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Putting my build to shame, well done.

Wire soup. Anita tells me of for it. ;)

I guess it’s about what you’re prepared to put into it. As bad as it is, it’s not as rotten as busboys. It could have been converted on the cheap and driven to death. I expect I’ll have it for some years. So I’m hoping it won’t want major work later. Murky evolved from a one week conversion...

Another boring post for some, and maybe light at the end of a dark tunnel for others. At the moment this is guesswork by conclusions. In the early days of this conversion I had indicator and wiper problems. The wiper stalk was faulty and some pratt had fitted an old style wiper motor. The...

If it helps, I've been there too :(

I've seen so much that doesn't make sense, other than battery manufactures are liars and cheats. My new 90ah varta's with a low load test look like they are only good for about 20ah. Even the demand on so called leisure batteries has changed with people using big inverters. Maybe a traction...

OK then, you have a battery with fake capacity even if it was excellent. So 70Ah is really 35Ah. You say 12.7 volts is good, but have seen 13.4 volts. So lets give said battery a little chance and call the volts 12.5 So that would give you 347.5 Watts/hours. A 21 watt 12volt bulb draws 1.68...

I expect it has a serial number on it, I wonder if you could find out when it was made? I often wonder about products with expired shelf lives, what does happen too them?

Funny what ideas people have, I'd have thought a motorhome would be a better target for breaking into than a works van. Though if you dig deep enough the dvla does state that a vehicles "body type" has nothing to do with what it's used for.

Just to keep you going, register it as a showman's vehicle? I think you have to do at least 3 shows. I think road tax is the minimum rate, but I don't know how much other stuff you can avoid.

From what I can see of the box construction, it might be tougher to convert than you might expect.

I'm planning on running a MPPT 100/15 for each side on the roof. It will be interesting to see the pair working together.

Just a couple of observations so far Dave, the glue on the panels appears to be something like butyl mastic, so hopefully will move with expansion. Not so good, I found a couple of "scuffs" on the panels surface. Just hope they can cope with brushing though trees. Another thought was, with the...

A little off topic, but maybe for those that must fiddle. Some time ago an American truck maker altered there trucks to feed sump oil into the diesel tank. This was to overcome the environmental problem of sump oil disposal. So I guess the truck was just topped up with new oil and the filter...

Progress feels like it’s been a crawl uphill with the last few jobs. Then having to remove insulation from the roof where I was too keen to fit it. Maybe it‘s better just to accept the right way is often not quick. Replacing the top coat on a section of the glass fibre roof was just hard work...

Maybe I've been lucky, but in all the years I've run my air and water eberspachers I've never been tempted to clean them. The ends of the exhausts don't get very dirty. The air one is often run overnight on it's lowest setting without any problems. Keeping ones fingers out can often improve...

Sorry, but I'm still trying to get my head around the logic behind using an exhaust silencer on the inlet? As a user of a D2 for over ten years now, the only noise I'm aware of is the noise from the hot air pipe. I even have a high temperature section about a metre long in flexible silicon tube...

Has anyone tried the eberspacher boat silencers?

Glue, screw or both? Sounds like something that would result in a teenage marriage :( Well being an engineer, paranoia is my best friend. Despite it shortens your life expectancy and often takes your sanity. But it's better than messing up. So glue and screw it will be, well glue, nut and...

lf you had two smooth and flat plates, say with a 12" square surface area. (not like Dave's square wire which is in fact round ;) ) Water placed between them. Then pressed together to expel most of the are and water. Seal the edges to stop air leaking back in. Now anchor each plate from...