64 VW Double-Door camper bus

The roof right above the rain gutter was all rusted out. I cut many sections out and replaced them with new metal. At the time I was doing this no one was making these sections so I had to make my own.

Sections both above and below the rain gutter above the back hatch needed replaced as well due to rust.

The front passenger floor was rusted out so it needed to be replaced.

Here is the funky green panel trimmed and preped to be welded in.

Here it is looking from the driver side after being welded in.

Passenger side rocker was rusted out... The rear passenger side cargo door was also rusted far to much to fix so it was replaced with a door from another bus.

So it got replaced as well... Only the outer needed to replaced. The inner rocker was still very solid. Used funky green panels for this as well. They really do fit nice.

Floor just inside the passenger rocker was also all rusted out so it also got replaced.

I installed this one by drilling a ton of holes and doing a bunch of plug welds.

Area above the passenger rear wheel was all messed up and so I replaced it... Didn't find out this was that bad until it got back from the media blaster.

I started by cutting a hole below where the mount would be so I could slide the mounting plate up inside the B pillar. I used the mounting plate as a guide to drill a whole for the bolt and 4 plug welds to hold it in place.

I slid the plate up in the b pillar and used a bolt to hold it in place while I welded the plugs I had drilled. The plugs hold the plate in place but the real holding power is the bolt itself.

Here it is welded in place and the welds ground down ready for body work and paint

Here it is with the belt mounted in place to test it out.

Here are the bracket I had made to install the 911 front brakes. I made templates out of plywood and had

Jerry at NWCR make them out of 1/2 plate.

Here it is with the 911 hub rotor and caliper. I also had to get a space made to fit into the 911 hub so the

bearings lines up on the spindle.

Here is the IRS with CB performance bug disk brake kit installed.

Here is the control arm bracket from the Wolfgang IRS kit. It also shows the bracket

I made to get all the brake lines to work.

Here you can see the whole IRS setup minus the passenger axle. I used thing

stubs axles and drive flanges so I could use bus CV joints. This was necessary

since I am keeping the van at stock height. Bug CV joints can't deal with the angle

required to keep the bus at stock height.

Here is the oil cooler I built that mounts above the transmission. The fan pulls air

through the cooler when the oil reaches temperature.