First few jobs

With our first trip out in the van booked and Amy busy with her wedding photography it was down to me to get some of the small easy jobs done ready for out dinner with Millie. 

First on the list was to give the inside a thorough clean, it was not dirty by any stretch of the imagination but it was nice to know everything was clean and tidy ready for us to use.

 

It wasn’t until we were parking it up on the drive did we notice that both reverse lights were not working (shows how much of an inspection we gave it in Essex!) Not a problem it gave me a chance to blow the dust off of some of my tools.   

First thing to check was the bulbs, removing the lights on the van is nice and easy, I find removing the four screws that hold the lens on is much quicker and less knuckle grazing than going from the inside!

The bulbs looked ok but to check a quick swap of the two reverse bulbs with those of the indicator bulbs proved their operation.   

So onto the fuse box, the van had come with the original owners handbook which was very interesting to read.  I eventually found the wiring diagrams which was very easy to understand and quickly found the correct fuse, again all ok.   

The only other thing I could think of to check fairly easily before starting the task of hunting the cable was the reverse switch.  Out came the trusty voltmeter and under I went.  It was quite easy to find although the connectors were quite corroded they came off no problems, with the van in reverse I checked for power going to the switch, all ok next was to check for continuity across the switch, nothing bugger!  A quick trip online to justkampers.com and I had the new switch the next day, to change it was very simple just unscrew and then screw in the new one, I gave the connectors a quick clean up and job done. 

With the first "mechanical" job now completed I only hoped that everything else on the van would be so easy!!