Digby's Aimless Adventure

I keep a beady eye on my local New Zealand auction site (Trademe.co.nz) looking for equipment I can use on Digby at a bargain price. I have been looking for a set of 3 roof bars for a long time, but a brand new set of 3 Rhino-Rack bars are very expensive, so when a pair of used RL280’s came up for auction, I was happy enough to put my money down even though I really wanted 3 bars.  Everything is a compromise and ideally, most people would go for the RL210’s (21cms legs) to fit to their Delica, but for the price, I was happy going for the 28 cm legs that would allow me to put a possible roof fan in at a later date.  So when my cheap auction roof bars turned up I opened the package to discover that there were in fact 2 bars and 3 sets of legs in the package, so all I needed to to do was buy the 3 rd bar to make up the full set I was after. Note : So I went to my local Rhino-Rack dealer and brought the extra roof bar and with the additional set of legs I installed it towards the front of

Like many Delica owners, morning start-ups on cold days could be a nervous experience that came with a number of attempts and huge clouds of grey smoke, so it was time to investigate. After reading the forums the general advice was to take a look at the glow plus as a first step, and if that didn’t work, there might be a more serious issue.  So I got hold of some Bosch 5.0mm glow plus (Bosch part: F005X12917) which took no more than 10 minutes to install, including giving the Bus Bar a good clean, and the Delica fired up immediately and with much less smoke. I can report that the glow plugs have been in Digby for a while and it still starts up first time every time.  I strongly recommend that any Delica owner that is struggling with cold starts change the glow plugs immediately…. Note: I have had the new Glow Plugs installed for over a year now and the Delica is still starting strongly on the first attempt, and almost no smoke at all. 

Well, this blog post has been a long time in the making, but I’ve got a good excuse lined up. I had a knee replacement operation in the middle of last year which kind of took me out of doing any build work for about 6 months and even though that shouldn’t have stopped me writing, it did cut down on the content I had to write about.  So even though there has been a gap of over one year, I have done some work on Digby during this time and I am now gonna try and catch up this blog and bring it back to almost up to date…. So here is a list of the posts you should expect to see coming up: - New Glow Plugs Roof Bars Roof Pipe Carrier Adding an Awning Centre Console Build Rear Window Repair Summer Camping Trip Rear Drawer Build Electrical Wiring