VW Bus Electric Conversion Part 13: Fabricate the Rear Motor Mount

Part 13 of a longer series on my 1978 Volkswagen Bus electric vehicle (EV) conversion. In this video, I show you a combination of custom fabrication of the stock mustache bar coupled with off-the-shelf products to make a custom rear motor cradle / mount.
Links to products:
Motor Cradle for the Netgain Hyper9: amprevolt.com/...
Male-Female Rubber Mounts / Bobbins (D50mmxH30mm): amzn.to/4dkyZkA

[@FrankGraffagnino]

congrats... nice progress and nice welds!

[@FixItScotty]

Thanks 👍

[@HubertusSchaper]

Hi Scotty,Great video again soon you can drive the bus👍🏻🇺🇸🍀.Greetings.Hubertus🇳🇴🇳🇱☮🙏🏻🇺🇸

[@pepanovak3667]

😲😲

[@pstreetgarage7304]

Nice job on the welding Scotty

[@ianlighting100]

Thanks for the rewind to cover the motor to transmission mounting process :)

[@FixItScotty]

You are very welcome 🙂.

[@ianlighting100]

Apologies for jumping out of sequence, but looking under your bus and seeing the engine in situ, made me think and I guess you’ll need an alternative solution for brake vacuum which would normally come from the petrol engine. Be interested to see what you do when you get to that stage.

[@FixItScotty]

Ian, the brake vacuum pump implementation is already done. If you go to the EV Conversion playlist at the end of the video or on my channel page, I discuss the vacuum pump itself in Part 3 and install it in Part 4. Neither of these videos focus on it specifically, so if you still have questions, let me know.

[@ianlighting100]

@@FixItScotty sorry, my bad. I’ve gone back and for anyone else, Ep 3, about 26:00 is the discussion. I need to go back and watch the whole thing. It’s an epic!