my tranny van

[rikka01]

This van ive had since september last year, i got it for my kids,for their motorbikes, i got it cheap £300 no mot but has a bannana engine with 43,000 miles run onit, this is the pic from which i decided 2 buy it from birmingham 80 miles from home, doing 80 miles an hour,it runs well . (it dosent look 2 bad from the pic, i thought) but when i got it home there was a bit of a nightmare waiting for me

i got more pics i will post em l8tr now i know how to post

[Valsheda]

Yep looks good in the pic mate , whats up with it ????

[madmark]

looks good whats the problem ????? rust?????

[rikka01]

Hi guys,,,, there was rust on the rear floor/load area i had 2 weld a number of plates there, the n/s arches were too rusty, held together by rust


im in the middle of sorting the arches at the moment ,
pics will be here as soon as they are uploaded

[Luke]

oh yes thats bad does look better in the firs pic
i look at it this way - once you have welded the bad areas up with good fresh metal then it wont rust there again - better than one that looks ok but is about to rust bad

[rikka01]

This is as far as iv got ,,,,,just a couple of pics



its gettin there
im thinkin of a two tone paint incorporating the blue of the front of the van ,and a new color for the rear where the bodywork has been done any ideas any 1
??????
thnks
rikka

[FredTransit]

The front and back are looking a lot better. Why do people let bodywork get so bad? what year is the van? My Mk2 minibus arches are not that bad (well, not now...... ) but do have quite a bit of filler in em (see my thread in this gallery).

[rikka01]

Its a k reg ,,,,, i just gotta find a weekend to finnish it off,,, but its hard to find a spare day at the moment,,,, but ill get there 1 day lolol

[rikka01]

iv been busy 2day ive put the floor down 2day jus b4 it started raining

just needs screwin down now

[MrMPuk]

Don't screew it down, thats why most of them have rusty floors! Try No-Nails, excellent stuff!

[rikka01]

ahhhhhh,,,, yehhhhh,,,,,,, didnt think of that cheers geez

[easylife]

is that the swb repair panel on back wheel arch

[rikka01]

Yeh it is,,,,, it started off as a extra long 1,,,,,, thats the only 1 available at the time ,
i had 2 cut it down and make it fit ok ,,,when i took off the rusty panel it was rotton behind it i also had 2 make a plate there 2

[crazyscoot]

:) This van ive had since september last year, i got it for my kids,for their motorbikes, i got it cheap £300 no mot but has a bannana engine with 43,000 miles run onit, this is the pic from which i decided 2 buy it from birmingham 80 miles from home, doing 80 miles an hour,it runs well . (it dosent look 2 bad from the pic, i thought) but when i got it home there was a bit of a nightmare waiting for me

i got more pics i will post em l8tr now i know how to post

This reminds me of a time when i brought a MG Maestro years ago. When i went to veiw/buy it, it was chucking it down with rain, It was a minter!!! gleaming black paint work, or so i thought! got up the next day to find it had scratches and dinks all over it!! and the paint was really dull and faded! morel of the story.......dont buy a car in the rain or if the owner has just washed it before you get there!!

[rikka01]

the van has been an experience lol i thought it wouldnt take 2 long to sort and my boys have been hasseling me 2 sort it out so they can go scrambling ,, but evry time i think iv finished welding something else wants welding attention and its finding the time to tinker with it, its not at my place either (at sis inlaws house 11 miles from me )

but ill get there sum day
in the mean time i can borrow the works van now and again to keep them happy (which is a transit aswell )
ttfn ,till the next exciting adventure of the rusty van lol

To see more as it happens goto
http://fordtransit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5058