Another lazy day working on the Kombi. Decided today to scrape of the floor and see what was underneath the carpet and coat of roughly applied paint. After I removed the carpet found quite a few pieces of extra metal screwed over the rusted holes, mainly where each of the jack points and outriggers secured to the floor.
The long top hat under the bulkhead is completely stuffed and rusted through. Despite sitting in a dry garage since it arrived in New Zealand, it was really moist and rusting away merrily ....... what was it Neil Young said in a song..... yeah that's right, rust never sleeps.
Looks like I will need to order in some floor repair sections. Am hoping that these won't be too expensive now that KlassicFab panels are available in New Zealand. While I wait for a few other parts to arrive I will keep on scraping away and looking around at what else needs going - looks like the bottom portion of the B and C pillars will need replacing just to be on the safe side and get a good margin between the current rust surrounding them.
The nose which is sporting a couple of different colours (half original sea blue and the other a shitty cream) has had a bump in a former life and once again a bit of bad cutting, splicing and bondo has disguised a very poor repair ..... why oh why? Anyway I have the complete floor section to put in along with replacement inner and outer valance metal behind the bumper so looks like it will be off with the bottom 8" or so of the nose and dependent on how much re-welding and repair of the nose, I will decide if it will be simpler to do the lot in new metal.
