My 1960 SO23 Westfalia

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Re: My 1960 SO23 Westfalia

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Sean,..you leave nothing behind !!🤘🏿
Aircooled motor for the 850?
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Re: My 1960 SO23 Westfalia

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Eugene wrote: Wed Apr 01, 2020 9:46 am So is it done yet :twisted:
Hush please

Don't worry, there is enough time before George 2021.
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More pics.

This is one of the best activities is when you get to scratch through the farm scrap yard.
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Piece of gold found. Not from this bus, but a perfectly straight pressed bumper is a good prize.
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Now some pics of the interior.

Original sealing wax red on the inside.
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Hacked dashboard for terrible gauges.
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Well preserved original sunvisors
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Chair in need of some upholstery
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Home made camper interior. Some may recognize the cushions from the old SAR carriages.
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Carpeted roof lining
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Dodgy mechanical work. Plumbing fittings and the bowden tube not even located to the gearbox.
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Rather creepy animal parts falling out of the starter motor
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Twin port motor removed. Started on the floor and runs amazingly well.
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sean wrote: Thu Apr 02, 2020 8:52 pm This is one of the best activities is when you get to scratch through the farm scrap yard.
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Piece of gold found. Not from this bus, but a perfectly straight pressed bumper is a good prize.
I love scratching through plaasgemors on an old inland farm.

Lucky score with the pressed bumper! :mrgreen:
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Amazing to see that the motor runs... Really is gold you found there!
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Some more disastrous issues that have been keeping me busy because of a man "trying" to carry out a conversion and shouldn't have been allowed to own an angle grinder.

Note how low the engine is hanging. The engine cradle and forks had been cut out and a baywindow IRS suspension and gearbox installed (extremely badly).

First issue, the engine was only 4cm off the ground. Again, how could this oke have stood back and said this is a marvelous improvement???
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Home made engine brace
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Heater boxes just laying against the engine brace. Note the NOS VW exhaust, I did remove this to preserve.
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Gearbox plate just welded direct to the body. This entire motor was solid to the body, no rubber mounts at all. What a terrible experience it must have been to drive it. :o
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Home made selector coupling
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Baywindow suspension. Note where the shock mount is. :shock: Instead of being at the bottom, its been rotated completely into the incorrect position.This was obviously to somehow mount it onto a splits spring blade. Hence it has no shocks as it wasnt possible to install.
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More from the baywindow hackjob.
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Engine bay also been hacked to accommodate this bastard conversion.
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come on Sean, at the rate you work, thats only a half days worth of repairs.
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Tony Z wrote: Tue Apr 07, 2020 10:33 pm come on Sean, at the rate you work, thats only a half days worth of repairs.
It's probably done already :roll:
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More on the abortion.

Take a look at this wheel after this conversion. You don't need a wheel alignment machine to see this is skew.
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Engine and gearbox removed.
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Possibly the worst installation of a foreign light I've ever seen. It appears a thousand holes were drilled and then cut with some tin snips.
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Eugene wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2020 7:52 am
Tony Z wrote: Tue Apr 07, 2020 10:33 pm come on Sean, at the rate you work, thats only a half days worth of repairs.
It's probably done already :roll:
Yes. :lol:

This is what I did yesterday.

I had been keeping this half cut up / rusted single cab since fixing my red Fleetline single cab and many times wanted to throw it away because it looks so hideous, but never did because of believing a may need more parts off it. Well, the time came and I removed the engine hanger and forks from it.
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Westy body being prepared to have replacement installed.
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Balancing act with a jack and the wife having to help hold the donor part in place.
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top sections welded in.
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Bottom forks welded in.
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Job done. Trolley wheels installed for now as the underside must be sandblasted and painted first.
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Geez bud...speechless :hangloose:
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Sean, you're a machine! :hangloose:
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Re: My 1960 SO23 Westfalia

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Wow, you are moving. Nice. well done.
I managed to break my second baby grinder today while cleaning paint and rust of my Westy bumper.
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Re: My 1960 SO23 Westfalia

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Speechless,.....probably why it was never completed,....now that is a proper hack job,

Would definatly cancel that guy's angle gringer license ! 👀😜,.....and take his welder away!!!

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