Hi All,
New to the forum browsed for a while to find some answers to questions so thought id join and share some progress on my Scudo build
I have a 2008 (new shape) L2 Scudo and currently converting it into a day van. Not your typical day van with a bed and sink more to use for every day life with the dogs and kids and take it camping rather than fitting our life into 2 cars!
So no sleeping just a place to make travel much easier, ability to pack and move around easier and still use the van day to day if I need to shop runs, tip runs etc
So she's white, 58 plate 114k on the clock ex sparky fleet van. Ply lined inside, 3 seats at the front and a full metal bulkhead. Noisy as hell! No real issues sorry for the bad photo
Spent some time on the t4/5 forum as a ghost just getting ideas and doing some research for the rear seats (I have two children aged 1 and 6) decided to go with Renault Espace seats as they have the integrated seat belts
They are grey leather and suede photo and different light makes them look brown / cream but they will do the job. I messed up when I made the purchase and didn't really think about fixing them to the van lol!
Both rear seats cost me £150
So I was lucky to contact the seller on ebay and I could purchase the full rails both short and long sets and seat runners for front seats (so I asked and he had matching front seats)
So we done a deal and I bought the full rail and runner set for £90 and two front seats for £140. The only down side I have is the front seats require electric and have air bags - but this a problem for later in the build.
*NOTE:
I have 4 x full rails if anyone wants to purchase them off me, for two seats!
I spent some time lifting up the ply that was just screwed the the body using self tapping screws (bloody mess that was) note: I've not cleaned it at this point just working out what I can use and what I can't and If i I can use the original mount points on the van.
Found the original fixing points will work for some rails so I took a 2mm bit and drilled up from under side the van, giving me a pilot hole and then I took a 10mm bit and drilled through the panel to expose the threads
First a bit of a sweep to clean the floor, first problem outside rails can all mount to the original points inside rails require some plates for the underside of the van (I purchased these on ebay £2.49 each for 50x25mm 1/4inch steel plate with a threaded 10mm hole) secured the bolt (using M10 for the rails) with a self locking nylon safety nut
In the first photo the rail closest to the front is located directly over the fuel tank! To make it worse I just filled the van up so I didn't fancy lowering the tank with all 75ltr of diesel so with the risk I decided to drill down through the body work and made a small hole 2inches wide by 1inch deep this was enough for me to slide a spanner under and my fingers to just locate the bolt, apply the plate and nut. Lock off with a spanner and tighten
(I'll patch this hole up using some body repair Aluminum Mesh, bond over with metal filler and then body filler)
All seats are secured and checked first glance been told should MOT fine - time will tell in a few weeks, when I have it tested and the van re-registered.
Next the bulk head
Simple enough small socket to take out the bolts and then a 10mm drill bit to tap out the rivet heads 5min later and shes out
Bit of a break because of work
I been buying up some Silent Coat sheets, Bicumen, Foil Insulation, Ply (some of the old floor was too far gone)
Next job removed the rear ply floor and cleaned everything
After taking up the screws I cleaned all the rust off (just surface) with some Citric Acid once dry I sprayed with some Zinc Oxide
May or may not bite me in the a** but this has worked on bikes I have restored in the past. On the floor I didn't want to go nuts so I used some 44x12 mm batten got a rough layout on the floor to work with
Using no nails stuck all of these in place
Needed to use a brick and some extra weight to keep some battens from lifting.
On the floor I decided to save a bit of cash and go with bitumen sheeting picked up the 225mm wide stuff from screw fix for £17 per 10m roll. I know I don't have to run the entire floor with it to cut out vibrations but I thought it would give me a good base to work with (made a massive difference)
At the moment I'm keeping the lower bulk head as Id still like to transport some things (as we run a massive allotment) I don't want anything sliding forward towards my feet BUT that might change later in the build.
I've also run in some cables for the battery you will notice I have a negative there. That's not to connect anything I want to run some cables to the front of the cab later off the leisure battery and as the cable I need has not arrived I hope to just tape to the negative and pull what I need through as a guide.
4mm Foil goes down next
New sheet of ply goes down
At this point I took some of the silent coat, covered the wheel arches with it and then some more bitumen the rear ply was in good enough condition to use so I put that back and now I don't have such a big sheet to cut around the wheel arches there is a small strip required in the center but that's nothing.
Progress
Hole for the cables once I take the front seats out I'll lift up the floor, run the + to the battery and keep the - out to use as a my pull guide
That's my progress so far, I'm in the middle of building some over complex self / unit to go behind the rear seats. Will update with progress over the next few weeks.
