Having bought "Pootle" last September she's been off the road for repairs & "upgrades". I discovered loadsa rot behind windscreen corners which has also rotted away drivers cab step.
After 4 months of week end work its all starting to come together.
This is before I began the work. the plastic bag was my effort to stop the rain leaking into the van
[IMG:150:111]http://forum.club8090.co.uk/garage/uplo ... _thumb.jpg[/img]
New metal welded in & ready for painting
[img:150:112]http://forum.club8090.co.uk/garage/uplo ... _thumb.jpg[/img]
I removed the dash in readiness to remove the windscreen. Whilest it was off I decided to re-cover it with black textured vinyl. Some it had rusted away by the windowscreen corners. Took a while but I got there in the end. I also covered the center heater cover in vinyl too. I finished off the edges with vinyl wine red piping.
[img:800:536]http://freespace.virgin.net/pacs.man/van-23.jpg[/img]
After, dash now vinyl covered with red piping. Added extra swithes for the foot well blue LED lighting and LED washer jets.
[img:800:600]http://freespace.virgin.net/pacs.man/van_new-30.jpg[/img]
[img:800:600]http://freespace.virgin.net/pacs.man/van_new-34.jpg[/img]
[img:800:600]http://freespace.virgin.net/pacs.man/van_new-32.jpg[/img]
luckily for me one of mates does a "chips away" franchise. He brouhg this van over ans resprayed Pootles upper front valance. Here she is geting her primer on
[img:800:536]http://freespace.virgin.net/pacs.man/van_new-21.jpg[/img]
And then using IR lamps to dry the primer ready for the top coats
[img:800:536]http://freespace.virgin.net/pacs.man/van_new-23.jpg[/img]
Getting her new paint
[img:800:536]http://freespace.virgin.net/pacs.man/van_new-26.jpg[/img]
I replaced the old instrument cluster with a later model, thus gaining a tacho. I re-worked the dials ias the speedo was in KPH. I took a hi-res scan of my old MPH one and re-worked a new dial face for both tacho & speedo. Also re-painted dial hands to stand out more. Will blue LED lighting later.
[img:800:600]http://freespace.virgin.net/pacs.man/van_new-33.jpg[/img]
New cab light to add to the feeble door pillar one and reversing camera monitor
[img:800:600]http://freespace.virgin.net/pacs.man/van_new-7.jpg[/img]
Not looking quite such a mess inside now. Still got loads to do so will update as time permits.
pootle bus work starting to take shape
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