Step 2: Cutting, Welding, And Grinding The Side Of My 1985 Vanagon
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.ย. 2024
- This week, I finally get to cutting the rust out of the side of the van.
It was a long and difficult process, but well worth it. Now I have nice solid metal to weld the floor to.
Thanks for watching!!!
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I've watched this video more than once. I'm glad you made it. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for watching!
Just bought a 85 myself and need to do the same thing! Your video is so helpful!
As a new subscriber to your channel, I get to binge watch watch! Its awesome! I have done everything that i have see you repair so far, and admire your skill and drive. Ill be doing the rear quarter next, and hopefully it will be better that all the others. You are right up there with all the other Vanagon chanels and and way ahead of alot . Thanks for bringing us your experience it helps out many wanting to do those repairs, watching someone like you doing them!
slim pickins Thank you so much for watching! I’m always glad to hear when people enjoy the videos as much as I enjoy making them.
NIce ! And thanks for the comment on gas vs flux core, my friend says flux core is fine, he's just cheap...
DanTheManIOM haha, the flux core does work. I put together my entire split window bus with a flux core and it’s still in one piece. Definitely like how the welds turns out with the gas welder better though.
Great video, I will be tackling the same issue here in the next few weeks. Very inspiring to see how doable it is. Keep up the good work!
Thank you! It’s so great to hear the video is helping out. Good luck with it!
My Westy needs the same area repaired.
Seems to be a common issue. Good luck with it! ✌️👍
Great video man! Do you think this job could be done with this welder without the use of gas? I have some similar areas on my van that need attention and am thinking about giving it a go myself.
Sure, if you set up the welder to use flux wire, it should work fine. When I rebuilt my 67 bus I only had a flux welder. Id say if you have the ability to use gas though, use it. The welds come out a lot cleaner. I also noticed that the welds were a lot cooler when using the gas instead of flux. That's really important with such long welds on flat panels because of warping.
Go for it!
rob Moses your local welding house could let you demo the machines too....I started with an adult education class at the high school, did arc welding, then I bought my MIG unit. Wish I had 3K to drop on a TIG, but MIG will have to do. Arc is to Mig, as Mig is to Tig....
How do you weld it so well? It's difficult to seal it all the way around, I did my 4 small whole, but after grinding there are small wholes and it burns out if I try to weld those leaving a bigger whole, any advice? Using mig. Also useful video :)
Thanks for watching! I'm really no welding expert. It took a lot of practice and trying different voltage, wire speed and gas settings to get it just right. Also, make sure the metal is still a good thickness after grinding the weld down.
Hey there. I was playing around with welding a bit...trying to simulate body panel welding. I am just using .030 T11 flux core. (Hobart wire on a Klutch welder) It just burns through. I'm sure my technique is not right but no matter the setting - it doesn't behave very well. Do you think MIG makes a big difference or can you suggest a good method? Eventually, when I get my skills up I need to do this exact job! Thanks!
As I side note, I am using really thin 22 gauge metal. I'm not sure how thin the replacement panels are ...but they can't be much more than this?
@@oldgadfly8398 thin metal is pretty hard to weld. the body panels are usually around 18 gauge. The gas mig makes a huge difference. being able to control the volts and speed is important. id say maybe try upping the wire speed and see if that helps.
@@gottasplit5707 Thanks. I thought I did do that but I'll try again. I had the voltage @ 13 which was the lowest for this machine. I'm hoping to hit on the magic formula but maybe MIG is the way to go.
Wish I had made the switch to mig back when I was doing the bus. It's just all around better.
@@gottasplit5707 It's been a few years but wanted to report back that I was able to successfully weld this. This video helped quite a lot. I was able to weld directly to the new panel unlike your video where you put the L bracket in. I was fairly happy with the result. Took a long time and a lot of patience! For the Klutch multi-process welder - the settings I used were wire feed speed 5 / voltage was around 14 (3) and used P3 welding wire .032. standard MIG. I ended up having the van professionally painted and it looks pretty decent now. Hope you are well!