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Post by doublechevron on Apr 13, 2016 10:25:30 GMT 10
Isn't your current 'van the perfect vintage for the mustang. Are you sure she'll be able to handle all the weight of caravan... you might have to bore that little little 429 out to 460 to make it work  seeya, Shane L. |
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Post by doublechevron on Apr 12, 2016 17:06:26 GMT 10
I give you a week before your heading bush to drag him out of the local bog holes  |
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Post by doublechevron on Apr 12, 2016 11:19:59 GMT 10
Interesting stuff, I heard there are a lot of 'new' 6 member clubs and I hear Vic Roads raised an eyebrow when they went from 8,000 cars on the permit scheme to 40,000. We run the risk of losing this scheme. I've never had anything to do with car clubs or club rego, but have noticed a significant increase of club plates around town recently. Pulled up at the traffic lights yesterday next to a stock standard beige XF wagon with club plates (I only looked at it because it was a car dad owned and sold about 10 years ago). I suspect that the system is being worked here, and it will end in tears for the genuine club members. Good one them  ... Just because we find XF fowlcans about as appealing as a steaming turd, doesn't mean others don't like them. THIS is the bit I love about this scheme, it allows ANYONE to get ANY sort of vehicle they desire and drive it 90days a year. The wealthy biggoted minority that think THEY should have the ability to say what they consider worthy to used as a "classic" don't have a say in anything.... Much to there distress. Bloody brilliant isn't it I've even started admiring ridiculous old american cars ..... damn, I even stopped a looked at a crappy old datsun 120Y a few weeks back that was on club plates .... I haven't seem one of them on the roads since I was a teenager  See what I mean .... brilliant right |
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Post by doublechevron on Apr 12, 2016 11:15:08 GMT 10
Interesting stuff, I heard there are a lot of 'new' 6 member clubs and I hear Vic Roads raised an eyebrow when they went from 8,000 cars on the permit scheme to 40,000. We run the risk of losing this scheme. No, I figure this just shows what an outstanding success the scheme is. Remember a huge number of this number of cars will be fully registered vehicles now moved to a club permit. One of our members had 8 fully registered vehicles ..... 6 got moved straight to permits. It also allowed "poor' people to drive there cars. Eg: Without the club permit scheme I would have ONE and only one car on the roads. How much I like driving and tinkering with old cars is irreverent if I have to pay $1000 in rego and insurance per car. currently I have 3 cars on club permit. That would be $3000 bucks a year I'd have to find. There is not a snowmans chance in hell I could pay that, the cars would all be put straight off the road and parked in the back of the shed ( thinks single wage earner, 3 young kids paying off a house .... Life doesn't get any better than this ). We don't want being able to tinker with old cars something only the wealthy can do. seeya, Shane L. |
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Post by doublechevron on Apr 11, 2016 10:28:17 GMT 10
VicRoads are actively seeking out small clubs (usually one or two members at the moment) that only run a 'club' so they can run highly modified vehicles and to get cheap rego. Approved club numbers are down by over 100 since the new laws came in. If your club, like ours, is there for the rights reasons, there is nothing to worry about, but if you are the president, secretary and only member of your club, I would worry. Oh I get what your saying. Yes, our club has plenty of cars not under the committees members names. That is probably the telling point Does it really matter now you must have a roadworthy ( Damn it !!! ). I would have like to move my Range Rover to a club permit at the end of next year. The cost of getting a roadworthy to do this, will NOT be fun  seeya, Shane L. |
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Post by doublechevron on Apr 10, 2016 17:17:20 GMT 10
Our club is just a small group of like minded individuals. Invite only, it currently has 12 members. Meetings are only 4 times a year and you only need to show up at the AGM to get your permits signed off if that's all you want. We have it set up so it meets all the requirements for VicRoads, and we are a fairly active bunch and we seem to have vehicles end up at shows on a regular basis - which is what VicRoads likes to see. Working now on a club photo album as proof for all this as VicRoads continues to close small clubs down every week that were only set up for cheap reg - there days are numbered. Oh - Shane - it's a Ballarat based club as well and 2 of your vehicles would qualify in our club. That's funny. I haven't heard of VicRoads trying to close any clubs. We have maybe a dozen members over the place. Most of us have been around classic cars for many years, but just can't be bothered with the BS that goes with the larger car clubs........ Actually now I think about it .... Gee's were a bunch of no hopeless cases. I'm trying to think of someone in the club that doesn't have a yard full nuts, er, I mean "restoration cases". We'll all be ancient and dead before we finish even half of them (and that's only if we win tatts). We must have 20 cars on permits easily through the club. Everything from Stage 1's -> through to the only '56 Citroen DS19 on the roads in Australia (not ID19, DS19 ... big difference). seeya, shane L. |
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Post by doublechevron on Apr 7, 2016 11:02:04 GMT 10
In my Arrow I removed the springs a wire for the old bed frames and put a 6 mm plywood on the top. I was not kin in making new frames for saving 10 or 15 kg of weight. I guess that if the van was Ok for 39 years with that frames plus the 2 bunks will be Ok now without the two top bunks. Some people are obsessed with weight, my van as it is can carry 350 kg of load and having a total weight of 1250 kg. The original bed would have been 15kg ... foam mattress maybe 5kg .... replaced with chipboard and innerspring mattress will add probably 100kgs. so removed 100kg from your payload (and place it at the back edge of the caravan). this is why our old caravans are so staggeringly lightly built. It takes nothing to make them really heavy, really quickly. eg: my old 22' caravan. mid 80's is about 1600kg empty. The same family 'van from jayco these days is about 2.6tons empty  seeya, Shane L. |
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Post by doublechevron on Apr 7, 2016 10:28:38 GMT 10
Hang on a sec .... Someone used 67kg of chipboard to make the bed .... With an innerspring mattress on that you would have HUGE weight at the very back of the caravan too. The bed frames I've removed would struggle to be 10kg all up!
