Dusty's Bus

Stealth Camper · Post by **Stealth Camper** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 2:24 pm

dusty,
That picture of your friends place in the trees with the old trucks is uncanny!! Did you take that in southwest Missouri, USA??

There is a guy whose place we go buy from time to time that looks a LOT like that - I got some deja vu going there just looking at it.

I have talked to the US guy a couple times and he won't sell. Your friend probably won't either, will he?

Dusty · Post by **Dusty** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 3:54 pm

Sharkey , it certainly is a project , and it's taking me waaay longer than I am happy with , but progress is being made , so that's ok then.

The original Beddy engine is 330 cu about 5400cc and 98 hp, mind you , some of those horses were lame when new

The Nissan is an FE6 which is 6900cc and 180hp . So thats all good.

Unfortunately , as you would expect , nothing is the same size , so everything needs to be made to make it work.

It's ok , it just takes TIME.

The power steering has to be certified by an Engineer, so there goes a bunch of money , then it's back to the regular 6monthly roadworthy inspections.

I have pulled the head off the 330 and discovered that #4 piston has smeared itself up the bore , so that's nice to find the actual cause of the seize.

Dusty · Post by **Dusty** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 3:57 pm

Stealth, the old trucks local to me here in (Canterbury), and you are correct , the owner is not into selling his stuff.

dburt · Post by **dburt** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 2:10 pm

Dusty- did you ever get the Nissan engine installed in your bus yet? I hope you don't have to many issues for motor mounts, hooking up controls, wiring, etc.

dburt · Post by **dburt** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 2:10 pm

Dusty- did you ever get the Nissan engine installed in your bus yet? I hope you don't have to many issues for motor mounts, hooking up controls, wiring, etc.

Dusty · Post by **Dusty** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 8:56 am

Still working on it dburt....

I went to fit the radiator to do some measurements and have discovered some lowlife has stolen the radiator

Thats going to set me back a while.

Its times like this I wish I had a gun.

yugogypsy · Post by **yugogypsy** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:05 am

Oh Dusty that's awful, but I can relate. Was going to fix something on my van and the tools had "walked" away

Good thing Rob can come over Weds & fix it for me!

Good Luck & if you need a rad and can't find it let me know and I'll help if I can.

Been a Nissan FANATIC since I was 16

Lois

dburt · Post by **dburt** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 3:23 pm

With the price of scrap metal going higher every day here in the states, you have to weld, glue, cement, chain, lock, and nail everything down and even then the scumbags find a way to walk off with it.

You need a sign that says "Sure, you can run off with my stuff punk- but can you outrun a .45?"

Dusty · Post by **Dusty** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 4:14 pm

I used to have a lovely dobermann , quiet and deadly he was , but they only live for so long.

Mostly I am very happy that New Zealand is not a "gun society" but just occasionally I change my mind.

I wasted a day looking locally for a replacement radiator, with no success, it seems I will have to get something shipped down from Hamilton , even just the top and bottom tanks will do , I can put a core in between them.

Money first , eh.

splummer · Post by **splummer** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 1:35 am

sorry to hear abot that,i have wasted many daze hunting for things i need but only to find things i dont need

,i used to have a lovely pitbull

Dusty · Post by **Dusty** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 10:24 am

Well, it's been 6 months since the bus engine failed , we've had some more earthquakes , especially destructive in June, then freezing weather with snow over the whole country, then I stood where I should not have and ended up on crutches for a while .....

So progress on the repower has been S L O w .......

I'm adding power steering in this project , so here is a quick update , pic shows the bracket I had to make to adapt the nissan 'box to the old Bedford chassis.

more later .....

rlaggren · Post by **rlaggren** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 2:14 pm

Hard to know where not to stand sometimes... Thanks for the update.

Rufus

Headache · Post by **Headache** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 3:20 am

I'm with you on the slow progress. I can finally get started on my truck. >.<

splummer · Post by **splummer** » Sun Nov 06, 2011 12:42 am

hows the bus doing ,dusty

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