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You can buy a Chinese gasless mig welder for around £80. Hobby mig around 100 for 2nd hand. Plenty old washing machine sides sitting around council estates with free steel for you to practice on. Welding is a cheap fix if you can DIY so worth learning. You dont need to be neat you just need to be good enough to make the MOT man happy. I bought a gassless mig when i got my last convoy. I managed to weld up the convoy and pass two MOT's and the wifes car i welded up wheel arches where the rear belt mounts sit and get a pass. Not bod considering my bus floor was my practice

I had an old defender on a long term loan. Not Shure of engine size but it was an old Perkins Diesel. Bloody worse motor i have had the misfortune to drive  I could not get the seat back far enough  to drive comfortable. It was so noisy you could not hear the stereo at full volume and the steering was all over the place but then its no rack n pinion is it. Just the old steering box what was probably shot. Got that steering in my Convoy what is waaayyyyy better than the Land rover was.

You on about wanting a bigger van eventually. Pre covid you could get a convoy from a 500 quid with an MOT. 1000 for a maxus in reasonable nick. Van prices just now are crazy as every bugger wants to be a courier or make a camper. Once folk start heading to the sun again like it was before i think there will be a lot of cheap vans around

Only think i could think of that does not lock when the male female are together is probably Anderson plug/sockets but you would need two but it making them waterproof. What about the male/female Commando plugs and cutting away any locking lugs to allow them to slip apart.

Do a wee search of the site mate its been spoken about a few times. I think it was alfa romeo wheels most common used but cant remember what model

My convoy MOT was up in November. As its the same time as my Maxus and VW i decided to leave it longer to split MOT dates up. Thought last week i was chancing my luck as its in the street. Organised storage but the location was/is 15 miles away down the A1 and i pass a ANPR camera. Bright idea was get it booked for an MOT and fail i can still drive it away from MOT station and worry about it come the spring. List of advisory's from last year, made no checks this year not even look at the lights just put it in expecting the fail. Well did the bloody thing not pass   Still took it to storage area though as i wont use it till the weather turns for the better

What a wee shame. Good luck on the cash flow front and your next van adventure

Look up under the dash at break peddle. You will have a plunger type switch what tends to be screw up/down to adjust. It may have vibrated loose or wire plug fell off

Not sure TBH as unlike my van what are electronically controlled so it would just be unplug one at a time.

I made a wooden rock n roll bed for when i had my Expert. Part built we had to go to Manchester for a wedding but there was no spare rooms going at the wife's mothers. We decided to use the sleeping bags and just kip in the van on her drive. Got there fine and parked up what was a slight slope forward what was no great deal but... The bloody nylon bags on a ply bed meant we kept sliding forward during the night. Must have got woke up every two hours or so when our legs were curling up on the back of the front seats. Ordered levelling ramps when i got home.   

Van floor here. and a pair of levelling ramps but even then it would have to be really uneven ground for me to use them.

Yip but lucky for me there was three in a local scrap yard at the time