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Re: The "Lurchmobile"
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:12 pm
by vw7266
I cleaned out some parts I was given recently..I had some of those and tossed them.
Re: The "Lurchmobile"
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:34 pm
by Six Volt
vw7266 wrote:I cleaned out some parts I was given recently..I had some of those and tossed them.
I hear you! I must have tossed plenty of those over the years figuring, "Who needs them?" Well, with a lot of these buses going on their second or third lives, those flapper boxes are rusted beyond all hope and we're starting to look for them again. I can't believe how they jacked up the prices! But then again, look at heat exchangers. If you told me a deal on a replacement HE would be $300, I would have said "No way!". I realize there's still some good used stuff out there if you look around, but how long will "used" be a deal with prices like these!
Check out the price for a pair of connecting elbows (the pipe between the HE & the flapper box) And who knows about the level of quality!
http://www2.cip1.com/ProductDetails.asp ... 7%2DJ13379
Re: The "Lurchmobile"
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:43 pm
by vw7266
easy to fix all that sean...sell it and get another early bus
Re: The "Lurchmobile"
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 6:56 pm
by Six Volt
vw7266 wrote:easy to fix all that sean...sell it and get another early bus
Yea, I'm not getting too crazy with this rehab. A passenger bus should be a nice change up as I have a house full of HS kids always wanting to get "dropped off".
Besides, Lurch already did all the hard work. I guess I get to enjoy it a bit!
You don't see too many splitty passenger buses. I'd love to have one. Josh has the coolest one by far.
Re: The "Lurchmobile"
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:33 pm
by Randy in Maine
Been here?
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/ ... id=1102505
I had to pay top dollar for mine at the Bus Depot.
Re: The "Lurchmobile"
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 10:48 pm
by Six Volt
I'm all over that price!
westy66 wrote:could you make those out of that autozone flexible exhaust piping? they go from the heater boxes to the heat tube "Y" ? ?
dont know much about those new-fangled buses
Although the link depicts 72-74 exhaust, the connector elbows are used on the '75-'78 set ups as well. Here's the link again. Look closely at the items and you'll see the so called connecting elbows between the "flapper" and the HE.
I like the Randy in Maine price link!
http://www2.cip1.com/ProductDetails.asp ... 7%2DJ13379
Re: The "Lurchmobile"
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 7:25 am
by Ken
Wow, didn't realize how expensive the heating system parts are for those late Bay's. You could put $1200-$1500 in a complete new system.
Re: The "Lurchmobile"
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 8:45 am
by lurch
that's why I rolled with a propane heater when I had it ,wasn't putting the price of the bus in to the heat
Re: The "Lurchmobile"
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 9:27 am
by Randy in Maine
I will be poking around my boxes of extra parts to see if I have what you are looking for. When I bought the "new bus" it came with 4 boxes of stuff + 3 engines (counting the dead one in the bus that had the 5 big meat flywheel bolts sheared off...never seen that before).
Re: The "Lurchmobile"
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 2:29 pm
by Six Volt
Randy in Maine wrote:I will be poking around my boxes of extra parts to see if I have what you are looking for. When I bought the "new bus" it came with 4 boxes of stuff + 3 engines (counting the dead one in the bus that had the 5 big meat flywheel bolts sheared off...never seen that before).
Thanks!