" I say Holmes there's a chap in our club who is the spitting image of your good self my dear friend ,Goes by the name of Zed of all things , sounds dastardly to me -- i saw him just this very morning lounging about on his leather recliner , resplendent in a proper jacket and and smoking the finest virginia don't you know , seems like the right sort to me old chap ! , What do you say Holmes ?". " gadzooks !, Watson the fellow doe's indeed look the right sort , might well get the blighter a present , what do you think of these ? , i found them on the yet to be invented internet , spiffing sort this Zed fellow me thinks , invite him over to our club old chap " . " By jove Holmes , i do think you have found the ideal gift !". " Watson , did you notice the scar on the forefinger of his right hand , a camping injury if i am not sorely mistaken ? " .
I'm beginning to think you have a gearbox fetish Zed as you've taken it in and out so many times. So to speak!
I'm loving those coverings. I can't write what I want to because of the swear filters but that is !ing sexy.
Pain anyway. Once round the carpark proved the 5 rib's *****ed as I thought, so it's gearbox change no.4. This time it'll be the original that came with the bus with the 1800 bell housing. It's all done, attached to the engine and ready to put back in. I'm really really sick of doing this job over and over.
WOW WOW WOW its been a while since I looked up the progress. I love it and really like that seat covering too. It fits very well. very retro looking.
Its taken me a while to trawl through all the updates on the resto section to get to yours ;D Love your bus, love your attention to all the little things and your use of different parts to make it unique ^-^ that interior is looking spot on ..............cant wait till mines finished and I can meet up with you at a show and have a sit in the back of yours K+
Thanks Diddy. I've been oop to Scotland over the last few days, we fitted the new engine Laurrie specified and built for me, and zoomed back down the A1 300+ miles. It's blummin marvellous and just eats the motorway miles. I'm so happy. Laurie is Laurie. lol - I asked him to build the most powerful T1 engine he could, but after asking what it would be fitted in he refused and told me what I wanted, which he then built for me round a new case, barrels, pistons, and a C35 cam kit. It has a 76mm wasserboxer crankshaft, a T4 flywheel and 228mm clutch, 90.5 B&P's and standard heads machined for the barrels making it a 1955cc engine built for Torque and effortless cruising. 8) To save some expense I stripped a perfectly good 1600 engine for the SVDA with pertronix, the coil, twin ICT's and linkage, cylinder heads, push-rods, tinware, alternator and fan, fuel pump, pressure sender and guage etc etc. The van came with an oil filter head that wasn't attached to the engine so that was brought back into service along with an additional £25 oil cooler I mounted under the van in front of the rear torsion tube. I'm going to keep running it with the 1600 gearbox/T4 bell housing for a while. The gearing is great - even at 60 if I put my foot down it flies. With the 1600 nothing much happened unless it was down a steep hill. Happy? Oh yes! Brakes next.
