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Yes I did Squirrell, there was little to no debris or filings on the diff sump plug, but I did notice a certain amount of brass colour in the oil but to be honest I'm not sure if that is the type of oil that was put in at the factory in Italy? The synchro on all forward gears is perfect and it...

Guess what, I said to the wife seeing as all the forward gears are perfect we'll go to a rally at Margam Park near Swansea, so phoned the rally officer to say we might need a hand to reverse off our pitch unless he could site us in a drive on drive off pitch. No problem he said and off we went...

Hey ho, Great weekend this weekend at Brecon in Wales lovely sunshine. Reversed off the pitch at home time and drove the fifty odd miles back home went to put it into reverse to park it up on the back drive and it refused to go into reverse. Did a few checks under the bonnet and all was well...

Few more of the Chinese heater installation, for those that are interested. Phil.

Yes Phil, we have discussed this and I have made provision to change the set up to take a Gasit type tank in the future but needs must in a budget that at this point in time it was cheaper to set up initially with a standard calor gas bottle. Phil. P.s. Mind you I remember when we used to go...

The very latest. Almost there with the kitchen, Sis in law delivered the Micro wave and Bluetooth radio today, so much for budget build 😁. Though seriously she wants to travel the continent with it and I think she will. "RESPECT" to her 👏. Phil.

Loved it Phil, she can't wait till the van is finished, 😄 nor can I to be honest.

The continuation of the build. Kitchen cabinets now in place as is the heating and water system, gas cupboard and regulater all connected up and tested, now for the worktop, cooker sink and tap. Beginning to wear me down a bit now, I've been working on it continuously for 2 months now hopefully...

I was lucky it only took six months for my Grandfather license to come through. Bloody DVLA workers all need sacking so they have to go and apply for a real job. As was mentioned in the article, every one else has had to carry on, Amazon is by far a bigger workforce than the DVLA and they have...

Hi, good info but would probably be better posted in the "Resources " section, though posting it here first let's folk know that it exists. 😉 Phil

All day job, carpeting the sliding door which has to be done before the kitchen is fitted or else you have to remove the door to do it. I've used my usual tile edging to hide the carpet edges. You have to use a hot air gun on low to heat it up and mold it round a preshaped piece of ply and on...

Ahh forgot to mention the porta loo Phil. 😄

Sis in law roughing it for a weekend on West Wales Rally. Plugged into shore power, blow heater, camp bed TV working electric kettle and air frier what more would you want 😀. Restart on the build Monday. Phil.

Lino also laid before the furniture started to go in, what a fight with it, nightmare, stiff and unforgiving. Phil

A few more catch up photos, wiring all in, temporarily set up the gas for the fridge to test for leaks and operation, fridge 12volt and 240v all working OK. Wiring now ready to tidy up tomorrow.

Many thanks Ken, haven't seemed to have heard from you for ages, glad your still posting and joining in 👍. Phil

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Faith and confidence Robbo, when all is glued into place and the glue has set it will be a rigid sheet and as I said strong enough to stand on. The original builders would have done stress loading tests to a mimimal build cost and you by putting in extra trusses have improved on that 👍. Phil

Sorry mis read your last, that you have already increased the amount of cross pieces, my view is with ply section top and bottom with 25mm celotex sandwiched between it would be plenty strong enough and I would even guess strong enough to stand on the roof to clean it 😁. Phil

Was the original construction a complete ply sheets above the trusses which were stuck to the ply sheets and then sheets of ply stuck to the bottom of the truss which would act as a box section and vastly reduce the amount of sag and as you say the 25mm celotex would also increase the rigidity...