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dugcati
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Re: inner sill

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I think I follow - yes you end up plug welding, when doing this you need to be certain your getting fusion with the steel in the bottom of the hole as often people just plug up the upper hole and never really bite into the steel underneath.

I also ran stitch welds along the edge of the inner sill to floor and again on the outer sill to floor/inner sill... looking back at my pics I'm a bit miffed as it looks like I covered up a rotten sill on the offside which was not the case - I just missed taking pics of the old sill removed/van with no sill!

Be aware that if your going to this extent rebuild the bottom of the b-pillar jacking point properly and also as I did rebuild/repair the c-post next to the back wheels :ok

This was the b-pillar as I found it
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note how the line of the pillar disappears at the bottom of the van....


Which was hiding this....
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...after the rot had been hacked off I did a transplant of a complete good inner sill and a lower inner section from another van... (this is the part I missed photographing!)
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To give you an idea of what the offside sill looked like.. this is the nearside sill after it was hacked off!....
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As for the C-pillar by the rear wheel I had to remove the whole bottom section:-
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... and again graft in another good piece from a donor van along with a stiffening plate over the box section join



From a non technical persons perspective it's quite scary that this....
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which didn't look too drastic on the surface

needed this doing to it....
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once I started digging - that said being a welder/fabricator in a past life said I knew what I was going to find hence the before pics!
It is by will alone that I set my 'van' in motion!

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Search my posts you'll find one all about all the welding I did on mine, I plug welded alot of mine as well as but welded, secret to plug welding is have a big enough hole in the top steal to be able to weld onto the bottom panel first then out to the upper one almost like the @ sign, works every time for me like that
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and for your third delight and choice check my thread and you too can have the option of making your own post bottom and sill :rofl
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You could always phone a friend (welder or scrap merchant :rofl )
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great pics, thanks for the help dudes. I will let you know how i get on

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I think we want more than that 'dude' :evil:
We want pickies lots of pickies :rofl
mike. and good luck fella its fun really

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