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That manual is extremely comprehensive. I wish i had it when i rebuilt the steering ram, I had to figure out how it worked all on my lonesome. The manual has multiple sectioned and exploded views, plus a full explanation of the workings.

So I owe Tumeke a blowie or something, he has scanned the complete manual to pdf for me, what a GC.

I happen to own a set of rollers so I rolled some shit; And I attached yet more laser cut things to some SHS to get this; Then after much measuring, tacking and dicking around I have this; It was surprisingly difficult to get all the angles and spaces just right. It is within a few mm now though. It looks a bit Boris without the sloping front and back, that will be rectified shortly. And thanks to GC Threeonthetree I have this item; I am almost certainly going to mod the existing wheel to take a quick release and this....

That is one sexy rack

I might let the kids do what they want with the outside paint, I am way more interested in the underlying form of things. I have been thinking about a window there, but it wouldn't be the best if there was a rack, although this does depend on the rack design. If I did anything it would be a splitty type arrangement, 2x flat windows. I looked pretty hard at this when I was at the wreckers browsing windows and seats, the main issue is the steel around the window frame. In vans etc framing has an inner and outer sheet, and it spaces out pretty wide straight away from the seal for shell stiffness, and this makes it a bit harder to fit. I will go have another look tho, it might work out.

I have looked for something like this, couldn't find anything. Good to know they are out there. Nothing has happened that is not covered by the owners manual yet, but still.

yea they are sweet old wagons.

Pretty sure I have a driveshaft, although condition is probably debatable, I will have a look. How long do you need it?

Is it a Haynes manual or something? Be pretty keen for a copy tbh, I have the owners manual and it is surprisingly comprehensive, but anything would be good. I have a metric shit ton of parts, s4 included if you are after anything. Post some pics for me!

Paul at fabriweld. I think he cut the base parts for $150+gst or thereabouts, it is cheap as anything really. There is no way you could get the same result by hand.

Ha, it is just the easiest way to make shit accurately. It helps a lot to have cad, so not for everyone. The dude with the laser in Nelson is my favourite man, I get all sorts of things made that way now. I don't know how I survived without him.

Bright and early this morning, time to piss off the neighbors (one set of which truly deserves it). I went around and cleaned up where i was going to cut, easier to do it now with a flattish surface.. Some extra tasty swiss cheese. Then I got to cutting using a bit of 50x25 sitting on the gutter as a guide; Then I propped up one side and got the forklift hard up against the bus, and lifted it off.... At this point I cackled quite a lot. I can stand up in it now. The lip left below my cut held quite a bit of that cheesy goodness, so I cut it off where applicable - this got rid of 95% of the grot; Then I took most of the windows out as I reckoned it would be less chance of getting damaged. I had to drill out some screws, the last screw popped through, knocked the window which fell out onto the concrete Rather fortunately nothing broke, altho the frame is a bit bent, but whatevs, stoked. Then I bought it inside the workshop and rust converted everything I could see. I cannot help but wish that I was turning this into a sweet ute.... Also the edge of that bit of roof left had been repaired in the time honored fashion; 2014 was a good year for soggy newspaper and bog filling materials :) I thought I had better leave the rust converter to do it's thing so that's it for the day.

You sir are a genius. Actually I should just bore out the boss kit i bought and hammer it on to the shaft... :blackeye:

Yea I talked to the cert man about just this, he says no problem in principal. i have a lathe so can sort it out if done this way. However it does not look like there is heaps of meat in there, but it is a bit hard to say. It would be useful to do it this way as the boss has a couple of split pins that do the indicator return.

So the wheel has been sorted thanks to ToTT, but now i have run into an issue with finding a boss kit. I bought a standard Nissan one, 36 spline/16mm but this is too small for it. It is definitely 36 spline, but the shaft is more like 17.5mm. The closest I can find is a landrover discovery one with these specs, but i can't find one on TM, although i have not yet rung Repco or super shit. I have also rung a couple of truck parts places, but no go. Any suggestions?

So the wheel has been sorted thanks to ToTT, but now i have run into an issue with finding a boss kit. I bought a standard Nissan one, 36 spline/16mm but this is too small for it. It is definitely 36 spline, but the shaft is more like 17.5mm. The closest I can find is a landrover discovery one with these specs, but i can't find one on TM, although i have not yet rung Repco or super shit. I have also rung a couple of truck parts places, but no go. Any suggestions?

Yea I forgot about comac, I used to use them all the time for prototyping stuff for work. The rack is a cert now, I just can't see why not to do it...

Thought i had better do a lol MS paint jobbie of my vision Maybe a sweet rack at the front of the roof too?

Chur, PM sent.

Sweet, that will be the go I reckon. Who has got one for me?

I had a 2.5tc for a good long while, I recall the hugeness

Who is Grant? Bear in mind I am not after nice, I am after cheap and functional..

How big are those boys?

This is good, I will investigate.

As per a suggestion in my bus thread I want to make the steering wheel on the bus removable. The shaft spline looks like it will fit a standard Nissan boss kit and there are add ons that will make it detachable, but I am struggling to find a steering wheel big enough that is a standard boss mount... The current wheel is 430mm diameter and the bus has no power steering so keeping it big diameter is pretty important. Any suggestions?