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Hi, its not that clear in the photos but the panel has been squished and badly repaired on the drivers side as well, other wise i would do what you are going to do, good luck with yours

Hi Guys Been working on our 72 Crossover and stripped the front panel, shouldn't have looked!!!!! :cry: anyway found some nice fillered over accident damage and rot under the window rubber in the corners ,this has gone through to the inner top as well, looking at options, isee you can get...

Hi Johnny Thankyou for the compliment ,really appreciate it. i did think of putting the earlier style rear cross member on for easy engine access but then decided to redo it the way it left the factory, not sure why as you do have to lift the van high with the welded in cross member but i...

Tonight i managed to make up the corner brace that go's between the end of the chassis and rear valance, the original was a little crusty! next job is to do the other side and fit a new rear valance..............

i've reached a corner :party0006: !!!! i've been working my way clockwise around the bottom of this van and hopefully i will end up where i started and it will all be finished :D so i pulled the rear valance apart and the rear chassis end and found the usual expert repairs by a string of PO's...

managed a day on the camper today and got the centre panel welded in, joggled the top of the panel and spot welded the join and also spot welded the sill, the sides were punched and plug welded, went it quite well,

managed to escape the christmas chaos today and got the rear arch panel trimmed down and clamped in place. in the end i joggled the top and pulled the joint tight with sheet metal screws, took a bit of fiddling but fits ok, just got to weld it in now!

finally got the rear off side wheel tub repaired, next fit the outer arch panel !!!

cheers fellas, i'm finding a methodical approach and tackling it in some sort of order seems to be working on this project, i think if you look at to many problems at once you can quickly get disheartened, so far so good!

I've now finished welding the repairs needed on the rear wheel tub so next i can weld in my inner arch repair and then onto fitting rear arch, heres where i am at.....................

Today i started to repair the inner arch, first i wanted to make a template to make a repair section that i could weld up to the groove where the foam seal fits. i used masking tape to copy what was left of the inner wing i then transferred the tape to some card and made a template allowing...

Removed old repair panel on rear arch today, needs inner wheel tub restoring and i need to decide how high to take repair, its a little wavy where old repair was done and i want to get rid of this small pitted area on the seam

torsion tube collar/ chassis repaired this evening.

a little more progress, rear cross member in, inner and middle sills done and after finding some poor repairs decided to replace middle panel up to the swage line...........

Hi i.m still working on the underneath of the van and was wondering about how to finish it to protect it from the elements. i've had to do a fair bit of welding, theres quite alot of original paint and a little surface rust. i was thinking of giving it a good wire brushing, treat any surface...

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OK checked the engine and it is a universal case (has the tapped holes for rear support) it isn't mexican but made in Brazil ! its a 1600 twin port with brazilian carb and its done no miles! will it be good to power our Bay? cheers

We have now removed the engine and fuel tank so we can proceed with safety, so the work continues. Tracy has been scraping off all the paint from the floors so repairs can be carried out and this evening i cut out the rear centre crossmember, the end of the top hat that fits above this so i can...

thanks for the reply, i've fitted it and it fits really well, it also has captive nuts for the belly pan to be bolted, i think i'll do the rear as well as it needs a repair and i'm pleased with the front, starting to look new again under there :D

Thanks Fellas for the replies, i took the old engine out today and it became clear to me the tapped holes and how the rear support bar are fixed, my Brother has the mexican engine so i'll get him to check if it has the holes! sounds promising, fngers crossed, i know its unleaded and has done no...