Bought a second lap belt for the back seat so I could carry four people legally. Mounting it seems a bit odd. The metal's all ribbed, so the mounting hardware doesn't fit flat. This is looking towards the back of the van from inside the storage compartment under the bench seat. The metal is near-vertical, and is the back wall of that compartment. Other side of it, there's space for the tranny, and then the engine. On the left is the seatbelt mount that was there. On the right is the one I put in, sorta upside down. Belts from both go up, between the seat and the backrest. It might be better to shim it out with a bunch of big washers so that it could point in whatever direction you'd want...
Other end of the new belt. Not as badly off-direction, but I'd point it more upwards, if the rib in the metal weren't in the way...
I also took the curtains out to wash 'em. The fabric on the right is one curtain which has been stored in a cabinet; it snaps onto the sliding door, and there isn't space for it to be permanently mounted. I assume the fabric on the left was, at one time, the same colour...
I sorta got the CD player working. There really isn't much space behind here, where it's supposed to mount, so it's tipped up at the back (front of the van), and the display, when the face is attached, kinda points down at the floor so you can't see it.
It's sorta hanging from metal strapping off the ash-tray hole, but it's pretty dubious and keeps sliding around...
Meanwhile, the handy cylinder head temperature gauge is mounted in this fancy wood panel all the way over by the passenger. And, as it turns out, there's *tons* of space behind here. So I think eventually I'll put the gauges in the radio slot and the CD player over here.
Not the best picture of the pump and faucet. Actually, the faucet part of the faucet was completely missing. The teflon tape wrapped connector is for city water. The barbed connector next to it, well, is no longer next to it, and is now stuck in the hose under the counter :( Same as both the inflow and outflow connectors on the pump. I guess after 24 years, this type of plastic becomes kinda weak...
As does cotton canvas, especially if the seal around the poptop isn't replaced by the DPO when it should have been. I keep changing my mind about whether I want to take the roof off to bleach it, and sew a patch over this, or just duct-tape it until I have the dough to buy 7 or 8 meters of Sunbrella, some bugnetting, and a ton of zipper, and make my own three-window pop-top tent...
My fancy improvised muffler strap, and also the holes in the muffler, to which the patch I tried using really didn't stick very well at all.
I think this hole in the tailpipe is all the fault of the AirCare tech people. It's right at the bend in the tailpipe, where their probe would have poked through. I suppose it's a bad sign that the pipe is so rusty their probe pokes holes right through it, but what can you do, eh?