Blanketman

Ripped the old carpet out of the van. Exposed a bit of rust starting in the foot well, and some already nice rust repairs which are mint. Sanded all the glue down and sanded back the rust. It was surprisingly better than I expected. Was a good day of cleaning and sanding for the both of us. Its always exciting lifting the seats and carpet out of vehicles. Today we did a final sand and clean. We applied 2 coats of a rust converter primer, then 2-3 coats of a Colorpak toyota blue that I had stashed with my aerosol cans. It's a nice colour, wish i had more of it or could remember its name. It's done the trick anyway to seal it. Once we've got some carpet down it should look pretty good. Nice to know the rust has had a good seeing too.

After years of being apart of this forum and benefitting from its community I've decided to post up a project build.

This is my Girlfriends 1983 Toyota Hiace Camper van, with a pop top roof. Running an 18r engine.

She bought it about a year ago and it ran sweet for a summer, then started breaking down. The compression is down on two cylinders. We will drop the engine out after lockdown. Open her up and get an engine rebuilder to tell us exactly what it needs.

Currently we are working on getting through the mountain of rust that is throughout this poor thing. We are getting there hahah

The jack point on the passenger side is the worst rust we have found so far. You could knock it and rust would fall to the ground. So we've cut it out and started fabricating a new one