Not much to see this week, just tidied up the the cut out and capped it all off with aluminum channel. The lower rear edge of the floor/body work was at 3 different levels after the framework had been removed, so using left overs from the frame work I have built it up to the same level and capping it off with 45mm steel angle. This will finish it off neatly and also give a hard wearing edge/step. I’ve also fitted a length of steel angle as a cross brace just below the cut out. This serves a few purposes, it strengthens up the rear body work, provides a lip to fit the rear garage shelf and upper bunkbed base to and also acts as a face for the rear doors to close onto. These 2 lengths are off to the galvanisers this week and will be fitted permanently with rivnuts and sikaflex
I have cut the doors to size and shape, and by adjusting the aluminum capping before I screw and glue it to the doors I should be able to construct 2 well fitting barn doors.
Looks like a great project. From (near) bitter experience though PLEASE watch the all-up weight. I got pulled by VOSA earlier this year in the minibus version of this vehicle and only got away with being nearly 200kg over weight by the grace of the automotive gods (and a tacho exemption cert - something they hadn't seen for a long time). There's a lot of volume there and it's easy to fill it. On the plus side if the engine is the n/a varient speeding shouldn't be too much of an issue
ReplyDeleteCheers duncan, will keep an eye on the weight. The gross weight is 4.9 ton, and the kerb weight is 3.2 so have some spare to play with. Its the 2.5 TD and has an enormous 136BHP, so actually not too bad, it almost felt sprightly when it was empty ;-)
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