The Sandwich Van. My T6 project

[Led Sandwich]

So another cheeky little update on this, I spent some time this week making up a bike rack to fit into the caravelle rails and I'm pretty pleased with the results. For a bigger bike I may need both wheels off but its a pretty neat solution and doubles as a bump stop for the bed to prevent it hitting the wheel arch when not in use or to stop my storage box sliding about.


I ordered rail clamps and brackets from Steve free and then some aliminium extrusion and a simple fork Mount.


I may make up some longer threaded T pieces as these are a little awkward to twist and fit but I’m happy overall.


That’s it holding my box in place


Then holding the bike, the bed has to be pretty far forward to fit even a small bike in a Swb so I’m going to see if I can 3d print a stand for the back so that I can take both wheels off if need be

 

[JoshB_]

I’ve not had too much time on the van in the last week or so but I have managed to sort a few odd jobs out.

I have re covered my seat belt blanking plates to hide the holes from the belts with a little help from my new born.

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Jesus Christ, it gave me kittens looking at that picture… I hope there was big cushion on the floor!

 

[Led Sandwich]

Jesus Christ, it gave me kittens looking at that picture… I hope there was big cushion on the floor!

Ha Ha yeah he isnt mobile yet luckily and was only really their for the photo. I certainly didn't step anywhere out of reach just in case he tried to escape.

 

[Led Sandwich]

So i managed a little more progress over the weekend fitting the Altro flooring. I ended up ordering it on the roll rather than pre cut and id say im still not sure if that was worth the saving. Im pretty happy with the outcome but would say its a pain to cut especially around contours and finding the rails through the floor so it was a whole Saturday by the time i had stripped and re built the car.

I first lifted out the wood and roughly traced the ply floor before re fitting and then trimming, glue wise I used proper viny floor glue which is trowelled on easily and I did half the van at a time.


Here was the floor rough cut.


then all in and fitted. i have a few bits to tidy up but overall im really happy with it.

 

[JoshB_]

So another cheeky little update on this, I spent some time this week making up a bike rack to fit into the caravelle rails and I'm pretty pleased with the results. For a bigger bike I may need both wheels off but its a pretty neat solution and doubles as a bump stop for the bed to prevent it hitting the wheel arch when not in use or to stop my storage box sliding about.


I ordered rail clamps and brackets from Steve free and then some aliminium extrusion and a simple fork Mount.

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I may make up some longer threaded T pieces as these are a little awkward to twist and fit but I’m happy overall.

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That’s it holding my box in place

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Then holding the bike, the bed has to be pretty far forward to fit even a small bike in a Swb so I’m going to see if I can 3d print a stand for the back so that I can take both wheels off if need be

Thats class to be fair... But could you not put some sort of bolt between the top and bottom parts of the bracket? Such that the bracket can spin? Just thought you could rotate the bike 45deg so you're not having to take a back wheel off for bigger bikes.

 

[Led Sandwich]

I did think that and will have a play. I’m not sure if spinning the bars would mean it would hit the seat too soon. as it’s fixed I can just swing the rear end over but once the kitchen goes in I’ll only have 3/4 width and my big bike is a geometron so on the long side.

 

[Led Sandwich]

So I managed to get a bit more done this week, I’ve finally ordered a kitchen after popping down to the great people at evo designs. It wasn’t cheap but the quality was exceptional and they had plenty of options even with twin sliders and a sliding bed.
I went for the 5.4 pro with a bamboo top. Couloir wise I’ll let that be a surprised but it’s these units. The curved front should help me spin my drivers seat.





Then last night I managed to tackle my lack of rear courtesy lights. Annoyingly I lost the stock ones when the pop top went it so I did some reading and managed to find some remake plugs to fit the original loom.

Here are the plugs and loom if anyone needs them, not the cheapest but it’s nice not to cut the main harness.

Then I fitted some small spots from thq to the surround of my pop top, cloth taped it and it works perfectly. I will do the back door as well but wait until the the kitchen is in so I don’t do it twice.