>You will find those seams make the vehicle ease to build, because the
>panels the length of the vando not have to be perfectly straight.
>Filling them in, you will end upwith body plastic 2 feet wide the get the
>panel straight.  Forget it.
>    I think that using lead on the seams may stop rust.  Any old time
>lead body man out there careto comment?

Lead... they use flux, which is an acid... this is trapped in blobs
against the steel, causing rust. So a leader told me.

To cure seam rust you'd have to OPEN the seam and scrape it out, then
put some rust-converter on it (and as none of these seem to do what
the instructions say they do, I doubt that any of them work) or GRIND
the surfaces, the close the seam and weld it... then paint. Inject
some rustproofing grease into the seam afterward, from the inside of
the vehicle. Some seams of course are in closed sections (eg sills)
and need real surgery to get at.

There ain't no easy cure for seam rust.
--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
Fossil preparator
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut