Drivers bulkhead bulge welded up. Should get the rest of the bulkhead welded this week in preparation for the arch.
Passenger cab floor dressed and zinc primed. Good as new now.
I’ve also fitted the passenger seat mounts to replace the previous bodged approach of just bolting the seat to the tub.
Making a start on the drivers side area now.
Finished the welding on the passenger cab area Sunday morning by reattaching the step to the floor. Just need to dress the area and paint it, then I get to start it all over again on the drivers side!
Some good progress this week on the passenger cab area.
New strengthening plate welded in:
New passenger seat mount:
Passenger Cab floor repair welded in and dressed. There’s a few pin holes I need to fill though. Really nice to be getting some big panels back in.
Schofield’s wheel tub repair welded in, to finally close up the the wheel tub. Quite fiddly to get it to fit right with the weird curve but it’s a well made panel:
I just need to dress the welds on the above and then re-attach the top of the arch step to the floor and this area is pretty much done!
Only a few hours on it today. Chopped out the strengthening plate and then cleaned up and zinc primed the chassis rails. It looks in great nick which makes a nice change!
It’s been a while since I cut a big hole in the van so it’s time to sort the N/S cab floor:
and a little while later:
The chassis is in excellent condition so I’ll just clean it up and paint it. The strengthening plate is heavily pitted and starting to rust through so I’ve made a new one:
The wheel tub where it meets the floor hadn’t rusted up too far either so I’ll only need a small repair here:
The N/S front wheel tub needed a fair bit of work but it was very salvageable.
First up I made a new seat mount as the old one was toast:
Then the Schofield’s seat belt mount repair went in:
A fair bit of the tub needed cutting out to repair it properly:
Then spend hours making up a well fitting repair complete with pressings:
And all welded up and painted. Good as new!
Started chopping out the rot on the N/S wheel tub. It’ll need a new seat belt mount, a large repair to the area under the runner and I’ll need to make up a new seat runner as this one is toast.
Pulled a ridiculously long day today getting the N/S front arch in. Miles better than what was there, it did put up quite a fight though!
N/S bulkhead repairs all finished. I can start looking at fitting the front arch that side now.
