It’s been a couple of weeks since I last posted any progress on the LT, there has been a lot.

A couple of weeks ago I got the registration number through from the DVLA and had the three number plates made up. It’s come back as B registration, I am happy with that. It’s taxed for 6 months, lets see how far we can go. I think it’s done 248,000kms so far on the engine.

The interior is almost complete, the rear kitchen section has the fridge, cooker and sink installed and all working, leisure battery is installed with the new split charge unit.

I managed to get some left hand drive LT carpet from Caravantechnik Dobrinski in Germany, they look great and reduce the engine noise a little too.

We have been on a few short trips around Suffolk and Cambridgeshire but nothing more than a few miles at a time, I was slightly concerned that with no turbo and an old engine 45mph might be the maximum, if so the van would be almost useless. I got Dad to take a look at the injector pump and linkage, after some minor adjustments we can now to 60mph quite easily, happy to run along the road between 55mph and 60mph without any problems, acceleration is better, but I am used a 1.6TD Joker and a 2.4 T4, so some turbo and lighter weight van, anyway, the speed is fine.

The first longish run has been to Cromer in Norfolk this weekend, we went along quite nicely in the traffic and didn’t hold anyone up for long. We are off to France and Belgium next week….