well... It wasn't the best way to fasten them, but I basically cut a strip of metal, about an inch thick and 4-5" long, drill a hole in the middle and weld a captive nut behind it, then I used a joddler to punch 4 holes on the sides of the over riders, both on the tab that goes in the groove in the bumper (to plug weld through) then I bent the ends of the strip at right angles. (well actually one slightly more and one slightly less than right angles, to allow for the curve of the bumper) then weld that strip inside the over rider, plug welding onto the strip through the holes in the side of the over rider, then you can drill a hole in the bumper and put a bolt through into the strip. I hope that makes sense, It only works for the rear bumper though, the deformation panel will get in the way on the front ones. Reading that back sounds ridiculous, I can send you pics if you want? make it easier to understand lol
chipped away a little more today, cut the old crap out, not fully done yet.. got the seat belt welds cleaned up too. did a little rot-removal.. next up, behind the driver bulkhead is rotten. There is quite a few other repairs that need doing to the offside cargo floor area, I thought it would be much more economical on my time to just buy a new floor section and replace the lot in one go, but at £160.. it worth going down the repair route. so i made this little section for the front... and to give you an idea of how it will fit...
Good work. I'm repairing my floor too as the full panels cost a fortune and it's not like it can be seen once covered in ply etc
next little update, I don't start work till 2 today, so did a little bit this morning. I got the last bits of the rear arch off, removed the rust and primed. then i got onto the cargo floor again, i cut this out.. then made a repair piece. i managed to save the top plate bit so that's been cleaned up and will go back on.
I chipped away a little more today before I had to go out. I cleaned up and finished the floor repair I was working on... got it all welded and primed.. then i realised i'd welded the bloody top plate on the wrong way round! doesn't matter though as it wont be used. by me anyway. next up I started repairing the bottom of my spare wheel well, it was rusty and really thin.
I had another hour or so yesterday to spare so i decided to start work on the offside d post. i had previously cut out most of the rot, so just new stuff to go back in. made this up.. the bottom 1" here was rusty, so out it came made this up.. then I put the engine hatch back on, to check the gap for the rear outer valance which will be going on soon-ish.
1st update in ages! progress over the last month has slowed to a trickle due to 1. buying a new car, 2. buying a new road bike and 3. having major trouble removing the offside inner sill. anyway I managed to get back on it over the last 2 days. i tried drilling the top of the sill, from inside the van... didnt work i tried grinding the sill from the bottom... didnt work i tried prizing it off a little at a time and using a chisel... didnt work so i decided to butcher the floor. then with the bit out, I replaced a few bits here and there, this is actually made up of around 6 parts.. then I removed the last remnants of the front and rear jacking points, also cleaned up the rear outrigger and removed the previous owners repair patch he put over it. primed these up.. then i made up a outrigger bit..
then i moved upto the front arch.. i had to cut through about 4 repair patch's to finally reveal a rotten top hat section.. then i think the previous owner couldnt figure out how to remove the wheel arch, so they cut it off and welded the new arch ontop of the wheel arch tub bit, you can see the thick bead of weld, and the strip of original arch in this pic.. so i cleaned it up a little. and i cut out the old rotten seat belt mount # then last up, i split the gearbox from the engine, ready to be cleaned up and painted when i stood the gearbox on the end, it looks like oil has started seeping out of the join? is that normal.. it looks like it may need a new gasket or something
The oil will be seeping out of the breather hole above the selector rod Lay the gearbox back down flat and it will stop
??? That's at the top on the pic??? It's the input shaft seal. If they're in good order these seals don't leak when the gearbox is up-ended so I'd replace it if I were you.
Good idea para, but its probably drained out now lol Ill have a closer look in a mo and see if i can spot where it was coming from