Body work and restoration like this is so rewarding, Especially to a great vehicle like a good vanagon. Looks like top grade work. Scott www.turbovans.com -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of neil N Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 8:53 AM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: Crash Survivor Hey nice work. Nice conga too! Was finding the front PS piece difficult? (new? used?) Neil.
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 2:34 AM, John C... <Trvlr2001@comcast.net> wrote: > http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=wua8um1.y9syp9t&x=0&h=1&y=a9r73p&localei d=en_US > > Hi Miguel & All, > You didnt describe the damage to the front end, > but, this is what I did to repair the front corner of my 85. > Get yourself a little 120 wire feed, with gas, > and anything is possible! :o) > best of luck on it ! > John C. > SLC, UT... > > http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=wua8um1.y9syp9t&x=0&h=1&y=a9r73p&localei d=en_US > > > > -------------- Original message -------------- > From: Miguel Pacheco <mundopacheco@GMAIL.COM> > > > Some of you may remember the thread 'What To Do With a Crash Survivor', > > Neale Pickett, author. He had this crash survivor in Los Alamos a couple of > > months ago and I bought it : > > > > http://inventors.about.com/od/astartinventions/a/air_bags.htm > > > > My question is regarding body work. Are there any instructional sites > > recommended? Specifically I want to repair the front. The door I will just > > replace. I don't know if it would be advisable to replace the skin or just > > slide-hammer these indentations as far out as possible then just fill in. > > I purchased the van from Neale and picked it up last week. The deal was > > straight up with no surprises. Originally I was going to haul it back to > > Durango (a 3 hr drive) but I ended up installing a cracked windshield from > > my boneyard and re-connecting the hot water supply to radiator where the > > impact apparently caused the hose to fly off of the plastic conduit. Other > > than that, the van drives straight. It even looks pretty good if you stand > > at the right spot, tilt your head and squint your eyes a bit. > > BTW this van has a 2.3 GoWesty engine (transferable warranty) with 16,000 > > miles. This thing is smoother and quicker than any 2.1 I've ever driven. Big > > smile on my face every time I drive it..........now back to the regularly > > scheduled, never ending repairs, on one van or another.................... > > -- >
-- Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia - "Jaco" http://web.mac.com/tubaneil http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/
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