Rust spotting

Although Dougie seems to be pretty rust free underneath, I have started to notice a couple of slightly dodgy spots. Fingers crossed these will be relatively simply welding jobs. Have also done a bit of investigating into the slightly hairy door opening while driving phenomenon. Seems the door drops a couple of cm when its opened, and while the hinges I can see look ok it will be doorcard off moment to investigate the inside. Fingers crossed its something that has just come loose! Was going to insulate behind the door cards anyway, and given just how scrappy the look, possibly getting some new covered ply ones in the process.

Anyway on to the nitty gritty (so to speak). Rust. Enjoy.

The sliding door.

Seal looks ok but the sill (?) is going to need replacing

And the bottom of the sliding door looks a little suspect too

It looks like this is probably going to be the biggest rust sort out job (not including rebuilding up the windows once i take them out). Fingers crossed it won't be too hard!

That bit that holds up the tail gate.

Nice patch just under the tail gate strut mounting point (can you tell I'm making these up??)

Bit more at the  bottom of the tail gate

So hopefully these will just be treated and painted (asap) bit need to see if there is a reason it's just this side that has succumbed. The tail gate is off a different van (as its green not red under the yellow) so could be it need a bit of adjusting.

Ahhhh windows. 

Sliding door window, yup I can fit a finger through that. Now sealed a little bit with duct tape.

Driver side sliding window

Tailgate window

Possibly the biggest window problem, sliding door

My plan is to sort out the windows and replace the seals when I paint but some may need looking at before that. Already cleaned out the guttering/felt for the sliding windows so now the water has somewhere to drain too. The worst one is the sliding door window, in the bottom corner you can still see the red paint from the previous, previous owner and it seems to move around. A lot.

That gear stick. 

So the gearstick will unscrew and lead to me punching the dash in 3rd gear. Despite that, since figuring out the combination of bolts to tighten, it now seems happy to stay changing gear without incident.

All in all it is a watertight van, that drives. I'm still happy lol.