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Hi,

I am about to start the restoration of my 88 westy which I bought in November, so thought I would blog about it here.

It seems to have rust in all of the usual places, the underneath looks pretty solid though. Ideally this will be a rolling restoration as we would like to keep using it. Its really useful seeing other peoples projects on hear, means I know what to expect before starting a job.

Here are a few photos of how it looks now.





The rear arch will be my first job, just order the large panel from schofields along with the rear corner.


There are few crust bits around the windows, I am going to cut these bits out and repair properly.


The rear tailgate needs sorting, hopefully I will be able to get hold of another one fairly that doesnt need too much doing, so I can work on it without leaving the van without a tailgate.


Again, the opposite side, rear arch needs doing, but this doesnt look as bad as the other (yet)


The panel at the back of the fridge looks rusty too.


And also the step, its had a bad repair on it at some point.


Can't wait to get started

Could you remove that awful fog light lense and fit a UK o/s/r lamp. lean the back end up and make it look proper job.

good luck!

big red bus wrote:Could you remove that awful fog light lense and fit a UK o/s/r lamp. lean the back end up and make it look proper job.

Planning on doing that, totally agree, looks a mess

Hacksawbob wrote:good luck!

Thanks

Hah, so you think ther otherside doesnt look so bad yet oh heck see post above and that can is only half open, loads of links to simmilar work which I trust youve viewed? No, oh well have a look first, . Yes ? then you are an optimist and I admire optimism
Good luck, please keep the picks up to date and be sure that you will get as much help as you want/need here, oh and some you maybe wont want
cheers mike

Remove the interior and fridge to see the full extent of the damage

https://club8090.co.uk/wiki/Ar ... chen_panel" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

metalmick8y wrote:Hah, so you think ther otherside doesnt look so bad yet oh heck see post above and that can is only half open, loads of links to simmilar work which I trust youve viewed? No, oh well have a look first, . Yes ? then you are an optimist and I admire optimism
Good luck, please keep the picks up to date and be sure that you will get as much help as you want/need here, oh and some you maybe wont want
cheers mike

Cruz wrote:Remove the interior and fridge to see the full extent of the damage

https://club8090.co.uk/wiki/Ar ... chen_panel

Yeah, seen the posts about the fridge panel, I haven't seen a full replacement panel for that one either just doing one bit at a time for now and trying not to get overwhelmed

Thems good pickies Cruz put up,
read here too viewtopic.php?t=68856
and check jamesc76 as well cant think of the other recent one
mike

Ooh, another Westoration.
Good luck with your project, I like following these.

metalmick8y wrote:Thems good pickies Cruz put up,
read here too viewtopic.php?t=68856
and check jamesc76 as well cant think of the other recent one
mike

Thats a cracking post metalmick, I hadnt seen that one. I have seen Cruz's post and will take a look at James's a bit later

Cazz wrote:Ooh, another Westoration.
Good luck with your project, I like following these.

thanks Cazz