What have you fixed on your motorhome this week?

I fixt the shower door tonight and one of the lights in the toilet of the van :thumb:
I also fitted the new to us engine in to the van today :BigGrin:
 
Took the van in on Monday for an mot
And an inner driveshaft gaitor exchange
And two new wiper blades

Bill came to £135

I just couldn't face doing it myself
Don't like getting under trucks and cars
Now

Didn't consider it a bad price


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Feel like a bit of a fraud, but this last week I have had a rear view camera a front facing camera, fixed the air con, rewired a new flat screen TV into a system that is now fixed to the wind up aerial including the Tv in the bedroom. Roof edges reprinted. Had it Mot'd with no advisories, fitted new catches on the storage boxes. Awaiting a proper interested company coming to have it all recovered, (had two show up and never quoted) Fitted a new pull down to the awning, making new Mirada logos for the side. Why do I feel like a fraud? Because I employ two fitters that have done the work! Well done guys I am over the Moon!!!:thumb:
Steve.
 
Not exactly fixed as it was not broken but I have just covered the steering wheel in alcantara leather.

Somebody gave me enough leather for the job and the plastic wheel does get very sweaty. Living in the van in Spain at the moment so seemed like a good time to crack on and do it.

Never done this before so was not sure it would work, cut all pieces slightly undersize and double stitched around all the edges to allow it to be laced on.

I cut the rim pieces slightly too tight so the gap has not fully closed but better than slack.

All in I am well impressed.

Martin
 
Fixed our Maxview dome today.
Whilst in VT, upon switch on, the dome sounded like it was coming through the roof!
I removed the dome top cover and had a look, fortunately it had stopped snowing at this point!
Upon investigation, I found it was a failed LNB arm horizontal limit switch. The arm was being continually powered down and the stepper motor was slipping the belt drive, hence the awful noise!
I bodged it by removing the micro switch wires, twisting one around the micro switch arm and taping the other wire to the micro switch body. When the microswitch arm was pushed down by the LNB arm, the wires touched and the circuit completed. The bodge has worked ever since!
Anyway today was the day to sort it out! Again, off came the top of the dome and I removed the old switch. I sourced another from our local Maplins for £2.00.
It is now fitted and all works fine!:thumb:

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Truma c6002eh combi... The distribution fan stopped working.. Called three mobile repair guys.. All promised to get back to me and none did. So today I went out disconnected pcb and all connections.. Cleaned and vacuumed around it.. connected it all back up.... I also checked and taped all joints in the distribution trunking
Its working correctly and powerfully (and I am extremely chuffed)
 
I (af)fixed some 16" alloy wheels and a Gaslow 11kg system.

I fixed a LED that flashed constantly on the control panel on the Thetford C260 thunder box. After installing the Thetford ventilator kit the LED flashed all the time :Angry:

I used black insulating tape :Blush:
 
Next week:

I'm putting a RGB LED strip above the lockers in the bedroom.

Getting the bathroom mirror sandblasted at the edge and putting side emitting LEDs behind.

Before this goes back on the wall I'm putting a 12v demister pad on the back to keep the mirror free of condensation.

After that I'm stuck for stuff to do :RollEyes:
 
Sidney said:
Next week:

I'm putting a RGB LED strip above the lockers in the bedroom.

Getting the bathroom mirror sandblasted at the edge and putting side emitting LEDs behind.

Before this goes back on the wall I'm putting a 12v demister pad on the back to keep the mirror free of condensation.

After that I'm stuck for stuff to do :RollEyes:
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LED strips rock!

We've added them in all sorts of places! Niesman and Bischoff lighting effects for less than a tenner!:thumb:

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funflair said:
Not exactly fixed as it was not broken but I have just covered the steering wheel in alcantara leather.

Somebody gave me enough leather for the job and the plastic wheel does get very sweaty. Living in the van in Spain at the moment so seemed like a good time to crack on and do it.

Never done this before so was not sure it would work, cut all pieces slightly undersize and double stitched around all the edges to allow it to be laced on.

I cut the rim pieces slightly too tight so the gap has not fully closed but better than slack.

All in I am well impressed.

Martin
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I just did something similar but I cheated somewhat.
I used one of these....

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/250727980863?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649

Although I still had to spend a few hours with a needle and thread...:thumb:
 
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I spent half a day T-Cutting the GRP roof to remove about 3 years worth of chalky crud that the last owner kindly left on for me...
 
Rejuvenating GRP Gelcoat with Farecla G3 finished roof now starting on side panels. Excellent product recommended by Autosleepers. Quite hard work doing it by hand, but definately worth it.

Bob:thumb:

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pollensabob said:
Rejuvenating GRP Gelcoat with Farecla G3 finished roof now starting on side panels. Excellent product recommended by Autosleepers. Quite hard work doing it by hand, but definately worth it.

Bob:thumb:
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Hi Bob

Make sure you put plenty of wax back when you have cut back.

