Body work part 4

The interior, engine compartment and roof sprayed with rust bullet. 

I throughly cleaned the bus inside and out. I spent about 3 days cleaning every nook with soap and water, then wax grease remover. I also sanded the spots that were not blasted before cleaning.

I also applied Everglass on welds holes and some small pits.

Body work - part 2

Cut out the battery tray and some other sections.

This is my attempt to shape the panel behind the battery tray.

I am glad I decided to cut the section below. It ended up having lots of dust sand and insulation in there that was rotting the metal.

Cut out a piece of the corner section tail light that was damaged in a fender bender.

Body Work - Part 1

Repairing the body panels is the first step to body work. Used the compressor and air gun to clean all the excess media from media blast. Girnded off all the left over body filler to expose metal. I will shape the metal with shrink disc and hammer and dolly to get a smooth level surface. Also replace panels that are not workable.

I have used the hammer and dolly on this section with some quick results. Tomorrow I will use the shrinking disc.

I need to prep the metal with wax and grease cleaner before welding to get a good connection.

The head lamp buckets can not be saved. I need to get new buckets to replace these crusty buckets.

Head lamp buckets are tacked in with about 5 welds on tabs located on the front panel. I drilled the welds out but it was tricky not to completely damage the tabs. I will reinforce the tabs before putting in new buckets.

I received new headlamp buckets from cip1 and they are a very close fit and match to the old buckets. Minus the holes drilled in the back of the buckets (for 67+ bug) all the tabs and mounts fit perfect.

http://www.cip1.ca/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=C21%2D0182

Links and Stuff
http://krayden.com/tds/henk_metalprep_79_tds.pdf
http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/stylespilotshop/metalprep-79-quart-msds.pdf

Evercoat gold body filler
Metal shaping tools
Mig gas

Back from the media blaster!

Looks pretty good :) There is some need for body work.