Last edited by Grunt; 17-04-2013 at 10:39 PM.
HX Sandman
Chevrolet Avalanche
HQ Wagon
It begins, the most obvious damage was the from drivers side dog leg where it joins the sill
This is how it arrived, after a little digging it was found that someone had repaired the missing metal section with masking tape and a nice layer of bog over it
after a good wire brushing all is revealed
nothing has been chopped out of here it was cleaned with a wire wheel. All the missing metal was covered with masking tape and bog
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Last edited by Grunt; 06-05-2017 at 01:49 AM.
HX Sandman
Chevrolet Avalanche
HQ Wagon
ive experienced my own fair share of pain around those lower a-pillars. very common
you're right that is no small feat to do properly. newspaper/chook mesh and bog anyone?
BQZ
I've been looking for the hx sandman van with the build date of 8/76 as it was the year and month i was born. Well i'll be stuffed this one is what i'm after right down to the bloody day. I was produced on exactly the same date. Ya wanna sell it ?
Time to remove the Freddy Flinstone floors, then the sill and A dog leg
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Last edited by Grunt; 06-05-2017 at 01:53 AM.
HX Sandman
Chevrolet Avalanche
HQ Wagon
You find rust in the most random places
there is a hole in the body near the upper corner of the door....... both sides
Passenger side floor repair which fortunately was not as bad
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Last edited by Grunt; 06-05-2017 at 01:55 AM.
HX Sandman
Chevrolet Avalanche
HQ Wagon
This is where the steep driveway got me, time to strip the body down. Most would take it to the blasters and get the body done but I figured with all the stuffing around I would do it by hand. It will also be a lot more gentler to the metal as I dont know what lurks beneith
hand paint stripping, its character building
The more I stripped back the more metal I found, AWESOME.
Last edited by Grunt; 06-05-2017 at 01:56 AM.
HX Sandman
Chevrolet Avalanche
HQ Wagon
Last edited by Grunt; 06-05-2017 at 01:57 AM.
HX Sandman
Chevrolet Avalanche
HQ Wagon
found rust in the rear gutter
fortunately had a rust repair section in the spares
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Last edited by Grunt; 06-05-2017 at 01:58 AM.
HX Sandman
Chevrolet Avalanche
HQ Wagon
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