There are a couple of blanking plugs on the inside the body in the rear corners (where the vent panels are) these allow a cable to get into the van between the inner hardboard and outer metal skins, other side of this bit at the bottom..
Peter Davies
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That great. Thank you!
he’s really gone for the Mad Max look
Three days after I bought the van it was down all its bumpers, covers and interior while I did rust prevention, gas tank fitting and insulation/sound deadening.
nrgnet
Member
Hi - I love the location of your MHU. Could you tell me please if there's a kit available for the hinged panel beneath the rear light cluster and, if so, is there one for the left hand side? Many thanks.
I modified the panels myself. I have done both sides.
The hinges are Hafele Grass Tiomos 110* Inset clip on 348.31.803 (I initially used the 95* ones but the door didn't open far enough to get the LPG filler onto the refill point) with 0mm mounting plates 348.38.511. The main part of the hinge is screwed to some 12mm hardwood ply and the plates are bolted to an almost 90* strip of 3mm aluminium which is in turn bolted to the body via rivnuts,
The ply is stuck to the plastic cover using PU adhesive.
I used a junior hacksaw blade and a reverse jigsaw blade to cut the plastic cover, cutting down the angles for the most part to leave as much of the cover as possible, replacing the plastic push fit retainers with bolts into rivnuts in the existing holes to keep the top part and side parts of the cover in place once they've been cut off the main cover shape.
I needed to reprofile the metal on the door alignment plates to allow the now opening doors to clear them, just cut it down to match the rubber block shape.
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I found an air powered finger belt sander with various grades of belt was the best way to shape the plastic and the metalwork, giving really a nice finish, you just have to be very careful and keep offering it up to check progress since you can't put it back on once you've ground it off.
If you need any measurements or close up pics let me know.
The hinges are Hafele Grass Tiomos 110* Inset clip on 348.31.803 (I initially used the 95* ones but the door didn't open far enough to get the LPG filler onto the refill point) with 0mm mounting plates 348.38.511. The main part of the hinge is screwed to some 12mm hardwood ply and the plates are bolted to an almost 90* strip of 3mm aluminium which is in turn bolted to the body via rivnuts,
The ply is stuck to the plastic cover using PU adhesive.
I used a junior hacksaw blade and a reverse jigsaw blade to cut the plastic cover, cutting down the angles for the most part to leave as much of the cover as possible, replacing the plastic push fit retainers with bolts into rivnuts in the existing holes to keep the top part and side parts of the cover in place once they've been cut off the main cover shape.
I needed to reprofile the metal on the door alignment plates to allow the now opening doors to clear them, just cut it down to match the rubber block shape.
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I found an air powered finger belt sander with various grades of belt was the best way to shape the plastic and the metalwork, giving really a nice finish, you just have to be very careful and keep offering it up to check progress since you can't put it back on once you've ground it off.
If you need any measurements or close up pics let me know.
nrgnet
Member
Thank you for sharing this - such a good and really neat solution. Sadly though, I think it's beyond my comfort zone and ability. Short of doing the obvious and cutting into the side of the van (which I wouldn't be comfortable doing either!), would you be able to suggest any other locations for the MHU which are relatively easy to do? The location needs to be at the rear and, ideally, on the nearside but offside would also be OK.
Well, there's a fairly large empty space just under the left rear corner of the van, you could fix a waterproof inlet under there.
