The All New, New "What have you done to your Bay today" thread.

That will certainly stop the wind noise.

 

Probably best I don't buy a twin mount then,wonder if the single mounts are any better


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Some know how to charge
I feel your pain

 

It was 60 hours for the original work and another 4 hours for the second different MOT fail..
I think I am going to put a big cost of ownership breakdown poster up at shows,
and start a campaign to get magazines to actually quote the man hours required to get a bus with a shiny bottom and a shiny top and a Corian interior with air suspension and a 2232... starting with a £6k project bus or import.
In other words stop people being coy.
Bus £6250. First resto and respray £5500. Engine upgrades and replacement £3000. Major MOT fail £4400..

And not counting general maintenance, the aerosol paints, tyres oil petrol...


Anyway.. I am not dead I am in Herne Bay.. after fixing the intermittent short on the progressive choke feed (engine stopped if I pulled hard on the throttle wire pulling it into the fan i.e. flooring it) we loaded up and drove to Herne Bay. On the flat it was cruising at 65 mph with foot lifted off.
The CHT in the solid metal casting went to 130C the oil to 115C when I started driving at 70mph on the M25. On several occasions I was frustrated by people driving small cars at exactly 65mph in lane 3 of a four lane road. Not fast enough to overtake I would drop into lane 1 and creep past on the inside...

 

Spent c£900 on Brake parts today!

 

Tight Ar*e!!!

 

picked some of the wifes friends up and we all went off for a drive and a lovely ice cream.
rebuilt engine running sweet at 55/60 at 3500 rpm and that's with 4 adults and 2 dogs, still taking it easy running it in.

 

Fitted:

* A used (genuine) front anti roll bar

* A new steering damper (missing when I bought it)

* A genuine alternator stand (to replace the dynamo) and a
genuine breather

* A throttle cable (the foot pedal and carb are finally joined)

* Removed and refitted the heat exchangers

* A new JK exhaust silencer and tail pipe (looks easy but is v fiddly)

Planning to remove and rebuild the driveshafts and gaiters next.


Stirlingmoz

 

Yesterday - drove it back from Herne Bay to Southampton, on a route that included the A272 from the A23 to the A32. A pleasant rolling country drive.

Berfore I left , I had to put the choke wire back on the progressive again. The spade connector needed a bit of a squeeze to get it grip the spade better. Idling in Canterbury traffic on Thursday at 2000 rpm certainly kept the temperatures down but the AFR was down at 10:1 and I was scared of it flooding. Need to improve the insulator panel between the fan housing and the carburettor - it needs to match the profile of the fan housing dimple by the carburettor. Otherwise the spade connector works off with all the vibration as it leans on the insulation. Either that or I need to put a bigger dimple in the fan housing.

Or just get on with fitting the CIS FI system.


When I got home I rebuilt the throttle linkage as I noticed that the mechanism I put together a couple of years ago was wearing where crude arrangements of mild steel strip pivoting on stainless bolts were causing the stainless bolts to cut into the mild steel.
Fitted brass tube over the bolts, so all of the pivots are now running on brass bearings rather than screw threads.

Today started making new marine ply engine vent rain covers to replace the magnetic ones that often blow away..

 

Good work!


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Worked out how to remove an input shaft

 

Went to see my van and learnt it should be home from the workshop by the end of the year


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Out of interest, how did you do it? I never went that far.

 

Take off the circlip that's visible then you can slide the reverse cog towards you along the shaft till it clears its splines, then the shaft just unscrews easily by hand

 

Drove it back from Anglesey.

 

Be ready for Volks world? Hope to have mine done


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Removed eberspacher replaced new fuel pump with recon old pump. Gave up trying to get new firewall in as rain stopped play.

 

Drove her back from VW Action and the first full family camping trip with the 23 month old!!

Got some creases to iron out with a bit more practice, but enjoyed and the van was faultless (nearly)