advice... body/rust repair
Evening all
and a very happy 2015 to ye all.
I'm looking for a little advice and what basically would others do for the following repairs.
so far my digging around has been limited to the front of the vehicle. the back will be investigated in next few days.
so basically my problem ares are as follows.
starting with the windscreen,
the top of the windscreen is badly corroded, so much so it's letting water in.
water is traveling own the box section and into the sills. and floor in the front.
the rocker panel needs replacing as does some of the cross members
the drivers side is very badly corroded, holes in floor,
passengers side is holed but not as bas.
basically i'm looking for some advice on what the guru's would do,
would you
1. pay out the 600 odd quid a side for replacement floors, get new rocker panel, cross members and sills. and a replacement windscreen surround... you wouldn't see much change from 2k
or
2. cut out rust and fabricate repair panels/patches for the rusted area's. but the contours of the floor will be pretty much lost. just replace it with flat sheet metal.
3. try find cut offs of a wagen someone is scrapping
the pictures show the extent of what needs to be done.
any advice gratefully appreciated. hoping to get all this sorted in the first quarter of this year.
regards
Hi
Mine is the same colour too lol
My advice is to buy a screen outer and inner panel via a good parts supplier on here
They are sensibly priced
The screen panel is critical and as i said i am doing that repair as we speak
The floor panels i would fabricate as there are no difficult to form pieces unlike a screen panel which must be correct and will ensure a good job
My g is all original and its odd how they spot weld the screen outer panel and mig weld spot the outer 2 foot each side on the outer lower panel
Plate and fab whats easy and buy the bits that will take ages to make and are critical
If you remove all rust and seam weld peices in you will get no more issues if you do it well
Its the sealing up that counts as any air means rust in a few years again
If you need any pics just pm me on a proffesional screen repair
G
1mm if I remember correctly, yes they are spot welded on top of the inner sill.
Holy Crap,
that is dam fine work, amazing...
was all the work done with the body in situ or did you remove it from chassis.
can i ask how you made the recess in the floor pan.
you want to do mine :)
The floor on yours doesn't look too bad, it's the edges mainly where it joins the sill, problem is when you cut that out, you often find deeper issues and have to repair the top of the inner sill as well, not a problem, just time consuming.
On that floor above, I cut the recess out of the flat floor that I initially welded in, then formed the the cut edge for the recess and then welded a floor back in. If I were to do a lot more, I'd make a former and press the recess in.
The 'gills' under the right foot were formed with a hammer and anvil and various other formers, the complex shape that houses the body bolt and is capped with a plastic cap is a lot trickier than the floor recess!
Was all done sitting on a bare chassis.
Scott
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Thanks Gaz,
sounds advice there,
do you know or anyone know what gauge metal are in the floors..
also can anyone confirm that the floor panels are placed onto of the inner rocker panels and spot welder.
thanks