tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90388211759255247822024-03-19T03:35:28.259+00:00Pauls splitscreen van projectHi welcome to my 1964 VW Type 2 split screen campervan restoration blog. This will be a record of the vans restoration, and hopfully share infomation about bringing a splitty back to life.orangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00489086643711046380noreply@blogger.comBlogger118125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9038821175925524782.post-80771013470293900442014-06-16T03:02:00.001+01:002014-06-24T00:39:58.354+01:00Paint Touch Ups<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
After being on my back sorting the paint on the under side I was ready to get my teeth into the rebuild, but there were a few small spots of paint work that I couldn't leave alone.</div>
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The rear hatch had a bit of over spray that would not completely clean off with thinners. So I masked it up, gave it a light rub down with 600 grit then re-sprayed using my air brush.</div>
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Some paint had come away at the B pillar, I think this was due to the corrosion preventer I'd sprayed into the bulkhead box section and had wept out lifting the paint.</div>
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It was the same on the right hand B pillar, a rub down and primed with the air brush and top coat of black gold thinned down over 20% to get it to spray well through the air brush. ready for some clear lacquer.</div>
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The top lip of the cargo door also got a rub down and treatment with some of the left over cream.</div>
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The dash had some paint leak at the join that needed a tidy up and inside the petrol cap was rubbed down and giver a smother couple of coats of paint.</div>
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The heater vent in the cab I purposely left closed during the paint to make sure the inner tube got painted, but realised after it was done that it would have been easier for me to paint the inner part myself and the main part would have been already painted.</div>
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The engine bay needed a bit of attention, you cant see to well in the photos but there were parts of the bay that were just primer mostly the hard to reach places and few spots that had orange peel that I had rubbed down flat and needed another coat of paint.</div>
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so I taped the edges and the air vents, sheeted up around the engine bay and the rest of the van. I used the small suction gun I had modified for the chassis to get into all the gaps.<br />
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Id managed to get paint on all the hard to reach surfaces inside the engine bay and touched up the bits I had re edge sealed and previously rubbed down.</div>
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The front arch lip also needed a touch up from the tape pulling the paint off when I masked up the underside. I masked up with news paper not great but did the job then touched up the paint with an air brush till I got bored and finished of with the touch up spray gun.</div>
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While the cream paint was mixed up I sprayed up the battery clamp, this took three attempts to cover the parts I kept missing</div>
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One part of the paint I was really unsure about trying to tidy up was the panel behind the left sun visor, you can tell the difference in the shine in the photo. I decided to try and cut the lacquer flat then polish it, but the lacquer and paint was to thin and I cut through to the primer in some small spots.</div>
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Now that I had no choice than to touch up the black and re lacquer the air box I started to flatten all the other parts of the air box that were a bit mottled.</div>
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Here's where it was very east to cut through to the primer, especially on the high spots. The hardest thing to see when rubbing back was when you were past the lacquer onto the black paint so not to go to far into the undercoat.</div>
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The spots that were showing primer were touched up with the air brush, then the cab was bagged up ready for a coat of lacquer. I was careful to use the panel joint as the tape edge so as not to have a lip of paint were the edge stopped.</div>
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A couple of coats of clear that were baked on by the hot weather turning the garage into a n oven.</div>
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I got the air box back to a shiny black.</div>
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While I was dealing with the air box I also noticed some missing paint on the top door seal carrier lip. So I was able to deal with this while I sorted the air box.</div>
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Whilst in the cab hanging upside down I noticed under the dash some spots on the paint. I used my phone to see what it was and discovered that there was not enough paint under the dash to stop the rust returning after it had been dipped over a year ago now. </div>
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I could have done with out having to deal with this as I just wanted to get on with building the van back together.</div>
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I couldn't leave it so I started cleaning it up with my die grinder, but soon found its capability limited.</div>
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The wire brush cleaned it up really quick but I didn't want to rip away the decent paint on the dash.</div>
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So I painstakingly cleared out the rust spots between the grills with a dermal only slipping once cutting into the dash paint</div>
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After about 3-4 hours work on my back on the cab floor I was ready to mask up the grill. Not wanting to spend another hour tapping the slots up I cut some foam strips and wedged then in all the gaps.</div>
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I then rust treated the bare metal to try and slow any spots of rust I may have missed</div>
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I then masked up the cab for a second time to make sure I didn't get cream paint all over the touch up I had already done. My Nans curtains cam in handy to cover the doors up.</div>
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I used primmer in a spray can to get into the tight spots, then the next day I got out the detail spray gun, this just about reached up into all the spots I needed. </div>
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Any spots I notice I'd missed when the covers come off I touched up with a brush.</div>
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The engine deck lid edges also needed a touch up, So I pull out a paint brush.</div>
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Where the lid had been painted with the hinges on they covered up the , so a touch up all around the hinge and screw holes with a paint brush should hold off the corrosion for a bit.</div>
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One last job was the bit of paint on the rear valance, again the edges needed touching up and some of the paint had chipped away.</div>
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I taped up the under side which took longer that spraying the edges with cream.</div>
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Once dry I taped up the out side and got a coat of red on the under side, I did this because I thought it was the wrong colour, Who's I idea was it to do a two tone under side.</div>
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When I tried the rear valance back on the van I noticed a difference in colour, and there was not a fleck in the red like on the chassis. So I checked the paint pots and there label, the paint code and name were the same but one was base coat metallic and the other just base coat, I then checked all my receipts and they were all just base coat, Some how I have ended up with a pot of metallic that I have sprayed the front underside of the van in. I am defiantly not painting it all again.</div>
