Chapter 17 - Guess who's back....

Wally's Back, tell a friend... Guess whos back, Guess whos back, Guess whos back, na na na na na na na .........

Wally took some time out from our project to peruse his favoured past time of Olympic pizza throwing and the spent these long humid evenings with nothing to do but drink copious amounts of 4 star, and set fire to local forests with his farts.....

This has left him believing that he can indeed fly on the power of his farts, here you can see the horrid moment where he realises that he has actually followed through in his shorts

 

The smell of rotting gearbox oil and diesel, burned my nose, and much time was spent clearing the air,

The concentration was so pure at ground level, even poor Scuff passed out

If it wasnt for my towering size i too may have fallen to the ghastley smell

Anyway, back to the project........ 

Chapter 16 - Big Audio Dynamite

Forgive me my followers for i have sinned, its been well over 2 weeks since my last confession, and i have much to tell.

First up we have the tale of a "crazy crazy night" (or day) where one of the neighbours gets up on the wrong side of the bed, and takes out 30 years of pent up frustrations out on some poor unsuspecting soul, or his car, however no VW's were injured in the breach of the peace, so the van has emerged unscathed.

However, one of "Wally's" auto-mobiles didn't favour so well, and ended up missing some of its windows, which has delayed the work on the dub.

Good news is that i decided it was time to get my sh!t together, and pull my finger out, and get a move on the project. we have 4 weeks and counting till bus fest, and there is still much to do.

First of all i've started fitting the replacement parts i've been piling up, like the mirrors, and the indicators, which i've replaced with some nice smoked ones to match my future paint scheme of orange.

Must get some nice stainless screws from the lads at Brickwerks, before i repaint the van!

Now that the repairs to the rear valance, and rear lower quarters have been fitted and zinc'ed, i started refitting all the bits wally, has ripped off that was in his way, this way once the welding is complete, the van should be ready for the MOT.

Talking of which, i bought some new rubber brake hoses, to replace the ones on the van that were splitting (i'm replacing them all as 2 are splitting and it just makes good sense to do them all now, however, typicaly the minute the shops are shut, disaster strikes, and the metal brake pipe split whilst undoing the hoses, and now I need a new pipe as well :(

I started refitting stuff back in the engine bay to, as its been over 2 months since she was started,

we seem to have misplaced the bracket that holds the plastic junction box (in the left of the picture next to the coil ) so we knocked up a quick replacement ,

as this will all be stripped out when i get round to my scooby upgrade, but this will suffice nicely.More good news is the van started first time, or rather it would have if Wally hadn't decided for the audience that it would be clever to nick the king lead from the coil, and see if i could spot what was wrong (which i did in the first 10 seconds of checking the engine bay! - Insert expletive here!)

You might remember seeing the horrid rusty speakers in these doors before, but they simply had to go, and as that would have left a nasty hole, we've opted to fill it with.... a bigger speaker!

And that fabulous little original radio, has made way for some thing capable of taking on my Ipod, and receiving DAB signals, so I splashed the cash on a tidy Sony unit (remind me to slap shaggy, the pictures of this are shocking and dont do it justice, in fact the last 4 are all blurred! lol)

I've got some timber for the tailgate, so i'm fitting some 6x9's in here

So I took the templates, drew around them, drilled a hole to insert the jigsaw......

And repeated the process on the other side and ended up with this

I'm planning on covering these, but i've got some foam material, that I'm going to apply to it, the same as I'm going to uses for the inside of the roof. In future when I recover the interior, i'll do this panel to match.

Time flies when your having fun, so at half 8 we called it a night, I'll try and sneak over after work (weather permitting) and get the rest of this done..........