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Old Jun 2, 2007 | 10:46 PM
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Default Mk4 SWB Transit project

Not a particulally interesting project I know but I thought I'd post it up anyway

This is my brother's Mk4 SWB Transit van, it's blue....



































and rusty



This (amongst other holes) is what we found when we lifted the wood flooring up.



Both rear chassis rails have rusted quite badly from damage (caused by the suspension "bottoming out" I think). That, has, in turn rusted through the floor.
The 2 out-riggery bits in the corners are completely rusted through and again taken the floor out with them, don't think there's any reason for this other than bad design by Ford.
Also the drivers side step has completely rusted through in 2 places.

It's not really worth fixing but I fancied a challenge and have wanted to have a go at something like this for a while. The engine (2.5D) looks pretty good too so we thought we'd have a go at saving it.

Some more pics:




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