Brakes done (again) but someone has drained a quarter of a tank of Diesel so I ran out moving the van from one driveway to the other. :bang:

Put a can of Diesel into the van and drove three yards.

Hmmm, no brakes?

Maybe just an airlock I missed.

Passenger side looks fine. Drivers's side has leaked a bit of fluid.

"O" ring nipple ends. Good idea?



Nope, they're ****ing lethal! :bang:

That was a lot of hard work and effort...



...just so I can have rubbish brakes again.

Once the new pads bed in I'm sure they'll be fine, they're as good as they were before but compared to the Punto GT brakes they are terrible.

So now I have the steel wheels back on...





...I can back to the chap who made me an offer for it.

Fiorino

Well the brakes are as good as they were before. Crap then.
Only now thanks to the banjo you need legs like mine to use them.

The van is sort of for sale-ish if anyone want the old bus she owes me £300-ish.

Fiorino

Another observation. With the added resistance up front the brake bias is slightly to the rear of the van. The old bus feels like my old Antiskid down the bendy bits.

Only instead of turbo lag I just have lag.

Yeah but your also have 60 mpg:slayer: Oh yeah, and the stink of an oiler

The Doblo's coming Monday. Instead of swapping for the Fiorino I've done a few hundred Pounds worth of jobs instead.

So...

https://www.fiatforum.com/classifieds/showproduct.php?product=31051

...you know you want to.

Fiorino

Okay the Doblo....


...hmmmmm...

...it's a van.

A van van rather than a car van.

Compared to the Fiorino I'm sat as high as a Range Rover, there's more body roll than Charmaine Sinclair on Studio 66; but there's a boomstick under the bonnet. The brakes work, the headlights are brilliant; but there are no rear windows or cup holders.

I'm as yet undecided. I'll drive the Doblo to work in the morning and see if I can get used to it.

Fiorino

Good news.

I have taken the brakes off my Punto 90 Sporting and they'll fit the Fiorino.

Bad news.

I'd need 14's to clear the calipers and the only ones I have left are the orange clown shoe wheels.

Unless I put the black ones back on but they have new tyres and will jack the price of the van up to £500-ish.

Bit of a dilemma eh?

Better brakes or sell the van as she is?

Fiorino

Yesterday I put the Punto GT brakes on my 90 Sporting so I could...

...remove the crap Fiorino brakes...



...and fit the really rather good Punto ones to the van.



Along with my black GT wheels with matching directional balanced tyres...



...the van now looks like this...



..again.

So the van now stops and goes round corners. I think there's a grudge that needs to be settled...

Liquid Knight said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFW5D5Tg3KQ&feature=c4-overview&list=UUG5B_MzmD2bW4GZpGSMPA9g

:slayer: :worship:

Click to expand...

http://youtu.be/-m_8-NrbRvM


:devil:

Fiorino



Not a bad looking old bus eh?

Fiorino R.I.P



So the suspension collapsed again. Grrrrr! :bang:

Front valances are not available anywhere in the world, suspension mounting brackets aren't available anywhere in the world and fabricating from scratch would require the front of the van being placed in the jig that I don't have the raw materials to make.

Add that to the water pump leak, the oil leak, the cold start issues, the continuing fun with brakes and the general rust issues and it's time for the weighbridge.

Both vehicles I have bought to be Winter runners so I can work on my Panda have required more time, money and effort than my Panda ever has.

There isn't enough clean metal to weld it again. Any repair would be a temporary one just how temporary or what speed the van will be going when it fails again are a risk I'm not willing to take so scrapping the van is best for everyone else on the road.

R.I.P.

Would Uno MK1 Indicators Grill & Headlights fit this year of Fiorino?
Also looking for a potential engine swap too for my 2000 1,7td which is pissing oil and seems ive been stung a little :/

Liquid Knight said:

Fiorino R.I.P

So the suspension collapsed again. Grrrrr! :bang:

Front valances are not available anywhere in the world, suspension mounting brackets aren't available anywhere in the world and fabricating from scratch would require the front of the van being placed in the jig that I don't have the raw materials to make.

Add that to the water pump leak, the oil leak, the cold start issues, the continuing fun with brakes and the general rust issues and it's time for the weighbridge.

Both vehicles I have bought to be Winter runners so I can work on my Panda have required more time, money and effort than my Panda ever has.

There isn't enough clean metal to weld it again. Any repair would be a temporary one just how temporary or what speed the van will be going when it fails again are a risk I'm not willing to take so scrapping the van is best for everyone else on the road.

Click to expand...

regretting buying mine after one day and reading this. Glad i have his address lol