Under seal your van for £15

[tallbongo]

Oh and thanks to the OP for the post. A complete waxoyl is still on the lengthy to do list and some points have been raised in this thread that were not when I asked for guidance on the process.

Shame our roads were gritted last weekend - had hoped to get it done before the stuff went down.

[Driver+Passengers]

Shame our roads were gritted last weekend - had hoped to get it done before the stuff went down.

Aye, me too - grr!!!

[321Away]

problem is you havent gone inside any of the sections so effectively your adding to the water trap problem!get some thinned down and get in there!!

Julian

[mikeonb4c]

Love the thread title.

I looked under my van, but there was no seal there, though I did spot next doors cat.

Only kidding. Cracking job, though Julian is right (well he would be, with his knowledge) about the interior stuff, but you know that anyway. Need to check too perhaps that the underseal is waxoyly enough not to be prone to crackng over time?

[nicstrike]

problem is you havent gone inside any of the sections so effectively your adding to the water trap problem!get some thinned down and get in there!!

Julian

i normally thin a little , then warm the pot up quietly on the stove (i use a parafin gun). once done it is great to waft into all the little hidey-holes and then cures off nicely over time.

[Driver+Passengers]

This thread has inspired me - I have just bought a variable air-line schutz gun (inc. flexi nozzle) and some Ronseal schutz ("with added Waxoyl") from eBay. More like £25 (gun + 2L), but I'll give it a go on the car first and then attack the Bongo.

Cheers, all.

[M 80NGO]

This thread has inspired me - I have just bought a variable air-line schutz gun (inc. flexi nozzle) and some Ronseal schutz ("with added Waxoyl") from eBay. More like £25 (gun + 2L), but I'll give it a go on the car first and then attack the Bongo.

Cheers, all.

Sounds good but remember to put some sheeting down and get a cheap roll of wall paper to create an apron all around the Vehicle to stop overspray

[Driver+Passengers]

This thread has inspired me - I have just bought a variable air-line schutz gun (inc. flexi nozzle) and some Ronseal schutz ("with added Waxoyl") from eBay. More like £25 (gun + 2L), but I'll give it a go on the car first and then attack the Bongo.

Cheers, all.

Sounds good but remember to put some sheeting down and get a cheap roll of wall paper to create an apron all around the Vehicle to stop overspray

If I seal the garage floor at the same time, it'll be a job well done!

Good call on the apron - I have liner in bulk. And floor fan, overalls, goggles, respirator and shower cap all on standby...

[M 80NGO]

This thread has inspired me - I have just bought a variable air-line schutz gun (inc. flexi nozzle) and some Ronseal schutz ("with added Waxoyl") from eBay. More like £25 (gun + 2L), but I'll give it a go on the car first and then attack the Bongo.

Cheers, all.

Sounds good but remember to put some sheeting down and get a cheap roll of wall paper to create an apron all around the Vehicle to stop overspray

If I seal the garage floor at the same time, it'll be a job well done!

Good call on the apron - I have liner in bulk. And floor fan, overalls, goggles, respirator and shower cap all on standby...

We need pic of you in ya painting outfit before and after then some pics of your freshly groomed undercarrige

[Driver+Passengers]

We need ... pics of your freshly groomed undercarrige

[M 80NGO]

We need ... pics of your freshly groomed undercarrige

[daveblueozzie]

Waxoil….a heartwarming story.

I really wanted to get some of this into the Bongo chassis before I started using it. I had gone to halfords and bought 2 gallons, and knocked off work early.

I also had the real benefit that SWMBO was out so I had since 3.00pm been shoving the 2 gallon cans into the sink with near boiling water. I should have known things were going to go “slightly wrong” when I started.

I decided to use a Waxoil gun and my compressor, I had the propane burner on in the workshop since 3.00pm flat out and it was like the Sahara, in fact it was so hot I decided a T-shirt and shorts was the dress code.

I entered the kitchen and unscrewed the waxoil lid.

Thhhhuuuumpppppppp !…grwat big snotty big dollop spewed out over the kitchen work-surface... no probs I thought, ...I’ll sort that out when I've finished, as I might make "a little bit more mess yet".... glad she's not in.

