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Just had a scintillating couple of hour s under the van.


I decided I would put the spare wheel back under there and saw how crappy the cage was....So I wire brushed it and greased it all up. It looks ok now and there is no more rust.
Found the rear floor supports had accumulated some mud, and rust too....I will attack those next.
Springs and mounts, anti roll bar and axle, all ok.


Cheers


Crewie



 
Crewie said:
Just had a scintillating couple of hour s under the van.


I decided I would put the spare wheel back under there and saw how crappy the cage was....So I wire brushed it and greased it all up. It looks ok now and there is no more rust.
Found the rear floor supports had accumulated some mud, and rust too....I will attack those next.
Springs and mounts, anti roll bar and axle, all ok.

Crewie, if I pay for your plane fare, will you fly over to my house & do some work on my vans? I've an Expert which needs injectors (horrible job), a Dispatch which needs a clutch (horrible job) & a Scudo, my scrap van for parts. I've got all the tools you need, my neighbours will love you for it & you'll have a great time working on them.

Cheers, Stephen.
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Thanks for the compliment Stephen. ;)


Today I have Done a Little tidying up job in the back of the van.


I didn't like looking at the raw end of the board under the carpet, So I used a simple fix to well... err....Fix it.


Half inch, in old money, 10 X 16 mm in the new decimal system, White trunking or conduit.....


Just cut back the carpet, loosen the board and slip the trunking over the end, nice and neat like. Then tighten the board back down, thereby trapping the trunking, and replace the carpet strip.


Before.


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After.


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Ok..... Missus's Panda 1.2 eleganze is playing up...sounds like plugs, but could be coil pack (1 of 2 in engine)


I have bought plugs and will change them, keeping an eye out for which plug has failed/oiled up, this will point to which Coil pack or lead has failed should the symptoms remain after the plug change.. All quite logical really.....


I hope !!!!! :rolleyes:


Plugs £15


If needed.......
Coil pack £20
Leads £15


Cheers


Crewie
 
Like the progress so far, is there a reason I missed to boxing over the wheel arches? Are you going to be adding mounting points to the ply to help secure anything?
 
I left them short so I can use the tie downs in the back to secure stuff like push bike and Model planes.


cheers


Crewie
 
Ah yeah I see the tie point now! I was referring to the box around the arch. You didn't fancy trying to carpet it? Or I'm guessing your going to use the box for something?
 
Oh Yeah.... I am going to make some type of swivelling platform to carry my radio gear and a portable inverter. Also possibly, shelving that will carry a small single burner cooker, for the all important brew up at the flying field. :D


It's a work in progress, as ideas come and go.. LOL


Also other things to do, for example, missus' car repairs, and punctures in pushy tyres x2, plus garage flooded last night had to shift boat loads of stuff... :eek:


Cheers


Crewie
 
Well..................today my exhaust fell right off....As I started the van to take the kids to school................BAAAAARRRRRP.

The thing had sheered at the downpipe where it meets the first box.

Two quotes for a full system of £ 350 and £465, You can buy online for £197, so whats all that about ?????

Luckily I can just buy the front part, the thing is in 3 parts, front, middle with a cat, and back.

Happy Days.. :D :D :D

Cheers

Crewie
 
Just weld it Crewie, same thing happened to my neighbour's 306 Peugeot, just sleeved & welded it.
 
Nothing left to get a weld onto matey... (n) so i bit the bullet and got a quote for a full system.

Anyway, further investigation found that some cheaper "cats" are not up to the required level for an MOT in this country so I decided to Just go for a front down pipe and box.

Alas....... Not so easy.... The last owner had fitted a non standard part, with the wrong cat, in the middle so the new part would not fit .

So back to plan A come plan C , with a full system.............Not so easy as kwik fit ( shame and blame alert) said they could not order the required parts as they were not allowed.. and then Said I would have to go to fiat to get the bits ??????????

What a load of Bull.....

So.....Plan D instigated, with a trip back to ATS, the £465 quote, to see about a front pipe and box. The Guys there were extremely helpful and got part numbers and all the bits were ordered straight away. Sadly the same conclusion about the botch job mismatch by previous owner making a full system the only option, was obvious as we looked under the van. More different diameters of pipe than a pipe factory. Plus Once the full system is in place it should last years without any problems.
They also spotted the errant front spring, and offered to fix it, fair play thought I, a bit more money to find, but at least the job is done. :slayer:

Told to come back later, I went home.

Went back at the appointed time, left the van and went to work.

Got the call that the job was done and went back, took about an hour or so.

When I got there, the feller said he would match the full system quote I had got from Kwik fit, so well chuffed, and they had added nothing for dropping the front leg and sorting out the spring :D:D

Happy but slightly skint :D

Cheers

Crewie
 
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Always liked the ATS guys :) Nice of them to match it for you and glad you got it sorted, exhaust system I had replaced years ago on an old Toyota had hair bands and elastic bands around each of the joints.. I did pause to think did the previous owner use them instead of a welder (shudders)
 
Yes, I will defo be going back to ATS in the future, they went out of their way to help.


Any way look at the shiny thing..... :D :D


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Also here is the front spring in the right place.


Before


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After. BTW there was an inch difference in the ride hide at the front, the offside being higher.


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Cheers


Crewie
 
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If it was just a case of turning the spring and strut it was an easy DIY job with no need for spring compressors. So what would the pitfall be with the way it was sitting? I would have presumed the three top nuts were miss placed so you could only put it back one way. Every day is a school day ;)
 
Not so easy Dood ;)


There is a great deal of stress on the spring under compression, and the only way to
release it is, with compressors, or get the weight off the suspension completely, like on a ramp, with the top nut loosened off. I had no chance on my drive. Also the spring has to sit in a recess in the bottom plate, not be held by a bit of twisted wire. :eek:


The worst case scenario would be if the spring jumped its mount, where it could do allsorts of damage, even cause a crash.


As it was if you were to encounter any sort of successive bumps in the road , like those white speed lines, an increasingly violent vibration would ensue, due to the extra rebound in the spring caused by the extra inch of compression.


I did a test after the adjustment over the same white lines and there was no abnormal effects.


Any which way, the job is done and ticked off the list.... and for free.. YAY... :D :D


Cheers


Crewie
 
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Judging by your two before and after pictures of the spring/strut. (First picture) See the lower stop where the bottom of the spring meets the stop? It looks like the garage has tuned this round so what you are looking at is now facing the engine side. This is what i am on about making it an easy job as the spring (Obviously) sits in one position only in that lower stop. I was always under the impression you cant make this mistake as the top three bolts or bolt holes in the inner wing are not evenly spaced apart making it impossible to make this mistake.
 
I agree with you Bud, you shouldn't be able to make this mistake, but as the ATS Guy said the bloke has put the spring in, offered the leg up and the spring has moved, he has tightened it all up, then realized, his mistake and been too idle to put it right....as the suspension leg top nut is a pig to get to. There appears to be only one holding the leg, i cant see if there are more holding the top mount itself, but to get the leg out only the top one needs to be removed.
I think we are both on the same page here......just using different words....:D

The spring has now been rotated thru 90 Deg anti clockwise so the end drops into the cup in the plate

See the nut behind all the wiper mechanism and other pipes and stuff.

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Hi Crewie

I was flicking through the forum and found this thread - unfortunately all your images are now blocked by photobucket - do you have an album or other location where they can be viewed?

Cheers
 
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