Lenoir – new Splittie front floor and doglegs

Next in line after the nose was the mess that used to be a front floor – not much was left to go on and the usual 1/4 floor repairs wont cut it. The whole floor has to come out.

After the nose job, the floor needed some equally drastic attention. This is what we started with – the missing extremities are usual but what made this worse was the hole in and around the steering column – clearly a lot of water stood on this floor and activated the rust through process;

All that had to come out, and here we have the front floor removed, notice the bracing from the chassis rail to the front right A post – a remnant of the work to replace that a post. Here we see the underneath structure of a split screen bus – two large chassis box sections that connect to the front inner valence, a structure to hold the gear lever, pedals and brake system and finally a steel pipe that passes hot air from the back of the bus;

In goes a replacement dogleg, this narrow lip dogleg was cut from a salvage bus;

But without a floor or the previous a post to get a reference from Randy has to offer up the new floor and re-hang the door to get the gaps right;

All fits well with this wolfsburgwest repair panel, this is the fit around the new Gerson A-post;

Similar dogleg repair to the left side, this time Randy used just the forward section of the door step or dogleg, plus a small repair to the vertical part of the seat stand;

And the finished result, with the middle section welded near the gear lever socket, round the front, heater tube back in, pedals back in – about all thats left is the accelerator pedal;