Let's make a workshop!

Really need to get the new workshop in business, so I started with the roller shelves tonight. I'll make four of them and the volume of storage is massive, as a bonus there will be 1,5 meter left to the ceiling as an extra storage area.

Doing the moving, slow progress

At the moment I have made a temporarly storage in the new workshop, I still have a few things to move from the old place. There's just a small problem, the "few items" weigh a couple of hundred kilo's. Each...

Garage idea

I will have an expandable room for sanding, when I do big things I just - that's right - expand it.

The shelfs are running on wheels in a track. I have the same setup in the old garage and I can really store stuff in them, the storage volume becomes massive.

Another layer on the floor

Uge difference!

The paint kit says that I had less paint than needed, but if I should have been going with the recommendation I've could have painted the walls as well. The last layer was thick, and I mean really thick. 

Finally! New garage

Yehaa!

Started with floor painting yesterday. Really cold outside but the entire floor has integrated heating so I believe it will harden anyway.

MOT means rust fixing

I crawled under the pickup just to check a measurement and thought that the left side inner sill looked a little bit tired. I took a big screw driver and knocked it with the tip and *crack* straight through! Hmm... I hate rust. Need to do the MOT so I decided to fix it the easy way, and never-get-a-problem-with-sills-again way, that means I replaced the sill by double welded 2 mm 50x50 square tubes and 1 mm galvanized sheet.

Of course, when you start cutting there will be more. I ended up replacing pieces of the floor, a part of the torpedo wall, the outer sills, a piece of the wheel house and the vertical beam in front of the rear wheel. I actually ended up booking a new date for the MOT. I have to do an ugly fix for the hatch as well, I had to cut it open as the lock was totally rusted. I'm going to do some glass/carbon fibre parts for the pickup and new hatches are first in the list, so I'm not going to put any energy on these ugly bastards.

I also found out that the bed floor is damaged and that's probably why it has an extra layer of metal sheet on top. Some of the bed outriggers needs to be replaced as well. So the new plan is as following:

As soon we are in the new workshop, I'll cut the bed of totally.

Remove the engine and gearbox.

Replace everything that needs to be fixed, I'll get the material from a company nearby.

Rust protect everything and repaint.

New engine/gearbox in.

Totally new bed floor made out of galvanized sheets.

Burn out!

Oooh, I can't wait to have my workshop at home!!!

Very last mod on Peter's bus

I've done it before. Will do it again - the LED mod! :)

Exhaust mod

I had to test my resonance theory, my idea was that the noise came from a too short exhaust pipe and a worn out muffler. The muffler was also a "pyramid" and therefore was working as a noice enhancer instead now when all the wool was gone. So I bought a new "flow through" muffler to get a longer exhaust. Of course, it was too long and I had to cut it down and custom build the end pipe. I think that even if this one also is blown, the resonance will be kept away because the flow through design.

Result: Noise improved! :)

Now I can do some hard acceleration before there's any noise and when high speed cruising the noise is totally gone.

First test run

First run. It runs very smooth and accelerates really nice. There's a bit of resonance around 3000 RPM when flooring the pedal, which I believe is because the exhaust pipe is too short until the first dampener. On top of that, the dampener is more or less empty...
I'll make a test tonight I think. I'll replace the dampener with a pipe instead, I think that will lower the frequency for the resonance, but it might also raise the average noise. We'll see.

But in general, it runs really really nice! :)

New frame

I made a new frame around the engine this weekend. The old one was really tacky and was vibrating itself. Now I made one which is secured with deep screws and construction glue. I added a lot of isolation inside the frame and then a sheet of MDF on top. This one is sturdy, I tell you. :)