I have got my workshop avalable for two weeks so i started by taking all the trim out headlights,wing mirrors, bumpers everything that bolts on externally.
After taking the whole van back to bare metal with a grinder, wire brush attachment and good old fasioned hard graft with sand paper. I was surprised how good the body work was. I took out the external fresh water tank filler and leccy hook uo and made a plate up i didnt weld this area as i did nit want to distort a good square panel so i used metal compound and rivets creating a sandwich sounds solid and no movement.
After more patch work in little areas i treated the whole van in anto corrosion liquid through a spray gun which was run at 3.0 Bar on a 1.4MM needle.
I left it to go over night, After that i took the edge off with some 400 grit paper, i carried out some filling work a light skim over the front panle and rear quarter was all that was really needed.
I used hammerite red oxide primer paint and agai sprayed that that at 3.0 Bar in between coats it had three the van was flatted back then given a light key, using some 800 grit. The paint is water based and was thinned at 2:1 first coat then for the second and third down to straight paint.( then gun struggled a bit with the final coat due to the thickness of the paint).
Now i am on the final stage of paint now the colour i chose flat blue no flakes no nothing due to the fact that metallic shows more imperfections and the way the primer went all shiny when flatted the paint is going to look great.
I realise pics say a thousand words i will put them up over the weekend and do a proper write up but for now thats it.
So in theory in my head there are nigh on 4 anti corrosion paints or treaments on the van. If it rots now there is something wrong!!!
Total cost for the work was about 175 euros with all the paint and consumables some of which were borrowed from work
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