My 1979 LHD WESTY US Import

Same paint as before, look at post no.50 in this thread.

 

List of jobs to do before 22 Jan:

Sand and paint roof rack, refit brackets and refit to roof.

Fit new alternator bracket

Check rattle in exhaust

Make rear mudflap brackets (doubtful)

Sort front brake pipes properly

Fit new front wheel bearings

Drop engine and gearbox and look at shifter problem (also doubtful)

Drop off front seats to be recovered

Clean up along sills and rust treat

Clean up underneath and rust treat and stone chip as required

Hmm longer list than I thought

 

Bit more sanding done,

 

Ignore this picture, its for another forum, just abusing the free Tapatalk upload

 

Wire wheeled the rust off and painted the bracket's for the roof.

 

Is that a rare Westfalia two connector black box?

Admittedly, it's not a three connector, but when you only see one in a lifetime...

 

What are you painting it with?

 

No not westfalia, but actual real life VW towbar ECU

 

Same stuff as before, basically white gloss paint, lechler, post no.50 on this thread.

 

Sorry, I was to distracted by the possible sighting of a Westfslia two plug box to register that....

 

Yes that is a bit of a distraction!!

Was a while ago that I last painted it though

 

Finished the sanding off and got it painted tonight

Paint had separated a bit!! Then again I did last use it in may 2012!!



Mixed it up again and alls good



And the paint

 

Brackets now on.

Painted Matt black, then used M5 Allen head screws with nyloc nuts and used a piece of flat aluminium bar to act as a spreader behind.

 

Last weekend I started fitting my solar panels, had them since August so not bad going for me.

Tiger sealed on



Charge controller mounted

 

Ordered some grommets so I could put the cables through the roof.

Scary times, drilling the roof!!



Grommets in and wires pushed through



Made a bracket for the branch connectors

 

Drilled more holes in the roof and mounted the bracket



Just the final holes to drill through the metal roof!!! And connect upto the charge controller.

Oh and if you hadn't realised I pretty much copied what @theBusmonkey did with his setup.

 

No faff once installed and yes charges the battery.

 

basically keeps the leisure battery topped up. Park up and you know staraight away that the lesiure battery is going to getting some charge.

means you dont have to have hook up everywhere you camp. I am too tight to pay for hook up (although not too tight to spend money on solar panels) and tbh I like the idea of being self sufficient. We hopefully be doing some longer trips into europe in the next couple of years.