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After getting the van back from the painters, I was very pleased with the top of the van, but had the problem of the over spray on the under side.</div>
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The booth that was used to spray the van had the extraction in the floor, this meant the paint was sucked under the van, this would not have been to much of a problem if I had painted the under side cream to match the sides.</div>
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I wasn't prepared to roll the van on its side again to repaint the floor so I had to get the van as high on axel stands as I could, 1ft and would have to do the spraying on my back.</div>
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Having a look at what I needed to re spray I also realised I hadn't got any protection on the top of the chassis rails. Before I stated the re spray I gave this all a good rub down then rust treated and primed them by hand using a bent brush. </div>
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I also noticed both arched had no stone chip or paint and showed some surface rust on the lips. so I cleaned these up with a new toy.</div>
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Just to be safe I rust treated it all before priming.</div>
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A few other details that needed tidying was some filler that needed tidying up left over from the body prep.</div>
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I now had to protect the brand new paint job from over spray, I ran some tape around the whole lower edge of the van using a scalpel ot cut it flush with the edge </div>
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As I was running low of materials I used the vans cove to help protect from the paint.</div>
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But lying on my back painting with the van an inch away from your nose was not easy.</div>
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After I managed to recover from my back problems I got back into the garage and got back on my back to spray the clear coat on.</div>
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Apart from the work lamp making the photos look orange I am really happy with the results of the re-spray. A second coat of the red helped the deeper red I was after and the clear coat does show up the metallic that's in the red , although no one going to see it.</div>
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Now two months after getting the van back from paint I can finally get on with the rebuild.</div>
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I always knew I wanted to upgrade my single break master cylinder to a duel circuit system but was always put off at the price of the CPS kit required to do this, when I first started looking they were £85 and at a Volks World show I saw a kit for £130 so thought I better get the kit from the cheapest stall I could find this was for £119 </div>
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For what you get this is very over priced, so I never broke into the kit thinking I may be able to put it together cheaper myself. I recently found other parts shops are now making there own less expensive version of this kit.</div>
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Having a bit of time while the van was being painted I dug out the duel circuit master cylinder I got from my recent batch of parts purchase, and ordered from e-bay three 90mm x 20mm thick billet aluminium bar for £11 posted. </div>
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A set of dividers marked the ruff centre and using an optical punch that uses a Perspex shaft with a cross on the end, once aliened the base is held in position and the shaft is replaced with the punch that once hit provides a very accurate centre punch. </div>
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Once I'd swapped the jaws in the lathe chuck to hold a larger piece I centred the billet, drilled a pilot hole then bored it straight through. The CSP spacer has a step I think this is to help keep the gator on</div>
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Once marked I checked there alignment with the master cylinder and also marked the outer profile of the mating surface.</div>
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I cut the profile out on my chop saw which is not very accurate, because the table moves when cutting, this led me to under cut the profile a bit. I cleaned up my mistake and rounded the corners with a hand file.</div>
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Clamping my grinder the bench with quick clamps I fitted a buffing wheel a tried my first bit of polishing. This was prity straight forward I just had to keep the work under the centre of the wheel and work off the trailing edge so it would not catch the work.</div>
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I had to try in on the van once I had it back from paint.</div>
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My next query was with the rubber gaiter provided in the CSP kit has a lip to sit in a groove like the original one but because the duel master cylinder is for fitting onto a servo it does not need a boot.</div>
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Here is a time lapse video that I put together of Gavin at the Paint Shop Pros painting the custom swirl design to the roof of the van.</div>
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The time lapse video has been heavily cut to keep it short so several steps in the painting have been missed, like the four coats of lacquer.</div>
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Here are the photos of the roof design during it painting, Ill let the pictures do the talking until I get time to fill in all the details.</div>
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orangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00489086643711046380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9038821175925524782.post-28018133648441684822014-02-22T02:22:00.001+00:002014-02-22T02:22:50.231+00:00Custom Paint designBefore I show off the final design that has been painted I thought Id share the thought process I went through to get me there. This was not something that happened over night, Deciding the final paint colour this took over 4 years to decide,when I thought it may be a good idea to have a graphic on the van this took about 2 years to workout and was only finalised just before it was painted on the van.<br />
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Here is my previous entry about deciding the paint colour<br />
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I had previously trialed a black over gold but I felt the gold was to modern and may date quicker than a more classis colour combo.<br />
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So I kept an eye out for the classic look I was after, I noticed there was a lot of new cars starting to use the split colour since the mini. Other manufactures were cashing in on the classic look on a modern car, this is what I was after.</div>
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I saved photos of buses I liked to help me decide what colour I wanted. Here are a few that matched the dark over light look that I have now decided on. </div>
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I originally had to fill in the picture I downloaded from Bus Selector to get the colour Ideas I wanted onto a drawing. But one of the guys from the SSVC forum made the Bus Generator app. </div>
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So I downloaded the app onto Rachel's I pad and sat for hours fine tuning the colour combo.<br />
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The artistic part of me thought It would be a good idea to have some sort of graphic on the bus. This sketch was one of the first things that came to mind as I didn't want flames or hibiscus flowers.</div>
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As you can see I had already tried the flames out before</div>
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I came across a ghost flame graphic on this orange bus, this gave me the idea of making my design discrete at first glance but as you look closer the detail draws you in. The helmet shows the ghost effect on dark and light.</div>
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Deciding I preferred the darker ghost effect I realised I would need to put the graphic on the top half of the van, so I was now on the lookout for painted roofs.</div>
