LDV pilot ugly useless dash? Fibreglass yourself a custom one. Practise on a wheel arch!

when I had my van I always wanted to make a custom dashboard for it

because it is ugly but also quite useless. The mould LDV chose to use was not to my taste at all.

I'm having to look into dashboard and fibreglass build because of my boat and there I found this video below.

I f you re feeling creative and have a bit of money to invest, there is a nice tutorial from a skilled David Guyton.

For a simpler and more in demand application I was also thinking of the LDV wheel arches.

It would be quite easy to reproduce them with fibreglass when it's time to replace them to get that MOT pass!

Much easier and cheaper than welding (unless you\ve got the gear and skills) but also fully weather proof! Plus you win on fuel consumption as you won't be carrying that rust around with you all the time.

I will try and post a video on how to replicate shapes with fibreglass but it's quite a simple process.

• Take your or a wheel arch off to replicate it (just need to get length, width and curve right).
• Make a mould from this.
• Fibreglass the shape from within that mould - adding lips and whatever extras needed for fittings
• Cut of the excess once all dried and hard

Done madone.

Starter motor click? on your van

That's a classic one on the LDV vans and on many a vehicle.

There's a CLICK sounds with a metallic springy tone to it sometimes (if you listen well)

and the engine won;t crank up.

Below is a video that someone took the time to do well to explain what's it's all about

so I thought I'll add it up on here to my little library of valuable videos on vehicle mechanics and engineering...

LDV pilot van diesel engine - Ignition system

Ratchets And Wrenches has another good video on ignition.

I've had to learn a lot about ignition for my boat that has a petrol engine

but I can't help thinking of the problem my van used to have.

I had replaced and checked fuses and relays over and over again.

Now I think I would check and clean or replace if necessary each and every ENDS of every cables in the ignition system of the van (including the ECU ones - although I had done some of this already)

but before this I would look into the ignition switch!

I don't have the van anymore anyway and to be honest I have enough work with this 1960's boat I own...