Something that had been wrong on our bus since we bought it was a funny clunk when turning corners, usually at an intersection. It was coming from the front end, and after a little investigation I determined that the spring pins and bushings were completely trashed, especially the passenger side ones. There was a large […]
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Wheel/hub inspection
I wanted to pull the wheel off to take a look at the springs closer, and practice with the torque multiplier. While off I cleaned up the crust on the wheel and gave it a spray of enamel paint to freshen it up. Reminded me a lot of working on Unimog wheels – about the […]
Primer materials
I’m using Omni MP243 aka spray mud as the primer. Its specified as a DTM primer if its clean steel. A light sanding afterward yields a completely adequate subsurface for topcoat. I thought I’d hate working with rivets and crappy surfaces that will never get fixed (usually I’m block sanding everything) but I have embraced […]
Riveting bus sheet metal
I live near Boeing, land of riveted aircraft. I think nowdays it’s mostly robots doing the riveting, but anywhoo, I needed to figure out how to rivet bus skins. Here’s a collection of things I learned when riveting the panels. First, get a 4x rivet gun. You’ll realize that not only can you use it […]
Oh god what have I done
Just kidding. It all still works. I think I pulled close to 1000 feet of wire out of the bus. There are three wires on the main dash/cluster connector that confuse me however – hot pink, light brown with stripes, and dark brown with stripes. I’m not sure where they go, because they were connected […]
Ceiling panel thoughts
So I guess I’m pulling down the interior roof panels. I thought about leaving them up until after raising the roof to get more rigidity, but decided they’d just get in the way more. Also since there will be a height transition in the front, they will get in the way for that too. I […]