I’ve found some more delightful bodges on the van this week. Offside panel has quite an impressive amount of filler on it: Offside wheel arch had this patch on it (not even fully welded on, just some tacks in three places): and underneath:
Based on the extent of the rust around the area on the floor which the sills attach to and a lot of the perimeter sections I decided the best approach would be to replace the floor entirely (this will give me a chance to clean up most of the underside properly and restore it fully). […]
It doesn’t look like I’ve done a huge amount over the last few days but it takes quite a while to cut out the rot before I can even think about welding new bits in. I’ve postponed the shot blasting for now as I’d rather focus on getting the core of the van in a […]
I’ve had to reschedule the shot blasting for Thursday as I’m still waiting for my new priming gun to arrive and didn’t want to leave the chassis in bare metal. So I spent today making a start on removing the nearside outer and inner sill, and front top-hat, outriggers and cross member. The outer sill […]
I’ve got a whole week off next week to work on the van, starting with a guy coming in to media blast the underside (it should save me a fair bit of time and effort, and allow me to get on with the more interesting bits!). In preparation for this I’ve been scraping off as […]
After what seems like an eternity I finally have the camper on the jig and rolled over! With the pop-top removed I was able to rotate it one-handed with ease (there’s quite an impressive pile of rust under the left side of the jig in this picture; this fell out of the front deformation panel […]
We finally got the pop-top off Iris today, in a bid to shed some weight to make it easier to roll. Having it on the roll-over jig made it pretty easy to slide off the roof and out of the way. Once again I owe a big thanks to Max for coming and sitting in […]
jamesley: The last few months have shot past and I don’t seem to have made a great deal of progress! The van is completely stripped down now and on the jig, however my attempts to roll it over recently haven’t filled me with confidence. It feels very heavy as it comes over, and as such […]
I’ve had the last few days off work so have been down the workshop stripping the van down ready to get the rollover jig setup. As always everything seems to take twice as long as one would hope, with every other bolt rusted shut and needing a little persuasion to get them off (I gave […]
jamesley: Brackets now with a coat of paint.
