Pastel white topcoat applied today to the drivers rear corner, rear bumper, cab door tops and drivers a pillar. A lovely warm day so the paint flowed beautifully. Neptune blue to follow next weekend then just to put her all back together.
Neptune blue onto all the bits I’ve been sorting over winter. A super long day getting this all masked, prepped and painted!
Of the whole van? Not a chance!! This was a "get it sorted for summer and use the damn thing" paint job; I don't have the time or energy for a full paint job if I want to use it this year. Maybe in another few years I'll repaint it all, but now was not the time (and most of it is still pretty good).
Less masking. You can get foam bead stuff to put in the door shuts and leave all the doors on. Works really well. But I guess that wouldn't have covered your repairs.
Started to get the van built back up over the weekend. Engine lid on and built up. Cab doors on, gapped and started to build up. I can’t wait to have this little van back out for some summer fun.
yahhhh another westy on the road well done sir i wish i had your skills and knowlegde great build thread !
Cheers mate, hopefully this will hold back the rust for a few more years! Shh, she's not really a westy though. Originally a panel van with a crusty roof, so a westy tin top roof was welded in and then a spaceroof poptop fitted.
I realise I left the recent updates on Iris a bit unfinished. She's been back on the road since early May now as our trusty workhorse with frequent trips to the tip as I continue to sort out the new house and Max cracks on with the gardens: Back out camping (this was out in the New Forest, we'll be off the Cornwall this month too): And with two aircooleds now on the road it's often a tough decision which one to take out (I've just purchased a 3rd which I'll start a new build thread for)
A few hours spent on Sunday on some electrical upgrades for Iris, as she was still running the original "bike pump" windscreen washer setup. I modified the wiper stalk to accept a micro switch, which provides a trigger to a new relay operated washer pump. No more running out of washer fluid.
Hey James what pump did you fit, Iv just fitted 1 and I can’t seem to get enough fluid up to the washers
Did you buy that electric conversion one from JK? If so it's because the motor and its inlet is halfway up the bottle. You need to make up a pickup pipe to put on the inlet that scavenges from the bottom.
Same setup as me in that case (JK wanted £85 for a new one!). Hose from the original bottle rerouted to the pump which hopefully sits slightly lower than the outlet on the bottle so it's gravity fed (mine is barely lower but it seems to be enough). This is the pump: I also fitted a one-way valve part way up the hose between the pump and jets. Here's a little shopping list of the bits I used: 12v Pump: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/275592446868 one-way valve: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255125577213?var=555116488558 Microswitch: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/283235844233?var=583682121530 Relay: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/285290523968 Hose: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/385387061946?var=653267697547 I found most of the details for this on some older threads on here.
@JamesLey thanks for info James don’t suppose you have the thread as well, could do with some info on how the relay was wired in , cheers
I can't find it, but its kicking around somewhere. There's not much to the relay. Your fusebox will have a few spare slots underneath you can utilise, with the pins on the relay wired roughly as follows: 85: wire from my microswitch. This will receive 12v when the microswitch is activated. I wired up my microswitch to get 12v from a spare fusebox outlet. 86: Earth. I piggybacked on an earth cable I added for my spotlamps. 87: Wired to one of the fusebox outlets that only receives 12v when the ignition is on. 30: Wired to the +ve on the pump. When the relay activates the switch between pin 87 and 30 closes thus providing 12v to the pump.
