stefan waumsley
Gone nowere yet
New here so I am posting up my future camper
I needed something that would house for people for 2 or 3 weeks (to start with) and be a 4x4, wife said no tents.
So , while looking on Facebook I stumbled across a Delica L300 for sale. It looked good but did not have an MOT. So I made an offer and it was accepted. Having already got one of these that is very rusty this time I wanted to see it before handing over the cash so instead of sending a transport company to get it I decided to go and get it myself. So I hooked up the trailer to the trusty old transit and set of from Deryshire to Bristol.
When I turned onto the street I was greeted by quite a nice almost shiny Delica, which was nice. After fitting a pair of new batteries it fired up and after a quick look round it seemed solid so we loaded it up on the trailer and headed home.
Once home a quick check over to see if everything was as good as it looked and it seemed to be, It did smell a lot of dog though as the last owner had five of them. I changed a few bulbs and wipers and put it in for an MOT, which it passed.
Then of for a wash and valet to get rid of the smell inside
First real test drive was to a friend of mine for a meeting, 50 miles with some traffic
All went very well made it in one piece. as leaving got to the fuel station, filled up and noticed a lot of water under it, quick trip back 400yrds to mates house to look at it and water pump failure
Que ride home on the big yellow taxi.
So water pump ordered and fitted the following weekend
Start of work
old pump out and block flushed
New pump in and plenty of anti freeze
Job was not as bad as I thought it was going to be, it took about 4 hours start to finish and water pump and stat was £43 from Euro car parts.
So tested it with another 50 mile trip going to a breakfast car meet and everything worked great
Home safe
Next was the lift, I re indexed and cranked the front bars and used spacers on the rear and went up 60mm all round
before
after, it is now about 15mm higher at the front so it sits more level
So the plans are camper rear keeping captains chairs, for the kids, pop top and an awning.
I needed something that would house for people for 2 or 3 weeks (to start with) and be a 4x4, wife said no tents.
So , while looking on Facebook I stumbled across a Delica L300 for sale. It looked good but did not have an MOT. So I made an offer and it was accepted. Having already got one of these that is very rusty this time I wanted to see it before handing over the cash so instead of sending a transport company to get it I decided to go and get it myself. So I hooked up the trailer to the trusty old transit and set of from Deryshire to Bristol.
When I turned onto the street I was greeted by quite a nice almost shiny Delica, which was nice. After fitting a pair of new batteries it fired up and after a quick look round it seemed solid so we loaded it up on the trailer and headed home.
Once home a quick check over to see if everything was as good as it looked and it seemed to be, It did smell a lot of dog though as the last owner had five of them. I changed a few bulbs and wipers and put it in for an MOT, which it passed.
Then of for a wash and valet to get rid of the smell inside
First real test drive was to a friend of mine for a meeting, 50 miles with some traffic
All went very well made it in one piece. as leaving got to the fuel station, filled up and noticed a lot of water under it, quick trip back 400yrds to mates house to look at it and water pump failure
Que ride home on the big yellow taxi.
So water pump ordered and fitted the following weekend
Start of work
old pump out and block flushed
New pump in and plenty of anti freeze
Job was not as bad as I thought it was going to be, it took about 4 hours start to finish and water pump and stat was £43 from Euro car parts.
So tested it with another 50 mile trip going to a breakfast car meet and everything worked great
Home safe
Next was the lift, I re indexed and cranked the front bars and used spacers on the rear and went up 60mm all round
before
after, it is now about 15mm higher at the front so it sits more level
So the plans are camper rear keeping captains chairs, for the kids, pop top and an awning.
