Progress Pics - Dormobile X-Over

[gninnam]

No - it's original but all is in good order so will see how I go

 

[gvee]

Great work as always, Andy.
Still got your ball joints in my garage, bud :msn4:

Those push rod tubes are fine. I have them on my bus engine and they don't drop a spot

 

[Aircooler]

Good work Andy!
Regards
Reto

 

[gninnam]

Great work as always, Andy.
Still got your ball joints in my garage, bud :msn4:

Those push rod tubes are fine. I have them on my bus engine and they don't drop a spot

Cheers George and yes, you do have them - I will give you a bell soon to organise a meet up and a handover of the bits

 

[gninnam]

Good work Andy!
Regards
Reto

Thanks Reto - not quite to your standards though :mrgreen:

 

[gninnam]

28.05.2016

Put the foam pads on to the tank ready to fit back in:

Before:

During/after:

Was going to fit it today, but couldn't find the earth strap for the tank sender.....

 

[gninnam]

29.05.2016


Planned to put the fuel tank back in today as I found the earth strap, plus finish off the offside rear arch so here are some pics.

Ready to go in:

And it's in

Pipes attached:

I know I need to locate a 12mm pipe so I can finish it off but for now quite pleased!


Firewall fitted but not screwed in yet:

Found some stainless screws (from when I pulled a washing machine apart to create a fire-pit) so finished it off:

 

[gninnam]

29.05.2016 cont....

Red primer for the offside rear arch:

Hope to grab a few minutes and put a top coat on tomorrow then continue to remove the underseal from underneath the rear end.

Cheers

 

[monkeyvanwestybike]

Your way up there lad ohh!
Go Mr Gninnam
MOT then soon !

 

[gninnam]

Your way up there lad ohh!
Go Mr Gninnam
MOT then soon !

Cheers - still a lot of work to do before the MOT.....

 

[kevinhall]

Awesome stuff Andy. Jealous of the 72 fuel tank...had to craft a late bay one into mine as the original one was long gone! Yours looks in great nick. Keep at it!

 

[gninnam]

Awesome stuff Andy. Jealous of the 72 fuel tank...had to craft a late bay one into mine as the original one was long gone! Yours looks in great nick. Keep at it!

Cheers Kevin - to say the rest of the bottom six inches was rusty looks like I got lucky with the fuel tank

 

[gninnam]

16.07.2016

Due to work and things didn't touch the van for over a month

Continued with the removal of the underseal - concentrating on the rear beam and the area around the rear bulkhead (that slopes).

Using my angle grinder and then a drill with a wire wheel I began:

Couldn't get to a good many areas so called it a day - happy so far.

 

[gninnam]

Bought a Dremel and some bits from B&Q so I could tackle the awkward areas:

During the cleanup:

Just finishing:

After 2 hours of cleaning with the Dremel it packed in - what a pile of sh@t...

Need to take it back tomorrow and get my money back (at least I finished it

 

[gninnam]

18.07.2016

Got my money back - no questions asked!!

Started to treat the rear beam and bits with some rust converter then continued to tackle the remainder of the underseal:

Hope that tomorrow I can finish the rear bulkhead and get some rust converter on that.
Then wil splash some inc primer over the top ready for some paint.
Will then need to address some cables that have not been routed correctly.

Getting closer to putting the rear suspension back

 

[gninnam]

19.07.2016

All underseal removed from underneath the area where the rear beam is.
Gave it a tickle with the rust convertor then after a few hours went over it all with some zinc primer.
Getting there

Think the weather over the next few days is scheduled to be a bit pants so will see when I can get back under and start rerouting the cables etc (plus notice a few

little areas that need the magic touch of the welder stick

 

[gninnam]

23.07.2016

A couple of hours stollen this afternoon to add some metal to the underside as it looks to have been cut when the replacement panel was put in by the PO

(replacement rear bulkhead I think you may call it...)

After I had welded a piece in, skim of filler and primer added:

In this pic you can just make out where it had been cut!!

That's all for now.

 

[Myvanway]

Doing a grand job there. 8)

 

[gninnam]

Cheers.

 

[gninnam]

26.08.2016

My camera phone is on the blink so apologies for the quality of the pics

Decided to attack the hump on the passenger side as it had been plated over and apart from looking naff, was also starting to fail.

From inside the arch: