Re: Volvo 940 GLE Caravan Project - Underway!
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2016 10:20 am
Items 1, 2, 3 are slated to happen on an ASAP basis pending a few higher priority items!
King single guest mattress is 2050x1070x200mm, just measured! And quite stiff bending wise, so the full length would be needed in some fashion.
Need to know:
Distance from firewall to rear arches
Distance from firewall to knee in bottom thereof
To judge practicality of trying to flatten the floor for a trip...
And if I can do it, then I need to load this into it:
Foam filling to level floor
Mattress!
Linen!
Pillows!
Sleeping bag(s)!
Butane cookers!
Fold-out chairs!
Cooking/eating supplies!
Chilly bin and ice packs!
Food and drinks!
And all of it at the very back! :-D
So some initial work without going out in the rain too much:Fred wrote:1) Handbrake relocate to rear seat back mounting points. Make a plate to bolt on there, drill out the welds
that hold the handbrake frame in place, weld (or rivet?) it onto the plate in such a way that the tension
doesn't try to lever it off. Unscrew the cable from it first, pull that out the bottom, find a workable route
from where it is now to where it needs to go, make a new hole. Bolt it on and connect it back up, and test.
2) Modify rear suspension to use less space and be less stiff to the chassis. The existing "sub frame" has two
"torque rods" and mounts pretty far forward. The forward mounting needs to be ditched and it likely doesn't
need both torque rods. Not sure how I'll approach this. Lots of options. Probably the least work is to cut the
front off, weld on the same mount in a different place, and give it somewhere to attach that's not in the way.
It does still need to be strong if/when I hook up the hydraulic brakes to the hitch, this is what holds the axle.
3) Initial floor flattening attempt, not replaced with a composite floor, yet. Just slice the tall bits out
and replace with some flat sheet of some sort. Stiff enough to not push through it with 90kg on one
foot = good enough. Anything will do. Maybe rivet in some alloy. This will save a good bit of weight
as there's a fair bit of steel in the tunnel. Possibly level the surface with some expanding foam?
King single guest mattress is 2050x1070x200mm, just measured! And quite stiff bending wise, so the full length would be needed in some fashion.
Need to know:
Distance from firewall to rear arches
Distance from firewall to knee in bottom thereof
To judge practicality of trying to flatten the floor for a trip...
And if I can do it, then I need to load this into it:
Foam filling to level floor
Mattress!
Linen!
Pillows!
Sleeping bag(s)!
Butane cookers!
Fold-out chairs!
Cooking/eating supplies!
Chilly bin and ice packs!
Food and drinks!
And all of it at the very back! :-D