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I first saw a swirl pattern on a wallpaper at B and Q I liked this led me to start collecting swirl designs, from menu's, TV and even car park lifts.</div>
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I also started investigating the graphic design world this led me to deviantart.com web site. although this site was very hard to use a specific search.</div>
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I also put a few of my own ideas on paper</div>
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I then had to work out how I wanted the ghost effect to work, My first idea was to use a gloss black, matt black and gun metal to give the ghost effect and maybe a silver pin stripe, but could not produce this on paper.</div>
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I grabbed one of the wings waiting to fit to my beetle to use as a test piece</div>
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Using the matt black as a base I then taped up the wing and cut out with a scalpel a few designs.<br />
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With a few back ground designs templates painted over I then cut out a larger swirl design I found on Pinterest. and then split this in a cream and black.</div>
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Pealing the second layer of tape off I realised I should have taken the first layer off before laying on the second. After a third round of taping and a few coats of lacquer and a good wet sand I got the results of my trials. I loved the black gold effect in the back ground but also discovered a matt effect would not work If I had to lacquer over the top of the design. </div>
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From the first trial I discovered the continuous swirl pattern from a clip art pattern I had used worked well, It just needed a little tweaking. I enlarged the design and then traced it to get a ruff shape of the two main individual shapes.</div>
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The two swirls were then tided up to get the thickness between the lines even and to get the curve of the swirls to look right.</div>
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The two swirls were then copied and flipped into a group of four, then positioned and gapped to make a continuous repeatable pattern.</div>
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With the back ground design now decided I needed to work out the exact colour and the order they needed to be layered. I dragged out the second spare beetle wing I had and sprayed a back ground and parts of a swirl in some greys and a cream.</div>
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With the van now at the painters and the roof ready for paint I took the wing along to discuss the final colours. we cam to the conclusion that even trying a bit of pin striping and shading on the edges of the main design a contrasting colour to the background didn't work.</div>
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So to try and nail down the final colour for the main design I dragged the wing out again and sprayed up the back ground design for a third time, While at the paint suppliers to get the colour for the main design the paint shop gave me 100ml each of the silver and gold separate from the black that are used to make up the black gold I used in the background.</div>
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Using the paint mix print out from the paint suppliers and the digital scales I made up five shades of the black gold with different percentages of silver or gold.</div>
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With another coat of lacquer and a wet sand and polish I felt I was finally getting closer to what I wanted to achieve. The different shades with the extra silver did not work for me and the parts with extra gold blended well in the low light and sun light conditions to produce a simular ghost effect I started out trying to achieve.</div>
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I now had to decide what shade of extra gold I wanted, and then let the painter know how to mix it. I painted five samples with 10% extra gold fleck in each. with out the lacquer you cab tell the difference between them</div>
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In direct light the five shades look the same, the black and gold low and high lights give it some depth.</div>
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With the camera flash you can see the difference in the amounts of extra gold in each. the final decision was to go with the shade second from the right that had 20% extra gold added to the original black gold.</div>
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This whole decision making process took a long time and I could not have done it with out the help from my girlfriend Rachel.</div>
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Before the final prep work could take place I asked the paint shop guys to pull a rear deck lid hanger straight, this was pushed in a few mil when I hit the deck lid, see the deck lid repair post for more on that.</div>
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With the lower half in cream base coat it was masked up ready for a top colour to be added.</div>
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and the lower is the BMW Mini pepper white.</div>
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The roof got covered and the lacquer applied to the sides.</div>
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When the sun light hits the Black paint it shows the gold fleck, this gives the van a black look in low light and a brown in direct sun light.</div>
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Its been a long time coming, but finally the day the van gets shipped off to the paint shop arrived. Not quite as ready as I'd hoped but if I kept putting it off the van would never have got to the painters.</div>
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I found the painter online while looking for a mobile booth or spray booth to hire, I came across "the paint shop pros" and checked out there website and face book page. <a href="http://www.thepaintshoppros.co.uk/" target="_blank">www.thepaintshoppros.co.uk/</a> After a chat on the phone I arranged a visit to there shop.</div>
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Gavin with a back ground in graphic design and his Dad Dennis with a wealth in body shop and paint experience were a great match for my Van</div>
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When the van arrived I planned to paint the interior my self, Gavin allowed me to use his shop to finish the final prep of the cargo area with the help from Rachel.</div>
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The sanding and final prep took a couple of 9-5 days with two of us, It did get a bit tedious but well worth the hard work.</div>
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The windows were taped up and the van rolled into the booth. I later found I should have opened up the rear hatch to let the light in and stop the paint swirling around inside, I would have got better paint coverage on the rear seal carrier and rear hatch hinges.</div>
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One more wipe over and blow out with an air gun.</div>
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The rest of the van was covered up and I got suited up.</div>
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A couple of quick tips from Gavin.</div>
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With a full pot of paint I started on the roof, making sure my dirty feet didn't get the floor dirty, My knees did take a pounding on the corrugated floor.<br />
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I used a small paint gun to spray into all the corners and spray the under side of the panel supports</div>
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It took a couple of fill ups with paint, forgetting to wear my hood I had paint in my fringe for a couple of months. The bulkhead was the last to get a coat before the floor.</div>
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The paper was taken off once it had cooked for about 20 min to reveal the results.</div>
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With just a coupe of days left to prep the van before its booked for paint I decided its probably more important to drill off the belt line trim than get the rest of the body prep done that the paint shop will be going over anyway.</div>
