citroen h van Idiot Buys 1968 Citroen h van, wants to convert drums to discs

[PhilMcCrakin]

FFS.... I was working on repairing hole in the roof. And discovered this mess. Looks it has all been held together with filler and fibreglass. Nothing to weld to so building a support strut that I will attach to front roof and rear section bulkhead, inside the van. I don't have a bender so cut the box section and achieved the correct roof curve one for each side will spot weld it to the roof. And bolt it to the bulkhead.

I'm also going to create a drain hole to stop water collecting in the gutter and the rot happening again. 

[Tickman]

Liked for the repair not the mess you found

[PhilMcCrakin]

5 hours ago, Tickman said:

Liked for the repair not the mess you found

Thank you I enjoy both the finding and the fixing.

[Stinkwheel]

I have to say, that V8 does somehow just look ‘right’ in there.
And well done on the enjoying fixing previous messy work like that.
I’ve nothing against fixing rusty old metal, but I prefer it to be original rusty old metal. Bodge jobs like that make me lose interest in things fast.

[PhilMcCrakin]

3 hours ago, Stinkwheel said:

Bodge jobs like that make me lose interest in things fast.

Agreed they can take the wind out of the sails. I do love the satisfaction of doing it right... Well right for me any ways. ?

[PhilMcCrakin]

3 hours ago, Stinkwheel said:

I have to say, that V8 does somehow just look ‘right’ in there.

I had the un1 in as well before I sent it off for repair and together they looked awesome. 

[mat_the_cat]

If you're still looking for brake discs, Rally Design let you search by PCD, diameter, thickness, offset, centre bore and mounting holes. Might let you find something available off the shelf?

[PhilMcCrakin]

1 hour ago, mat_the_cat said:

If you're still looking for brake discs, Rally Design let you search by PCD, diameter, thickness, offset, centre bore and mounting holes. Might let you find something available off the shelf?

Thanks I'll have butchers

[Mr Pastry]

I have found Rally Design helpful in the past, useful range of stuff and reasonably priced.

Looking at the Dutch disc brake conversion they have designed new hubs which they surely wouldn't have done without good reason.  The chap on the blue forum who put discs on his H appears to have machined the Citroen hubs to suit.  He says clearances are very tight, but he won't say exactly what parts he used, or how .  He seems to be an experienced hot rod builder and I think he is being sensible - either he is not entirely happy with the conversion, or he doesn't want incompetent people trying to do it and creating something unsafe.   So it is probably not going to be easy.  

[PhilMcCrakin]

managed to get the rusting seams removed and welded back together. Installed some support struts in side to re-enforced the roof and pop it back out. Grinding cutting welding now filling and sanding. some before during after shots.

[PhilMcCrakin]

More roof work, welding done cleaned and primer'd inside. Gave up trying to work with the paint on the roof decided to just strip it back to metal and start again.

 

 

Edited March 9, 2020 by PhilMcCrakin
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[PhilMcCrakin]

Quick update on the van, roof still giving me grief. Had to replace the side box section on both sides of the van ran the full length of the van. Removed the rotten gutters and then welded, welded, welded. Then filled sanded, filled, sanded, filled, sanded. Primered, sanded, filled, Primered, sanded, Primered etc etc etc. Had a couple of tins of gold hammerite knocking about so mixed them at 3 to 1 and sprayed the underside of the roof to seal it. Another bit of sanding and then spray the roof an off white. Hardest part was getting the curve right. 

[Tickman]

That looks brilliant, you should be proud of that.

[junkyarddog]

That's a lot of effort gone into that.

Excellent work. 

[320touring]

Looks superb - top work!