Got a cheap, new toy for the van.
A circular spirit level for the dashboard costing only a couple of quid.
When parking up the van on deployment, we invariably end up in an undulating field, requiring us to use the wheel chocks to level the van out. It's basically a 2 person job - one stood outside looking at the angle of dangle from both elevations and the other manoeuvring the van on the chocks, as you can't gauge both longitudinal and athwartships levels from the driving seat accurately. Using a dashboard spirit level allows the driver to effect the full operation solo while in the driving seat.
The van had a new cambelt and water pump this week. The interval is 10 years or 50k miles, whichever comes first. As there was no record of it having been done previously and it's almost 20 years old, yet has only done 38k miles, I thought it wise to spend the £300. The old belt showed very little sign of wear, so it could have been done in the past, but there was no record of it, so better safe than sorry. The water pump was on its last legs though.
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