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With some help from a mate We spent the day fitting the doors and rear hatch and aligning the gaps and getting the swage line straight before starting on the trim.</div>
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I then raided my new parts stash locked in the spare bedroom and dragged out the belt line trim. This is from VW Heritage which I think is produced in the far east, the quality is not to bad comes with all the parts and it has the screw holes already countersunk unlike some other kits I've seen.</div>
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I tried to look on line for a how to but didn't find any thing that helped, there was a article in volks world magazine but I'm yet to find out which date. We decided to start at the cargo doors as this is where the most variation would be.</div>
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Using a measurement from the gutter for squareness and eyeing up down the side of the van to position the height so the flat face of the trim looked equal to the curve of the out side of the van, this positioned the trim proportionally lower on the swage line.</div>
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Once we were happy with the position of the first piece of trim I punched the centre of the first hole. I used a 2.7mm drill. As the bit started to cut I checked the position of the hole again and adjusted as required before it broke through the skin, making sure the drill chuck did not hit the trim as it broke through.</div>
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Due to the angle on the thread of the screw, as you screw it into place it tends to wander, if you let it continue the head of the screw will push the trim away from the centre of the hole, to counter act this as the screw was in a couple of turns I knocked the head back into centre.</div>
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I positioned the back piece next after doing the door using the measurements and the same technique as the cargo doors, the only problem I had was one of the end holes that also held the end caps was positioned over the seam of the doors inner skin so the screw would not go through.<br />
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To get the back corner pieces to fit I started by getting the curve on the rear corners to match with a bit of heat and bending over my rear bumper, this took a few attempts to get right.<br />
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With the corner now fitting the curve it now raised as it went around the corner, I twisted this out by holding one end in a work mate.</div>
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There was a small lift where the two pieces met but I was able to pull this down with the position of the screws.</div>
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Placing the door pieces was easier because they curved down and you just needed to position the back of the door in the correct position. the small piece between the doors shows the extent of the problem with the screws twisting, this was remedied by straitening the head of the screws with a block and hammer.</div>
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With the day light finally faded and the transport booked for the morning I had to leave the trim just fitted to the one side, tapped up to protect it. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With the planned date for paint quickly approaching I needed to finish of the body prep</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> As Ive used on the roof I dug out the huge pot of filler primer this was mixed 4:1 with the hardener and then about 15% thinners. I needed to use a 2mm nozzle in my spray gun to get a decent flow rate when spraying.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I started with the bulk head as it was easy to get into the flow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Then the same evening managed to spray up the other side of the bulk head.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I'm glad I filtered my paint before pouring into the gun there is only a few hairs and dried paint from the tin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> once the primer had dried I used a light coat of guide coat to help flatining back</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The rear top quarters needed a coat of filler where the spot welds showed from the seat belt support bracket I welded inside So in a rush before dinner I mixed up a load and slapped it on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Knowing Id need a lot of rubbing down I returned the next day and found it was so soft I could scrape it off with a spatula. That will teach me not to rush things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I also came across a problem with my spray gun, the paint came out before the air, this left drips all over the place that needed rubbing back flat. A spacer behind the trigger sorted this out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Once I'd sprayed the sides of the cargo area I let Rachel have a go at spraying the floor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Another spray of guide coat once it had dried</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> My dog also wanted to have a go but I could not get a mask that fit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I then hung all the door up and sprayed them up, it took a bit of skill to get the paint into the gaps with out putting runs all over it. I reduced the fan and increased the pressure to push the paint deep into the gaps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I mad a Bo Bo once the doors had dried, I opened the garage door to get rid of the fumes and the rear hatch was in the way. I hit it off its hook and if clanged to the floor, I dented the inner skin but luckily the outer was un touched.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I needed to try and straighten the warping from welding the sill so I cut a template to scrape along the wet filler, this also helped me with the low and high spots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The high spots from the panel repair I used the shrinking disc on this heated just the parts that needed shrinking back down</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The dimples on the wheel arch skin also needed sorting I also touched up the small blemishes on the bottom of the cab doors</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Sanding and preparing is not easy on the arms it took a lot of sanding paper. I came back to different areas so I didn't get fed up and not finish it properly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> with only a day left before the transport was booked I managed to get the cab in primer</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Trying to spray around all the nook and crannies was not easy, I could have done with a spray gun with remote paint pot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The last part I managed to do was the front, although with all my efforts to repair the dent to the front panel It still needed a few small adjustments, I had to let the painter have a go at finishing this off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've finally found a painter I'm happy with and have set a rough delivery time but have a few small jobs to do before I send the van for a fresh coat of paint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The engine bay shelf had some corrosion pitting, this crack is from the air filter bracket on the under side, these were patched and welded up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This small corner patch showed a few pin holes from chemical dipping, when I got the grinder onto It the holes grew a bit bigger than the size of a pin. I also used a pin puller to align the panel with the rear valance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I went along my previous sill repair with a torch and found a few beams of light shining through.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few spots of welds and a touch of grinder final made the panel hole again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The original front seat belt mounts in the bulk head were welded up along with a few other holes used for brackets to hold the interior. I made sure I missed the seat stop screw holes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A touch of filler to smooth out (hide) the welded holes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Another pocket of surface rust on the rear corner that was not removed from the dipping</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rather that pay £20 for a pair of engine lid hinges I decided to keep the originals and replace the pins with some turned down rod. