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

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Having seen that monster, I think the £1.99 piece of silicone tube with a split near one end and a nail in the end works just as well. Fit over bleed nipple, drape end into a container of brake fluid and just pump the brakes with the pedal. All tools needed fit easily in a toolbox - one bleed nipple spanner, one bit of hose.

 

Changed the alternator belt because it was getting loose and all the shims were on the outside of the pulley.

 

Alternatively, pump system up, crack open nipple, bleed while reading newspaper

 

Down at the local posh supermarket hunting for past sell by date scraps the masters don't eat. We got venison once.
Some strawberries and raspberries would be good, nice cheese, who knows? I'm just driving, I don't "do" shopping, I have crew for that so it'll be a surprise.

 

What are you riveting?

 

Changed the servo vacuum pipe at the back near the engine...missed it when I did the servo end.
Also, found a piece of fuel pipe in the breather system that I'd never seen on any chart....on the right on the pipework that goes to the 3 way joint in the centre.
Was hidden away as it went through a metal pressing...true to form, it crumbled when touched.

 

That's because the diagram everyone refers to is arze about face showing that connector on the left where there isn't one.

 

They’re in the ends of the concertinas. You can get metal ones, but as bus and beetle owners haven’t been dying in their millions over the past 50 years, I’d suggest they’re relatively harmless if you have got them.

 

The white stuff is kind of bonded white asbestos.

My plain metal collars work fine. Wouldn't have thought rubber would be very good.

 

Smell of petrol cornering ?

Absolutely pelting it down with rain

The breather hose under the spare wheel well...

And the replacement hose is too hard. So after a brief struggle with it in a multistorey carpark for shelter in Clifton Down Bristol.. leave replacement half on but buy some new in Halfords tomorrow ..

R9 hose ...

 

Drilled out a swively rivnut

 

Thanks for the reminder , i`ve replaced all the fuel hose so suppose i`d better do the breathers as well ....

 

6mm Gates R7. Local motor factors, straight off the reel

 

Fitted two new breather hose joiner pieces - the one on the right had cracked as well as the one on the left..

 

Polished it.

Starting tackling the little emerging rusty bits.

 

I recognise it now.

It's the dead centre of Isleworth.....

 

Tested the webasto heater.
Had a '2 failed ignition attempts" fault code.

Went through the reset routine - pull fuse when powered up etc.

Replaced fuse, tried again.

Same again.

Slammed the door, called it a PITA.

Normal Sunday really.