I know I haven't posted for a while, progress has been slow but I've finally got around to working on the van properly but it's full steam ahead from here! So now the Civic has been sold and I have the van at home, it's time to clean it up and get the base down ready for the campervan conversion! But first a little bit about the snow we got a little while back now... In the early hours of the morning (21/11/15) I got to test the van in the snow, nothing I ever got the chance to do in the civic. It coped really well to my surprise and was quite easy to handle. I took a few random photos for the blog. It wasn't much snow but was enough to make conditions difficult. Now on to the original blog topic, preparing the van! I started off by stripping out the ply and removing the bulk head. The bulk head was fairly easy to remove, until I got to 2 strange screws. I'm not sure what they are exactly, but they were just plain black screws with a little dimple in the middle. I couldn't press it in to remove it, so I did the next best thing and smash it off with a flat head screwdriver and hammer! Always does the trick... The screwdriver and hammer trick also came in handy when removing the ply. The walls and wheel arch boards were very easy as the screws were pretty much fully intact, but the floor was a different matter. Some of them were pretty impossible to see, never mind remove! But with a bit of patients, and mainly brute force, they were all off. As you can see from the pictures above, the floor and walls are very dirty, so cleaning all of this up was my next task. It took a couple of hours of scrubbing and I even had to get some degreaser on some of it. Like an idiot I forgot to take photos of it after I managed to get it clean, which is why this picture is a bit out of place, but you get the idea. (Just ignore the window and insulation, that bits coming up!) Next up was to let a bit of natural light into the back of the van, so I travelled up to Castleford (about a 100 mile round trip) to fetch a window from Van Windows Direct. When I got there I found out that the window was on sale so I picked it up for around £70 instead of the listed £85, so that pretty much covered the Diesel money (and cheeky McDonalds dinner). I opted for the window tinted with privacy glass. Then I had it fitted a couple of weeks later, which cost me £40. It was a pretty straight forward fit, just needed cutting around the template on the inside, but I didn't have the tools for the job and I definitely don't trust myself cutting the bodywork to bits!
The van really feels like it's coming along now, and I'm quite proud of it so far (even though I haven't really achieved much yet). I'm currently in the process of insulating all of the interior and getting ready to buy and fit a Rock 'n' Roll bed, so they will feature in the next few posts. I will try and keep a lot more active on the blog. Thanks for reading, see you soon!
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