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[grahama]

Welding in that section should be quite straight forward once cut out.  Your welding is more than up to the job,  the only hard bit is hiding the joins at the top and bottom,  but a skim of filler will help there.  I take it you will just be plug welding along the seam ??

 

Graham

[hoody99]

Yeah plug weld where originally spot welded cheers graham lets just hope the shipping ain't to expensive lol

[hoody99]

Floor now under sealed , red oxided and stone chipped just another coat of stone chip to go but need to buy it first lol







Sorry bout the dark pics my phone was dying so on flash lol

[hoody99]

Bit more priming and stone chipping done and started to repair the newly found hole lol just waiting on the panel coming to repair the rest

[domdee]

pfft dont envy you with having to do that rear seam repair. great job though!

[Minidarren83]

That's looking good mate nice repair on what looked like ******* lol

[grahama]

A skim of filler and that will be fine,  nice job Hoodster

[hoody99]

Cheers guys hopefully it will get better whence panel Arrives for the rest lol and went to a classic car rally in Moffat today and got some goodies at the auto jumble. Included was a very large tin of filler graham lol

[Davethepioneer]

I've just read this from start to finish. What an epic rebuild in what I can only describe as harsh conditions under a tarp in British weather.

You had guts from the start buying the thing because you never know what nasties are awaiting under a body kit. Sterling effort mate I'm now subscribed

[hoody99]

Cheers Dave an funny you say that I bought it thinking it needed paint and an interior lol o how I was wrong lol 

[hoody99]

Progress at last lol some good some not so good lol

First up my panel arrived eventually lol



Before I got started on that tho I had a go at some fabricating lol. The result surprised me lol





Still one to do but won't take long

Now onto the rear quarter ha ha

Started to cut out what I wanted to replace



Then disaster. I'm sure I'm not the only one that hates when your cutting disk spins up a very large puff of white dust while cutting. Yup filler great I thought what's this hiding. The result



Ouch but but the depression was sort lived as I remembered I have a full quarter to play with so this happened







More tomorrow folks

[Davethepioneer]

^^ good skills right there ^^

[SAL 821X]

Nice one Hoodster ;)

 

But one question arises, why didn't you just replace the hole side and got a nice straight panel without the lower section repair? 

[hoody99]

I would have don't this sal if I knew this all needed replaced at the time but I'm not undoing repairs I have already done lol only got a week to finish the welding in between work and t in the park then its coming to my garage with no power for body work lol

Cheers dave I do try lol

Edited by hoody99, 11 July 2013 - 09:08 AM.

[SAL 821X]

Got ya thats understandable.

 

I'm having to undo work ive had done on the van at the moment so feel your pain.