1988 Renault 5 Extra Wheelchair Van - It All Made Sense At The Time

[vulgalour]

I have driven it so *technically* it's a conveyance.

[plasticvandan]

I was close then, vulgalour exhibiting autoshite man maths by purchasing 30 year old Renault van as solution to having reliable transport 😅

[M'coli]

As you can imagine, that's been a difficult "like£"#pished" but well done!

 

[2flags]

I also love the fact that the 'reliable' Renault van came home on the end of a rope!

[vulgalour]

If I ever post something along the lines of "I bought a vehicle and everything is fine and it's brand new and I love the touch screen." just know I'm in danger and I need help.

[sharley17194]

When the tent feel on its roof i feared this is what it might look like!

On 03/12/2024 at 22:30, SiC said:

That doesn't look far off the purple 1100 that @catsinthewelder, @vulgalour, me and now @sharley17194 has. 🙃

Thankfully no new damage was done

[EyesWeldedShut]

On 04/12/2024 at 00:52, Metal Guru said:

Didn’t the Montego diesel have an engine supplied by Massey Ferguson? Or did it just sound like it?

Perkins diesel - same brand as Massey - also used in boats and my old AWD lorry. Noisy, thirsty and not a lot of power for the cc

[GlenAnderson]

11 minutes ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

Perkins diesel - same brand as Massey - also used in boats and my old AWD lorry. Noisy, thirsty and not a lot of power for the cc

Not to be confused with the all-iron 4236 indirect injection boat-anchors.
 

The Montego/Maestro/Sherpa used the Perkins Prima. Effectively a diesel O series I think. Direct injection and pretty good for a naturally aspirated engine. I had both a Maestro van and a Sherpa with them in and they were both peppy (for a diesel) and good on fuel. Lots of them found their way into Land-Rovers in the 90s and early 00s as donor vehicles got to the end of their lives. They went well in SWB 88” ones, but were a bit underwhelming in a 109”. 
 

Pretty noisy though, as direct injection diesels tend to be. 

[EyesWeldedShut]

Just now, GlenAnderson said:

Not to be confused with the all-iron 4236 indirect injection boat-anchors.
 

The Montego/Maestro/Sherpa used the Perkins Prima. Effectively a diesel O series I think. Direct injection and pretty good for a naturally aspirated engine. I had both a Maestro van and a Sherpa with them in and they were both peppy (for a diesel) and good on fuel. Lots of them found their way into Land-Rovers in the 90s and early 00s as donor vehicles got to the end of their lives. They went well in SWB 88” ones, but were a bit underwhelming in a 109”. 

The one in my lorry was 5.5 litres and pumped out an astounding* 150 BHP 
Had a smaller one in a 109" Safari that was just noise and no go - that got a Rover V8 instead and was much better. Still steered like a boat and didn't stop much better but it was OK in a straight line. I also think some of the London Taxi FX4s had a Perkins of some sort in the 1980s?
My Montego was a 1.6 LX Estate - I did test drive a Countryman D but it was too noisy- only diesel thing worse I tried was an early VW Caddy that had a Perspex window in the back of the truck cab - that vibrated badly at all revs such that even the radio couldn't disguise it.

[yes oui si]

48 minutes ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

Perkins diesel - same brand as Massey - also used in boats and my old AWD lorry. Noisy, thirsty and not a lot of power for the cc

Perkins Prima is a great lump. 

Five minute job to wind up the fuel and pressure for extra clag/zooms. 

[Noel Tidybeard]

perkins prima n/a perks up surprisingly with a gallon of unleaded in the tank when filled up

[vulgalour]

Oof, well it took slightly more than the promised 'within five working days' to get the van recovered but it is finally here now.  I've a (surprisingly short) list of jobs to attend to and I'm not planning to MoT until January so I can spend December sorting it out.  Getting some stuff fixed and ordered is going to be hampered by seasonal events so I've decided not to rush things.

I will post updates here, of course, but I am making a switch to posting on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/c/NoExpenseSpent first for a lot of my content these days.  I've got to earn a living and since making videos and art and stuff is what I do, that's how it is.  Most of the stuff I post on Patreon does make it out so you can read and watch for free anyway, just a smidge later (or a lot later in the case of the Lanchester and Princess) than real time.

The most important thing to state is that I'm actually pretty happy with this van at the moment.  Been a bit of a saga to get it home because of my health issues recently, that's no fault of the van or @Amelia who I honestly can't thank enough for being so accomodating with the purchase.  I'm looking forward to having a bit more daylight to go through the van with properly, I've not had a lot of time to really dig in because it gets dark so quickly at this time of year.  The only problem I have is I rather like it and I'm not really supposed to be keeping this one long term.