Our First Baywindow Bus
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Our First Baywindow Bus
Hi guys,
Been looking for quite sometime now and finally stumbled upon her. We collected her last week Friday and was super excited to finally have her home. Shes a 74 Baywindow, apparently a one owner bus. Here are a few photos from the day that we collected her.
Shes complete, not missing anything that i know of except for the rear door inner panel. Has all her seats, door panels and wheel caps. We have since then stripepd out the seats and threw out the old carpets, scrubbed, and cleaned the floors, door panels and seats. Cut new boards for the front and rear door.
Will upload more when i get some time.
Thanks for looking.
Robin
Been looking for quite sometime now and finally stumbled upon her. We collected her last week Friday and was super excited to finally have her home. Shes a 74 Baywindow, apparently a one owner bus. Here are a few photos from the day that we collected her.
Shes complete, not missing anything that i know of except for the rear door inner panel. Has all her seats, door panels and wheel caps. We have since then stripepd out the seats and threw out the old carpets, scrubbed, and cleaned the floors, door panels and seats. Cut new boards for the front and rear door.
Will upload more when i get some time.
Thanks for looking.
Robin
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Re: Our First Baywindow Bus
Congrats, I am glad to see that my add paid off.
Hope you have many happy travels and accumulate a lifetime's worth of memories with the bus.
The most important thing needed before a long trip is to replace the engine seal to prevent overheating.
Hope you have many happy travels and accumulate a lifetime's worth of memories with the bus.
The most important thing needed before a long trip is to replace the engine seal to prevent overheating.
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Re: Our First Baywindow Bus
Enjoy the life of bay travels that you will be starting
What was the damage for the bus if I might ask
What was the damage for the bus if I might ask
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Re: Our First Baywindow Bus
Hi jmvv, Thanks soo much!!!jmvv wrote:Congrats, I am glad to see that my add paid off.
Hope you have many happy travels and accumulate a lifetime's worth of memories with the bus.
The most important thing needed before a long trip is to replace the engine seal to prevent overheating.
Yes, your the reason with have our bus today, without your add we would have still been looking for our bus.
The oil seal that you are referring to is that the slight leak that the bus has?
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Thanks Warwick! We looking forward to fun times in her!Warwick-Lowlight wrote:Enjoy the life of bay travels that you will be starting
What was the damage for the bus if I might ask
We paid R22 000.00
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Re: Our First Baywindow Bus
congrats on your new bus, enjoy the roadtrips !!!
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Thanks a stack yohbie! We are very excited about her and can't wait to get working on her again. Will hold you too it hope your bus is on the road really soonyohbie wrote:@NTO Congratulation! She looks awesome. We should all do a road once I have my bus sorted and running.
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Thanks jolas! I remember chatting to you when I found the forum, long ago.. it's great to now finally post photos of our own bus. Thanks for the help back then and believe me, we can't wait for the road trips too startjolas wrote: congrats on your new bus, enjoy the roadtrips !!!
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Re: Our First Baywindow Bus
NTO wrote:jmvv wrote:
The oil seal that you are referring to is that the slight leak that the bus has?
You will notice a gap between the engine tin (black bit) and the body structure (lighter bit) in the picture.
A dedicated rubber seal goes in there to prevent hot air from the bottom of the engine being sucked back into the cooling fan, thus reducing cooling efficiency.
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]jmvv wrote:NTO wrote:jmvv wrote:
The oil seal that you are referring to is that the slight leak that the bus has?
You will notice a gap between the engine tin (black bit) and the body structure (lighter bit) in the picture.
A dedicated rubber seal goes in there to prevent hot air from the bottom of the engine being sucked back into the cooling fan, thus reducing cooling efficiency.
The oil seal that you are referring to is that the slight leak that the bus has?[/quote][/quote]
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Aaahhh yes, i see that!! Ill try and get a replacement, Valie gave me the name of a place last night that makes door and window seals, want to get hold of them today and ill ask them about that seal, thanks for pointing it out!
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Re: Our First Baywindow Bus
thats a sweet looking bus, congrats
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Thanks Ryan!!MarshallGTi wrote:thats a sweet looking bus, congrats
Will post more photos of the progress we have on her thus far.
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