Delica - the next challenge - help please me re weight issues

[Byronic]

ricc - thank you for explaining about side slopes in a way I could not.

I have had 4 punctures in the last 18 months on 3 different vehicles. If a vehicle is designed to carry a spare, and does not, then Recovery companies will be unable to do a roadside exchange of wheels and some will charge £120+ in UK to tow the vehicle to a garage ... another good reason to carry a spare.

But mostly a spare gives me peace of mind.

And if anyone else advises that it isn't wise to have a spare wheel on the roof, inform them that should you experience difficulties you'll have the wheel spinning with a washing machine motor, the gyroscopic effect will then make your van impossible to overturn.

 

[trevskoda]

Of course it can, and should. There are three sensible places you could put it, in order of preference:
1. On the front, on a brcket.
2. Underneath (though there may not be space)
3. In your garden shed. You don't need to carry a spare. My last car ran on LPG and the tank was in the spare wheel well. In over 100,000 miles I never missed a spare. Carry a leak sealer aerosol and a small compressor.
Would you change the wheel if you had a flat? I'd call out a breakdown service if I had a flat tyre on my motorhome. The last time that happened was in the1990s I think.

You very definitely shouid not carry your spare wheel on your roof. Its a bad idea for any vehicle, a catastrophic idea for yours

The day a aerosol fixes a rip in a side wall i will eat my hat,i carry 2 spares in my car after on a return trip from donegal had two puntures in which the last one was within 6 miles from home,the wife is very good at changing them.

 

[Channa]

.......well I've seen Llamas alongside the A66!

I can beat that once saw an elephant stood on its head just outside Doncaster !!! turned out circus was in town ...not sure it was really on its head can elephants do that ? It was certainly an unusual pose ..Almost fell of my Suzuki 200 x5 I know that much.

Channa

 

[trevskoda]

Hi Jeanette there are external pictures of my van on my profile, but I don't have any internal piccies. I can sleep in the cab bed, but there is very little headroom, and I don't have a ladder, so its a bit of an "art" to get up there and in the right place !!!! Its thanks to my pilates that I am this flexible.

I know you could spring up there like a dainty gazelle.

 

[Channa]

I know you could spring up there like a dainty gazelle.

not only that for jiggy jiggy ...spooning ( I am told)

possibly lowered the academic tone but only said what you is alls thinking


Channa

 

[delicagirl]

I know you could spring up there like a dainty gazelle.

Thank you Trev !!! thats very delicious of you to say so. i have started work with a new pilates teacher and she is so far advanced of my last one that i feel as if i am starting all over again - its very frustating.... but keeps me on my toes - or on the floor on the mat as the case may be !!

 

[Channa]

Thank you Trev !!! thats very delicious of you to say so. i have started work with a new pilates teacher and she is so far advanced of my last one that i feel as if i am starting all over again - its very frustating.... but keeps me on my toes - or on the floor on the mat as the case may be !!

I can do all that :tongue: or do I say to myself Channa yer wires are all in a knot and twisted again :idea-007:

I like the exercise idea but I do get tired thinking about it :baby:

Channa (sleepy one now)

 

[trevskoda]

I can beat that once saw an elephant stood on its head just outside Doncaster !!! turned out circus was in town ...not sure it was really on its head can elephants do that ? It was certainly an unusual pose ..Almost fell of my Suzuki 200 x5 I know that much.

Channa

That nothing,my local chip shop is now i think putting elephant meat in the food as a they have a price for jumbo hot dogs on there board.:scared:

 

[Byronic]

Ah, the silvery tongued charm of an Irishman, doesn't seem to work in getting anyone into the Linux camp though

 

[trevskoda]

Ah, the silvery tongued charm of an Irishman, doesn't seem to work in getting anyone into the Linux camp though

I in fact dont care if they give it a go or not but i give my advice free of all chains to those who wish to be enlightened grass hopper.:bow::wave:

 

[Channa]

I in fact dont care if they give it a go or not but i give my advice free of all chains to those who wish to be enlightened grass hopper.:bow::wave:

I am with you ,eyes can give a twinkle across the UK :ninja:

Linux no idea what it is ...heard of a lineup though does that count ?

Channa

 

[Byronic]

I shall never be able to take those Linux stones from your hand, so I will never be enlightened, and will forever be a grasshopper condemned to just looking out of Windows.

 

[jeanette]

Hi Jeanette there are external pictures of my van on my profile, but I don't have any internal piccies. I can sleep in the cab bed, but there is very little headroom, and I don't have a ladder, so its a bit of an "art" to get up there and in the right place !!!! Its thanks to my pilates that I am this flexible.

Collette I can get up but for some reason I'm not keen to sleep up there?! That's why I'm pleased we have the downstairs bit to sleep in and still have plenty of room in the van,otherwise we would be looking at another van! I will no doubt be msging you

 

[wildebus]

Ref your spare wheel, can't see any photos of your rear end (the delicacar that is!), so not sure what it looks like (is there a rear door there?), but if you could maybe get a mount made for a spare similar to what you see on the rear doors of 4x4s?
Something like this would be pretty simple to do if space and construction allowed (and would be easy enough to tidy up so it looked better!)

This is actually part of a steel wheel with bolts attached. You would put a plate inside for strength and rigidity.
Just a thought to possibly get the spare off the roof and both more accessible and lower the CoG.

 

[Tezza33]

On my old van, I didn't use the overcab bed in winter because the heat tended to rise and made that bed too warm. Do you have th same problem?

Are you asking if Collette is hot in bed? :shag:

 

[trevskoda]

Apart from the fact there is whats called pendulum effect with weight to high there is also the prob of getting it up & down,the spare wheel that is.
If it were my van i would get a bull bar made for the front and mount the wheel there which would be easy to work with though it would add a bit to the length,cooling will not be a problem in uk or most other hotter countrys as most coolant sys are 25% over size and there will be plenty of air movement through the rad.
I also find it scares the s--t out of folk when they look in there r/v mirror.:scared:

 

[izwozral]

Are you asking if Collette is hot in bed? :shag:

I can answer that!:tongue:

 

[delicagirl]

I looked at the photos at the outset of all this, though I thought the spare wheel was a top box. You will note that I suggested removing it.

Your van looks good, the one in the film looks stupid as well as dangerously unstable.

However, it was you who mentioned the film in post #465 and you didn't say your van is not like that. Then in post #468 you wrote about it saying "This was an identical van to mine" so it is a fair assumption that they are similar.

Before it had the rear-end raising modifications done to it - if you compare the film to my still photos on my profile you will see the differences.

 

[delicagirl]

Ref your spare wheel, can't see any photos of your rear end (the delicacar that is!), so not sure what it looks like (is there a rear door there?), but if you could maybe get a mount made for a spare similar to what you see on the rear doors of 4x4s?
Something like this would be pretty simple to do if space and construction allowed (and would be easy enough to tidy up so it looked better!)

This is actually part of a steel wheel with bolts attached. You would put a plate inside for strength and rigidity.
Just a thought to possibly get the spare off the roof and both more accessible and lower the CoG.

At the back of the bus i have a window, two fridge vents and a storage locker where the gas water heater used to be, and as the van body is fibre glass i dont think it is strong enough to hold the weight of a bull bar plus a wheel. A spare wheel at the front would mean that i need 2 parking bays to park in. Also i am trying to bring weight forward rather than add to the weight at the back

 

[Byronic]

Not as dangerous as your suggesting that the young lady in question actually believed me! 22 miles of water may be your saving grace, perhaps not

Anyway what is there not to believe, advice it was, just not practical advice.