud. Its probably cooler there than in Europe at the moment...

 

Around 30...hotter in Sweden...the wife said it was 35 the other day on the motorway!

 

Picked a great summer to be without a camper!

 

So I got started on coating the inside of the rear right outer fender. So I hopefully can get started on putting som new metal on the bus.

First I cleaned it from transport colure then treated it whit phosphoric acid. Rubbed it down with 80 grid.


Then three coats of 2K epoxy primer.

I’m buying Paint and filler from my local auto body shop guy. So I can get good advices on doing the preparation before paint.



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Got some more 2k primer on today.
Soon time to start fitting battery tray and outer fender.



And some fiddling whit the bottom pice of the c pillar.


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tidy

 

Ey lad

 

Ey up 1/2 blood, ar wud tha know

 

Proper job. Keep the pics coming....

 

It always feels good when you start putting metal back on the project.
Try fitting the fender.
Not a perfect fit but with some fiddling it should be ok.
And getting some odd metal prices fitted so I can get the battery tray in place soon.
Preparing for next weekend so I can start welding some more metal in place.


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Looking good mate! Think the rear was my favourite bit to repair on ours. Not sure why.


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Got started on welding in the battery tray and the outer fender.
It’s a bit scary to weld the fender hoping too make it whiteout too much oil can effect. On the flat surface. Cooling the spot weld with compressed air directly after the puddle solidifies.


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taken shape nicely