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by adsnape
10 Mar 2025, 14:40
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: Clutch question
Replies: 4
Views: 30414

Re: Clutch question

Thanks for the ideas but that's not the answer. I've checked and the bearing is seated properly and as far back as it can go. I now assume that there is a misalignment between the friction plate and the internals on the engine. Ill dismantle it again and check it out.
by adsnape
09 Mar 2025, 14:33
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: Clutch question
Replies: 4
Views: 30414

Clutch question

I have had the engine out for a rebuild. While it was out I think the clutch pedal was pressed several times and now it is solid, so I assume it has self adjusted to the max. I noticed this because I cannot get the engine to sit inside the housing, it refuses to go in the last few centimetres. I was...
by adsnape
20 Apr 2024, 19:09
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: Valve springs
Replies: 1
Views: 405

Valve springs

Im replacing the valve springs on my 1.9dg, is it ok to swap inner and outer springs on my head to a single heavy duty set? What's the difference? And why two sets? Is the engine less responsive with a single heavy duty set of springs?
by adsnape
02 Apr 2024, 10:14
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: 1.9 DG bogging down under demand peirburg2e3
Replies: 9
Views: 1187

Re: 1.9 DG bogging down under demand peirburg2e3

I sent my pierburg to Bromsgrove to be refurbed, it was not cheap but the carb is 100 times better than before, more responsive and more fuel efficient. I would recommend them.
by adsnape
02 Apr 2024, 10:11
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: Cylinder head advice wanted
Replies: 8
Views: 1075

Cylinder head advice wanted

Morning all I have black wet soot coming out of my exhaust pipe, coupled with a coolant loss. I don't have milky oil, so I have so far diagnosed a head gasket between water jacket and cylinder. Does that sound reasonable? The water stops spouting after a few minutes, which I take to be the cylinder ...
by adsnape
02 Apr 2024, 10:05
Forum: Bodywork, Seats & Glass
Topic: Welding in Yorkshire
Replies: 11
Views: 3710

Re: Welding in Yorkshire

There's a guy in Haxby outside York, excellent welder and works on my van often.
Look for 'Just Welding' on facebook
by adsnape
10 Oct 2022, 16:49
Forum: Bodywork, Seats & Glass
Topic: Where is the T-piece in the windscreen washer piping
Replies: 6
Views: 1506

Re: Where is the T-piece in the windscreen washer piping

so behind the top bulkhead part?
THanks
by adsnape
10 Oct 2022, 12:36
Forum: Bodywork, Seats & Glass
Topic: Where is the T-piece in the windscreen washer piping
Replies: 6
Views: 1506

Where is the T-piece in the windscreen washer piping

Bugger: Just had the lower front windscreen welded and the RHS windscreen squirter (on a LHD van) no longer works, took the jets off and NO HOSE. it was a bit short anyway, I think it has just come away during work. So now I have the dash pod off, under dash shelves out and legs up in the air trying...
by adsnape
24 Jul 2022, 17:04
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: DJ heads on a DG engine
Replies: 3
Views: 421

DJ heads on a DG engine

Is this possible? I have an option on a DG block and a set of DJ heads, I was thinking of marrying them up? ALL the part numbers seem to tally, is it a different cylinder barrel length that gives the extra CC?
 
by adsnape
07 Nov 2021, 17:02
Forum: Electrical & Instrumentation
Topic: Sliding door wiring
Replies: 4
Views: 569

Sliding door wiring

I have a brown 12v live wire hanging in the forward sliding door post that connects to a light. Does anyone know where the other end connects to? I can track it to the top of the.pilllar but I don't want to drop the headlining unless I have to. There is no courtesy light on the sliding door side, do...
by adsnape
06 Sep 2021, 14:42
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: Fuel tank structure
Replies: 2
Views: 447

Re: Fuel tank structure

Thanks for the reply, couldn't find it but it turns out it was pipes not tank. This turned out to be a small flap had formed in a rubber hoses when the PO had pushed in the hard line, it eventually got weak enough that it closed the fuel off at full flow. New lines all round and problem solved
by adsnape
06 Sep 2021, 14:41
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: 1.9 DG won't run on idle
Replies: 10
Views: 3637

Re: 1.9 DG won't run on idle

Sent it to Bromyard for a refurb. She would struggle to do 55mph, today I hit 75 and there was more available(in my defence, I have a kph speedo and didn't believe my mental maths, having never been up that end before). I stopped accelerating because even with new shocks and springs, she felt a bit ...
by adsnape
06 Sep 2021, 14:36
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: 1.9 DG Engine cuts out when warm
Replies: 8
Views: 1945

Re: 1.9 DG Engine cuts out when warm

This turned out to be a small flap had formed in a rubber hoses when the PO had pushed in the hard line, it eventually got weak enough that it closed the fuel off at full flow. New lines all round and problem solved
by adsnape
06 Sep 2021, 14:36
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: DG cuts out over 40mph
Replies: 3
Views: 1070

Re: DG cuts out over 40mph

This turned out to be a small flap had formed in a rubber hoses when the PO had pushed in the hard line, it eventually got weak enough that it closed the fuel off at full flow. New lines all round and problem solved
by adsnape
28 Aug 2021, 22:21
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: Fuel tank structure
Replies: 2
Views: 447

Fuel tank structure

Anyone know how the tubes inside the tank are routed? I have an intermittent blockage that stops fuel flowing, I'm trying to work out what's happening.
Thanks