Clutching hot waxoil injector thingy, filled with waxoil I squirted and soaked the chassis blasting away, and also practising holding my breath as it went misty in the workshop.

1 Gallon later I was nearly there, I was at the rear cross member, with yet another huge refill.

I ought to point out that I had also decided that at some of the angles I was at pulling and holding the trigger was a pain so I had devised a cunning lock of an elastic band on the trigger so that I could let it do it things whilst it sprayed away. Shove tube into hole and pull trigger… lock and waggle etc.

Enter the cat.

It sat there and looked at me the way only a cat can... it sniffed (approvingly) the dripped waxoil, and I said…

“Huh, you don’t want to be in here matey, this stuff will stick to your fur like brown stuff to a blanket”……and at that very point the jammed on tube extension came off the gun.

Could I release the elastic band round the trigger ? Could I XXXXXX.

The gun squirted warm waxoil/white spirit out at a force never so far experienced, one particularly good jet hit the cat, who bolted, knocking over the 2/3 empty (1/3 full!!) can of hot waxoil, which flowed oh so well under the bongo, and into my clothes T shirt and clothes and skin areas exposed..., but I was still fighting with the hot octopus trying to switch the damned thing off, but I failed, I was saved when it ran out.

Just when I thought nothing could get worse than lying under a bongo with waxoil soaked clothes, waxoil dripping onto my hair and face, and running into my ears... Some waxoil dripped onto the lead lamp... ping... Blackness.

It also pinged the fuse for the lighting circuit, getting myself out of the underneath of the bongo proved fruitful, in that I knew all the places that waxoil had “leaked”.

Removing dripping clothes I entered house in “minimal Clothes” to resolve fuse prob, when Lights went on I saw the cat…

I AM GOING TO DIE IF SHE SEES THIS !

Here Puddie cattie……

This did not improve the sink/kitchen area one little jot, .....ever tried holding a 'waxoiled cat' in a sink with water and rags, and especially when cat does not enjoy it ?

1 hour later cat was scrubbed and very peed off with me, I've had 2 baths, and also cleaned the bath it seems that the bath will not be rusty...scrubbed kitchen floor, sink, worktop

Will she notice?

Cat stinks, garage sticks, alley way stinks, I stink, kitchen smells of lemon washing up liquid, which strangely we seem to nearly be out of, floor stinks.

She will be back any minute [gulp]. Nice job on the bongo tho....... ))

...later that evening...... Alleyway door closes and SWMBO walks in..... "have a nice time dear ?......." "what the HELL is that smell ?"

"Smell ?....er do you mean the waxoil ?" "Is that what it is - its disgusting" "Er..really"....

"yes really, the alleyway stinks, I mean I could smell it when I got out of the car..."
"er...really ?"

"yes, Really, I mean its stinking everywhere out, its even permutated the house " "really"

"yes really and picks up cat - I look away at telly and pray...and ....good grief even the cat smells of it its .... at this point the cat growls.....probably hand enough of being "handled" during the evening......"WELL if your going to be like that madam you grumpy old thing" ..places cat down firmly - cat grumbles some more.. cat exits still grumbling

"Charming... well... Anyway, have you finished?"

THOUGHTS...............

I've got away with it...."all done"...I've got away with it...."think I'll have a beer"...I've got away with it....I've got away with it...."Would you like a glass of wine ?"....I've got away with it....yippee....I've got away with it....and

SHE'S GOT THE HUMP WITH THE CAT - NOT ME !!

Beer.... Bed.... RESULT....... !

But a bit close for comfort......far to close.

[mikeWalsall]

Now all you needed to do was pop the oily things (NOT the cat) into the dishwasher ..........

[Driver+Passengers]

Enter the cat.

Great story!

PS. You missed a bit...!

[mikeWalsall]

I am going to have a look at a / mushroom roof V6 Bongo camper van tomorrow ...

The pics of it look good, and chatting to it's one UK owner on the phone it sounds an OK rust free version ...

I have a Clark Strong arm Hydraulic vehicle lift that will lift a Shogun ...



but I never got the lifting arms to fit the 'chassis' of my Estima ...

If I do decide on the Bongo as they are not galvanised like Toyota I will have to see if if it can be adapted ... and Schulz some 'hot' Waxoil inside the panels / seams / chassis rails etc: