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

Didnt see it today.. It failed an MOT re-test on ... different things to the first time.. different tester. First one missed the chassis rust behind the front valance. ..

60 man hours labour so far, and now another 4.... But Scott says it will be ready by the weekend for me to fill and sand and paint the sill seams.
Hartland Point here we come..

 

Had a day off work today.

Two of us ripped into the crewie - again.

Fitted new clutch, throttle and handbrake cables.

Not straightforward as throttle cable conduit blocked and clutch conduit damaged.

Fitted new shift rod guides and boots while gearbox is out.

New front brake pads - just in time. The old ones were wafer thin.

New steering idler pin and 2 steering arms.

Cleaned an absolutely filthy gearbox - changed the first motion shaft and the clutch release bearing.

My expert spotted the front bumper was on upside down.

That was an easy job for me to flip it.

I'm knackered and filthy !

Too weak to refit gearbox - it'll have to wait for another day off.


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I dropped it off for its mot this morning and blow me.........
it effing passed.
advisories on shock casing slightly rusted, small bit on the rear inner sill and adjustment on a wheel bearing, never.....not bad as its been sat for nearly 2years....
christ that went quick

 

How's it running Steve?

 

Taking it easy at the moment to get it run in but so far doing great.
running sweet at 50 mph at just under 3000 rpm,no real hard acceleration foot to the floor yet..
quite happy with how its going....

 

Got it ready for a friend's wedding at the weekend. Here it is before putting the cover on to keep the birds from doing their marmite all over it!!!




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Just been to tax it.
they asked if I needed it taxing from the first of September or back dating to the first of august, I said back date it to august as its free anyway....
im on a roll this week, free mot as the owner owes me for chicken feed and first free road tax.......

 

Was at SCC and did some racing. did alot of wheelies, snapped a drive shaft and broke my gearbox.
No pb thoug, best et 14,42

 

When did it get blue dunc


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Did a nice wedding the weekend had to clean the millions of sand I brought back with me from Europe!! And make it look like a wedding car again


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So, today (as we are going away Friday and my schedule is full) I have taken the van for a service. They found that a spring washer on the rocker shaft had snapped whilst adjusting the tappets so replaced it, replaced all the fuel hose and fitted the new gearbox coupler. They found that the threads in the head for spark plug on No4 are worn so I need to watch that and the dual Kadrons are out of balance..... On getting it home I found the rear bumper was hot and the large piece of tinware was so hot I couldn't touch it possibly pointing to a lean mixture or advanced timing.
......so on Thursday the old bus is going for its first ever rolling road tune up since I have owned it......I feel nervous like an expectant father fearing the worst.

 

Took it for MOT failed on the windscreen washer and wipers ... must have dislodged a connection when fixing the dash lights last night

 

Packed her ready for tomorrow's adventure to Spain.

 

Today my camper went for a rolling road tune up at John Sleath Race Cars at Conisbrough http://www.john-sleath.com/

They found several issues with the dual kadrons and must have had the carburettors on and off some 5 times in the 2hrs the van was on the rolling road (with having no inspection hatch it must have been a right bind).

It now sounds different, ticks over smoother and the response is sooooooooo much better. They found that the internal pumps weren't working, rejetted them both, balanced them, sorted the mixture and other tweaks.

I have never done a rolling road tune and will definitely be doing it again...........I can even reverse up my drive now without having to rev the nuts out of the engine to get power and no smell of dying clutch.

 

Lucky you caught some of those things before joining the yellow taxi club.

 

Nice work just come back it's awesome !!!!!!!!! Pics please


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Yesterday got a phone call from Scott at SGS telling me my bus now had an MOT after 75% of a bottom 6 inches resto needed to pass. Only took a month..Very sad he is selling up and emigrating to Australia. He always managed to do a lot of work well and quickly.

Will pick it up on Saturday. Filling and painting begins.

 

Is it Debbie does Grinstead

 

While you were on your jollies mate

 

Found the loose connection and been back to garage and they have passed the MOT ... they were also very interested to have a good look at the Subaru install and liked it a lot