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

I've just ordered the gauges. best to get this done while the engines out.

 

Looking at extending the cables to the gauges, This is what you need

https://www.pegasusautoracing.com/productselection.asp?Product=1086

Thing is they are based in the US.

 

No it isn't! All you need is ordinary automotive copper wire

 

I know that @zedders has this working with copper wire, but what is the Type J thermocouple about?

perhaps I'm looking to far into this Copper wire here I come.

 

haha, overthinking it Fil.

I went through all this investigating mularky a few years ago & ended up tying my head up too! In the end, ignorance trumped scientific investigation & it works!!

Incidentally, anyone fitting the VDO unit will also find that ordinary wire is a perfectly adequate extension to the dash gauge from the thermocouple.

 

I'm still procrastinating. I didnt want to register for yet another online account and I'm too grumpy today to have to speak to them on the phone!

 

Took it for it's MOT and it passed with no advisories

 

Bought a rev counter for her, just got to get my camper back from some work being done now and buy some wire.

 

Spent another day at the sewing machine yesterday. Actually feel like I'm getting somewhere now!

Got the rock n roll cushions finished at last











Just the rear bed cushion to go now. Roll on next weekend when I can get this sewing finally finished.

 

Mine passed today too! All clean no advisories.

 

I got all confused and just got a dipstick sensor instead. At least it tells me when to go a bit easy on the gas. Not that I ever seemed to do it any harm before I got it, just that I'm aware of things a bit more now. Gives me something extra to worry about. Impressed with that 2CV kit though!

 

Wow, they look amazing. Have you done upholstery before? Do you need a special sewing machine?

 

Thank you. This is my first go at doing upholstery and I am very pleased with the results. This is one job I was going to leave to the experts, but after getting a quote of £600 labour only to make the three bed cushions using my materials I decided to give it a go. I got myself a semi industrial sewing machine from eBay and a couple of automotive upholstery books and went for it! I soon learnt I brought the wrong machine but persivired which made it a lot more difficult. You really need a walking foot industrial machine for this sort of work. Had to modify the piping foot on my machine as the foot wouldn't lift high enough to get 6 layers of material under!
I found you also need a lot of patience doing this. Worth it in the end though.

 

That is better than the seat cushions I had done by a professional vehicle upholsterer.

 

Fitted a new oil filler. Lets hope that cures some of the engine leakiness!

 

got the van back from the welders after having a rear corner and wheel arch replaced. Found all the filler in the world. not anymore. Now for the paint shop. That means that the van has had all of its panels replaced now.

 

Which one did you use @Dicky been having a few issues with the one I fitted

 

JK one. its a 2 litre type 4. what issues you having?

 

Mines a 1600 twin port, no one has stock of the OG filler breather so i got an empi polished one from JK, however that reduces the breather size, see thread http://thelatebay.com/index.php?threads/oil-filler-tube-removal-type-1.59905/