advice for t2 body repair

[hazaa]

hi guys, can you help me with this two details

i ordered driver side ( LH drive car) sile and middle panel lower part.

on sill is written

and i need to put this on here

the question is do i need to cat that panel in parts and than to put on sill or this panel comes together with sill?? and the back part i dont need to use?

cant understand because on sides also looks like i need to cut it in parts and attached some how to side panels.

any one can help???

[skills@eurocarsplus]

[Tcash]

The middle panel appears to have the side plate attached.

[TomWesty]

[zerothehero]

[hazaa]

[hazaa]

maybe some have suggestion how to put that silver panel on the best way,
because it connects to middle sill, thats oki and no problem, but the problem what i have is regarding sides. because it dosnt have 90' edge, si how to put it to b pillar?

i had idea to cut b pillar in halfs and attache to pannel?

any other ideals?

[914guy]

We did this repair on our bus. The floor was rusted so we needed to repair it to put the inner rocker on. We put on the middle rocker panel next and finally the outer panel, which you showed. We had lots of measuring and aligning to get everything to meet with the existing bus panels.

Mike

[skills@eurocarsplus]

[hazaa]

[skills@eurocarsplus]

yea....you'll have to work backwards on that area. I would do the wall, then the B post....spot weld/plug weld the B post to the wall and keep working outwards
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[hazaa]

i when to garage today and did some pics:

there is side panel (witch dont have 90' bent) and b pilar.

here you can see from side

maybe to cut b pilar in halft and weld together with side wall. or dont cut just weld on it because it will shrink any way..

what you think?

or maybe other better suggestion ?

[orwell84]

The way the Hanes manual described it was to trim the side wall panel along the body line/crease, then weld that to the b-pillar. You end up having to grind weld material out of the crease to preserve the body line. Then it is finished with filler and the body line is "cut"/sanded out of the filler. I messed around with that exact panel for awhile before I ordered the Gerson panel which has the 90* flange as you mentioned. I tried welding a flange to the panel you had but was not too successful. The Hanes method looked fine but it is fiddly welding it like that and grinding in that crease. It depends on your skills and how much of your purist you are.

When I look at a nice shiny bus, that is the first place I look to judge the overall quality of the work. Bodged body lines don't lie.

[hazaa]

[orwell84]

I guess you could do it that way. My reasoning was that the b pillar is a structural channel that form a box section. It is right above the jacking point. Also, on my bus there is a seat belt mount there, on the b-pillar, near the floor for a lap belt for the rear facing chair. I wanted to keep the b-pillar as factory as possible. Maybe I was overthinking it, but it made sense at the time.

[hazaa]

[hazaa]

hi guys,

question is about t2 inter rear wheel arches.

question on red you put on glue, but do i need to put glue or weld at place
where is green color? or they just put together??

also if some one how lives in places where is winter, have thote about idea to put inside in wheel arches fiber glass to the rust dosnt destroy it so easy??

[skills@eurocarsplus]

the red area had some type of goop there from the factory. green area was spot welded and sealed.

personally I have trimmed that panel much like the early bays/splt buses and left that inner tub out. it seems to like to hold LOTS of trash.
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[hazaa]

[skills@eurocarsplus]

just look at how a split windows rear arches are made...it will make sense then.
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