hi all, well here is my project...a 73hightop camper.i bought the bus off a guy that bought it off a guy from the mainland....dude i bought it from said he got it home and went to take it for a drive the next day and it just started smoking blue real bad and had no idea how to fix it. all the quotes he was getting scared him, so i made it just in time to save it from the crusher (or so he was threatning in the ad).so i replaced the Pistons&cylinders and found a set of rebuilt heads from someone on here that works at KMS tools(cant remember his name)and new sparkplug's, wires, distributor cap,replace the thermostat with a working one...removed the heater boxes and replaced them with type 4 heaterbox replacement tubes and removed the gas tank for inspection and cleaning.
i bought a rusty old 914 header (or so i was told)for cheap and had it blasted and found it was solid, with just one little seperation crack near the flange,that i welded up. just have to find a usable muffler, respray some engine tin, clean up the 34mm webers then finish putting everything back on the engine and reinstalling tank,new gas lines etc & reinstalling engine.find a good usuable windshield..then bobs yer uncle.
my future plans for this bus is tubb'd both front and back and convert to K&Link pin narrowed adjustable front beam and adjustable spring plates & drop plates converted to wide5 in the rear. then drop it down in the weeds properly
.install some 40mm Dellortos and some other "minor pimping" lol...but for now,get it ready for summer camping (i plan on alot of that foshow!)who knows, i may get camping and decide not to lower it....
this is when i brought it home
after taking the heads off and inspecting things
installing new Pistons&Cylinders
interrior mocked up, what you'll basically see when you enter "THE HALL OF THE MOUNTAIN KING" (said Vigorously with the loudest of loud manly man voices(with a touch of german accent thrown in)