[tcb] Holy crap!
- From: "Denis Dodson" <coocoo@xxxxxxx>
- To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 20:04:21 -0600
At the bottom of the opening where the cargo doors hang, down where the door
pins go into holes to hold the door closed is an area that I am sure that few
people have bent over, put on their glasses and actually studied. It seems to
be two or three layers of steel where the cargo floor and the outer sheet metal
meet. Where over 40 years rust has invaded the different layers and spread them
apart until it looks like baklava.
I scraped and ground and sanded and beat and cleaned and sprayed with Miracle
Rust Converter, then I used some 3/8 channel aluminum to enclose the whole
edge. Of course this meant that the pins would not align with the holes to hold
the doors closed. So I ground and cut and bench ground and wire brushed and it
wouldn't close. The pins wouldn't go into the holes. In all the years I have
had my bus I always had to put my shoulder to the cargo door to close it and it
always opened with a "WHANG" whenever I opened it.
Well, no matter what I did I could not get the pins to go until I backed off
and simply closed the door and turned the handle. It was like Buttah. I did it
like, 10 times, perfect.
It's like I'm working on the bus for the first time,
I am going to send pics of this project to Dan and he can figure out how to
show them.
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