Cleaning the floor pan

Being a bank holiday and being able to get some more time on the car I fancied getting on with something to see some good progress.

Had to lift the car up to get the floor out. We didn't have the right tool in the garage to take the gearbox off so lifted the front up to make a start cleaning up underneath. Lifted in on the engine crane with a ladder under for safety

Before

Before

Mum and I spent the day scrapping the waxoyl of the bottom of the car. Was a grubby job to do. By the end of the day we had got most the waxoyl off.

Waxoyl scrapped the worst off.

The waxoyl has defiantly kept the underneath looking good and clean, only a few bits of rust. 
To be able to paint it is all in the preparation. All the grease and oil needs to come off to make sure the paint lasts on it well.

Day two was spent cleaning off all the remaining bit of waxoyl in the groves and corners.

Looking much cleaner after day 2

While I was doing this. Rich made a start on the parts of the floor that needed a bit of work. The dodgy patch on the front was removed. The revealed a leaking fuel hose to be replaced. With fuel hose fixed a replacement panel was put on and we have put in an inspection hole

Patch removed

Fuel hose removed and welded in new part

Day 3 of the bank holiday was just half a day, did a bit more cleaning and made a start on the back part. Decided to get all the floor cleaned up before doing any painting. Then it will be a quick light sand, decrease and ready to paint. Pretty good weekend, next weekend on to the top of the floor.

Rear quarter

So i spent another day under the front of the car scrapping grease and grime off it and treating the few bits of rust. Kurust doesn't mix well with my hair, sticks it together like glue! Getting there with it now. Hopefully Kurust and paint next week. Spent a lot of time upside down on this but think it is one place that would really pay off.

Rich spent the day on the inner rear quarter. On the other side we made it up from pieces and it looks great but this time I bought the replacement part. Really glad I did as it has made it much easier. Went in really well. Bit more to do around the panel but went in well. Bit odd that the replacement panel doesn't have the holes it needs in for fixing to the body

Stanford Hall

A weekend off working on the car with my first real show in years to Stanford Hall.

I was really excited to go and get some auto jumble and look at the bugs for inspiration.

Got there nice and early and got to the auto jumble nice and early. Unfortunately really struggled to find anything I was after. There were some pipes and knobs and seat parts that i thought I would find but nothing much there. Loads for campers but not much for bugs just same old junk, half of which I don't know why anyone would buy. A lot of it was passed repair.

Luckily the likes of mega bug and Custom and Commercial were there. I got my pre-order from C&C which saved me 10% on some things that were the cheapest with them anyway. Then mega bug got quite a few seals etc that were some good show prices. Bit sad but I have a list of everything I need and the best online price for it.

Enjoyed looking around the show but things have changed since 8 or so years back when I last had a bug and went to a show. there are so many campers and hardly any bugs. To be fair most the bugs that we did see were very nice and I did get some inspiration.

Did a bit rubbish with pictures but here are the few for inspiration.

Loved the pockets on the jean seats for the jean beetle.

Loved the colour

Nice seats

Jeans beetle seats

Good weekend nice change from working on the car.