A100 from across the pond

just a quick hi to everyone , i thought i'd show you guys a couple of pics of my new project a 66 A100 panel , i'm sure i'll be on here asking daft questions but please help if you can as there's not many experts over here in england
cheers phil

welcome and good luck with your project

Welcome to the site!!!! Cool Van

Well, isn't great that we have this Si-Fi technology called "The Internet"
Someone thousands of miles away over land and water scores a cool van and BAM, it's on your wireless laptop. How cool is that?

Welcome to the site Phil. I'm sure there's a bunch of eager folks here that will be glad to help you out. Your adventure is about to begin...

Welcome and it looks like you got a good solid van to enjoy.

Welcome aboard .. great find , my guess is there are not many of them running around the UK ...

Welcome Phil.

Whereabouts in the UK are you. I'm in Cambridgeshire.
I saw a couple of A100s at Santa Pod earlier this year, although they were both pickups.

Regards
Sy

Getting quite a few members from England. Very Cool!!! You guys should all get together for some kind of Early's meet

Sy Hollinshead wrote:Welcome Phil.

Whereabouts in the UK are you. I'm in Cambridgeshire.
I saw a couple of A100s at Santa Pod earlier this year, although they were both pickups.

Regards
Sy

hi mate , i'm down in kent , we race at the pod in the VWDRC


thanks everybody , shes not to bad , there's not that many over here and i had to travel to france to get this one !!!

it's had a bit of a going over , plenty of pop riveted repair panels , which i'm in the middle of cutting out

i'll post some pics up as progress go's

does anyone know of anybody doing cab door hinges ??

Probably just hinge pins... I think that's typically what's available here.

sasktrini wrote:Probably just hinge pins... I think that's typically what's available here.

that's what i thought , my pin's have been done before , not very well either , so i'm going to need the lot

heres what i did to my door hinges. the holes and pins were both worn but the a-100 pins have a larger than normal head and i wanter to keep the "factory look". heat the crap out of the pin to remove from the hinge if seized. drill out the hinge and have pressed in a hardend valve guide and trim to length for both sides of hinge. then i bronze welded the bad spots on the pin and put them in a drill and filed them back to size. then you drill or ream out the valve guide to match the repaired pin and the job is done. total cost about $5.00 bucks for a couple valve guides from any machine shop a little welding and about an hour of time for each hinge and you keep the factory look.you should drill a lube hole on the part of the hinge that the pin turns in for service later. put the hole out of site when the door is closed so you can't see it. also drill through the guide to the pin so the lube gets right where it need to be.

i possted this a while back and it works quite well. give it a try because anything you get used is just like the ones you have now.

jkr wrote:heres what i did to my door hinges. the holes and pins were both worn but the a-100 pins have a larger than normal head and i wanter to keep the "factory look". heat the crap out of the pin to remove from the hinge if seized. drill out the hinge and have pressed in a hardend valve guide and trim to length for both sides of hinge. then i bronze welded the bad spots on the pin and put them in a drill and filed them back to size. then you drill or ream out the valve guide to match the repaired pin and the job is done. total cost about $5.00 bucks for a couple valve guides from any machine shop a little welding and about an hour of time for each hinge and you keep the factory look.you should drill a lube hole on the part of the hinge that the pin turns in for service later. put the hole out of site when the door is closed so you can't see it. also drill through the guide to the pin so the lube gets right where it need to be.

i possted this a while back and it works quite well. give it a try because anything you get used is just like the ones you have now.

thats great and pretty simple really

i'll take one of mine off and have a play at the weekend cheers

If that doesn't work out for you, I have some uesd hinges you can have for the price of postage.

Hi Phil
Nice van you've got there - should keep you amused through the winter. Been re-building my A100 Xplorer ever since 1993, pretty easy vehicles to work on, tractor technology. One of the pick-ups (blue with gold stripe) you saw at santa pod, used to belong to me - owned it for seven years. It has recently gone on holiday, to Canada!

Have fun with your project

Terry in the UK

a100terry wrote:Hi Phil
Nice van you've got there - should keep you amused through the winter. Been re-building my A100 Xplorer ever since 1993, pretty easy vehicles to work on, tractor technology. One of the pick-ups (blue with gold stripe) you saw at santa pod, used to belong to me - owned it for seven years. It has recently gone on holiday, to Canada!

Have fun with your project

Terry in the UK

hi terry
sorry i've been realy slack on here just lately , i spoke ( replied) to you on vzi , on a cool campers thread

yeah i was offered the blue one , just before it was due to go , but i realy wanted a van to replace my vw camper ...

i'll be posting some pics up soon of my progress so far , it's been a little slow , but it's got to be done for the start of the race season , i can see a few late night's ahead

cheers phil

By a100terry at 2009-10-04

well as promised some pics of the resto so far ... for some reason the order has been a little mixed up but you guys should get the idea
it didn't look to bad to start with ......
front steps /arches /floor




all the rust cut out and after a bit of welding

then a bit on the long side and front arch , it was all pop rivited and bondo'd over





after a bit of welding , still a bit of cleaning up

Thats some pretty serious repair, Looks great ! Its always a mystery when you open up old body work.

Fine job your doing, look forward to more updates

Nice work!!!

cheers guys

fortunatly i'm used to repairs like this , i run a resto shop , and most of the stuff over here is as bad if not worse , i'll post some pics up of my vw race van before and after , if you want to see rust

i'm having to make panels as i go as there is none avalible over here , i can see an order for trims / lights etc coming in the new year though , from your side of the pond

time flys when your having fun eh !!! i've been a little tied up with other projects and really haven't done much to the old girl , but i thought i better post some pics up of the work so far
before


after a bit of beating of a piece of steel sheet


i've also put a rolled /smoother rear panel in with a cut out for the licence plate


a bit more fab work and one of the ford rear lamps is in , we have to have an amber turn lamp in the uk , so the back up lamp in this unit will have an amber bulb fitted , it almost look's factory ......


cheers phil