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Hi, Here I go on the revitalisation of my 1990 Kameo van. I haven't any experience in this sort of work but I gota mig and plenty of tools, any advice will be appreciated. I've stripped the cabinets out, I,ve ordered some panels, lower sill, wheel arch footwells. Waiting on a set of blair spot weldcutters There's a few jobs to do, i'm thinkin wheelarches, a few where i'll have to make patches. Thought i'd start on the offside sill and lower refridgerator panel along with the inside floor. these fotos are of the state they are in
Thanks to all the people who have posted their experiences on this forum which gave me the confidence to tackle the job

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you need to use photo bucket or similar

waiting for photees mate

waiting on panels mate

oh thats easy ta

ok this s serious now, i've cut the sill out and these are pics of the inner, i cleaned the lower lip and there's plenty metal there is some rust in the inner, question is do i clean it up, patch it or replace the whole thing, answers on a postcard.....

Patching tends to be a short term fix unless the surrounding metal is truly in vgc. It seems a bigger job to replace the panel bug probably easier in the end! From experience.....

more pics

the workshop

the plates i made for the floor



the sills on, nothing fit apart from lengthwise

chopped out some rust

thats the lovely lower fridge panel wat was supplied by the maestro metal mickey

the inside, yes i cut out too much so added this strip of metal and then filled in


inside floor panel, again a great panel supplied by metal mickey

well thats it for now, i ran out of wire, and realised why the already rubbish welding got worse, i ran out of air!