I had ignored normal senders because I assumed the baffles in the tank would get in the way but maybe not, will investigate. The fact that the tank gets wider towards the bottom makes it awkward anyway.
Anyway two things happened today: The first proper job on Bob was done and Keely donated her first parts. The wheel bearing is now sorted, I got it stripped down reasonably quickly and found that the inner bearing was completely destroyed. The inner race had also welded itself to the stub axle, something that has happened to me before but that time the inner bearing stayed together and made it a nightmare to get the thing apart, this time it came apart easily. There was no way that stub axle could be used again so I stripped Keely to the same point and used all of those parts, the bearing on that corner was replaced for the MOT last year so it was nice to put those parts to better use. Being the same parts they went together again with no problem, the thing now drives much better.
That gave me the chance to go and fill the diesel tank and see how much I had in there, the sight gauge has one mark but I don't know what it means. It was full after just 26 litres so I still had a good amount left, I also have no idea how much was in there to start with. Tomorrow I'll get a few more jobs done, like measuring up for security bolts and applying labels to a few unlabelled electrical items. Maybe the drivers door lock will get swapped. I'm considering a GPS speedometer like my dad has in his driving school car, with the massive tyres on the speedo seems accurate but I'll be putting the mud tyres on for 'normal' use once I have space to store these so it'll be out. It's fine using my phone but these units sometimes show up cheap on eBay so I'll probably pick one up.
A few days ago I had a dig through the box of receipts and invoices that came with it, it has everything from a printout of the original eBay auction in 2006 to the rear electric locker and a couple of receipts from Halfords to say that the battery bought in 2014 had been replaced under warranty last year. Really good stuff.