Classic 1970 VW Camper Bus restoration. ‘Day 56 - Front beam removal’.

1970 Vw Dormobile camper.
This video has had to be sliced slightly due to a copyright claim in the music department. Apologies for the choppiness...
After the removal of some components upon the front assembly. Time has come to drop the beam to gain access to the areas of the chassis rails that require attention...
So at some point along the line, probably more so when the projects are near completion, I’m hoping that I’m a lot better at documenting and filming by then that I can put together a full episode/short film, or a maybe a small series that will cover the journey throughout the restorations, hopefully highlighting in a lot more detail of what is/was involved. For this I’d like to included questions from those that have watched. So before it’s too far in to these builds, I would like to start collating questions from here on out. This shall be a long term project, something I want to take my time (when allows) doing. ‘Anything you want to ask, anything you’d like me to cover, include, anything’...
Submit your requests/questions by email to [e-mail], marking the subject matter ‘future video’ so its easily identifiable. Please note I won’t reply to these emails received.
The project starts right here, right now with you. Thanks for watching, contributing, have yourselves a good week...
Ross
Check out all the other available videos in this series of the restoration from the following playlist: • 'A new chapter'

[@CTmoog]

Great video! Short and sweet!

[@VwRosstorations]

Took hours to get to that point...bolts fought me all the way...

[@Doubleodude]

Between you and Dan Love Im getting inspired to turn off my phone for a day and disappear into the garage. Great progress!

[@VwRosstorations]

Why not eh...every bit helps..

[@HapticGarage]

Vw Rosstorations, these old VWs make us work for it, don't they? The tie rod tool is good to have but the poor man's impact wrench you used on the backing plate bolts is great. I ended up with stitches doing that one time but that was my fault! Keep 'em coming!

[@VwRosstorations]

They certainly do don’t they...gotta use what you’ve got to hand sometimes eh..she’s certainly had a lot of blood out of me. thanks for stopping by..

[@busman5429]

I like the way you do a quick recap of your last video. I never seen a tool like you have for removing tie rods I have a pickle forks. Your front beam look like it is in good shape. When I pulled my beam started cleaning it; wow did I find a lot of rust holes. I shuold put a video up today, I needed some time away from tha floor path task; started building a engine run test stand. A friend gave me a frame he put together to be and engine build stand; I'm turning it into a run test stand . Those beams weight a lot lift to many times and you will have naked babys for sure.

[@VwRosstorations]

Cheers dan, yeah pretty weighty ain’t they...I need some time off the floor too. I started to make an engine test stand awhile back. I’ll get back to it one day.

[@MakeItMetal]

nicely done Ross, that beam looked to be in pretty decent shape :)

[@VwRosstorations]

Cheers...yeah it’s not in bad nick really. I know it’s a replacement item, found a receipt in the paperwork from a previous owner..looks like it was swapped out when they lowered it.. Cheers for stopping in..

[@MrTruthAddict]

Nice work. Be sure and change that relay lever bushing. It's probably worn. It will tighten up your steering quite a bit. Just did it on my 76 Westy and it's like a new car!

[@VwRosstorations]

Cheers, yeah I will do. Gonna go through the whole lot and see what my shopping list consists off...have a good week...

[@jimmywilkinson9190]

Hey the other day I didnt say some thing right = Some parts on Rambus has over 800,000 miles on them - because I have replaced almost every working part on it lots of times . Like the ball joints I have replaced 8-9 times , I have lost count .

[@VwRosstorations]

Used and abused by the sounds of it then...

[@jimmywilkinson9190]

@@VwRosstorations I drove it all the time since 84 ,its the only car I had .

[@MidwestMotoRider]

Wow that seemed almost too easy!

[@VwRosstorations]

It’s the way I make it look maybe..believe me it took awhile. Thanks for watching..

[@VWLifeVW]

are you going to replace the center pin?

[@VwRosstorations]

Probably not as yet, the whole beam don’t look to sad..

[@VWLifeVW]

@@VwRosstorations okay, easy enough to do later if you need to.

[@VwRosstorations]

Yeah I’ll see how it is once driven think..

[@scottdavis8710]

Lame description