Rotten VW T4

[The Falloonatic]

Love this thread, hope you sail through the MoT, but will be gutted if it does and this thread stops!

 

[Screwdriver]

oops, I forgot to update this thread!

My welding skilz have been validated. It passed the MOT. The eBay ad has written itself on the advisory: underbody corrosion.

Meantime, I'm a little more happy to share some of the err, techniques I had to use to get it ready in time.

The headlight adjusters are made of plastic and fell apart when I took out the lights, leaving just a stub.

So I need to get a thread in there which locks onto the hole while allowing some play for adjustment. Didn't have any plastic on hand but I have machined mahogany before with good results so...

Needed to shave it to within a few 1/10ths of a mm to get it to go in but still grip.

Then relieve it to allow it to flex.

Wrong size spring and body too long.

Bigger spring and cut down body, job done!

I have ordered the right fittings, in fact one of them turned up today (I forgot to change the qty) but couldn't keep putting off the big day.

I HAS A VAN!!!

woohoo

S.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

I like the h/light thingy....bodgery at its best!

 

[The Devils Reject]

I like the h/light thingy....bodgery at its best!

Not bodging, it's making use of available resources...

 

[pedrobedro]

Nip to the cookery shop and get a nylon rolling pin to make your plastic bits

 

[Screwdriver]

Got some nylon bar stock now, off eBay, ready for next time. But yes, cookery shops appear to be a good source for machinable plastic. I used an HDPE chopping board for some lathe jaws.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Nip to the cookery shop and get a nylon rolling pin to make your plastic bits

Great idea there , Lakeland here I come.

 

[penfold]

Great idea there , Lakeland here I come.

Only if you're rich! Pound shops, carboot sales and lidl/aldi are a better source.

 

[cliff366]

Just found this good thread

 

[Exuptoy]

A cracking read. Not bad skills either in the end.

 

[Screwdriver]

One of these days I'm going to do the back end...



But thanks for the comments. If you liked that, you might like this epic: https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/ye-olde-forge.77451/

I really ought to have got all that stuff onto a YouTube channel but, you know, any day now...

 

[tom2207]

well done with the wooden nuts ...

 

[Ex-AATransporter]

This thread is the ducks nuts. Well done - is the van still going? Novice welder here trying to keep an old T4 going. Owned it 17 years, and there are more than a few rusty bits.

 

[Olderisbetter]

This thread is the ducks nuts. Well done - is the van still going? Novice welder here trying to keep an old T4 going. Owned it 17 years, and there are more than a few rusty bits.

Great vans I've just got mine back on the road

 

[Screwdriver]

Thanks for all the likes!

I think that's as far as I got, the van has been sitting there ever since (my friendly MOT tester got busted). I did the front and then some wag on here suggested I take a look at the back end and I gave up.

Few days ago I fired it up with the intention of letting it go. I'm gonna stick it on eBay for 99p and see where it goes...

 

[dave h 2]

So, as it's been a few years does the MOT man now need to be able to test for dry rot?

 

[Exuptoy]

Thanks for all the likes!

I think that's as far as I got, the van has been sitting there ever since (my friendly MOT tester got busted). I did the front and then some wag on here suggested I take a look at the back end and I gave up.

Few days ago I fired it up with the intention of letting it go. I'm gonna stick it on eBay for 99p and see where it goes...

Got a link for us?

 

[Screwdriver]

This is something that breaks my heart. I have to get rid thanks to Sadiq Khan. He made me get rid of my last T4 (a diesel). So I bought this one and now I can't drive it out of the garage without incurring a fine, penalty, charge, tax, call it what you will.

I love this f****** van. But it's not old enough for one thing and not new enough for another. So it has to go.

Been putting off that day since the start of this thread...

It's the only decent size van that can do this:

 

[zx9]

This is something that breaks my heart. I have to get rid thanks to Sadiq Khan. He made me get rid of my last T4 (a diesel). So I bought this one and now I can't drive it out of the garage without incurring a fine, penalty, charge, tax, call it what you will.

I love this f****** van. But it's not old enough for one thing and not new enough for another. So it has to go.

Yep, I know the feeling. So far I am two vehicles down, a A4 1.8T that I owned from new which was sold to outside London and the Vito which was a perfectly good van scrapped, I did take the £7K bribe for that one but it still don't feel right.

I am holding on to the mint, low mileage, owned from new ZX9 for now but it does not get a lot of use.

 

[dobbslc]

This is something that breaks my heart. I have to get rid thanks to Sadiq Khan. He made me get rid of my last T4 (a diesel). So I bought this one and now I can't drive it out of the garage without incurring a fine, penalty, charge, tax, call it what you will.

I love this f****** van. But it's not old enough for one thing and not new enough for another. So it has to go.

Been putting off that day since the start of this thread...

It's the only decent size van that can do this:

Having driven my van down that gap I can say it's burluddy tight!