Katie

[myfirst69]

Hi all Thanks for looking at our post...my name is Rog...and the other half is Liz....

This is Katie she is a 69/70 Danbury

This is the first photo we took of her....we bought her in August 2012 from a guy in Sollihul who had it advertised in Vzi for just over £3,000 with 10 months M.O.T and because we had not long sold our beetle and always wanting a wee van for weekends away and shows and stuff we decided to take the plunge and we bought it and brought it back to sunny Brighton

We plan to do as much as we can to get her up to a standard where we might be invited to park beside the rest of you...lol..but more likely we will take lots of pics of the work we do to get her a nice coat of paint and running smoothly... :shock: :shock:

Katie is a daily driver and gets me to work every day at 3 in the morning...and so far never let me down....

After getting her home I found I had a few issues the worst 2 being the 50 mph journey home and the lack of stopping power despite a firm pedal....on the way home from work the firm pedal was to be explained when the back wheel wobbled loose and come to a dodgy halt not good on the by pass....clean underwear time let me tell you folks ...

It turned out that there was no pin through the castle nut which ended up inside the hub cap...oh dear...
Thanks to Paul for the rescue and big socket and bar....

The 50 mph thing turned out to be 2 things too....a dodgy carb and no travel on the gas pedal.....the carb I rebuilt and cleaned out...I went a bit nuts taking photos of all the steps...here's a few....

I got loads if anyone interested....

The travel on the gas pedal now what a little set up that is but can I say right now that it's worth the effort i knew that 1600 TP was a gem and happy to sit at 60...lol...honest...

The linkage is a nightmare under the floor so I will be going back to it in the future but here's what we did for now

welded in a new link kit

and a new pedal and spring

well thats sort of where we are now apart from the pics of sorting out front brakes I'll put on later

 

[Mark6455]

Cool bus dude and welcome to the club you obviously have heeded to the masses and gave loads of pictures in your first post 8)
You'll fit right in my friend
Catch you st a show soon

Mark

 

[lard]

Hi - nice work so far - always great to see an OG solex carb - as from experience couldn't get a refurb'd one from anyone without a solex to exchange, no-one wanted my bocar one

Any shots of interior or plans on what to do next?

 

[myfirst69]

The interior is basic at best but cumfy enough and ok for a night or 2....

 

[myfirst69]

we took these when we got home and before we got the cheesy decal for the front.....

these were at Brighton Breeze her first outing and we got a good response from folk...I didn't have the balls to ask if we could park next to you guys...lol...maybe next year... :roll: :roll:

 

[lard]

How do you get on with the tinted windows? I'm in two minds to tint mine (on a lookout for blue merc style tints)

 

[myfirst69]

I wasn't too sure at first but a few really sunny days they kept the van cooler and a big help early mornings when you want to get the curtains open without being blinded...lol...

 

[Danbury Doug]

Hello and welcome.

Always nice to see another Danbury on here!

 

[myfirst69]

Hi there I'm gonna have to try and source an interior at some stage or just custom build one...but it's nice to have a Danbury there's not a lot out there....

 

[myfirst69]

Hi all I can't believe it's been a year since I posted about Katie I've just been enjoying the van and getting to a few shows and stuff but thought it was time to tackle a few bits that where getting worse...lol...we started with the back end and stripped out some nasty rust and the previous owners seem to have shares in filler companies the usual I guess

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My good friend JT done most of the work he's an old hand at this game

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as you can see it pretty nasty but no worse than we where expecting...

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we also had to cut out the bottom passenger side corner which was rotten but the battery tray was in good nick

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I bought a corner panel but it was a poo fit and JT had to work his magic to make it fit rivetting it into place first

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then welding into place

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After a lot of cutting out and replacing with good metal JT started tyding up and making good the work

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The engine lid and bumper got the same treatment and it all got a good coating of 2 pack primer....

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this is me to prove I did help...lol..

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And the finished result

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This was done over the weekend and theres still loads to do the sides bellow windows and sliding door still need looked at

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I hope you enjoyed looking at our progress...JT is available if you need anything done and I'll keep you updated...

 

[StuF]

Top work - keep the pics coming! 8)

 

[CHILDSEY]

Good progress mate