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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...

Started assembling the gutter and roof fill pieces https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20260420/6f13eb0f35fee01e75f0237a82634d59.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20260420/ef56eb8385c63c1cdcb12b318aadba06.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20260420/c5a7b8823cbeb74d3e7c043e2a1b40be.jpg Sent from my...

Took the ratchet straps off that I’d used to pull the front into shape while I fitted the arch, and the cab door still closes and opens! Woohoo!


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Planning to get back into it in the new year. Been too cold and busy lately. I had a go at forming a curve by slitting and bending, and if I am careful welding from the outside of the curve I should get away with it.

Thanks again for the contributions

Aye, I was thinking of cutting and notching. Shrinker might work too but not sure if mine would fit. Cheers tho

Working on fitting new gutters, as the van is a hightop with the usual catastrophic rust on the roof. Puzzling over how to replicate the curved end of the gutters where it wraps round the corner of the roof? Anyone done this or do you not bother?

Thanks in advance.

Start here in my thread

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Tidied up the wheel arch a bit, and had a poke at the gutters.

Full of sealant


Sealant picked out


Even found a few spot welds, but not many…

Few more sessions at the van, finished attaching the wheel arch. Not brilliantly but rust free, for now! https://i.imgur.com/TZ55EQn.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/XQVujkn.jpeg I was careless when doing the first bit, butt welding the front end of the section in the post above, didn’t dolly the welds so i...

Just bought a set of these, for those occasions when a conventional helmet gets in the way (underneath the front wheel arch in my case). They work well good field of vision and no fogging up despite sweating buckets today. Can be set to 8/10/12 darkening. But, I did get sunburn, so they aren’t going...

MOT rust assessment is about its proximity to structural components, eg suspension mounts, sills, steps, and other load bearing parts, as far as I know

If that's all then no, it's not bad, it's a bit of a wonder that there isn't more! Water gets in there from the rear vent on the D pillar, and I guess it's susceptible to road spray from the rear wheel.