Popular Post Blanketman Posted August 29, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 29, 2021 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 30 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Blanketman Posted August 31, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 31, 2021 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. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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