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another part I decided to make rather than buy was a cargo door strap bracket.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A couple of holes in the bracket allowed me to weld it to the door frame</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I previously repaired the side windows on the other side of the van because of the large holes and missing metal, but this side there was only pitting in the corners uncovered from the chemical dipping. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decided I better do the job properly and brought a repair section from autocraft engineering.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I carefully cut out the pitting and clamped in the repair patches I cut from the full repair section.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These panel clamps are probable one of the most useful tools I've brought for the vans restro</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some delicate spot welds and a small pin hole welded up to keep the rain out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A coat of primer to hide the evidence and another little job done.</span>orangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00489086643711046380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9038821175925524782.post-66871229420551761772013-10-03T01:40:00.003+01:002013-10-03T01:41:40.043+01:00Bumper Prep.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">While my van was sitting in a damp garage waiting to be saved it's front and back bumpers were hanging under the garages leaking gutter collecting the rain water and directing it onto the garage floor, destroying my stuff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So as a result, and maybe because they are 45 years old my bumper were very rusty mostly on the inside. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rather than spend days with the grinder and wire wheel I decided to get the bumpers sand blasted. Because they were to big for the blast booth they could not do a great job,(if they had let me do it I could have done a better job) I now had to get out my wire wheel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A bit bemused I figured I could poor some oxalic acid solution in to it and leave it for 24 hours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Forgetting about the bumper because I didn't get into the garage for 7 day, I was left with a rusty water mark around the edge of a pool of sludge and crystal saturated oxalic acid solution </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Once the solution was cleaned out and filtered to use again later I was left with a yellow coated bumper, once cleaned up the pitted rust was gone, and the tide mark of rust from the evaporated water cleaned up quick with the wire wheel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To get under the mount brackets I made a bath with a dam of plastic bottle sides and plasticine</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Although the plasticine did start to crumble a little the dams held for 24hr</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Because I neglected the fresh sandblasted bumpers my greasy hand had left marks on the out side where Id handled it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I did not have any gel rust treatment so to stop the rust blast liquid I did running off the bumper I laid a piece of tissue paper over the area and dabbed through the paper to treat the areas I needed to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A day spent filling flatting, filling flatting and filler primer eer ring, and I had a prepped front bumper.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">I didn't realise this till quite late on, I had a dimond cut rear bumper (the shape on the left lower bumper end) rather than (what I think is the right year for a 1964) a slash cut one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">After a bit of deliberating and looking for a second hand rear bumper I decided to spend the money on a repro one. The quality is not to bad, its rust free and feels maybe a gauge thinner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The repro bumper had a small cut out on the lower side, not sure if this is for clearance of the exhaust tail pipe support bracket or not. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was not sure if should be there on a 64 bus, so I decided to weld it up anyway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It turned out a very neat welding job, I must be getting better at welding or thicker metal is easier to weld.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The manufacturing marks and there company logo stamp needed a bit of filler.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then a coat of primer ready for another flatting before paint. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">After the door was dipped I was left with a bunch of pin holes on the inner part of the cab door bottom all along its lower edge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Also the folded seam of the outer skin was holding the treated rust under it, After bending the lip up it revealed all the corrosion scar along the inner skin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I decided to cut away the bottom of the door skin and use the cheap repair patch I had rather than make my own repair as I did on the other door.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Using a copper strip (folded from a piece of pipe) on the out side edge I tacked up the pin holes while decent access was available to the inside of the door skin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The bend block I used to make the other door repair patch came in handy to get the new piece bent correctly, I should have double checked this against the wheel arch so it was bent in the correct position.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The damage along the lip was easily repaired with a bent strip, I made the strips upper lip wider than the original damage so that I was welding and grinding on the flat part and not in the inner radius of the door skin</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Once I had the curve correct, I had to trim the repair section at the ends around the curve as it did not fit the doors profile correctly</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The experience of doing repairs on the van I found the best result for a clean but joint once ground down are achieved on the external radius of a panel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With the lower repair finished I think I should have made my own repair piece in one piece rather than cut and patch the cheap one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I found myself chasing the small pin holes in the door with the welder. They looked like tiny holes on the outside but the corrosion on the inside had really thinned the metal. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I combatted this with a very low setting on the welder and the copper strip to absorb the heat from the back of the welds.</span>orangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00489086643711046380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9038821175925524782.post-61091230929117399862013-09-29T14:00:00.000+01:002013-10-02T19:53:11.172+01:00Rear Hatch Hinge Spring Removal and Fitting<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before the van is sent to the dippers I thought it would be a good idea to remove the two spring rods that hold up the rear hatch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was also to give me access to the new rust hole behind the hinge plate I discovered when I removed the rear hatch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a quick look at the installation I thought it would be a simple case of moving one spring one way and the other the other. This didn't work as one would pull the other with it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the end I managed to remove the circlips and pins of the second part of the hinge then get the trusty Hammer pry bar and Ikea bed frame and with a little persuasion and a big bang the springs sprang out. this also dented the roof.