FAILURE!

I kinda knew it was going to be a fail today, the way things seamed to work out.

Luckily, the majority of the work is easy serviceable items, just labour intensive.
So the fail sheet goes as this;

• O/S head light beam (glass is bad so a replacement required)
• Steering rack gaiter split
• Front anti-roll bar bushes (advisory)
• O/S/F brake binding
• N/S/F wheel bearing - play
• Both rear drums warped 
• Rear brake pipes corroded
• All tyres cracked (to be fair they are past it though the tread has plenty of life left in them)

So really, its not too bad, and the MOT tester did comment how solid it is underneath for a 28 year old van.

Will hopefully have a pass sheet in my hands next Saturday :)

Preparation

With Bobbys MOT tomorrow, today I was sorting out the little niggly issues.
The job the annoyed the sheer hell out of me was the washers!
What at first I thought was a dodgy switch turned out to be the pump, I did get a pump before but unfortunately that one decided to not work either. So, a simple, quick fix with a external pump I thought.
Worked well at first, then the O/S washer blocked up, then the N/S....a quick blow through with the compressor attached, a full clean of the pipes and we now have washers.....oh and a flat battery for good measure :( (the battery lasted 363 days since fitting on the 24/2/12 before going flat lol).
The rest of the jobs were pretty straight forward under seal and a little seam of weld for good measure.

So now it is just charge the battery and drive home for the sleepless night with a little bit and worry added in (how I dread MOT day).

Thats my boy :)

Bobby has not been started for about three months, and fired up first time! 

All the lights are working perfectly (wonder if they will when it gets to MOT time like last year when the indicators stopped flashing on the N/S when side lights were on and then as soon as away from the test station they worked perfectly). 
I did note that the washers are not working - a issue I remember from the September camp, so that's a job to look at over the weekend, but at least there isn't any other electrical issues like I was dreading - I was expecting to be spending the day on Friday sorting electrical systems out.

A pic from this time last year.

Well...

With work on the Bug well under way, Bobby hasn't really done much recently.

I have booked his MOT in for the end of Februaury though and been looking into the panels I need for his body work I want to do in May time next year (wont be camping much next year due to the pending arrival). I have also sourced some new, comfier front seats which again will be fitted April/May.

 

Cab bunk update.

After yesterday's hard work, I thought it would be nice to show Chloe her new bed......she loves it and didn't want to get out :)

Rust......hmmmmm

Well as I am currently renovating a 1972 Beetle, I thought I best just get rid of some of the dreaded tin worm that was attacking Bobby (whilst I had the gear out).

Well I wasn't expecting it to be as bad as it was (how many times have I heard this before......).

On a positive note, Gill and Paul gave me a length of awning rail to fit on to Bobbys high-top for the sun awning, I got round to fitting it today :)

And just to show you my other project, my 1972 Beetle.

Another bed?!?

With the good news recently, we decided we needed another bed for Chloe - she isn't big enough for the top bunk just yet.
Luckily, it wasn't just us thinking on this level, Paul and Gill had also had the same thought for us, and on Saturday they demonstrated a cab bunk in their Westy. In less than 24 hours we were the proud owners of a cab bunk of our very own :) so today was installation day.
You can purchase one of your very own here. It took about ten minutes to fit (including getting the tools out of the garage lol)