Let's Rock n Roll

It arrived!!!

All wrapped and bolted (very securely) onto a pallet.  It was a fairly hefty thing to have to move.  The courier arrived about 15 minutes before I needed to go out (how do they do that?) and also when the school down the road was kicking out so absolutely nowhere for him to unload it.  He could only park about 100 yards from our house and didn't want to hang around.  I didn't fancy drapping it on a pallet truck halfway down the road, so, together we hatched a scheme for me to reverse the van upto his taillift and slide it across from one van to another.  Did I mention it was heavy - sweet lord!!!

When all said and done, I didn't care, it arrived.  I had a busy weekend ahead.  Cambee had said that it should only take a couple of hours to fit but I'm guessing that estimate was based on the benefit of their experience of fitting their own beds fairly frequently and knowing exactly how their fitting kit worked.

Here's the fitting kit all laid out.  Some chunky looking bolts in there.

The general idea is that the side brace bolts into the load lashing points of the van.  The smaller brace can then be positioned and bolted to the van floor.

Oh balls!!  

Cambee have sent me one for a LHD van.  Thank you Matthew for fixing that super fast.  It had to wait until after the bank holiday weekend but the replacement part arrived pretty soon after that so not too much time lost. 

With the side brace in the correct position, you can use the bed frame to position the right hand brace.  The holes should be just forward of the little indentations in the van floor, like this.

Underneath the van, the holes comes through either side of the strengthening cross member of the van.  At this pint, the large box section piece of the fitting kit would normally go over the cross member and bolt into place.  As my van is a factory Kombi, there's already additional strengthening there so this part of the kit is not needed.

I didn't take any pictures of the floor going back in or the bed separated from the base frame.

 Once the floor braces are in, I laid the plywood floor on top and walked on it in the vague position of the raised brace pieces.  These are there to stick up through the floor to allow the bed frame to be bolted directly to the braces.  So, the floor came back out and rectangular holes cut where the indentations that  were made from me walking on it - then they should line up - see?  Clever heh!?!

Floor back in and lined up, bolted just the base on the braces, the seat/bed part lifts onto the rails and bolts into place.

Ta da!!  It's in.  

and looks pretty damned nice, even though I do say so myself.