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Ouch!

I've had projects like that where you start out all starry eyed, enthusiastic and full of good intentions
and instead of things progressing nicely it starts to turn into a complete arse ache.
Good luck with it.

Welcome Heather.

Have look at this thread and see what mine was like in the pic at the end of thread

https://dispatchexpertscudo.org.uk/foru … hp?id=2013

Just been reading up the V90 ( looks fun!) and found this page which may be of some use or interest to you
If you're anything like me you've probably already scoured the web for any and all info on what ever bike
you have, but I'll add the link just in case as it has parts catalogue and user manuals and stuff

https://scooterhelp.com/scooters/V9A1T.90.html

The wee scooter shown previously went in easily, the latest bigger bike was much bigger and more of a struggle.
After removing the bike I swept out the van and took some pics
so I can muse over mods to the ply partition.
Currently it makes the cab warmer and quieter especially at motorway speeds
and will stay as is.
In the warmer months or at certain times like wanting to stuff a big bike in,
I may want have it more open to make use of every inch of space.
The pink lines show where the front wheel and fairing touched up against the partition
and the bike only just went far enough in to shut the back doors.
the small bulkhead is outlined in blue and the hold down points by red spots.

Section 1 could be removed but is pretty much permanent
as is the sealed up sliding door and I see no need to touch that.

Sections 2 and 3 wont be hard to remove, just few screws really and I'm mulling over options of putting hinges or clamps on them to make then even easier and quicker
to fit and remove

Like this one, a mate begged me to buy his ratty old CX in 2000
yes they're ugly af and it looked rough as a bears ass but had a sweet rebuilt engine
when I test rode it I took a strange liking to it
In those days you couldn't give a CX away and I had one more for the next 20 years
and have been all over the UK on one.
Once you understood their features and possible weak points and addressed them
you had a go anywhere, any time, workhorse.
I had a few K100 beemers for touring for few years but still kept a CX
I sold my last CX in 2020 and had no intention of getting another bike
so I'm still undecided what to do with this GL.

I have a 2001 Yamaha Majesty 250 scooter now.
I got it cheap and renovated it to use as a hack and its great fun.

I know of the tensior gadget but never had or used one.
I got my local guy to do my cam belt kit as he's very reasonable and reliable
and couldn't be be arsed to do it myself
RE tension,
there is/was a rule of thumb which involved how much you could twist the belt under tension
to give an idea of how tight/loose it was.
Its been a while since i did a cam belt  and cant recall exact parameters
but as a crude example, if you could twist the belt 180 degrees it was too loose
and if you could NOT or struggled to twist it 45 degrees, it was too tight
and if you could twist it 90 degrees under tension it was about right.
I also cant recall if this was on the longer or shorter reaches of the belt.

I repeat this is a guess from vague memory
but it was something like the above
I seem to recall doing the cam belt on my old C15 1.9D XUD lump like this

Just got  back, too knackered to unload it, will take pics tomoz
Its a 1983 that's been in a garage for the last 6 years and it's a bit shabby
Its only got 14,500 on the clocks and I didn't pay much for it
as it belonged to a mate who now lives in Vietnam and only came back to clear out the garage
and practically begged me to buy it.
I thought I was done with the CX/GL range too 

Just looked it up on the dvla site
tax and MOT ran out in 2016 
but at least the MOT history supports the mileage so it may have some good life left in it

"Has to be the worst designed cup holder ever."
Yep.
Just been putting my dash back together and these vans don't really have any obvious room for cup holders
Before I made my stowage+cup holder box I did put a self tapper in the lower panel and hang a flexible one on for while but it did tend to flap about a bit
Something better could be devised but if you have two passengers it would affect leg room
There is also that blank panel to the left of the radio
It's easily prised out and there's nothing going on behind it in my van at least, so you could perhaps fix a cup holder there

It might if you ran the exhaust through a water jacket then pumped the water through a encased matrix core
which had a fan pushing air warmed by the matrix into an enclosed space....
If moneys no object we can start tomorrow

Thanks, as I already had the dash panel off, all I needed was a 10mm spanner and T20 driver to do it all
but I did use a pad saw to cut the corner off the plastic near the blue relay to give a bit more wiggle room.
I wondered about trying to flush the old one out for a spare, but that's me being a tight sod
who hates throwing things away I might be able to fix.
but for £33? nah, I'll cut it open when it's not pissing down just to see how bad it was.