When we bought 'her' in 2001 in all her household gloss glory. We bought it with the knowledge it needed some work doing to it so when time and money allow i've been slowly getting it 100% solid again while keeping it road legal and useable. Seatbelt mounts were a little rotten.
A bit of an archeology lesson in paint. Inner arch: After wire brushing! 'Arch' Solid again. It'll need replacement arches soon, but lack of money meant a bit of a botch was needed. I'm not proud of it to be honest but needs must and all that.
There were atleast about 1/2 dozen bread wrappers in there too. The first time i touched it with the wire brush on the grinder and it just disappeared i thought *@$*!"£*&. ;D
the time it took the previous owners to bluff that they could have got you to do a far better job looking good owen nw 8)
Still need to really completely replace the inner, middle and outer sills, front panel, inner front valance and deformation panel, rear valance and both front arches, but i've been putting it off as £££ is a little tight, so its just been patched for its MOT yet again.
I finally got around to replacing the rotten cab door with one i bought 2 years ago. Fitted with new seals, regulator, window and 1/4 light. The one i removed. I have found out just how rotten the front arch is though after dropping the door through the step end and punching a fist sized hole in it. Thats another job that i'm gonna have to do.
I think i've managed to bend the A pillar bottom trying to fit the door on my lonesome. Theres a bend/crease just where the hinge plate is welded on. :'( Door doesn't fit too well. I've got a gap i can get my sausage fingers in at the front: but its nice all the way up at the back: Compared to the passengers side. Small gap at front: Small even gap at rear: For some reason the hole the door fits in on the drivers side is 5mm bigger (measured from A-B pillars) than on the passengers side. The bottom of the A pillar isn't actually attached to either the floor or the wheel arch as its cracked through all the welds. I also found the front step of the arch is/was filler and plastic bags: Can you still buy just the outer step panels? I think i'll need to replace the inner, middle and outer sill, a jacking point and crossmember and front tophat plus the bottom of the B pillar before i fit a complete arch. Don't have the £££ to do any of that at the moment or anywhere to store the complete westy interior while i'm doing the work. :'( A nice warm (hell, i'll just settle for dry) area to work in would be nice too.
