Post by thePwincess & theCoinCollector on Mar 1, 2009 22:31:09 GMT
Hello there and it's in at the deep end of bus ownership for the Pwincess and the Coin Collector...
some background...
we have a month to get our 1987 Dodge 50 5.6t bus ready to live in, before we get thrown out of our current accommodation
it had some conversion done, but we needed to insulate it, floor and walls, so all the interior had to come out. It's taken nearly a week, but we've nearly taken everything out now.
The plan was to do the insulation this week, but...
when we exposed the wheelarches inside, we noticed one was straight, but the other drooped away towards the sidewall, and looking under, a couple of the cross members that sit on top of the main steel chassis beams have cracked. It's 65mm x 35mm x 4mm thick box section steel. The body is fibreglass, and the floor is plywood.
A friend has offered to help with the welding if we can get hold of the steel.
We are not the most practical people - in fact we've learned more about practical stuff in the last week of stripping out the bus than we have in 40+ years each on the planet.
How frightened should we be by the discovery of these cracked crossmembers?
assume we know nothing, because we don't, and assume that anything anyone has to say about any stage of this project is going to be useful.
We'd be delighted to read any contribution...
thanks
Declan & Suze
the Pwincess and the Coin Collector
some background...
we have a month to get our 1987 Dodge 50 5.6t bus ready to live in, before we get thrown out of our current accommodation
it had some conversion done, but we needed to insulate it, floor and walls, so all the interior had to come out. It's taken nearly a week, but we've nearly taken everything out now.
The plan was to do the insulation this week, but...
when we exposed the wheelarches inside, we noticed one was straight, but the other drooped away towards the sidewall, and looking under, a couple of the cross members that sit on top of the main steel chassis beams have cracked. It's 65mm x 35mm x 4mm thick box section steel. The body is fibreglass, and the floor is plywood.
A friend has offered to help with the welding if we can get hold of the steel.
We are not the most practical people - in fact we've learned more about practical stuff in the last week of stripping out the bus than we have in 40+ years each on the planet.
How frightened should we be by the discovery of these cracked crossmembers?
assume we know nothing, because we don't, and assume that anything anyone has to say about any stage of this project is going to be useful.
We'd be delighted to read any contribution...
thanks
Declan & Suze
the Pwincess and the Coin Collector