What did you do to your van today?

Replaced the rusted mild steel gauze in the gas locker drop out vents, used stainless gauze and stainless screws instead of mildsteel staples. It might be worth a quick check of your own as mine had holes in them and anything small and loose in the locker could easily have dropped out.
 
Started the great sort out ready for France next week. Empty lockers, sort out contents and ditch or add to and repack.
We have to do this before a longer trip as we've been known to travel hundreds of miles thinking we'd left something at home, but we'd just forgotten where it was.
 
cleaned out fridge thoroughly then altered the fixing of the micro wave /cupboard
hoovered up all my mess from the last few days
charged a spare battery up in store cupboard
had to stop as I had my buddy up from doon souf
 
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Installed "PowerAmp Music" on my Cab in-Dash 'Infotainment Unit, which should be the last tweak to it for a while.
Now got in one place a central place to listen to broadcast radio, streaming music, local music on USB and Audiobooks, plus access to TPMS info and B2B performance, all at one touch of a button, plus a whole bunch of other stuff available.
The centre image is the Head Unit display and you can access the various features by pressing the relevant button on the screen - the more common the access, the bigger the button I am using :)

Monty Head Unit by David, on Flickr
Oh, the central bit on the display shows an image of whatever is playing and the text below tells you in words.

(I should point out just in case anyone wondering ... you choose whatever apps you link the buttons to, chose the descriptions to enter and the icons to display for all the various areas.)
 
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Today we began to prepare the van for a week or so away, just stuff like filling with water and a quick clean up. A little trip out in the next couple of days to fill up gas and diesel. Our normal lpg garage is broken at the moment so Morrisons is the only nearby outlet.
 
REbuilt the driver side wipper shaft/spindal & arm, problem from van builder was the arm hit the bottom and right w sheild rubber as the swing was to big.
So cure was remove the spindal and lengthen the arm which connects to the rack assy by about qtr of an inch thus giving the blade a shorter left right arc, all done and dusted tested, iv just given myself some brownie points, not bad for someone the teacher said was as thick as sh-t. :)
 
Emptied the van after our trip away. Cut the grass, which is good timing as rain is predicted tomorrow afternoon.
 
Had Front Brakes stripped and cleaned to remove the worsening squeal; also had vehicle battery earth strap checked to confirm no corrosion or similar present. Also booked Brunhilde in for 6th November MOT [present expiry 5th December] in the hope that we can book the Ferry to Dieppe for late November. Car service and MOT follow on 1 week later [9th October and 13th November respectively]

Steve
 
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Had Front Brakes stripped and cleaned to remove the worsening squeal; also had vehicle battery earth strap checked to confirm no corrosion or similar present. Also booked Brunhilde in for 6th November MOT [present expiry 5th December] in the hope that we can book the Ferry to Dieppe for late November. Car service and MOT follow on 1 week later [9th October and 13th November respectively]

Steve
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I always fit a second earth strap to be sure.
 
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Speaking as someone who suffered a failed earth strap some years ago, and fettled it enough to get home, I can't disagree with your advice, Trev. 👍

My current van's strap is only 5 years old and absolutely fine. I'll continue to wriggle underneath to have a general shuftie at everything, but given how little space they take up I'll shortly buy one and store it until I think it's time to change it.
 
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