I've spent a good few hours in the van today and have been ticking things off the to-do list
I started by ripping out the ply floor, it had seen better days and needed to come out anyway. It wasn't exactly clean underneath
I decided the only thing for it was to rip the remaining ply out and give it wash - I've never washed the inside of a vehicle with soapy water before, I think my neighbours thought I'd lost the plot
It took a while and several fresh buckets of clean water to get it respectable inside, but I got there in the end...
Next job was the bit I had been worrying about - drilling new holes to fix the cargo rails which will hold the bike racks amongst other things. The fuel tank, fuel lines and brake lines are all underneath so I spent as much time under the van as in it checking I wasn't about to make any expensive errors...
I laid the rails out in position then drilled pilot holes through the rail and floor before opening them out to the desired size. I then fitted M6 rivnuts in the floor to bolt it all down
Here are the rails all loosely fitted, I'll need to take them out again to insulate it then lay the new ply and flooring before bolting the rails through to sandwich it all together
With the ply out of the way I was also able to trace the wiring loom and hook in to the reverse light to get the rear view camera working
Now I just need to spend a few minutes in a car park fiddling with the onscreen guide lines to get it calibrated properly, I've turned them off for now as they're miles out