My friendly owner to owner advise from a red seal, journeymen auto body technician 👨🔧. A man who loves his job and does bodywork and painting every day.. and is always wanting to learn to do better. Your welds are awesome! You were even stitch welding to keep from warping too much. Few Golden tips!! After welding, make sure you cover or seal the back of that weld. Lots of burnt, boiled, exposed metal and paint. Use an epoxy, etch, DTM sealer, or cavity wax on the inside and outside (depending where) Of panel. •Epoxy primer surfacer. Epoxy primer surfacer is crazy good for water repellent and little more durable than etch. You can actually do 2 coats (depending on your TDS-technical data sheet). And usually can apply body filler without having to sand down the epoxy first. It also creates a water barrier between the metal and body filler. Body filler, (Bondo) mainly consists of talc, What you find in baby powder. It soaks up moisture. So when you get a rock chip and it goes through all the layers- the paint, sealer, primer surfacer, epoxy or etch and then finally hits or body filler, it soaks all that water and transfers it to bare metal which causes your rust!! Bad! So it’s awesome to have something that repels the water from the metal. You can also apply after doing your body filler areas again to make a sandwich of protection. •Etch. (also knows as a wash primer) is what you want to apply in high rust chip zone areas cause it caries a high zinc rating. It’s other component is acid. The acid bites into the metal causing an interlocking bond. When a chip hits and breaks the paint and drives through the layers, the zinc chromate sacrifices itself and creates an invisible barrier to the metal keeping it water resistant. Remember adding a lot isn’t always a good thing. Follow the TDS! •DTM sealer. DTM stands for Direct To Metal. So it adheres to metal. Can be used as a sealer for seams that has heavy water traffic. And keeps water tight. has elasticity and flex. So when driving, vibrations happen and it can cause little cracks thus letting water in. The high flex keeps it stretchy! Some are more brittle so watch out! Always!! ALWAYS! Squeeze a bead down on some scrap paper first before applying on substrate. This shows you your flow, consistency, viscosity, and in 2k products-(two component, 1 part sealer: 1 part hardener). And you can gob it on. It’s almost like a silicone. And some carry anti corrosion property’s that keeps rust away. 3M is really good. LORD Fusor is a close second. And both have a ton of auto body conditioning products for that big job. •Cavity wax. Here in Alberta, canada we also call it bees wax. I spray this in behind every panel I do metal work on. Works great in a hard or awkward place to put a spray gun. Has a long hose usually for small Accesses and shoots far. Lasts for years to come. It’s wax. It’s repels water. Stays waxy and it’s ugly. But for those jobs nobody will see in behind I use this. Especially doing multiple cars a day cause it’s fast and easy. Your westy or vans or beetles or anything metal will love you. Paint is just the lipstick to the beauty that lays underneath. It’s usually ugly!! But it’s the base the holds the foundation. best of luck everybody!
@ianandkimmaness44654 ай бұрын
Awesome man. Just awesome.
@emmetleahy5 жыл бұрын
I'm really digging this channel and your work. Thanks for sharing.
@robertpreston60844 жыл бұрын
About to do the same repair on about 5 spots around my windows video is so helpful.
@DanTheManIOM3 жыл бұрын
Flossy, many weeks ago I saw this and later, had to do this to my 85... thanks :-)
@nmartin55514 жыл бұрын
Thanks for showing and explaining what you did. Really helpful!
@jasonosgothorpe8824 жыл бұрын
Good job, watched a few amateur (don't know if you are!) Rolling resto/welding videos & you have done a great job
@letsgowestfalia24053 жыл бұрын
Good stuff man! Keep up the good work.
@flossymissiles3 жыл бұрын
Thanks I appreciate you watching
@statix69005 жыл бұрын
That’s dope dude! Makes me want to tackle some of the rust on my 70 camper. I need a welder though.
@thetrailwaychildren4 жыл бұрын
Cool man, I'm doing similar repairs on my '83 panel bus. I'm in the UK though where the weather isn't very kind to old vw's so I'll be welding for quite a while haha 🙈
@vwcoco5 жыл бұрын
Superb repairs !! Keep going
@notvanpron41154 жыл бұрын
Good video man. It makes me want to tackle some of the rust on my vanagon. Too bad I want to use it more than I want to take it out of service for more major work :D
@LukeTheJoker5 жыл бұрын
Nice work as always!
@craigmonteforte14785 жыл бұрын
Very nice work on the repairs smart saving the old body part for repairs i think the term California Car gets abused these days on used cars its sort of like “Barn” find On the internet especially. Every one likes to say every car or truck is a Barn Find so they can raise the price on a junker. That didnt run so they parked it in the garage for 25 years untill the wife told them to get rid of the piece of crap in the garage that makes her have to park in the driveway LOL now it turns into a Barnfind to give it a more appealing sales technique ? I call it the realtors terminology when they say things like a Step Saver kitchen instead of a small one ! Barn find is more like i didnt have the money to fix it so i pushed it into the garage hoping i could find a way to drive it again ? I’m not saying I haven’t done a car or motorcycle like that but i never lost it ? I liked the trick on making the old body part flat too i did some repairs on a Chevy Van around windows and i used. Tape. To form patterns. For the new metal overall size before bending all the complex bends to the new part it was for a area that was specific to Some custom. Areas that were. Done none factory and none of my junkyards had Any of the same vans in the yards for parts so I needed to custom shape those parts this all was in effort to repair a old vehicle that I was giving away
@johncianci91404 жыл бұрын
Good Job!!!
@kendrahofseth62655 жыл бұрын
Great tutorial!
@vanessanorton4553 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this video. Very easy to follow even for a beginner. Do you rent the welder? I def don't have space to own such a thing.
@EndlessShots3 жыл бұрын
Nice fixes, we are trying to fix our first bus, yesterday I 've welded my first piece ever, difficult. Do you know what the thickness of sheet metal used in a vanagon? 2mm for structural stuff and 1,5 for the outside? Thank you.
@stevemagnuson70512 жыл бұрын
Do you remember what your welder was set to? Also what gas are you using and psi. I’m new to mig welding but have some TIG experience.
@blastosist3 жыл бұрын
Have you replaced any of the seams? It would be interesting to see how you do that.
@Doubleodude5 жыл бұрын
Nice job. What welder settings do you use?
@flossymissiles5 жыл бұрын
I don't really have a number, but its on its coldest setting (a) and a wire speed of 3
@mattthompson92615 жыл бұрын
awsome work bro!! what cam do you use? im thinking about starting and doing some vids on the bug
@flossymissiles5 жыл бұрын
Thanks Matt, I use a canon g7x. The only problem is dust seems to get behind the lense
@mentaldogmark3 жыл бұрын
Did you just spray that on your windscreen?
@DanTheManIOM4 жыл бұрын
rusted in strange places...
@johnywalker1015 жыл бұрын
Do you work on other peoples cars? i have a vanagon in monrovia that needs some rust repair
@squid_fish3 жыл бұрын
Great work! You can buy OEM VW paint from paintscratch.com in a rattle can too ✌🏽