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binz conversion?
I vote yes. 😎
Dunno why I bought the 60 single either… softie for a transporter in need I guess. That Binz conversion idea is a bad one, too many parts to fab that KF don’t make, Binz’s are kinda ugly I think, compared to a factory dc, and from what I’ve seen those trucks are a freaking hack from the factory. I was thinking custom camper on the back, but it’s waay on the back burner, this thread is about ddwt’s 😆
I finished stripping the cadaver to the bone and stuck it on the rack, 4 wheeled dolly that works better on 3. There are welds that need to be finished that I could not get to any other way, and a big hole under the driver’s seat pedestal that couldn’t get fixed without the beam coming out. The suspension and trans need a good cleaning and there is lots of bare metal down there now that needs protection. Didn’t want to do it but knew it had to be done. I just added 6 months of time to this project.
Drive train looks pretty good for 59 years old. Looks like og shocks on the rear, coil overs on the front 🙄 to compensate for the torsion bar sticking out, I don’t think this rig saw too many miles.
Got the last of the removables off the cadaver, E brake handle, shift rod, rear hatch – all the fun stuff 🙄 Got to the hole under the seat pedestal, if transporters have a hell hole like a 914, this is it. Spent most of 2 days in this little spot, found more rust above my bulkhead repairs when I could see behind, but it’s solid now.
Still moving forward. Lots of little odds and ends. I stripped my roof with a pneumatic polisher and a 6″ stripit disc. I can see the metal now and feel it, started beating out the big hammer wallops and things are beginning to go back in place 😮 . With the new floors, pillars and inner structure the carcass is solid again, rings like a drum when you bang on it or flip it back rusty side up 😆 not like the wet noodle I started with.
I had to fab a piece of engine seal lip. First I picked up a piece of green metal scrap and bent it around a steel rod about the size of a front torsion bar. The green was hard to bend and didn’t look right so I picked up a scrap of black stuff – the cheap Danish panel material, bent like butter! The Colombian metal is thicker and stronger than the euro stuff 🙂
I need a spare tire mount. Franz can you hook me up? I’ve seen you make 2 of ’em now.
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