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

Yesterday I changed the float valve in the 34 Solex, I thought it might have been passing fuel,also fitted a new top gasket. Today drove it to the local (ish) traction engine rally. I have to report it drove really well, got a lot of complements in the car park and I've got my enthusiasm back.

 

Adjusted the slop in the steering using this rather useful howto article.

https://thelatebay.com/index.php?threads/adjusting-your-steering-box.55052/

 

Worth doing!

 

Marked up the fuse box it’s only taken 10years

 

Oil pressure around 3 bar (drops to 1 at tickover) and temperature around 220 fahrenheit after a mix of town, dual carriageway and hills.

 

Sounds good.

 

No point rushing these things

 

I know you already have a brake thread, but when did you last flush through the brake fluid, it does look like it could do with it.

 

It’s the water moister absorption that can be the issue. Water doesn’t compress and also rots the lines inside out.

 

..made the clutch cable worse than i had it yesterday

 

Took out the driver’s seat and made/welded a better bracket to mount the seat on (mx5 seats) then painted it all ready to fit the new carpet I’ve had for ages

 

Today (after it stopped raining) I cleaned the alloy wheels.

As we are going to Camper Jam tomorrow morning I thought I ought to try to start the camper seeing as it’s been sat on the drive unused for 9 months.

It didn’t want to start and I’d charged/regenerated the battery the previous day. So I had to take the starter off which ain’t easy as the van is on an incline and I had to raise the rear offside wheel and remove it to allow a portly chap like me to get under to do the work.

Got the old starter out and tried bench testing it and it was dead. Then remembered I had a spare starter so dug it out and fitted it but had to put the wheel back on and lower the van (just in case).

The new starter jumped into action and was spinning……but the bendix was not engaging with the gears on the flywheel.

So I had to strip the old starter down and clean up the brushes and commutator in the hope it would work.

This meant the whole Shananagins of jacking the van up and working under it on an incline with one rear wheel holding the van in place (3 house bricks under/infront of the remaining wheels) had to occur again.

Finally I got to try the refurbished/cleaned old starter and it actually worked. It’s been a long 7hrs of panic.

But I still can’t work out why the new starter wouldn’t work and I’ve clearly got to buy a proper/correct replacement.










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It's the wrong type, you can clearly see the difference?

 

unfortunately when I purchase the new starter I did not have the old one off to compare them. But I know now. I just don't know what the other starter is for.

 

Scrooge hits the nail on the head! The starter matches the bell housing, not necessarily the gearbox (may have swapped at some point). Your pic shows an early and a later one. They're both "correct".

 

Lay in bed at 4:20 this morning as five large cows methodically licked the cold dew off the bus! Parked on a remote Welsh farm for some peace and quiet and a bit of a lie-in. Huh!!

Very poor Internet connection so can't upload the photo of the miscreants piled in a happy heap, fast asleep in the shade of some trees. Think I'm due for a nap now - been awake for five hours already . . .

 

Schoolboy error , left the side lights on for about 9 hours - I'll try later ...

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