Modifications Overview Day one - The arrival and start of modification 10:00, ready to go to the Land Rover dealer to finally pick-up OLLI, the new Defender.Arrived exactly on agreed time, Day two - mod's continued 08:00 Early start to continue the needed modifications Installed today: Extra fuel tank. Not a very easy task, but we Day three - T-Day Today was the heavy load day. installing the toptent Thanks to all the neighbours who helped lifting the tent and Day four - A bit relaxing All tired from past days, we did a bit easy today. Some cleaning, extra sealing for the bolds, recovering the Day five - Wet Back to work, so less time to work on Olli. Time to remake the door seals. It rained all day TC-Day! Today is TC-Day... Technical Checkup or MOT to get Olli legal on the road And yes, Olli passed the test. Some more hours Did some more hours work... Most parts are getting fitted. Garage is still a mess. We'll do some clean-up tomorrow. Small things Over the last day's not much has changed Due to waiting for parts, thinking over how to do and change Heights and depths Measurements are taken... We went to Peter from verreweg (http://www.verreweg.be) so he can take the measurements he need to make Raised Cubby Box In need for an extra space to fit the extra electrics, an box needed to be made As the box Worklight and quick release cubbybox Yesterday and today we modified the way the cubbybox is attached to the "techroom" I've found some "box lockers" and Tinted Windows A free day due to Belgian National Day. So what better to do but working on Olli A free day Isolation Part 1 Cooler temperatures and some hours without rain. Ideal to install the isolation. Cooler temperatures and some hours without rain. Ideal Isolation Part 2 Went this afternoon to Peter from Verreweg to collect the interiour storage cabinets Went this afternoon to Peter from Verreweg to collect the interiour Lightbar and lights No more rain. Time to install the light-bar and the lights After a long search I finally found a light Let there be light Wiring done... Let there be LIGHT... Day-off today, relax start on the wiring. Started to get the power from the Cabinets Last 3 days was working on the cabinets from verreweg.be Some days off, time to work on installing the cabinets. Interior work Sunday, neighbors are gone... we can make noise.... Ideal to continue on the interior and making sure al drilling in Mattress and Treesliders Sleeping and sliding is now possible... Earlier this week we picked up our custom made mattress made by Camper-Diem. It "War" Lights Well.... That's what I call them when using that red light at night 🙂 An evening work to hide the Raised air-intake and exterior table Today we've taken the time to install the raised air-intake and make the exterior table to attach on the cargo-rails. Details I Sunday, so we can't make loud noise... So not being able to saw wooden plates we decided to start on Skid-plate - Outdoor table 2.0 - stickers Productive afternoon today.... Early finish with work today, so an early start to continue on Olli. The Mantec G4 skid-plate Water tank and table 3.0rc Last works to do before the first test Fitting the new water-tank, water-pump and work on table 3.0 Fitting and Blackout Keep out the light and isolate Probably (and hopefully) the last add-on before the maiden trip. With the cut out Last additions before the trip Some last (not final) additions before we're of to the Alps The electrics are not final, as by next year Switch changes After the first long trip it was clear some of the switches needed to change Now the waterpump and interiour Eberspacher Airtronic D4 As we want to use Olli all year for camping, some internal extra heating is needed For this we have Snow Cowl Klaar maken voor de winter Kleine extra om de winter aangenamer te maken en te zorgen dat de verwarming droge Mirror Gloves / Spiegelwanten Met de winter voor de deur dachten we ook aan verwarmde spiegels... With winter in front of us we were Bonnet Checkerplat / Motorkap traanplaat For future plans we need to re-enforce the bonnet. Voor onze toekamst plannen is het nodig om de motorkap te HD suspension Still suffering from a shacking defender, and a dealer who is unable to find the root cause we decided to New Rims / Nieuwe velgen I ordered the first rims with a wrong part number. It should have been full blacks. After a year, time Side-locker Finaly some time to install the goodies that arrived earlier from Nakatanenga. Eindelijk tijd om de extra's te installeren die Delta-Bag Can't have enough storage / Je kan nooit genoeg opslagruimte hebben As you never can't have enough storage, we orderd Some last minute addons before we head to Portugal Een paar nodige aanpassingen voor ons vertrek naar Portugal A few needed adjustments before we head to Portugal Daar we New Table / Nieuwe Tafel What to do with some spare time Wat te doen met wat vrije tijd During last trips we noticed Off-Grid Gisteren bijna 2u een aangenaam gesprek gehad met Klaas van Eberco, over de keuze van inverter, lader, zonnepaneel ed. Yesterday Zonnepaneel / Solar Panel Eindelijk kwamen tijd en onderdelen samen om er aan te beginnen. Finally time and parts came together to start the New rear windows After a new experience a new solution was needed While it rained, we wanted to make some coffee inside. For (Storage)Space, the final frontier Where does the maximum storage ends, and can it be expanded? We wrote it somewhere before, the building of Olli
