decided to make a start on the front beam as i as getting a lil bored of body work took the servo and master cylinder off given a clean and a coat of primer started stripping down the front beam hubs off anti roll bar partly removed ARB treated and painted a bit of beam rot cut away repaired the weather isnt helping progress at the moment but managed to clear a bit of space in the garage to carry on work
on the other side the rot seems a bit more sevire and a rather large gap just below where the shock bolts on cut away tacked in
I remember going through all that with the beam on my bus Keep at it dude its well worth it in the end
iv got some new ball joints comming as one had a fair bit of play and another had been damaged by yours truley when i was removing them, as they one was an upper arm on the left and the other a lower on the right i decided to replace the lot, i have access to a large hydraulic press so hopfully ill manage it. iv also got 2 new shocks, a fixed stearing arm (i broke the last one) and an anti-roll bar fitting kit finally got that arch in after many trial fits, but i have made a slight error while fitting the B pillar, its very slightly twisted :'( making lining up a real pita had to flattern this rippley poo pressing i did hang the door before fiting, the pic came out very poor though chewing lumps out of the floor had to make a lil repair here as i got a bit carried away with the disc cutter, luckily i didnt cut through to the chassis new floor going in floor in finally got around to painting the servo came out nice and shiney
a bit more fiddling with my balls 4 out and 4 in, i had to cut 2 of them up so i could get the eccentric bushes off. all fitted and ready for a coat of paint, master cylinder given a coat of reconditioning paint, also attacking the front beam, need it finished as its taking up too much space in the garage i got a knott wheel for the grinder and attacked the remaning crud, it made a mess of the garage floor lol rust treated painted iv been banned from painting today as we have people comming to view our house today and the smell of paint isnt appealing, i disagree but if it all comes off i could end up with a doubble garage which would be worth the 1 day of not painting
Today was paint day Thank you local council for the wonderful paint benches lol After really enjoying my painting session I decided to break out this tub of gloop Everything sealable got the treatment That's my lot for today, unfortunately work has got in the way of the camper again. =(
Nice work, keep it up. A nice tip for seam sealering where u can see it is to mask either side of the seam and just brush it withing the edges of the masking tape. Gives a nice straight line of sealer.
