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Haha I keep that glide factor in mind when I see the hairpin in the road and have lost my single circuit brake hydraulics... But we did improve the air resistance coefficient .. 3 windows out and a ss steel sheet in, nicely tucked under the roof sheet.. a two person job. It was not that easy...

A little more progress. Getting ready for covering up the last three windows on the driver side. Undoing some of the glue work of the roofing sheet so that the side covering can slide under it. Although sikaflex can be very strong I rather trust overlapping so that a water leak is impossible...

Thanks folks, just started the other side.. these are old hoods from the University. Bought them for the stainless material , lucky I did .. also cut a stainless sheet for covering the last three windows on the driver side. It is cover sheet from a commercial.kitchen. pretty thin. Curious how...

A couple of intense grinding days. This is the most complicated side. First removal of the old aluminum, rivets and glue was a pain. This construction glue is not kids white elmers glue. What a pain. I wanted it to be tucked under the roof so that it is inherently leak free. The ssteel is a...

Although the cylinder has some bad pitting I still feel it would be fun to see if it could run.. so I ordered a new intake valve from saturn for 7.50 + shipping. My eye notices the poor exhaust damper so I thought to practise my welding . It is not a work of art but is was fun playing. Johan

Unfortunately not much to show for. Cut the bottom fiberglass above the windshield straight.. welded up a bracket that connects the cab/ bed unistrut frame to the A frame post.. tested how much the fuel tank had to be lowered to get access to the fuel cap now that it is mounted under the...

First attempt at a floor plan. The 404 cab section is not to exact scale. Only the driver front wheel is in the drawing. The two part rear side door will be modified I to one smaller door of 700 to 800 mm wide. About 200mm will interfere with the wheel well. Entrance and walk thru shower are...

Another small step. But good for moral.. Not sure what time do next. Close the front... Or first get a better feel how to make the front seats go up and down and swivel. I got a couple of front seats out of a "modern" mercedes from the junkyard. They have electric up down and slide. If I...

We removed the wooden frame against the ceiling that was used to lift the bus body with the forklift. Then we made a frame of unistrut to build of to the the 404 cab. We also used unistrut for the bed frame above the front seats. Together this increased the stiffness of the bus body. Next step...

I was curious about the inside so decided to pull the rear end cap of. Nice big tapered roller bearing. Drained the remaining oil, green snot out of it and re- assembled. Looks like the valves need a special wrench to unscrew. I cleaned as good as I could and thought to let it run and pump some...

Did some more teardown.. beheaded the compressor.. Cleaned up pretty good but there seems to be a loose ring inside low end. Tomorrow o will get the cylinder of and see what is wrong in there. Johan

Thanks NDT,. Maybe a bit to much for me for this project. Some will show up at FB. Found one for 35 but it is not close and it looks that it has been outside in the weather as well . I opened some more up of what I have here. One rusted out intake valve, exhaust is good, Val seats are...

It has been a while, some progress has been made.. the pivoting subframe that holds the busbody has been welded and mounted.. the aluminum busbody is cleaned from the rusted crossmembers and is now placed directly on the pivoting subframe.. Some test have been done with the 404 frame twisting...

Thanks NDT, guyfang sure did,. I guess I am the first reader on this site.. Connie has for sure a couple of things going for her.. probably have to put her on the fridge, not sure how the wife is going to take that. Anyhow, curiosity got the most of me so I decided to tear into it a bit ...

Is there still any parts supply. Like head gasket and rings. If I want to be safe I have to take the head off and see how bad it is inside.. Johan

Great thank you, this is s cute piece of equipment, I hope I can get it running. Johan

Thanks guyfang, I looked there and did not see but as often the case in the hardware store that when I can not find the thing I am looking for and ask advise they take me back to the same spot and say there it is , all the time right in front of me, dylexic with things I guess. Will look again...

Thank you, I will check the compressor part first . Is there a manual about the 1 ao 8 engine. Google showed only a couple of posts with little mention of details. I did like the sticker mentioning $1000.. I assume in 1968.. would this be the decommiaioning sticker or the new build a quiring...

Evening folks, At my local scrapyard I picked up this pretty complete air compressor. Clean oil in compressor and gasoline motor but nevertheless locked up... Aluminum frame, fuel and airtank mounted below the frame . Rubber in decent shape. May I have searched at the wrong places but I cannot...

Amazing, a year later and so little progress in this field Over thanksgiving my brother came over from the Netherlands. It was nice to work together as family and the extra hands ,eyes and most important motivation and enthusiasm did the trick. My brother is on the right , I am on the le.., eh...