Introducing the Fag Bus...
I’ll work on the name but it suits for now.
Admittedly this is going to probably going to be a carbon copy of a lot of builds which is to take an abused ex-workie van and turn it into a plush family friendly home from home on reliable(‘ish) wheels.
So this adventure started last month when this sorry looking example came up for sale local to me with a reported knackered gearbox. This suited me as I had a spare gearbox for it, sadly the gearbox wasn’t the cause of the lack of brum brum..
The previous owner had owned the van for ten years almost to the day and was genuinely gutted to see it go.
I think I gave too much for the van in the end and since I’m juggling other projects (like most of us!) I’m going to try and build this up on a very tight budget.
So here she is as bought,
Since the engine wouldn’t turn I knew the issue wasn’t likely to be with the gearbox. So first job up was to take the sump off and start checking the internals.
Difficult to see from a photo but this isnt right, hard to tell if the rod is bent or not but it shouldnt be sitting like that.
So there was no avoiding it, the head had to come off.
BUGGER!...
In-between crying over broken valves, I started to take a look at the inside... funky was the only word that springs to mind and not in a good hippy psychedelic sense.
The guy was a dirty pig! He admitted the van had never seen a bucket of water in 10 years so really I should of seen this coming.
I mean WTF?
The Dirty B@stard!
And the cleaning continued, another good name would of been the creepy crawly bus. Since it was used as a gardening skip I think every nook is stuffed with garden debris. Ideally I would of jet washed this out but since the vans stuck inside and I had nothing else to do I started at it by hand.
I’ll work on the name but it suits for now.
Admittedly this is going to probably going to be a carbon copy of a lot of builds which is to take an abused ex-workie van and turn it into a plush family friendly home from home on reliable(‘ish) wheels.
So this adventure started last month when this sorry looking example came up for sale local to me with a reported knackered gearbox. This suited me as I had a spare gearbox for it, sadly the gearbox wasn’t the cause of the lack of brum brum..
The previous owner had owned the van for ten years almost to the day and was genuinely gutted to see it go.
I think I gave too much for the van in the end and since I’m juggling other projects (like most of us!) I’m going to try and build this up on a very tight budget.
So here she is as bought,
Since the engine wouldn’t turn I knew the issue wasn’t likely to be with the gearbox. So first job up was to take the sump off and start checking the internals.
Difficult to see from a photo but this isnt right, hard to tell if the rod is bent or not but it shouldnt be sitting like that.
So there was no avoiding it, the head had to come off.
BUGGER!...
In-between crying over broken valves, I started to take a look at the inside... funky was the only word that springs to mind and not in a good hippy psychedelic sense.
The guy was a dirty pig! He admitted the van had never seen a bucket of water in 10 years so really I should of seen this coming.
I mean WTF?
The Dirty B@stard!
And the cleaning continued, another good name would of been the creepy crawly bus. Since it was used as a gardening skip I think every nook is stuffed with garden debris. Ideally I would of jet washed this out but since the vans stuck inside and I had nothing else to do I started at it by hand.
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