Great looking Van! to the vannin family, If you make you way over as far as Oklahoma City, I would love to meet up and can even offer a safe parking spot with hook ups for electric and water. . . . and some great stuff to photograph here on Route 66.
My van : 1989 Ford E-150 Econoline, currently named “WOLF-DEN IIâ€
Founder & President of Sooner or Later United Truckers and PROUD TO BE A S.L.U.T. ! !
Don't really have anything photogenic tonight to post. All I have been doing is troubleshooting the van seeing what I can do to get everything going.
I got the generator to start momentarily by dumping gas down the carb, sounds like the supply pump for it is fubar.
Got power run out to it, found out the AC works, but sounds like the fridge is dead in the water, we will see, it is not making any noise, but I am going to give it 24 hours to see.
I've also been reconsidering my plans for the interior, I have a lot of options, just trying to pick the best one.
Tomorrow morning I am running to the dump with my dads trailer and dumping it, then I can start tearing out the inside. That nasty carpet has to go. Once it is out I can get to work painting the floor, scuffing the walls, and can get them covered in carpet.
Sometime in the next couple of days we are going to get the fuel filler fixed, or alteast diagnosed to see where the fuel is coming out. then I will be able to get some gas in it, get plates on it and start driving it.
Then I can get my dually sold, get this thing finished and get on the road.
Hopefully I don't have to replace the fridge, if I do getting the dually sold is going to be paramount because trying to get all of this done on my VA retirement is leaving my pocket book a bit thin as it is, especially after buying the van in the first place.
Got a lot done on the van today, got it running again and 10 gallons of fuel in it, got my hands on a shop manual for the generator, started getting the wiring on it figured out, got it started off a gas can, needs a new fuel pump. PO's dog chewed up the wiring pretty bad for the generator controls.
Kind of creating a challenge at the moment but we will see how it pans out. I may junk the generator that is in it and get a Honda 3000is and mount it on the rear bumper.
It would be nice if I could get this one working properly though and not spend that money.
The good news is the fridge started working again, so that makes me happy.
Hopefully tomorrow I will have some more good updates, going to spend most of the day messing with it.