Transit SWB MK4/5 2.5 High top camper

[weetransitcamper]

Hello.

This is my first post and my first ever van/camper.

At the weekend i took a 3 hour train ride down to buy this wee camper. I believe its quite a rare one with the porthole tops

I may have a few questions as i plan to do everything (try to) myself

That includes:
Redo interior
Sort rust
Respray

Im guessing the van is a mk4 with a smiley front as it has the square dash?

First question is do i have the bulletproof banana engine? its a 2.5 non turbo

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[MinorMatt]

Yes its a mk4 with smiley front and you have the bananna engine (which is 80PS on the mk4s)

[weetransitcamper]

Thought so!

Thanks

[weetransitcamper]

Should this engine have an airbox, as i dont seam to have one...

[derv23]

Down beside thr right hand side battery, if looking from the front

[kingkongvs]

Nice man. What did you pay for it out of interest?

[transit-town]

Banana came out first in mk5 95 on,mk 4 had airbox on top so looks like engine added at some stage

[Kedishen]

Banana came out first in mk5 95 on,mk 4 had airbox on top so looks like engine added at some stage

Mk4 with 2.5di 80ps had banana manifolds with airbox beside exhaust manifold.

The Turbo diesel version had airbox on top.

[MinorMatt]

Banana came out first in mk5 95 on,mk 4 had airbox on top so looks like engine added at some stage

Nope

Bananna came out in about 92 and were 80PS
the mk5 bananna was 76ps.

[transit-town]

My bad lads

[weetransitcamper]

Thanks for the replys guys

Some of the rust

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[weetransitcamper]

Started some work, went to replace the old vinyl and noted about 1 foot of the floor was damp so decided to play it safe and rip it out

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Cut it all back

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Painted and cleaned up and added first part of expanding foam to fill the gaps, (no its not burnt

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This weekend i am finishing the clean up, laying the new floor ply and adding the new vinyl....fingers crossed

[weetransitcamper]

some progress

New floor down, sealed and solid

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On top of the ply i put down 3mm hardboard so everything was level and the new flooring had a surface to stick to.

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New hard board down

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And the new flooring, still need to finish up a couple edges

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[Kedishen]

Nice job.

Chances are the water came in from the A pillers in the cab, or sometimes from the engine bay via rust holes at back of wheel arches. Water drops down to the side of the strut tops and soaks into the foam of ford linings and rots everything... May consider removing floor lining in cab at some point to assess damage.

[weetransitcamper]

Yeh i checked everywhere for rust and holes, didnt find any... i think it was the fridge that leaked at some point as the only part that was wet was from the fridge down, possibly why the van never came with a fridge, purchased a new one so hopefully will all be good, the rest of the floor was solid and surprising there was no rust or holes in the damp area, so may have caught it just in time!