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

Cheers for the warning.

I wonder how tight to 50 average they are? Mind you every time I’ve gone through it’s been rammed and way less than 50 for much of it.

I did another trip today and my speedo needle started jumping about a fair bit, so I’ve got average speed on the dash as well

I’ve already got the cable as it started clicking some time ago but always something else to fix first. One for the weekend. Hopefully an easy one?

 

Pretty straightforward to change.

I'd always wondered whether the cameras were active, and didn't pay much heed, just moved with the speed of everyone else. Did a late-night run...and got nabbed. Few days later, got the same again through roadworks on the M3 outside London . Stick to 50!

 

Have you asked for a special, private speed awareness course?

 

Dropped of my new (to me) second hand Propex heater into Propex in Ringwood for a general health check/service. Really helpful people and discussed fitting options with them, including underneath in a metal box which they were chilled about . They have a 4 to 6 week wait at the moment, which is fine. Fingers crossed it is a good'n and I've not bought a dud.

 

Yes, thats why on my dash theres a little box with a GPS in it and a reset button. Usually indicates between average of 45 and 47 at the end of the stretch . I do quite like going at exactly 50 in my bus in the middle lane and occasionally overtaking 45mph people, knowing you have miles to get the average back down..

 

Tidied up some vacuum hoses based on classic fabric sheathed rubber fuel line which had split at the ends with the heat in the engine bay, even though they have no fuel in them . This one was a raw manifold vacuum used for the hot air flap and teed off to a sensor that I have had for years ..

One of the hoses dropped apart the other day when I was driving it the half mile down to the riverside car park to go sailing - popping and back firing, AFR over to 20:1, but OK with your foot down. At the time I just pushed it on the spigot harder and got home up the hill . .

The day before it ran quite happily for about 35 miles going to and from work to pick up some electronics kit from work.

 

Not today, but Wednesday I made it home after my trip around to the Cathedrals around the country. Aside the incident with the oil sump and despite some very scary hills on the way and equally scary traffic in Manchester she did pretty well. Total miles was 1139 and about avg 21,29mpg. Best mpg was 23.4 and worst was 17.9 in London

 

I used to use the blue ones which I think are Zirconia but recently upgraded to Ceramic ones which are brill! Bright red in colour, sure I got from ebay

 

You should turn your blog into a little book.

 

Thanks Mike, people seemed to have enjoyed reading it, and I've really enjoyed the process of writing to be honest. Last parts are up now!

 

Did it meself in the end, thanks to a few extra shims and you lot. I’ll buy you all a drink later at The Frome Festival if you get here… ( and the little guage on there means nothing.)

 

The little hand is fairly pointless.

 

I adjusted the rear brake shoes.

Then I had another go at wiring up my various boxes in the back of the bus so that the data from all three ended up in the right order on one wire going to the multifunction displays up front. There were a few minor bugs in the software , so three computers had to have their firmware tweaked.

The wiring goes : PLX Devices AFR -> Custom EDIS timing controller -> General Sensors box -> Dashboard multifunction display.

So now the ignition timing and the AFR appear along with things like the manifold pressure downstream of the carburettor and the carburettor ported vacuum pressure.


Currently the list of things are
Air Fuel Ratio
Ported vacuum air pressure
Manifold air pressure.
Engine RPM
Ignition timing
Inlet air temperature
Cylinder Head Temperature 1/2
Spare temperature sensor (currently stuffed in a fitted but unused distributor)
Oil pressure
Starter battery voltage
Leisure battery voltage

 

Gave up trying to get the crank pulley off so ordered the proper puller

 

They can be buggers, they are not in fact tight which is the annoying thing, you don't need to press them on after all.
It's all about pulling them off extremely straight.
I know, I'm not helping...

 

More filling and sanding

 

Provided somebody cleaned out the paint from the inner bore of the pulley, tapping one side with a soft hammer while pulling the other works.
Or any aluminium pulley tends to wiggle off.

I did have to make a puller according to VW diagrams in the end because somebody (me ) left some paint inside a brand new Brazilian wobbly pulley, so I could pull it without making it even more wobbly.

Then I flipped out and bought an aluminium degreed CSP pulley because it was round and not at all wobbly straight out of the box ..
But then I had to buy a 900mm fan belt because it was smaller diameter.

 

The VW ones are very easy to bend. I once had to buy one from T2D (it was near). I went through about 20 before I found a nearly straight one and pulling them off is what bends them. These days I start the engine and give a bent pulley little taps with a hammer until I get lucky.

 

I have had to take the tin off and tried a puller but the exhaust stops it pulling straight and I really don’t want to take the exhaust off so hopefully the proper tool will get in there.

It was only meant to be a 10min job

 

I know, it's not my van but it's similar-ish.
This is one of this year's projects - more light!
Quite a job. Roof (5mm) twanged into a buckled shape when the hole was cut so lots of clamps, weld on sq section because the clamps in the way, weld on the plinth, hack off the temp straighteners.
Just keyed and washed again ready for primer when it's dry.


Here's what I'm copying elsewhere on the boat.