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

Today I sat in my bus and read about, 'the famous Poncho Poncho & his Splitty'.
I understand that he's well known in certain circles, but I could find out nothing, anywhere.

Can anyone help?

 

I know a bloke called Gavin, if that's any help.

 

Looks very cool

 

Looked sadly at my heat exchanger stubs, they're not making great contact with the head gaskets. Shiny is where they hit. Came back for a file and had a nap instead.

 

Started reassembly of steering.
New clutch cable
New throttle cable


Need a way of getting the tie rods on without them spinning.

An impact gun?

I have cleaned off the tapers and the recepticle they sit into, ive tapped them home, but they still spin.. Bloody nightmare

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Tap the top repeatedly with a heavy hammer simultaneously as you tighten. They were easier when they used castleated nuts rather than lock nuts.

 

Try and pull them on a bit with standard (non-locking) nuts. Hopefully, the taper will start to bite.

 

Perfect, will try that, going to run a die down them all tomorrow too.

Im using castle nuts and split pins as i prefer them

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Unpacked some goodies from Schofields then tried to figure out which piece goes where.

The sills are a jigsaw for another day but the rear valance might get done over the next couple of days!

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Mmmm. Nice fresh metal.

 

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Yup.. my kind of porn!

 

Light fittings arrived for my poptop downlighters.
Now need some cooler weather to overcome my apathy.
It was 34 degrees C in the bus with the slider open.
I might mark out the plywood I will fix them into.

 

Old beam out, what a faff but with the help of my bestie getting there , overhaul kit ordered via JK due Thursday

 

Took it off with brakes still on. That’s real Man’s Work

 

Real man's work would be getting it back on with the brakes on...I tried once but soon gave up.

 

New stripped beam going on first then built up in situ, learnt my lesson last week when we put the full replacement late bay beam on my splitty , do able on a stripped down
splitty but a tad more difficult on the Bay
Green beam is the old splitty one, converted from crossover and with Porsche brakes now up for sale as I didn’t want bus lowered !!!

 

These just arrived
2 pinch bolts from the usual suspects would've been £7 for 2. A fiver for 10 of these - room for a couple of cockups drilling the holes. Photos later.

 

Splitting these buggers and getting the pistons out.WD40, compressed air, wood, screwdrivers and lots of colourful language. Had to heat all the rounded out bleed nipple screws to get them out!

 

Broke one of my sidestep brackets by belting it with a hammer. Duh.

 

Oh well, it'll be easier to get in and out now without barking your shin or stumbling over it.