Easter weekend progress

A little more progress from over the last few days.

Rear floor support welded shut again (I drilled out the spot welds as I didn’t want the inside to have no paint on it and promote rust)

Before I tack weld in the first and last floor support it seemed like a good idea to trial fit the floor to ensure the sills were sitting at the correct height. Very exciting to see the floor fits perfectly!

Now I know the floor and sills fit properly I can crack on with welding the sills, outriggers and cross members in over the next few weeks. 

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Starting to take shape

We’ve made steady progress over the last few weeks on the van (god knows how many hours!). Here’s a bit of what we’ve been up to.

New I beams fitted tacked into place (2, 3rd floor support):

Front top hat floor support cut down to size, new flanges bent into shape, and trial fitted to floor with outriggers, and inner sill:

Remaining chassis sections zinc primed and inside of box sections epoxy mastic’d (no way these will rust out for some time now!):

Max epoxy mastic’ing the bit I missed with the spray gun (once the front floor support is in I won’t be able to get to this section so paint on it now is important):

and Max grinding out the last of the spot welds from the old cross members:

I’ve got a day off next week so should hopefully get the inner sills welded in place and perhaps the outriggers and cross members! The underside is really starting to come together now, and it’s so much better than what was previously there.

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