Category: Campervan
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Window Fitting Kit
This is the kit they recommend for fitting this window. It does the job, but the kit has two flaws: The adhseive is only just enough to go round. We could have squeezed maybe another inch or two out of the tube, and we weren’t being overly generous. Since you need a continuous bead to…
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Side window (privacy tint)
This is an 80% tint. We umm-ed and ahh-ed for ages about whether to go for the privacy tint, which we were worried wouldn’t let in enough light. But it’s fine, and great on hot sunny days. It’s easy enough to fit, but give yourself plenty of uninterrupted time, and we found a window suction…
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2017-06-11: Research, planning and insulation
Something of a slow grind since we got back from our first trip. We’ve both been very busy with work, so not much time to spend on the van. Amy has been insulating the rear and side doors. Since these cavities hold loose wires that connect to the central locking and door catches, we don’t want…
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Disconnecting the starter battery from the chassis on a RHD Sprinter
There are some good videos that show you how the standard electrics work on a Sprinter. Here’s one that opens up the distribution box on the house/starter battery. However, many videos and blog posts assume you have a left hand drive model. Even the manual – written in UK English – assumes you have a LHD…
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Our maiden voyage
We bought the van almost exactly one month ago, and since then we’ve spent almost every spare moment working on it. It’s been enjoyable, but we didn’t spend all that money just so we’d have one more DIY project to work on. So with some minimum viable furniture fitted, today we set out on a…
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2017-06-01: Minimum viable build
It’s half term week and we’re supposed to be on holiday. We haven’t made it out yet, in part because we wanted to get some basic jobs done on the van before taking it out on its maiden voyage: a floor, a window, and a few bits of basic furniture. With the window in yesterday,…
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2017-05-31: Side window install
After a few evenings of what seems like little progress, it was good today to tackle one of the hero jobs, installing a window. I’ve watched more videos on window installs than I can remember, but the most useful is probably this one: I won’t recap what you can see better on YouTube, but it’s…
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2017-05-30: Admin, insulation, conduit
Today has not been the most fulfilling of days. I spent half the morning on the phone trying to sort out spare keys and the correct trim for the new window we bought. Amy was swapping materials at Screwfix. Then we tried to figure out where to route the conduit to allow for wiring up…
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2017-05-29: Insulation and conduit
With the floor in, Amy applied some preventative rust treatment to the new holes we just made in the van floor (screwing the plywood floor down), and I started on the wall insulation panels. We don’t yet have a solid plan for our electrical routing, so we fitted some conduit (“convoluted sleeve”) into some of…
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2017-05-28: Laying floor, fixing rust
Yep, more of the same this weekend. We had hoped to fit the new window on Saturday but we have the wrong knock-on trim, so after much rushing around car parts dealers, and phoning suppliers, we gave up on that task, and switched to some jobs we’re already working good news is, we managed to…
Andrew Sleigh 