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Hi everyone in 80-90 land, heres a question I would like some help with,
I am restoring a T25 1984 model, and I'm quite happy to shed blood sweat and tears(and money) on making sure she gets back on the road, but unfortunately apart form a few panel repairs etc i've discovered that the rear trailing arm mountings on the inboard side have seriously corroded, is there anyone out there that do some sort of factory replacement? or is it possible that someone can re-manufacture , the original part with a bit of engineering, as I seriously dont want tp get rid of a very sound camper just because of a few dodgy areas on my vehicle.

Pictures?

Taken some pics of the problem area showing the corrosion
Cant seem to post on the forum tho

join www.photobucket.com and upload the pics to them.

it's free

once done you can copy the img code and post it on here

Thanks for the tip, I've now got a pic to show what I'm talking about, the rest of the van is fine just minor tidying.

Might be an idea to get a wire brush in there and poke around to see whats actually solid. Hard to tell from that - just looks worrying.

have had just seen this on another van,
i am going to cut a large area from a solid van being scrapped so the owner can clean both bits up and use a section from the scrap van as a repair panel!


if your at vanfest pop over, i can see if there is another one worth saving

Like Billy said. You`re not far from CJ at Syncrospares, give him a call and see if he`s got a suitbale breaking van with the chassis in good order for you to cut and use.

new ones are about £15 from VW they are handed

Many thanks for all the help and tips, its much appreciated and it helps keep another T25 on the road. Any other help or tips to overcome this problem would be most gratefully received.

Billy....

i am going to cut a large area from a solid van being scrapped so the owner can clean both bits up and use a section from the scrap van as a repair panel!

Top idea I did this for a large body area on my van