I cut the boot door hinge plates this morning and drilled and tapped the first one this afternoon.
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3/6/2020
The previous few days and today have been about reinstalling the rear window. The glass had dropped and was loose due to the rotten sill and the rubber edging having disintegrated. Having replaced the timber above the boot and below the window and the N/S corner, I reinstalled the glass today with new rubber. Whilst it was a good fit top to bottom, there were gaps at the sides which must have always been there. So I centred the glass and filled the cavities with an air-setting rubber compound called Tek. Once this had been done and set I was able to install the triangle section beading that stops the glass falling out the back of the bus. This was a long and tedious job that was started yesterday afternoon and finished today.
The next job is to hang the boot doors, so I marked out the 1/8″ galvanised steel plate ready for cutting tomorrow to make the hinge plates.
Full view of rear window glass back in place with new rubber
Close-up of RH corner of rear window after refitting but before the beading had been replaced.
15/5/2020
This week has seen a lot of activity but not much progress. The boot floor is complete, three reinforcement blocks were needed to pull the floorboards down level with each other and some final sanding to get them smooth for the lino.
Next job was to remove the remaining rotten plywood from the inner curved corner lining, ready for replacement from material on order. This work included removing the remains of the wiring to the S&T lights (see reference photos) and the junction box mounted on the door frame outer pillar. A replacement identical junction box was sourced from Classic & Vintage spares but with six instead of for terminals to allow for additional wiring. I will add in a separate switch for the boot light at some point.
Work then moved on to replacing the rotten horizontal timber that sits above the rear number plate box and below the rear window. The damaged sections of this needed to be cut away with surgical precision to avoid damaging the rear window glass. A separate piece of timber with a forward facing rounded moulding sits under the glass on top of the horizontal frame timber to provide a seat for the glass and to provide an abutment inside the window frame for the glass.