Old meets new in the door

Just laying out my transition. I will cut out the rust after everything is tacked up.

Cleaning up the old door heads

There was about 1/2 inch of fiberglass in this channel but, the wire wheel made dust of it pretty quick. It also ate the surface rust off pretty quick.

Half of the new door is swinging

Still have to put the radius ribs in the front of the door though.

I will make use of the top rounded corners of the doors

Old doors

It was a waste of time to tear these doors apart. Dont know till you try though...lol

Hinge, welded to door with shims in place

I have made two 1/8 inch shims and welded the door hinge together with them in place. I will have 1/4 inch of adjustment. Not sure what the wieght of the completed door will do so I wanted some weldless adjustment play.

Hinge pins and bronze bushings

Hinge template

Gary, this is the same template that is on its way to you.

upper and lower hinge mounting plates

Welded in some grade 8 nuts

Mounting plates for door hinges

welded in center plates in hinges

Support rollers in the slides

(upside down)

Brass bushings for slides

This impressed me as I never even thought of doing this.

Support slide for large slideout room.

These are the slides for the largest slide out. they are laying upside down. My machinist friend did an excellent job laying them out for me. He even put in brass bushings for the bearing rollers.

Silver Eagle Bus front cap

this is the inside view of the new cap I got from Silver Eagle Bus in Texas. I have yet to do the extensive remodling to the cap to make some changes to suit me.

Door hinges

upper hinge is just clamped in a temporary position as it come further up to the dash.

Lower door hinge

Front door hinges

After talking with my good buddy Gary L. I realized it was possible to just make a good heavy duty hinge for the front door and after he and I talked about them and I studied Pat Bartlet's pictures of his door hinges this was the outcome.

Radius tube deterioration

This is the last tube to be cut out, forward of the boggies, that is deteriorated to look like this. Every thing forward of the boggies is new or reworked to better than new now. I still have to build the large slideout and form the tube frame for the front cap support but, the rust is now all gone from the boggies forward. Im likeing it now......lol......

It will never see road use again, I promise!!!!

I might just bury it in the back yard....lol............lol....

The old manuel steering gear

out with the old

Jefferson bus parts for steering gear

Here are the weld in and bolt on plates for the power steering gear that I got from Jefferson Bus Parts to install the steering gear. I know this seems premature for the project but, I want to get all the welding done befor I put on the final coat of rustbullet on the frame. I know there will be some things I miss but I want to get all I can think of done first. After I get the mounting plates welded in, I will unbolt the gear and store it in a controlled invironment till the frame is done and ready for permanent fixtures of this sort.

new power steering gear

This is the new steering gear I bought from the Eagle manufacturer in Texas. Power steering is now a reality.