It wasn’t looking good this time last week when I was sitting on a low loader with a broken down van. The ignition system didn’t work, the battery was on its last legs and to finish off, the exhaust was blown apart.

A shame really as the exhaust was under a year old, luckily they are only a single box system and relatively inexpensive.

Thanks to Powerspark Electronic Ignition, I now have a new electronic ignition module and a spare in case anything goes wrong. The van is running very smoothly now with the new ignition system, hopefully it will last a long time.

The battery was replaced as well, the one that was on it was acting as the leisure battery when I got the van nearly three years ago. It was put in as a temporary measure and just never got replaced so it’s long overdue for throwing away.

Finally, the horn decided to pack up. Unfortunately the horn and extra relay I’ve added are behind the bumper so that means the bumper has to come off to investigate. To get the bumper off means unbolting the bull bar and moving it out of the way.

Winter salt spray had messed up the connections, the relay and the earth connection. Everything was replaced and the electrical items are now in a waterproof bag so they shouldn’t rot out quite so quickly next time.

Now that everything is in working order, it’s off to Aldeburgh tomorrow for fish and chips 🙂