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a couple of pictures of there position when they came out so I know what way they go back in. If I can get them back in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So after a while away from the rear hinge I've totally forgotten how to put it back together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I grabbed the parts out of the parts box, took a few moments to work out what went where.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I noticed the bushes in the arms were worn and had cracked on the edges.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A quick go on the lathe and two new bushes were made.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> These were easy enough to squeeze into place in the vice</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> A going over with the wire wheel and some primer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I decided to spray up the parts off the van as its an awkward place to spray once fitted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Now for fitting, The two spring rods and handed, the only way I could tell which went where was due to bend in the rod end that was there to account for the curve in the roof, and the opposite end pointed down. if you fitted the wrong one the other end would point up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Working from inside the van I held the rod at 45 deg to the rear hatch and placed the first end that was bent down to avoid the curve of the roof into the hole of the fixed bracket from its outside edge. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Moving the second end of the rod towards it position allowed me to slot the first part of the rod into the slot of the fixed bracket. I then slid the moving part of the hinge over the rod and let it be held in the fixed bracket by the tension on the spring rod.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I fitted both rod in position making sure they crossed over, before I fitted the rear hatch attachment bracket and its fixing pins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the rear hatch bracket fitted I then cut a slot and hole into a piece of angle that was about the length of my arm, I positioned this onto the end of the rod that was now hanging down </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Using the leverage of the length of angle and some help to make sure the angle does not slip off the end of the rod, I rotated the angle inwards against the spring loading of the rod, this allowed me to position the rod into the slot of the fixed bracket as It rotated into the closed position.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The pins were best pushed into there slots when the rear hatch bracket is half way open, this is when the load on these pins is transferred from one direction to the other.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The tension on the angle was manageable by one person but could very easily spring off the end of the rod while rotating into position. Do the same to the other side and your done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Wish I'd know this when I took them apart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Previously I've fitted seat belt points for all but the rear seat shoulder points, this has always been a tough place to try and fit a mount as there is only the outer skin to attach to. I don't fancy welding a seat belt attachment plate to the out side of my van.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There are a few ways this has been done before, and there is a thread on the SSVC (splitscreen van club) forum where members have shared there designs and thoughts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here are a few of them. and the threads</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is what I've done. Using the existing curve of the</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I cut a cardboard template of the pillar just forward of where I want to position my mount. I then cut a block of hard wood down the middle matching the curve of the template.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Calculating the</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">width and height I cut a sheet of 1mm thick steel a clamped it along its centre between the curved blocks. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Using some heat along the bend I folded the first lip with a large mallet and block that had smooth edges so that it would not mark the metal to much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With the first lip bent I simply flipped the block in the vice to bend over the second lip.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With all the paint from the contact surfaces removed and the inside of the support painted I clamped the bracket into position, I used threaded bar braced from the opposite side of the van to hold the support where the clamps would not reach.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With the spacing marked out I spot welded the brace onto the inner skin, (could not take a photo as the welder is so heavy) then welded around the top and bottom, there were a couple of holes that burnt a dimple in the skin, so Mig welded these.</span></div>
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After narrowing my front beam trailing arms I fitted them to my new narrowed front beam but the new beam did not come with instructions. The nylon bushes inside the tubes were smaller than the bearing surfaces of the trailing arms, but I found this out the hard way.</div>
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I'd pressed the trailing arms into the tubes with a few big swings of a large mallet to find the arms would not rotate once home, and I'd pushed the outer bearing into the tube, this made me wonder what Id done to the inner bearings</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Using a measuring tape I was able to feel and measure that the inner bearing was pushed in over half way. It was a heavy hammer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a lot of pondering and a few trial wack's with a hammer I realised I needed to use a pulling tool get the trailing arms back out. So I made a pulling disc that was threaded and machined just under size of the outside diameter of the trailing arm with a step on it so that it would fit inside with out moving, two flats were filed on its edges so it would fit inside the adjuster slot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The adjuster bush inside the beam that holds the springs plates in the centre was slid to one side and the plate held with pliers in the hole was attached to the m10 threaded bar. A few blocks of wood held over the trailing arm and the arm was would out with out to much trouble.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's the plate attached to the end of the arm once it was removed, the pin from a dent puller was welded on the end of the threaded bar to help guide the two together when trying to thread them inside the beam. This plate is now just lying around the garage so if you need it to let me know.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With all the trailing arms removed I decided to measure the bearing surfaces before installing them this time. T</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">here was about 0.002"- 0.004" interference between the bearing inner surface and the arms. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now to pull all the bearings back out to there correct position I used a plate cut narrow enough to fit through the bearing with a hole big enough for 10m threaded bar to fit through once vertical the 4 corners would pull on the bearing inner face. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A block of wood and second nut was tightened on to the threaded bar, then using some tape and a measuring tool I screwed down the thread to pull the bar out the desired distance and move the bush back to there correct positions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I started by filing the obvious scratches small dents and patches of pitting left from rust removal at the chemical dippers. I thought sanding these back with a small flat rubbing block would be enough. