Brandon's 71 Westy

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CraigOnTheBoat wrote:Your not done yet, that disco bus needs this on the top.

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Oh man, that would be sweet to have on the roof!!!
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Nice Brandon it looks awesome. Big improvement since the last time I saw it. Are you going to the November meeting. If so would love to see some more pics.
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Worked all day Saturday on this top and still didn't get it done all the way. I ended up pulling the sides too tight and ended up with excess fabric towards the back. To correct that I will need to take out some of the screws from both sides and pull the fabric back a bit. A special thanks to Kyle and Bill for allowing me to use their shops to complete this project. Also a special thanks to Dan for replacing the numerous seals on my Bus. I will hopefully be finishing up tomorrow with the top so I can get it home to put in the panels and new floor and then reassemble the interior.

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Mbkeith74 wrote:Nice Brandon it looks awesome. Big improvement since the last time I saw it. Are you going to the November meeting. If so would love to see some more pics.
I'll hopefully be driving the Bus to the November meeting.
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Well sweet let me know if you want to meet up and go out there.
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Is it spring yet? I'm going stir crazy not being able to drive any of these VW's. Anyways, a few Fridays ago Josh assisted me..(wait maybe I was the one assisting him) by yanking the motor out of my Bus and getting it over to his house for a REBUILD!! Last night we successfully tore down the engine to see what we're dealing with. From the looks of it, it has already been rebuilt a while back (with some crappy parts too, GEX heads :( ). But with a little hard work, we'll have it back to it's former glory.

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Josh and I keep plugging along with my engine rebuild. Now I'm just waiting on heads from Rich Sedoris and I still need to purchase carbs, fuel pump, distributor, clutch, etc, etc.

Throughout the week I've been slowly getting all of the engine tin cleaned up and painted.
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Assembled crankshaft
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Case halves ready to be assembled together.
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Crankshaft and cam installed
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Shortblock assembled!!!
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It's all good, just hard to see in the pic. He triple checked them!
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I see you tested the Budweiser as well. Very thorough! ;)
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