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

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by top banana racing, Aug 27, 2015.

  1. Zed

    Zed Gradually getting grumpier

    Changed the lovely clean nearly new 10w40 to 15w40 including a new filter, emptying the cooler and running back up to temp until the thermostat opened and refilled the cooler. When it's cooled down I'll top it back up and put the bus levelling jack away.
    What a job!
     
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  2. Ady

    Ady

    IMG_1546.JPG Fitted new pedal seals and some carpet , no longer get that annoying whistling noise coming up around the pedals now .
     
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  3. Faust

    Faust Supporter

    Alter it when you do your next bank raid .;)
     
  4. Last week I cleaned some oil off the fan housing.
    Knocked a loose wire off the coil.
    Checked old photo to see where wire went.
    Used my new crimpper and wire strpper to fit a new terminal.
    Changed a few other old terminal connections.
    Discovered that stripping through wire that is nearly 5o years old is harder than it should be.
    Making wires shorter also makes them harder to re connect!
     
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  5. mikedjames

    mikedjames Supporter

    Especially as 14.2 volts is charge absorbtion voltage for a lead acid battery.

    I have had 17 volts and a running engine when the earth lead fell off the battery using a previous module... but the module didnt fail immediately.

    Its the red wire supply side at 14.2V rather than the black wire switch transistor side as far as I can tell.
    Hidden amidst the half-answers on the Powerspark Q&A is somebody suggesting actually using a 12 volt regulator on the (red wire) power side of the module, and not being shot down by the Powerspark tech support guy.

    Common factors over the years of module failures : same alternator regulator, mostly same coil.
     
  6. Did you find out what type of device is inside? If we knew, we could do some digging on typical failure modes caused by heat or over voltage.
     
  7. Day

    Day

    I need to do this but here in Italy I can't find where to buy it.
     
  8. Redid my vac pipe, now without elbows but with saucy curvature. Tightened servo unions...again. Gah :mad:

    Tweaked up steering box - he deserved it after 12 years. Just needed a nip up, steering straight as a die. Most time spent trying to find a new M12 fine nyloc.

    Put proper clevis pins in my checkstraps. My passenger door no longer goes "badam BADAM!" every time I open it :thumbsup:

    A good day.

    a newy new vac pipe 6s.jpg
     
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  9. Will someone like Opie Oils ship to you? Someone must sell EP90, shirley?
     
  10. ^this. Boggo EP80 or 90 should be everywhere. What do Italians put in their gearboxes?
     
  11. Ah but can @Day get Castrol Syntrans?
     
  12. MorkC68

    MorkC68 Administrator

    Extra Virgin Olive Oil?
     
  13. Here you go Mike

    https://m.aliexpress.com/item/4000702031369.html?spm=a2g0n.productlist.0.0.4a0a4dedGJT1Dz
     
  14. If I didn’t already have a spare, I’d be buying one, tempting to get one anyway to test out.
     
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  15. Zed

    Zed Gradually getting grumpier

    While it was warmed up I did ye olde bearing test because previously it had been taking a LONG time and even a couple of thousand revs to prime the pump so I might have damaged them though probably not.

    Test for those that don't know is run the van up to it's normal oil temp, switch off. When engine stops start counting and switch the ignition on. Count until the oil light comes back on. You will get different results depending on the sender and the state of your bearings. For example my dual sender should light the light at a higher pressure than a stock oil light sender so light up faster. As a rough guide the longer that takes the better. I got fed up counting at 20 seconds, nothing wrong there. If it had gone off in a second or two I'd be planning a winter rebuild.

    The though crossed my mind that my light sender might be "sticky" causing it to take ages for the light to go on and then off and maybe it wasn't the oil weight. I'm a prat, I didn't watch the pressure gauge!

    Oh well. This morning started from cold the light went out as it caught so I'm back to thinking it was the oil weight.
     
  16. Luckily put a couple of cans of Dynax-S50 in Cyril’s cavities 2 days ago, when it was still warm and yesterday put him in the garage for the 1st time in ages.
    Poured down last night & today so well chuffed that the cavities etc are all dry for the winter. Not a lot of room in the garage though....
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  17. finished getting Tilly ready for a camping trip this weekend, oil and filter change, just for the record 20/50 used;)
     
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  18. mikedjames

    mikedjames Supporter

    As I shut the sliding door this evening, it was being a bit temperamental, thats one of the things that has happened since using the bus as an office for 6 months.
    The slider has suffered hundreds of open/shut operations this year.

    I noticed the roller on the rear track is no longer tightly attached to the moving block. Its a problem that has been coming, the thread on the stud that holds the roller on was almost stripped when I got the bus, but 10 years on, the thread has totally gone. It makes adjusting the door ... fun ..
    So its time to cut the stud off if it wont wind out (probably cast into the block) , or drill it out and tap a thread for a stud. Then maybe buy a new rear hinge mechanism.
     
  19. Had an exhausting day (geddit, geddit). Ebers now fully in, fires up and runs on the move, toasty warm :thumbsup:

    a newy ebers exhaust 1 6s.jpg

    a newy ebers exhaust 2 6s.jpg
     

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