No more workshop time until tomorrow, but yesterday had great chats with Dan at Schofields about panels and pans and stuff - they really are excellent folk, and the service and knowledge is just as good as it was when i was constantly calling Rick all those years ago when i first did the bus Now waiting patiently for repair panels to arrive - I'm so excited and not very patient!
I know! It's only sills and rear repair panels but I want them NOW to gaze upon their beauty and non rustiness
Currently resisting the temptation to unwrap them I haven't ordered the bellypans yet, obviously they'll be the last things to go on and I wanted to know more about the difference between the early and late ones. My old early ones didn't have holes in - just rust holes! - and as the late ones will also fit. I'm still in two minds whether to get the late ones. Schofields make both of them and have assured me they'll fit and be equally as strong.... so do i go for early side pans to put him back to the way he was and just gun lots of protective stuff in before bolting on, or replace with the later ones assuming that they were an upgrade from the previous design? Plenty of time to decide - sooo much more rust to get rid of, but thoughts and advice welcomed as always
No Devons are based on Kombis, the 1st and only time they ever did a panel van conversion was the 78/79 sundowner, any panel van conversions you see will have been bought by the owner and taken to devon to convert.
Cool, a day of camper related deliveries! Cheers @Lasty, I shall look after it. And this is how I want to be known from now on!
I decided not to fix the outer pans on mine with anything permanent, just fit front mud flaps and use the excellent permanent inspection hole provided by the absent belly pans. After all it was all to do with VW getting arsy over cutting through the C roof arch as being why Devon had to fit the pans to be allowed to sell the conversion..Not that they fall apart without the pans.
You don’t need all these new panels, now my van is mot exempt I’m just going to use expanding filler, fibreglass and newspaper, I’m such a geezer
I'd ideally like to put them back on (bolted), as they seem to have done a decent job for the last 46 years, and get mudguards on all around too. of course, this will be dependant on time and £ too
Bet you're not going to do that! Both mine are MOT exempt now but had the bug mot'd a couple of weeks ago and will have the bus done when i've finished wiping its bum!