seeya,
Shane L.
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Post by doublechevron on Apr 6, 2016 22:36:49 GMT 10
thansk, I grabbed the piccies ... I could get them no problems from the cache |
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Post by doublechevron on Apr 6, 2016 15:48:03 GMT 10
how did you manage to load the advert ?
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Post by doublechevron on Apr 6, 2016 11:03:59 GMT 10
I noticed the big 4 website wanted overall length. If you have big tool boxes and spares on the rear, you will be quite long. I've never measured mine overall, but 22foot in the body ... is about 6.7meters ... + drawbar + rear bumper + spare. I'd imagine 8.5 -> 9meters would be a pretty accurate guess.
You could say smaller, but I've already been put in spots that I wouldn't have a snowballs chance in hell of getting the 'van into if the spaces around me hadn't been empty..... If they'd been full I'd have to have gone back to the office and said "your joking right? Do you have a sky crane to lift it in with ?.
Wives aren't a lot of help either, they don't seem to understand the angles and physics of getting something towed into a tight spot. (ie: the cars nose needs to swing .. the caravan will swing at the axles etc).
If your ringing the park, if you say to the management "it's a 22 foot 'van" .... I'm sure that would be fine, and they'll know which sites you will fit into with converting 22' to ... "that is 9meters meters overall ... plus the towcar which is another 5meters ... So we have somethign 14meters long trying to squeeze in".
I try to always walk in first and see where the site is .... There can be all sorts of stuff you'll spot will cause you issues. especially with caravans that have there axles right at the back edge of the 'van. You won't be able to swing the tow car wide enough around the corners, and the caravan will cut across taking out it's front walls on the inside of the corners etc....
I had someone pickup a caravan from my place a couple of weeks back. As always I said "watch the eves of the house, swing wide, at the gate YOU MUST CROSS THE ROAD AND RUN YOUR BULLBAR DOWN THE EMBANKMENT AT THE OTHER SIDE... IF YOUR LEAVING SCRAPE MARKS IN IT, YOUR NEARLY CLOSE ENOUGH". I said this to the guy at least 1/2 dozen times. DO NOT TAKE OUT MY GATEPOST. Sure enough, I hear a big crunch and heard the gate bouning as he left. At least he didn't bend the gate post like the guy I said the same thing to (who was towing a car trailer out of my yard). Car trailers aren't soft like caravans, so he moved the gate post. He sure did take off and not check the (substantial) damage he would have done to the 'van "I know how to drive, I've been towing trailers for years"..... Everyone that's said that too me has taken out my gatepost.
seeya,
Shane L.
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Post by doublechevron on Apr 1, 2016 14:06:52 GMT 10
damn, I shoudl have downloaded the piccies!