Martin
 
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What have you fixed today?

My thanks go to Peter, who posted a repair tip a couple of years ago regarding blistering veneer........brown paper and a hot iron pressed over the area. This worked an absolute treat on a couple of areas that had been effected in my vehicle. I believe most likely caused by condensation as the airblown heating duct if clipped immediately underneath the effected areas. Everything feels dry and the areas effected are now as good as new. ( Very probably the best £10 I have ever spent, subscribing to MHFun). Where else could you dip in to the wealth of experience that's Motorhome Fun?...:thanks:

Well, last week I cut out the carpet, beige coloured and fitted from manufacture, what a pain in the are cutting it from under units.....but well worth it to please my better half, Sheryl.
Now fitted commercial grade wood effect vinyl floor and it has totally transformed it. Worth every blade nik, cut, blood, sweat and cuss. :swear::swear:

Today, made an aluminum bracket to fit Gaslow filler kit and cylinder inside gas locker, I don't mind paying for something worth the money, but £20 for a piece of bent steel plate is not what I'd call value. Had some 3mm aluminum plate handy, which has proved perfect for the job, easy to fabricate, strong and light. Tomorrow hopefully, all will be screwed and fitted in place. :thumb:
 
Radio reception on a A class

Had the A class a year and been very disappointed with the radio reception,
So initially replaced the stuck on screen aerial with a standard roof aerial bolted to the chassis for good ground, about a 20% improvement but still well below what I consider as acceptable,
So round two, I ran all my feeds and earths from the leisure batteries using good quality chokes and fitted a second aerial in the O/S wing both feeding the radio through a splitter, another 20% improvement followed but still not satisfied!
Round three, as the radio had come already fitted and though a good brand name (Sony) I decided to replace it with the latest DAB Sony CDX700U radio
Again the DAB aerial being a screen stick on type,

now we seemed to getting some where at long last!

The DAB side work much better than the FM and on long runs I could have probably lived with it, but as the wife said I am like a dog with a bone so this weekend decided to give it my all,

First purchased a top quality Kinetic DRA-6004 roof aerial, two rolls of copper adhesive tape, up on the roof drilled down into the wardrobe and fit the aerial,
That's the easy part,

Now my roof is composite construction with fibreglass top with a core of foam finished off inside with plywood covered material,

Now because the roof material is non conductive it is useless as a ground plane for a aerial, IE it will work but very poorly,

So I dug out the foam and piece of ply about 6 inches in diameter at the base of the aerial, then run my copper tape radially from the aerial along the inside of the wardrobe going as far as I could, the vertical one ran down the rear almost to the boiler, their I soldered a earth strap down to the chassis,

make sure you have good continuity between all the tapes so they work as one.

Dabonwheels supplied me extended cables so to minimise connection and these were long enough to reach the radio after many hours of removing trim,

Well at long last I have a radio fit for purpose,it picks ups all my normal stations and many more I didn't know existed,
It's just so frustrating on a MH costing many thousands of pounds that the Manufacturers couldn't be bothered to fit a purpose made aerial properly to the roof in the first place, It would have cost them very little and saved lot of hard work, :thumb:
 
With the help of two Alde engineers I fixed the aluminium pipe that had been punctured by two screws at the factory :Doh:

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Taped some anti slip matting to the very very varnished and shiny side sofa bed slats to stop the cushions moving around when you sit on them. £3.45 well spent.
Allan
 
Far to nice a day but it had to be done...
Rear brake discs on the van... A lot of work just to replace the discs , but hopefully that's it for a bit..
All the bits
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Changed the brake fluid while I was at it...
 
john kyte said:
Fitted new rear brake pads ,,, it used to take me an hour,,,,now at 77yrs 4 hours
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not quite that old yet john , but I hope I can still do it when I get there.. id say well done..
took me best part of a day and a half to do the job in the post above and im shattered... my back will be bad tomorrow lol
ta andy
 
This week I fixed something that didn't even need fixing, took the front wheels off for blasting and powder coating and decided to check the dampers as I thought it was getting a bit bouncy. Dampers off and checked compression which was very little, rebound OK got second opinion from tame mechanic and he said "knackered" so ordered two new ones, what do you know they feel just the same so fitted anyway and will see if there is any difference.

Mechanics pfffft.

Martin
 
Following on from the rear disc replacement ,over the last couple days I've managed to do one front wheel bearing and the front discs.. The bearing was a nightmare to remove from hub.. tried ringing a garage to see if they could press it off on install the new one..The lad told me they struggle with them at times and resort to cutting and grinding to remove them..
Managed to do that and got the new one pressed on with some help from a mate and a large workshop vice...
So if you have a rear wheel drive mk7 transit be warned lol...Some pictures..
The parts...
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And the vice that made the job possible...
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Had geer box fixed and will be re fiting it tomorow morning changed all the engine and gear box mounts

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