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had to break the shrinking disc out to try and reduce the crease of this dent. I didn't manage to get its back to how it should be but reduced it enough so it would not come through each time I sanded the filler around it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">With a day spent in the garage, I managed to flat back the etch primer with 320 grit and filled and sanded the many tiny dents that kept popping up, these mostly appeared across where the inner roof braces and air box attached, probably from manufacture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had just enough time to put a quick coat of high build primer on before I got called in for tea, and the noise of the compressor would hack the neighbours off. This was not as easy as I thought, the old spray gun I decided to dust off and use was spraying out paint intermittently and not at all if I tried adjusting the spray fan, but managed a ruff result. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next morning ( you can tell from the sun in the door way) a spray of guide coat and I was ready to get sanding and cutting back, This time I used an air sander with the 400 grit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So this then revealed many more small pin holes and bents some I thought would have been covered by the primer and others I had not noticed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A second coat of Primer, I was using up my 5 litres on just the roof. This time I tried using the gravity gun I used for the under side, I was still having trouble, I needed to turn the pressure right up just to get a spray, this caused the primer to be very orange peal, I figured I needed to sand it any way so I struggled coating the hole roof, I later found out that I needed a 1.5mm - 1.8mm minimum diameter nozzle on the spray gun. I was using a 1.4mm. I now know what that sign means on the side of the paint tin. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Morning of day 3 and I decide to break out the sanding block kit I got from ebay. This is what I should have started with in the beginning, I began with 600 grit but this took sooo long to cut back, possibly not helped by the terrible application the night before. The long block also showed up the gradual dips in the paint that I should have been able to sort out at the beginning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So with a few lessons learnt in spraying and cutting back primer I dragged the van out and with some neighbourly help rolled it back on its belly, Then fitted the front and rear wheels to get it rolling again, even though its just back in the garage again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got a body soldering kit from Frosts and had a go at filling the B pillar seam and one of the rear gutter joints, Ill add more description when I get the chance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There were two areas around rear hatch that needed final attention, the lower corner was made of three panels all joined at one point.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also the top corner under the hinge that was a bit of a surprise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First I dealt with the lower corner, with the van on its side It was easier to work on at this height.To get access to the repair area I started buy cutting away the top lip that was good metal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I then cut the jagged metal out very carefully then made the inner skin and and tacked that in place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The outer part was made with a small lip to join to the rear corner panel.The top lip was then welded back onto the top of the corner part.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also pulled the dent out just below the repair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I then moved onto the top corner, with the stop plate and bad material cut way I cut up my cereal packet to get a patten. With the repair patch folded to match both inner and out bends I had to weld a bend pulling pin onto it so I had some way of holding the patch before welding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few pin holes in the roof needed patching up as well. This ment I had to re apply some of the seam seal in the gutter aga</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a bit of a impulse decision but I decided to paint the bottom of the van red, I mean RED. There was a little bit of persuasion from the other half, some thing about Louboutin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I trialed a few colours on the belly panel, the candy red looks a cool red but with two coats and a lacquer I thought it to much for the bottom of the van. So I decided for a bit of both colours, a darker shade but with a matt lacquer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I picked up a litre of paint and thinners some, extra tubes of stone chip to finish what Id missed around the gear box. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I started each area in sections this also allowed me to get use to the spray gun and help setting it up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If the bottom of the van was flat a quick spray left and right and job done, but I had to spray into all the nooks and cracks under and over pipes to get a good coverage, this took more than a liter and a half of paint, so another trip to the paint shop for half liter was needed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's the compressor and gun I used, the pot on top of the gravity feed spray gun was a bit orquard to get into some of the tight spots</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With al</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">l of the red painted I called it a night and let it dry over night, I would have left it in this colour but this is a base coat and needed a sealing coat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> With the van dry over night I was going to spray a matt sealing clear coat, but Rachel perswaded me to go with a gloss, so another treip to the paint shop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The clear went on a lot easire, but a little harded to see where you've painted I had to keep catchiung the light to see where Ive missed inbetween the structural parts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Spraying the underside with wash primer, stone chip, red base coat and clear coat took 4 days and cost about £300 in paint and materials, but was good fun. Still not sure if its the right colour.....</span></div>
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orangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00489086643711046380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9038821175925524782.post-60478893107740814212013-05-09T13:00:00.000+01:002013-05-21T04:23:52.672+01:00Painting the under side primer and stone chip<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After sweeping up and hovering the garage floor I started to hang protective sheet around the garage, got board so left the rest,as all I wanted to do was get on with spraying.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I brought a litre of wash primer and activator This was just enough to do all of the underside </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I used the wash primer to make sure there was paint in all the panel gaps</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This was also an easy step into my first time spraying such a big job.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> It was easy to spray on just a bit fiddly to get into all the tight spots whet the gravity feed pot on top of the spray gun kept getting in the way</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> A couple of seams I forgot to seal up</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I then broke out the stone chip gun, This is the same as I used for the cavity wax just with out the tube. I'm using Dinitrol stone chip 447 this is the grey version, It also comes in black.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This was fun and easy to spray, I took it in sections and made sure I got into all the tight gaps before I sprayed over the hole panel. I did a couple of coats in the wheel arches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I was hoping for a smoother finish, So I varied the pressure to the gun but less pressure made it spit more and more pressure flooded the areas I wanted to spray making it drip. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decided to leave the cab floor area as I have an original panel to cover that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used up 6 x1 litre tubes and still needed to finish above the gear box. My mask also became saturated with the solvent so it was time to finish before I started hallucinating that my van was finished.