Crusty Bumper

Lets go back to the "Crusty Bumper" I mentioned earlier and investigate that a little more, as we already know Tessie likes to throw us a curve ball every so often just to keep us on our toes.

 

The lower grill panel was held on by a rawl plug so we were lucky to still have this!!

 

I think this is rotten and have to be replaced. Lucky Jim is good with a welder as we aren't using filler on Tessie at all

 

Lower front panel to be repaired

 

Lower piece of lower panel has been sandblasted and coated with rust killer

 

Drilling out spot welds

 

Majority removed just lower strip to come off

 

Inside ofold panel. As you can see VW didn't protect them from rusting

 

New panel has a good coat of red oxide applied to protect it

All fully welded

 



 

Testing the fit with the grills in and weld primer applied to stop the welds rusting the seams from the inside

 

Lights and grills fitted for safe keeping