Transit camper conversion

[develin]

Say hello to the newest, roughest addition to the fleet... a 2001 2.4L ford transit single rear wheel axle high roof van. It has an M.O.T, has just had new steering rack, fuel pump, clutch and flywheel, alternator and starter motor within the last five months - on that basis alone I paid 700 without a second thought.

Mechanically it seems great other than lack of fluid changes and an oil leak.

Major issues are small patches of rust just about everywhere which will require many hours to sort out, nothing really bad but just lots of it.

Also not overly impressed that the side loading door doesn't appear to open and the rear door bottom latch does not keep.

More to come in the next few days....... idea is to fix it up and turn it into a camper for my brother who is homeless

[develin]

Getting started with sorting out the fault codes.. will then see what it runs like and give it a good service. My brother has decided to turn it into a video series not sure how I feel about it since I'm not the worlds best mechanic but it well it's out there now lol

youtu.be/gWZ-301e5QA

[develin]

Flushed out the coolant and cleaned up front of the engine to try and find a bad oil leak, I was expecting vacuum pump but it turns out there is a crack in the timing cover so next thing on the list is to replace that which is a shame because it's a pretty involved job

[develin]

Rust is identified and shall weld all this up on Monday

[develin]

Gave the bumpers one coat of black gloss and ground off what I could back to bare metal and primed and gave a few coats of white... will so it properly at some point but this will do for now, it still needs some tlc

[develin]

Also found the the timing cover was leaking pretty badly after cleaning things up to the point where I could see it leak.

Going to fit to the timing cover on Monday too and various other gaskets that also leak eventually on these...

[develin]

Long day... many rusty broken bolts later and the timing cover and all the gaskets on the front have been changed... now I'm going to bed lol

Can see from the photo where it was leaking from.... you'd think with t hay much sealant it would've been fine

[studabear]

I see the audio has already been taken care of with 2 6x9 speakers and a sub woof woofer to compliment them. 😂

[develin]

A man must have priorities in life, no? 😂

[develin]

Not done too much on this for a while since I've been building the new garage... Although made some progress on the van. All the wiring issues are now fixed, no mechanical issues to speak of. Decided to fit a new seat in the front instead of the bench seat although no captains seat at present. Also fitted new plywood floor in the rear and have insulated the back of the van. Will hopefully make more progress going forward and do some more videos of the fit out. More to come!

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[develin]

Done some more on the van, coming along nicely now.

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Nice to get some flooring down today too!

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