four king van

ooops

Did you get your window seals sorted in the end fella??

i haven't done a thing to the van since september, apart from drive it ocasionally when the weather was nice.

need to order 9 meters of winow rubber from woollies trim.

also got two 205 50 16's for the front wheels today.

tyres fitted, no more contact with the arches

needs to go lower then

Good call Tango!!

tango_van wrote:

needs to go lower then

its low enough, 5 miles on brand new tyres that are now bin fodder once is enough of that for me

besides that it is empty at the moment so will come down a bit when the interior goes in

can u tuck the front wheels in on a T25..?
either that or skinny wheels upfront.. tub the arches..

kinda screws your turning circle up though

or just fill the van with loads of nice plush interior goodies and the odd extra batts to handle all that power needed for the beer cooler

started on the inside of the van, well a seat mrs griff couldn't see out when sat on the chesterfield that was in the back of the van

so reused the hinges that i had and made a full width bench.





also had to change the steering rack boots for the MOT

Nice work, love the sub box idea

good work bud nice one

Ok the next update is by me ...nomates ,as griff forgot his camera , his sheet metal , his sandpaper ,his paint,and numerous other things ....

Here he is looking for his windscreen



And here is the latest problem ....the corners of the screen are a bit rusty ,leaving the floor of the van under water when it rains


so we cut the rust out ,not actually that easy to do




then we welded up the holes ,one side we had a doner panel ,which didn't actually fit for some reason , the other side we made the repair section out of some sheet steel



not the neatest of welding ,but time was tight and the rain looked like it could come at any moment ....well thats my excuse anyway lol

so griff slapped on a little filler to hide any grinding marks


griff then rattle canned some white over the top ,but this looked a bit 'make do' so we decided to mask off the area and apply a bit of satin black ......by now we were really against time .....as both our sunday dinners were ready , so we did the only decent thing ...and rushed it ,LOL




what do you reckon ?....i think it looks better in black under the screen





that was all we had time for ,so I left griff to re-fit the dash and windscreen wipers in his own time ......so that will never get done

bloody good work chaps!

clockwork wrote:

bloody good work chaps!

cheers ,hopefully his driving will be better now ,without him having to wear wellies

i like the idea of black round the screen area, cool

Looks like a top job. nice one

Good work, apologies for holding you up!

very nice!!! its coming on very well

i see my photographer has done his job, more than could be said for the tea girl

no worries scoops, was nice to have a look at your van, you didn't really hold us up as i also wasted half an hour laughing at lisa rocking out to guitar hero

so thanks to steve i should be able leave important stuff on the floor now without it getting soaked when it rains.

wiper arms painted and re-attached to the van.

dash is back in and all bits connected.

so its back to the same state as before i went to steve's, minus the leak hopefully

central locking sorted, alarm and imobiliser fitted.

and started on my fridge and gas bottle cupboard.

pictures, need to sort some out for next time.

well back in september i found this shit in the water expansion bottle







so today i have done a compression test and all 4 cylinders came upto 11 bar which is about 170 psi









the plugs are a bit black





so yet again it looks like this on my drive



just need to make some room in my shed and the engine will be stripped of its heads after my op and a top end rebuild will be done, as i can't afford the scooby conversion now as i have to pay for some gas training courses in feb.

good work dude ...and heavy too , no wonder your ass is falling out your belly button ....LOL

It's a shame you couldn't find the auto-focus button on the camera!! Pr perhaps after a few ciders you thought you had!!

Mr Scoops wrote:

It's a shame you couldn't find the auto-focus button on the camera!! Pr perhaps after a few ciders you thought you had!!

those pictures were taken with millies camera as i left my camera in cornwall last weekend, the last picture of the engine on the floor are with my camera as my brother bought it back and dropped it off to me.

I would buy her a better camera ........she'll need glasses taking pics with that thing ...lol