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

Mission accomplished

 

Surely there's a rude joke in there somewhere, rides well for a 50 year old..............hmmm.......nope, I got nothing @Lasty a little help

 

You should be able then to pull the hub off the splines from the outside.
You only need to faff on the driveshaft side with circlips if you want to change the bearings.
Maybe need a puller to help it move, but the splines that drive the shaft in the hub are not particularly tapered, its all locked together by the torque of the big nut. Try putting the nut on the end of the thread a few turns, tap it in with a hammer and pulling the hub off by hand. Its nothing like the steering box nut.

Read the first part of this to the point of removing the hub ..
https://www.thelatebay.com/index.php?threads/rear-wheel-bearing-replacement-in-progress.63457/

 

My work today was to disable the battery charger in my combination inverter/battery charger - it had been occasionally tripping the 3 amp mains breaker, but getting more frequent until it finally failed.

I bought new parts to repair it, but I suspect the Curse of the Shenzen MOSFET, in which the clever people in China find a cheap tiny silicon die, fit it in a big power MOSFET package and print whatever part number you want to buy on the outside of the package. And sell it on eBay at a competitive price. They dont half go bang!

I removed the diodes on the mains side of the battery charger, so the inverter still detects the presence of AC mains , and switches over from hookup mains input to inverter output if the hookup power fails.


I have bought a separate Nordelettronica NE287 motorhome 12 amp battery charger/maintainer to use instead.

 

318, I drove it two .
My company car went from 30k 2019 to 9k last year

 

My mileage in the bus is about 3300 miles since this time last year. About 6000 less than usual.

 

Fitted the new battery charger. Both the 12 amp and 17 amp sized Nordelettronica NE287 charger/power supply units do not use fans so they suit my home office in the bus.

https://www.12voltplanet.co.uk/nordelettronica-ne287-12v-battery-charger-12a.html

Took about 1 1/2 hours.

So far another plus is the charger has a relay to disconnect from the battery when the mains is off. And it features proper CE compliant mains filtering. It weighs 1.5 kg compared with about 0.1 kg for the Taiwanese charger module I replaced.

 

Greased the window wiper spindles, put the wiper mech back together, back in the dash and fitted the heater thingys in as well.

 

Heater thingys ?

 

Antlers and gnome ears.......?

 

Yes those plastic fishtail thingys that direct the hot air onto the screen

Its just nice that my wipers are now no longer seized

 

Had a go at getting the sliding door to stay open as the van had to face slightly uphill otherwise.
Sort of sorted with removal of the middle catch and a light smear of grease
Clicks nicely now and holds but I will have to take the door off soonish to do the rest of the mechanisms.

 

Cut an engine inspection hatch into the back of the van, fitted new gearbox, new boots and repacked the drive shafts had the shift rods out up to the front cleaned painted and new bushes. Fitted new to me type 4 2.0 engine and fan.

 

Looking good neat and tidy nicely done

 

And what did you do in the afternoon?

 

I adjusted the rear brakes and changed the ball joint rubbers on the front end it’s also had a new gas tank filler hose and vent rubbers changed as well as other stuff I can’t remember lol. Oh a new accelerator cable to.

 

..and snowflakes and kittens...