Yesterday I changed the NSR wheel bearing.
Previously on different days I have...
Changed NSF wheel bearing
Swapped the very low coil-over suspension my Elgrand came with to standard struts at the front, new rear springs and shockers at the rear.
At the same time as fitting the rear springs/shockers I fitted airbag spring assisters.
Fitted a new ABS sensor at NSF, broke it during swapping the NSF wheel bearing. When it was broken it caused the ABS not to work (obviously) and also caused the 4wd not to work even after fitting the replacement ABS sensor. *The 4wd started working again by itself after I'd had the battery off for a long time during fitting the engine (mentioned below).
Fitted loads of new wheel studs... Seems the previous owner(s) had cross-threaded and/or over-torqued at some points and threads on about half my wheel studs were knackered. Fitted a locking wheel nut on each wheel.
Fitted another engine after my original engine was damaged by the cat problem. The original engine used quite a bit of oil, the replacement engine doesn't
. Spot of luck sourcing the engine - Someone on this forum wanted some parts collected from a Yorkshire scrapyard taken off an Elgrand that had been rolled, Dan the vicar on this forum recommended me to the guy who wanted the parts collecting, that guy got in touch with me, turned out the scrapyard was only 2 miles from me, when I went to collect the bits for him I saw the rolled Elgrand and it still had it's engine. The rolled Elgrand belonged to a local garage owner's son so I got to know the car and engine's history. Got the engine very cheap and it's a good 'un with lower mileage than my original engine... Did someone a favour and it ended up I did myself an even bigger favour! *Also the 4wd started working again all by itself without clearing error codes stored in the 4wd module
Decored all 4 cats while fitting the engine
Fitted a couple of new CV gaitors. Changed grease in all CV joints (inner and outer so 8 in total on my 4wd)
Fitted the towbar
Converted to LPG (of course!)
Replaced the very blue headlight bulbs mine had in it when I bought it with 'normal' spec bulbs. The blue bulbs were great for seeing reflective signs at long range but comparatively very poor at illuminating the road. I find standard colour temp bulbs better, probably don't look as cool but do the job they're there for better and don't cause other drivers to think an emergency service vehicle is approaching... And if you're approaching a vehicle from behind and they see blue lights they'll probably slow down a bit causing you to slow down a bit too - a couple of reasons there for blue lights to be considered a go slower mod! I find blue lights on other cars can sometimes be a bit annoying/misleading... Is that an ambulance approaching from the front a mile away? Then they get closer and no it's just a boy racer with the front of his car going up and down sending me blue flashes, he can't see the road as well as he might and probably couldn't tell my make/model of vehicle but could probably read my front number plate even from that range lol. I don't want to do the same to other drivers.
Replaced/fitted interior bulbs. My Elgrand came with a variety of different brightness/spec bulbs. First I tried some very cheap replacement Chinese made LED bulbs but they were woefully dim, finally replaced them with normal filament bulbs from Halfords. 3 Different designs of bulbs for interior lights and most corner shop type motorists shops don't stock any that will fit.
Fixed the aircon system - mine had the leak in the usual place and this was with a 3 part front to rear AC pipe already fitted (so seemingly already replaced once and failed again). Bought a 2 part pipe in vgc from Stevemen when I visited him and also got a spare rear heater box from him. When I earlier disconnected the failed AC pipe from the rear condenser the retaining bolt snapped so I thought it best to have a spare rear evaporator in case my re-drilled and re-tapped thread in the original evap didn't work, I only thought I needed a spare evap but Stevemen gave me a complete but cracked rear heater box with AC evap and heater matrix. Turned out I needed a rear heater matrix too because the drain pipe snapped off my rear heater matrix during removal (it had also corroded). Bit of a job to replace the rear heater box on an Elgrand but very simple to swap the evap and matrix when the box is out. The rearmost section of the 2 part front to rear AC pipe is the same length and shape as the rearmost 2 sections of the 3 part section.. so I didn't need to change the full length of pipe, just replaced my rearmost 2 sections with a single rearmost section of the replacement pipe. But don't forget most Elgrands have a single section pipe running all the way from front to back so the exact same wouldn't be possible for most people (even if they could source another 2 or 3 part front to rear pipe).
Complete fluids change.
Swapped the stereo it arrived with (I suspect an early 2000s top of the range system 2xsingleD interfaced together.. Panasonic with DVD/CD/Minidisc/flip out touch screen.. but which had an intermittent fault where it became totally unresponsive, menu's in Japanese and had the Jap frequency band) with a fairly cheap new Pioneer double din touchscreen unit and got the factory fitted sub working with it.
Several good cleans / polishes / claybar / tar removal (WD40 lol) / leather cleaned
De-yellowed the headlights using wet n dry paper and machine polish with T cut
Now it's looking and driving more like the van I wanted rather than seeming a relatively poor example.
. Don't make people more jealous 
