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thanks for the compliments. Glad you all like it too.
For the tires/adapters. We are still not shure about what to do with them, keep the originals on or put the audi rims on. Great to see there are some possibility's for making adapters if we decide to go for the audi rims.
I hope the weather will be dry saturday, because we wanted to start with the isolation job and our garage is to small to work inside. By then I can take some proper pictures also.
Cheers
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So here they are as promised. Some proper pictures (even had some sunshine today ;-) ). That's it for today. Tomorrow we'll start with isolation of the back. Still looking for some doorhandles with locks by the way. Cheers
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Looks great Michiel. You have done well so far.
Sitting with an iPhone doing this entry. Want One now.
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Nov 16, 2009 20:49:47 GMT
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Hello Everybody, Here a small update from what we're doing at the moment. First picture: The floor how it was. nothing more the a basic primer coat. Second picture: We painted the floor with some stuff named "bodysafe". 3th picture: Some more bodysafe :-) 4th picture: we placed mats based on "bitumen" (don't know it this is also the word in english) for sound deadening On top of this bitumen, we will place a plywood floor. Pictures of this will follow soon :-)
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This weekend we placed the floor in our van. We use planks which push the wood against the floor via the roof. I think we let the planks stay there for about 2 weeks to let the glue dry to it's full strength. Next step will be fixing the electrics I think.
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Nice progress Michiel,
Bitumen is Bitumen pretty much everywhere I think.
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Aug 10, 2010 20:09:31 GMT
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Looking at my last post, it's been a long while since we made some progress on the bus. Unfortunately we can't work so much in the winter due to our small garagebox. There is some progress though. First of all our new steerbox is fixed. very tight steering now :-). Second, we restored the seats we got from oldbus. they're looking great in my opinion. The dashboard will also be covered with the same leather.
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Mar 12, 2014 11:33:57 GMT
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Hey all, Long long time ago, I started with restoring my FK1250 Transit van. Now, it's finally up and running again. I'm a very happy man driving around in my oldtimer. Here's the result. Hope you all like it. Cheers, Smeigel
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Mar 12, 2014 12:41:53 GMT
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very nice! if you ever pass Gullegem, come and say hi
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Mar 12, 2014 13:05:48 GMT
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Hi Johnny, Gullegem is a long drive with this little van :-). Unfortunately my petrol tank and radiator are both leaking so My engine is running very hot with long drives. Still looking for a replacement.
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