ikw777 said..

Nah! Hiace!

I thought I'd seen that girl somewhere......photos.aap.com.au

I recall she resigned as Minister for Indigenous affairs after taking wine onboard the Gov jet to a dry island.


Sean can fit two sheep in his van too

VW T5 LWB 4motion.
Fits an amazing amount of kit!
I dont have good set of pics right now, but I got Tom Radis to help out with the setup, and now have a great modular solution.
I can fit a 9'5 SUP inside with room to spare (and no poking between the front seats!!!)

With pop rivets you might get debris inside the body work of the van. Rattles.

Ben,

I'll post pictures of pop rivets plus bolts affixed to my Transit within 2 days. In my old van, self-tappers were always coming loose even with anti-shake washers and Loctite on them. Solved the problem with pop rivets. Nothing dropped inside the wall, because the broken end of the pop rivet was on the outside.

Also, I gave up on the standard pop rivet gun. I now use a pearler made by Kinchrome...I'll post a photo.

The other way is to use Nut Serts. Google these and see how you go.

Thomasz: Transits rule

Thanks for the advice! I will wait for the pictures :)

Good morning, Ben,

The Transit has a cargo holder fixture running the length of the van, so I pop riveted the bracket to the fixture and then through the interior steel of the Transit. The L-shaped bracket is 25 x 3mm galvanized steel strap from Bunnings. The pop rivets I used were 3/16??? type, with a depth suitable for that position. I used 2 x rivets for strength. The bracket then attaches to the aluminium leg of the board support frame by a bolt and locknut. A steel strap is used on the locknut side to spread the load of the washer and locknut from the aluminium board support. I used this arrangement at the front and the rear of the board support.

At the top of the support I used strap steel pop rivetted direct to the Transit steel. The strap is bent so that it attached directly to the horizontal support, but also matched the angle of the Transit steel. Brackets are placed front and rear, like the lower brackets.
There are 5 shelves in the board support frame and, when fully loaded, there is a large swing weight (going over light, bumpy ground). There has been no loosening of the any of the attachments to date (just over 12 months in service).

On the rivet gun side, I was using a standard- handle rivet gun (www.bunnings.com.au/stanley-heavy-duty-contractor-rivet-gun_p5911947), but was finding it hard to use in confined spaces, particularly when using 3/16??? rivets. I changed to this, www.bunnings.com.au/kincrome-280mm-short-handle-rivet-gun_p5910185 and it solved the problem.







Hope this helps.