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Cecil wrote: ↑28 May 2026, 20:47 What about adding a bead of weld to the b pillar .

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      Or the c pillar, or both. If it really is just 2 mm maybe it’s best to let the seam be a bit wider where it wants
to rather than risking distorting anything .

Very wise. Why worry about a wide seam.
 

I’ve the same issue with the outer sill I think, so I’ll try the technique with that first. it didn’t cost me £195 so it’s going to be a cheaper mistake 

Fitting a new ‘fridge’ panel, but because of work already done on B and C pillars I’ve got a 2+ mm gap between the bottom half of the fridge panel and the C pillar. My first idea is to clamp the flange of the fridge panel into a shaped former (but proud by a couple of mm) and gently dress it down th...

Got busy with the shrinker/stretcher and now have a reasonable match to the curve of the side of the van. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20260528/c560922b4c06baeb04eccb894c48ad2e.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20260528/aa7745a90834b4727567a28b92de7fe8.jpg Now I have to figure out how to make...

Wrestled the new fridge panel into place. Held with one cleco pin and a small pair of vice grips and friction. Quite a challenge to get it in singlehanded.




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Wasn’t able to split the frame in half, so the next best thing was to spread it… https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20260520/0a02c2430f7978810f9b1ac872d71eea.jpg Carefully but, to be honest, a bit brutal. Glass removed, seals cleaned, put back together again and success! https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.c...

Measuring the window aperture…. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20260519/9fce11f9f2bfc91881d829413406db02.jpg …prior to removing https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20260519/780f2ac35181a8805e3c585fe39d7dae.jpg Detail of the waistline internal fillet at the rear, I’ll probably replace this. https://up...

Gutter finished. Moving on to the fridge panel. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20260518/9ff93ff9880df0802709905796042a9b.jpg Not going to reuse this… https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20260518/3efae417a1c2b69bf6c9d9f52de94251.jpg New shiny from Schofields. I’ll aim to fit a fridge with just an exha...

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The usual suspects - front and rear jacking points/B and C pillar bottom ends, sills, fridge panel, lower edge of window aperture, step?, wheel arches, ...
All looks very depressingly familiar. No idea of the cost, obviously.

Did you try sealsdirect? Good range of seals and good quality, but no idea if they'll have yours. Good luck.

Ive used Arbomast Autograde many years ago. nasty sticky stuff but that's the point really. Cured the leak (although the van has been under cover for the past 9 ( ) years.

After a false start caused by having the MIG at too low a setting (gutter just popped off) I cranked it up to 6 out of 7 and merrily zapped away. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20260429/7a382a5578f93dee7662a5ffeb7e2d4c.jpg Quite an arrangement needed to clamp the gutter down, due to the limited cl...

Wear on the inside edge of the rear tyre, suggests to me that the outer mount for the swing arm (i.e. the jacking point) is currently making its way up into the bodywork above it. This will most likely be caused by extensive rot above the jacking point.

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Installed a VPN, so I can see all my pics, and everyone else's, from the town of Charlotte in the USA, I think that's where I am currently? Shame it doesn't change the weather too!

Front end of gutter. Used a different method of obtaining the curve. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20260422/77d19347b73b45dccdfd686a6a7ac4e6.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20260422/d75ab32371c09738540eb46badf507cb.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20260422/d6b100757bde7e960a417b4214fa922...