Since 2008 one or two more areas have shown signs of rust, lower front panel, round windscreen, NS lower arch, all the usual suspects. Right we though back in November, lets get it done before all the prices rocket, so we had a spending frenzie and bought all the items we knew we needed. Our poor spare room, it's no longer a room, more like a giant cupboard.
Before Christmas we stripped the van interior out and stacked it all in the sitting room, this is what we found under the floor. The cab is also identical, we were dead impressed, especially as the rear heater matrix had leaked a while ago and the windscreen leaked quite badly also.
Over Christmas we took eveything off the bus that would come off, lights, bumpers, grilles etc etc. Then the OS rear arch was attacked with a cutter, well it and whole big panel was filled with filler, it was clearly an accident repair, the original metal was there and wasn't rusty except for the arch, but it all came off.
The rear corner was also filled and the lower half was rotton, so a replacment was ordered. The filler can clearly be seen on the picture. (The wheel is not broken, it's a wide angle lense).
Next was to look at the front, only the very bottom was rotton, but due the pain of the job, it was decided to replace the whole lower panel. Luckily they have come down a lot in price. Behind this panel she is also very solid, nothing nasty hidden.
Whilst at the front, the winsdsreen was removed, we knew it leaked so there must be holes at the bottom, which there was, the good news is they are only small. Unfortunately the top of the window was slighly rotton, which means the roof has to come off, we did this at the weekend. Pics to follow of this task.
