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Jan 10, 2010 17:17:57 GMT
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Are you keeping the single double-bed? Seems like a waste of space there if you could utilise the space above/below it too...?
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Jan 10, 2010 18:40:30 GMT
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Keeping it? I modified it to fit and installed it! We're just going for a cheap and easy conversion for the time being - want it useable by Easter. If I feel inspired, I might custom-build a replacement with storage under it next winter.
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Siert
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Jan 10, 2010 19:54:02 GMT
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There are very nice, especially as motorhomes! Do you know that in the Netherlands there is even a club for Mercedes and Hanomag motorhomes: www.dubbellucht.nl |
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Jan 11, 2010 10:03:23 GMT
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Cheers, interesting site! It is a well made piece of kit. Can probably make it last 10 years more at least.
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Jan 11, 2010 13:05:49 GMT
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Excellent work! I bet the youth of the IOW were jolly glad to see the back of the van at last...! "oh no, here comes the god pod, get your buddhas/devils/allahs/vishnus etc out or we'll be here all night" What an ace van. I loved your story in PC by the way, mega impressive! |
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1974 Lancia Beta Saloon
1975 Mazda 929 Coupé
1986 Mazda 929 Wagon
1979 Mazda 929 Hardtop
1982 Fiat Argenta 2.0 iniezione elettronica
1977 Toyota Carina TA14
1989 Subaru 1800 Wagon
1982 Hyundai Pony 1200TL 2-dr
1985 Hyundai Pony 1200 GL
1986 Maserati 425 Biturbo
1992 Rover 214 SEi 5-dr
2000 Rover 45 V6 Club
1994 Peugeot 205 'Junior' Diesel
1988 Volvo 760 Turbodiesel Saloon
1992 Talbot Express Autosleeper Rambler
2003 Renault Laguna SPEARS OR REAPERS
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Not the best picture (camera battery ran out) but here are my new seats. There'll be a pair facing forward across from the driver, then two pairs facing each other behind the driver, and finally a rear facing pair at the back of those. Just figuring out how to mount them really safely; it's great to have 3 point belts, but if all they're doing is strapping you in while you fly down the bus, that's not so good. Current thinking is to put a single bunk behind the kerbside seats, which can sleep one, or be a sofa, dependent on need.  |
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I fitted something similar to those in the back of a newish renault traffic. They came with load spreading plates in the kit. Just a case of drilling the mounting holes and bolting up with the plates underneath.
John.
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No kit with these - they'd been removed from an LDV. Did your Traffic have a wooden floor? I'm just going to get some plate cut in appropriate sizes, probably 300mm x the width of the frame plus 300mm. Drill and bolt, hopefully golden.
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No kit with these - they'd been removed from an LDV. Did your Traffic have a wooden floor? I'm just going to get some plate cut in appropriate sizes, probably 300mm x the width of the frame plus 300mm. Drill and bolt, hopefully golden. It didn't have a wooden floor, would have been a bit neater if it did, if yours does I would put some small load spreader above, even just a 50mm size washer would help stop distorting the wooden floor into the groves in the floor. My spreader plates were about 150mm, one strip at the front and one at the rear, also extended about 100mm past the end of the bolt hole. The plates were probably 3mm thick but it was not just mild steel, not sure what they were made of. Hope that is of some help! John. |
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