So that the front valance will fit OK, I decided to repair and fit the wheel arches 
so that every thing will line up and fit straight. I bought a pair of Schofield arches, and removed the original right hand arch when the van was in the damp garage. The repair arches are made up of 4 pieces spot welded together, where the originals are only 2. Because of this the outer skin is pitted from the spot welds and the top skin has a joint over lap which looks really bad. 
I decided to get rid of this problem by splitting the panels beating the outer skin and running a seam weld along the inner side of the lip. Don’t look too hard at the welds I’m still learning. I then ground and peeled the top lip from the panel, to then radius to look clean. On a trial fit on the van some thing didn’t look straight, so I 
decided to lay it against the door. Opps, getting carried away with the welding has warped the panel from the heat, this is a lesson learnt. Ill either have to cut this into three parts to straighten it or start again with a new panel. Those NOS front arches I saw for £320 so long ago don’t seam so extremely over priced now.
decided to lay it against the door. Opps, getting carried away with the welding has warped the panel from the heat, this is a lesson learnt. Ill either have to cut this into three parts to straighten it or start again with a new panel. Those NOS front arches I saw for £320 so long ago don’t seam so extremely over priced now. 
