A little from this evening’s effort to fabricate a repair for this area. Rot and previous rubbish welding chopped out: Repair panel made up. What a pig to do! The combination of a curved section and slight bend to the panel made this quite tricky to get right. There is also a dip in the […]
A bit more from this week. Drilled and prepped the jacking points and inner sill (used my new air punch for the holes; a great time saver!) Lots of clamps to hold everything in place: And weld away: End result. All N/S jacking points plug welded to the top hats and chassis, seam welded to […]
A little more from this week. The loom is now fixed in place through the front cross member (a real pain getting the welding torch into position doing this one, but looks ok!): And onto the rear cross member, all clamped into place (I may’ve got carried away buying clamps as I’ve got a decent […]
I’ve spent most of this week patching a few bits on the chassis rails which need doing before I can put in the rear cross member and O/S jacking points in. Starting with this beaut around the rear torsion tube. A bit of rust treatment (Hydrate 80) before I put the repair in: And all […]
Some further work on the underside this week. O/S inner sill clamped into place with all jacking points and outriggers in position to make sure they’ll fit correctly (I also trial fitted the floor pan half while I was there): Inner sill plug welded to all of the floor supports: And a quick clean up […]
I managed to get a few hours on the van today and got the middle cross member welded in. I spent a fair amount of time practising my plug welds and stress testing them to make sure they were good and strong (doing them in the vertical position took me a while to get used […]
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 […]
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 […]
I’m finely at the stage of putting some of the new metal into the van. With the old inner sill cut out: The new one gets clamped into place to provide a fixed point as I replace the cross supports (all are going bar one which I’m saving): Trial fit of the front outrigger which […]
I finally got the shot blaster in yesterday to clean up the underside for me. I was down there for a mammoth 12hrs as I needed to completely empty the unit for the guy, move everything back in after (inc. Engine, Front Beam, Roof, all doors, tools etc) and give it a coat of paint. […]
