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If the fridge was cold to start with up 48 hours, if not a little over 24. Place your bets folks. Winner get virtual dinner with Dave lol

Have any of you considered the energy used (fuel burnt) in using your engine to charge batteries? I've been thinking along the lines of, if you could drive your alternator you could use surplus solar to help the engine? Or at the very least keep your engine start batter fully charged so the...

We try to avoid buying too much silicone or mastic stock as it’s very annoying to open a new tube and find it’s stiff or solid.

Thanks for your concern, I'm very self conscious about it. My problems developed as a child and I spent many months in hospital with any successful outcome. I'd just have to learn to live with it. At school you daren't let anyone know you had anything wrong with you. The weak get bullied...

I’m guessing this really about getting the most out of your van on a dull winters day. From what you mentioned before you have more than enough solar power to forget using the engine start battery.

Anita would become quite unpleasant if she had to sleep with a motorbike, apparently I'm bad enough :( You may have noticed the large space under the bed. That's the storage area for dirtier things. The boot door will be bonded into the body. A new small door will be made in the side.

Thanks for taking the time to read. It nice to have others options. Personally I find the tracking a pain. Even more so in bare feet. I’d remove it if it wasn’t holding the floor in place. It’s bolted to the chassis and clamps the floor in place. The side tracking may prove to be more useful...

There is some posts on various sites a few years back with someone's vario air suspension messing around. After lots of money spent they "fixed" it by removing the electronic height sensors. Mercedes were claiming the air suspension was after market. I have the Mercedes build sheet for mine...

I'm sure there are commercial solutions, but I'd like to build something myself. Even though we have everything to make hydraulic or pneumatic rams here I'll buy them in. So a bit more about why I want to do this. The Mercedes Vario has a body control module that appears to be able to do much...

I was more looking for inspiration from someone who has done it, but sadly and it's hard to imagine that maybe the posts on this sight are beyond the intellectual level of most and this keeps people away. Or they think we post a load of Boll...… Rubbish ;) Edit. Sorry this was meant to be...

Somethings I found made a big difference. Having a steel bench with a heater under it. The bench helps to spread the heat. Also so any tools left on it get warmed as well as what you are working on. Where I'm from is often cold and damp, Wiltshire! I discovered that wearing thermals for half...

There is a dangerous downside in buying tools that make life easier. I got fat. :(

Two 601mm holes, bit big for filler. ;)

I have about 500mm vertical space for the device, then about another 200mm to the ground. The carrier for the rear air suspension is quite low to the ground. I have to be careful as it will be used off road. Anything below it's ploughing blade could get ripped off! I was thinking about making...

70kg force would not be enough, but good idea.

Loads of reply's :) Hydraulic Jack leak upside down. Even trying to jack it up for a wheel change is not easy with Betty's skirts. Screw Jacks, "sounds" like a good idea. I parked near someone who'd fitted some. He wound them up and down with an electric impact gun. I looked at just using a...

The title would be good but I want to make some hydraulic levelling legs for Betty. Has anyone tried this or has thoughts on the subject?

So today I checked on my new battery only to find the voltage at 21volts :( Oh yes I replaced the wrong battery. Battery swap done this evening.

Sorry I was teasing about the cable ties. But seriously the fuel pipe can carry a lot of noise. I wonder if using longer lengths of soft rubber fuel pipe would help? The pump itself would be better held in something soft.

The engine would have to be well and truly shot Dave to get enough oil up passed the rings to run on. My first truck Merc 608 luton would nearly do 70mph. Could not talk to anyone in the cab. Used about 5 litres of oil per 100 miles. So I rebored it and put in some new pistons. 55mph flat...