Here is the Driver's dogleg.As you can see in the pics it was pretty bad in the step area.I had a new one so I just cut this one off and welded on the new one.It is alot of work I tell ya.There are like 30 spot welds along the top of the dogleg where the wheel tub connects to it.

Here I did some more stripping and priming.Again I don't know why I wasted the time.I'll show you later why.As you can see the back of the bus was pretty rusty.I didn't know how bad it was till I opened it up later on. We'll get to that down the road.Now on to the next project.

Here you can see I did some patching on the Passenger's dogleg.I do have a new one but I didn't feel this one needed replaced yet so I just fixed the hole with some fiberglass and putty and left it at that. When it gets to bad I'll put the new one on.I did some stripping and priming in the next 2 pics but I don't know why I wasted my time doing it. You'll see why later.

This bus had no windows in it so I pulled the ones out of my other bus which is now my parts bus and put them into the Westy.I had to do some work to the Passenger rear window frame so it was the last one to go in.I used the old seals at the time cause I'm replacing them all anyways. The Driver's rear one went in like butter with the tool in the last pic. I borrowed it from work and have not been able to find one anywhere. If you ever find one and have a vehicle with the rubber window seals buy it.You won't be sorry.

Here is the new nose fitted into place.It was a tight fit to get it on there.Alot of pulling and tugging went into that nose. Also you can see the Driver's air duct is fixed also. This was all done by the 10th of May 2007.

Here you can see I painted the inner structure of the nose to just give it some protection from rust. Also you can see I fixed the air duct on the passenger's side. Alot of welding has gone into this bus.

Here you can see I cut off the nose of the bus so I could replace it with a new one. The entire lower window lip was rotted out and someone decided to push it out of a barn were it was when I picked it up with a front end loader so it dented up the front also. I could have fixed it all but I had brand new nose skin that is why I did this. I kinda wish I didn't now but You live and learn I guess.As you can see in the 2 lower pics mice love to build nests in the air ducts.I had to fix those also.That is the reason the guy got rid of this bus in the first place. It was a complete bus before it got stripped down.