Could be worse, at least you're not having to live in the van while the suspension is in bits and can also afford the repair! Keep up the videos, anything with such idiosyncratic windscreen wipers deserves love and appreciation.
Oh the value of having a spare wheel & tyre, most moderns don't now - just a can of juice, which seeing how your tyre had come off its rim, would have been as much use as a chocolate teapot. Good to see you are getting the old leaf springs re-built, that is the beauty of older vehicles, parts can be repaired instead of being replaced, especially with such hefty items as well! Thanks for sharing, watching progress with interest.
With the right vehicle, every journey can become an epic voyage… I don’t think you overloaded the van - just the suspension having aged and failed. Not sure if those airbags are helping in the geometry of the suspension, it might be worth asking the guys working on the leaf springs if they can upgrade them while they have them, perhaps? Maybe an extra ‘helper’ leaf. My truck has one of those on it from new as it was an option back then. 👍🏻
Great videos Alex, still love them/look forward to them more than anything else that I'm subscribed to, you're a true modern day Nomad - keep them coming 😁👍.
I used to pootle around campus in a bright yellow Peugeot 205 - not quite vintage, but bordered on retro back then! Enjoy Pembrokeshire, and get HubNut to come and check out the van once you get those leaf springs back on, he's based somewhere up in Ceredigion so not far from where you'll be based for the winter@@forwardtothepast2411