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Post by doublechevron on Mar 31, 2016 18:58:43 GMT 10
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Post by doublechevron on Mar 31, 2016 15:39:44 GMT 10
You should be fine in summer I don't htink caulking tape would work. That is only my opinion though. You could never tighten it hard enough to get "squeeze out" so you know you have filled all the gaps. The idea of using the foam edging is to protect the mastic from the sun so it doesn't dry out, and it gives you a nice looking finish. I just got that cheap foam tape from ebay.uk (as I'm such a tight arse LOL ). www.ebay.co.uk/itm/36M-Foam-Window-Door-Draft-Draught-Excluder-Weather-Strip-Insulation-Roll-/351195413874?hash=item51c4e0bd72remember, it's not sealing the windows, it's just to protect the mastic and give you a nice finish seeya, Shane L. |
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Post by doublechevron on Mar 30, 2016 15:15:56 GMT 10
There would have been weird ugly cars all over town : You said that Shane, not me  LOL .... have you seen the cars being entered in the latest shitbox rally .... www.facebook.com/Thunderbox2014/ |
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Post by doublechevron on Mar 30, 2016 10:53:05 GMT 10
So no-one went to Echuca? The annual australia wide citroen car club gathering was there this year. No I wasn't there There would have been weird ugly cars all over town |
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Post by doublechevron on Mar 30, 2016 9:49:41 GMT 10
Well look what just got delivered. No more excuses now. I had a look at your link chevron. I like the idea about the foam tape for the door. Think I might do the same.  I thought the foam tape worked well with the mastic. I did the same for all of the windows. I just look up user "cabcar" over on the caravaners forum and follow his advice. That guy really knows which way the nuts flows With that ezycaulk, if it's cold outside, bring it inside and sit in near your heater for a few hours. I destroyed several cheap silicon guns trying to squeeze that stuff out of the tube. It softens a lot when warm though (using it in the freezing evening hours over winter wasn't easy work ). seeya, Shane L. |
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Post by doublechevron on Mar 29, 2016 15:26:18 GMT 10
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Post by doublechevron on Mar 23, 2016 16:21:28 GMT 10
The foam tape is not used on its own, its like a second line of defence with a bead of caulk on the outside. I used it recently when repairing the pop-top on the parent's van, I put it between the cladding and the frame. It originally had what looked like denso grease tape there. Being adhesive on both sides, it helps hold things together until you can get the proper fasteners in place and apply a layer of caulking to seal everything up. Tim You never want to apply a bead of sealer. You need to fill any joints with sealer, then have the sealer squeeze out as it assembles. This guarantees a water proof join. A bead of sealer is just a band-aide that'll soon leak given what I've seen on caravans seeya, Shane L. |
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Post by doublechevron on Mar 23, 2016 9:23:05 GMT 10
I have a new'ish caravan in my backyard that has that under the tru-mold seals. Gotta say it's the most stupid inferior way of sealing a caravan I could think of ............ It also seems to be working for now. Having said that, the factory has troweled a lot of silicon down the side of the tru-mold on the roof. I'd be expecting the walls to be well rotten from the stupid tape leaking by the time the caravan is 5-> 10years old though.
Think of how quick this makes a caravan to assemble. roll the tape around the caravan. Screw the tru-mold on ... done! about 20minutes for the entire caravan including bending up the tru-mold. versus a days work of taping up and squeezing out/troweling clean silicon sealer that would work for the life of the 'van.
seeya,
shane L.
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Post by doublechevron on Mar 22, 2016 13:25:52 GMT 10
Did you try Shannons .... They'll do agreed value on yours as a "classic" van no doubt. They don't do caravan insurance as such though.
seeya,
Shane L.
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Post by doublechevron on Mar 12, 2016 19:53:24 GMT 10
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Post by doublechevron on Mar 11, 2016 14:44:40 GMT 10
cheap as chips domestic reverse cycle split system with the outside unit drawbar mounted is the way I'd go That way you will actually have something that is useful and works. You only need a flaring tool and 'vac pump and you could DIY install for less than $500 eg: www.ebay.com.au/itm/NEW-2-7KW-SPLIT-SYSTEM-AIR-CONDITIONER-COOLING-HEAT-/161329802877?hash=item2590016e7d:g:qCwAAOSwHBFTxG~c$500 bucks with copper. You just run the drool tube and and wiring through the floor. The only thing you need to do is figure out how to hide the refrigerant pipes inside. I'd run them up the inside foldaway bed in my 'van. seeya, Shane L. |
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Post by doublechevron on Mar 11, 2016 10:50:28 GMT 10
I'm not much of a club person myself. I dont' have the time to get to meetings... And I like tinkering with cars ... where as a lot of club members seem to NOT be hands on at all these days I'm keen to join the ballarat classic and vintage club at some point... It's a very big club, but I just don't have the time or $$$ with a young family. Oneday seeya, Shane L. |
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Post by doublechevron on Mar 10, 2016 9:20:25 GMT 10
club permits are nothing short of brilliant. I had 5 cars and a caravan on them for a while in Victoria. Back to 3 permit cars now.... but two fully registered (which sucks). Qld needs to look at other states: *Here our Mustang has 15km radius unless on a club event. *Cannot be used for weddings or formals unless its your immediate children. *Cannot be used for transport ie, you can't go to a shop & park it. *Full rego is $1000 + , club rego is $180. The Victorian system used to be that. It was shithouse (no other way of describing it). A lot of clubs were strongly against the logbook change. You see the nazzies in the clubs wanted power over there members If your still under that shithouse system, take a page of the ferals car club page .. feralsportscarclub.net/CarClub.htmlFor some reason there is thousands of car clubs in Victoria. I founded a club here in Ballarat, we try to keep membership to less than 20people. seeya, Shane L. |
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See what I mean .... brilliant right 