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you did not see how I made my rotisserie check this link out- </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <a href="http://paulssplit.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/building-roll-over-rig-rotisery.html" target="_blank">building roll over rig rotisserie</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">If you did here is the latest addition</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Whit the first bit of sunny weather of 2013 I decided it was the best time to try my roll over rig for the first time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hurriedly grabbed some 100mm caster wheels from B+Q (cheaper at screw fix)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">200mm would have been stronger but to big for my garage. some threaded bar, a box of nuts, shiney ones. and welded and drilled these wheels onto some spare scaffold pole that I then clamped onto the frame.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the new wheels on and a call for help to my mate Nic (and family)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With a couple of air beds on stand by I used a pole on each frame, one side to help lift the van onto the first angle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Steadied by the helpers on the opposite side the van sat comfortably at 45 degrees.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another gentle push and the van was on its side with a couple of chocks to stop it rolling on top of us as we pushed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The air beds were easily pulled out from underneath and used as trampolines for the rest of the afternoon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We then removed the</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> caster wheels from the now vertical side</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A quick action shot, as I forgot to video this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then fitted the wheels on the lower bars with the help of a jack on the jacking points and a narrower bar down the end of the frame. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I designed the frame so you could stand on the floor through the cargo side doors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also wanted the brace the two now horizontal bar together but this didn't feel as loose or unstable as I thought it might. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My calculations were very close when squeezing the van back inside the garage. Id measured from the roof beams but forgot the door is lower than the roof when open.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">My little bit extra just in case was just enough.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I could now for the first time get a decent look at the underside of the van.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">There was still some rust, I think this was because a pocket of air could not escape when submerged.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was a key stuck in one of the cab drain holes, I have the previous owners address I go and try it out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The creasing to the corner of the engine bay is a lot more visible now the filler is no longer there.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the Van back from the dippers it was time to get the van rust protection started</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The rear shelf above the engine bay had some signs of rust treatment that had not been cleaned out properly, I got my wire wheel to this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I treated it with a spray of Dinitrol Converrust RC900, this converts the rust and stabiles it so it can be painted over.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was a small amount of rust still between the panels of the roof and the gutter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Again I wire wheeled this and treated it with RC900. I decided to do this around the hole roof seam just as a precaution. I used a small brush to guide the liquid between the panels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I cut the nozzle of a tube of seam sealer at a 45deg angle and made my way carefully around the van covering the joint of the gutter and the roof panel with light grey seam sealer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A little trick I learnt from working with aircraft sealant was to use a soapy solution on the end of a gloved finger to gently smooth the lumps and create a smooth curve.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The roof turned out ok.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I went over the area above the engine bay that I have treated with the Dinitrol rust cure</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I then went around the seams in the cab.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then onto the engine bay. To seal the seams in the hard to reach corners I attached a tube to the end of my nozzle. This took a bit a guess work and a steady hand but turned out very well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I hired a van and trailer for £80 and cost almost the same in fuel</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Got the van delivered by just after midday after the hassle of collecting the van and trailer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> A couple of the guys there very kindly said they would remove the front beam and rear IRS for me as I was in a rush to get the trailer and my help back home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Loaded up the panels, then checking out the other van there I realised I'd forgot my bumper that were left hanging in my garage </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These shots were taken while the dipping was taken place, and I scanned then from a print out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's the first strip process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The proud owner of a rust free split screen van.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Fitting the front beam and rear A arms and steering column I thought would take about an Hour for Rachel and I. This turned out to be 3.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Once the wheels were back on we could strap it to the hired trailer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The bullet holes in the corner were from seat belt mounts, interior brackets and the VIN label That I remembered to remove before the chemical strip.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> A 2 hour ride back home safe with out any rain or scary articulated lorries overtaking us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The etch primer hides a few sins but the body has turned out as good or better than I expected.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The van back in it garage ready fro the next phase of restoration.</span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jBl4LnHILQI/UWs7clg4RkI/AAAAAAAADZ8/_UMAYKitpgc/s1600/DSC_0098.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="223" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jBl4LnHILQI/UWs7clg4RkI/AAAAAAAADZ8/_UMAYKitpgc/s400/DSC_0098.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a bit of window gutter I thought was OK, or was hoping was OK so I didn't repair it, but will have to know that the rest of the van is done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> You can see here where the original Lead loading has come out from the manufacture joint also from the gutter seam. Ill have to check out you tube and learn how this is done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This is the hole I knew about normaly hidden behind the hindge, it has spread further along the seam than I thought</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The engine bay turned out a lot cleaner than I expected as there use to be surface rust all up the inside of the air vents and on the fire wall infront of where the fuel tank sits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The second hole I knew about, this is no worse than I expected, still a challenging hole to repair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This door bottom caught me by surprise, guess this has rotted from the inside out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I'll have to carry out a repair similar to the I did on the other door.</span></div>
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