*The long rails I mentioned above
New to the forum browsed for a while to find some answers to questions so thought id join and share some progress on my Scudo build
I have a 2008 (new shape) L2 Scudo and currently converting it into a day van. Not your typical day van with a bed and sink more to use for every day life with the dogs and kids and take it camping rather than fitting our life into 2 cars!
So no sleeping just a place to make travel much easier, ability to pack and move around easier and still use the van day to day if I need to shop runs, tip runs etc
So she's white, 58 plate 114k on the clock ex sparky fleet van. Ply lined inside, 3 seats at the front and a full metal bulkhead. Noisy as hell! No real issues sorry for the bad photo
Spent some time on the t4/5 forum as a ghost just getting ideas and doing some research for the rear seats (I have two children aged 1 and 6) decided to go with Renault Espace seats as they have the integrated seat belts
They are grey leather and suede photo and different light makes them look brown / cream but they will do the job. I messed up when I made the purchase and didn't really think about fixing them to the van lol!
Both rear seats cost me £150
So I was lucky to contact the seller on ebay and I could purchase the full rails both short and long sets and seat runners for front seats (so I asked and he had matching front seats)
So we done a deal and I bought the full rail and runner set for £90 and two front seats for £140. The only down side I have is the front seats require electric and have air bags - but this a problem for later in the build.
*NOTE:
I have 4 x full rails if anyone wants to purchase them off me, for two seats!
I spent some time lifting up the ply that was just screwed the the body using self tapping screws (bloody mess that was) note: I've not cleaned it at this point just working out what I can use and what I can't and If i I can use the original mount points on the van.
Found the original fixing points will work for some rails so I took a 2mm bit and drilled up from under side the van, giving me a pilot hole and then I took a 10mm bit and drilled through the panel to expose the threads
First a bit of a sweep to clean the floor, first problem outside rails can all mount to the original points inside rails require some plates for the underside of the van (I purchased these on ebay £2.49 each for 50x25mm 1/4inch steel plate with a threaded 10mm hole) secured the bolt (using M10 for the rails) with a self locking nylon safety nut
In the first photo the rail closest to the front is located directly over the fuel tank! To make it worse I just filled the van up so I didn't fancy lowering the tank with all 75ltr of diesel so with the risk I decided to drill down through the body work and made a small hole 2inches wide by 1inch deep this was enough for me to slide a spanner under and my fingers to just locate the bolt, apply the plate and nut. Lock off with a spanner and tighten
(I'll patch this hole up using some body repair Aluminum Mesh, bond over with metal filler and then body filler)
All seats are secured and checked first glance been told should MOT fine - time will tell in a few weeks, when I have it tested and the van re-registered.
Next the bulk head
Simple enough small socket to take out the bolts and then a 10mm drill bit to tap out the rivet heads 5min later and shes out
Bit of a break because of work
I been buying up some Silent Coat sheets, Bicumen, Foil Insulation, Ply (some of the old floor was too far gone)
Next job removed the rear ply floor and cleaned everything
After taking up the screws I cleaned all the rust off (just surface) with some Citric Acid once dry I sprayed with some Zinc Oxide
May or may not bite me in the a** but this has worked on bikes I have restored in the past. On the floor I didn't want to go nuts so I used some 44x12 mm batten got a rough layout on the floor to work with
Using no nails stuck all of these in place
Needed to use a brick and some extra weight to keep some battens from lifting.
On the floor I decided to save a bit of cash and go with bitumen sheeting picked up the 225mm wide stuff from screw fix for £17 per 10m roll. I know I don't have to run the entire floor with it to cut out vibrations but I thought it would give me a good base to work with (made a massive difference)
At the moment I'm keeping the lower bulk head as Id still like to transport some things (as we run a massive allotment) I don't want anything sliding forward towards my feet BUT that might change later in the build.
I've also run in some cables for the battery you will notice I have a negative there. That's not to connect anything I want to run some cables to the front of the cab later off the leisure battery and as the cable I need has not arrived I hope to just tape to the negative and pull what I need through as a guide.
4mm Foil goes down next
New sheet of ply goes down
At this point I took some of the silent coat, covered the wheel arches with it and then some more bitumen the rear ply was in good enough condition to use so I put that back and now I don't have such a big sheet to cut around the wheel arches there is a small strip required in the center but that's nothing.
Progress
Hole for the cables once I take the front seats out I'll lift up the floor, run the + to the battery and keep the - out to use as a my pull guide
That's my progress so far, I'm in the middle of building some over complex self / unit to go behind the rear seats. Will update with progress over the next few weeks.
*The long rails I mentioned above
