RHD 1972 Devon Caravette, 1641 FRD carbs, work in progress

Nice bus M8

 

Nice looking bus!

 

Thanks both, the new curtains went up today.

Bought some new seatbelts
Sold my 32/26 carb too, Im on the look out for some twin carbs I recently had a fuel check

200 miles £50 of fuel thats not good

 

Got some baby dells or Dellorto FRD 34B Carburettors as they are known

Need to sort out a replacement dizzy for the 009 I currently have, Im thinking powerspark

 

them carbs look YUMMY very nice. get them on before they end up sitting on a shelf in the shed or a boix in the loft.

nice bus by the way.

 

Thanks I need a few gaskets and parts from gsf and hopefully have them fitted along with the stainless exhaust the same time.

Might even try for a rolling road run too

 

Nice looking TT..like the colour too..

 

Thanks I bought a Hamilton classic cover

http://www.hamiltonclassic.co.uk/

very well made and secure once strapped up. It survived all weathers, snow, ice, wind, rain and sun. It was a bit large for the tintop but better safe than sorry.





Anyway Unveiled her today and its as good as it went into hibernation.

 

Those are the carbs id love to have

Ive a powerspark or accuspark vac advance dizzy i cant remember which but im sure there exactly the same
Mine came from a seller called simon bbc i think
Cant fault it my bus ran so much better than with the 009 that was fitted

 

Good stuff, I picked up a powerspark from vanfest last Sept so i'll fit it once its a bit warmer.

I also need to find a alternator for the van to replace the dynamo that I have
Also it needs lowering badly

 

Recent back end photo

 

glad to know that cover has protected the van over winter - I'll be looking at one in the autumn. The last cover I had seemed to trap moisture, how did you find this one - was it the fleece lined all weather version?

 

This one was pretty good, it has straps on it so it keeps it secure its a bit large for a non poptop but its fine.

It seems to keep the moisture away even worked well under 6" of snow

 

few updates all in 1 go sorry, Ill edit some as I go along



out with the old

 

I took the firewall off and the roof liner and found someone had pooped on the ceiling

 

I found someone had botched the accelerator pedal

and put the engine back in

Now running twin baby dells frd 34
4 branch manifold
bluebird stainless back box
powerspark/acuspark dizzy with vac advance

I broke the old plug leads so picked up some cheap gsf ones

 

Few photos from the rolling road

Ignore the giant back box he could not put a lambda probe into the exhaust.

 

video here

http://s303.photobucket.com/user/Altern888/media/Van/VID_20130808_103827_zpsa746639f.mp4.html

 

Rolling road results before the work



Rolling road results after the work

 

And a day out in the van