The GASWAGON (act III)

[Plasticman]

I'm looking at all this with a stupid grin on my face :
Up in paddington at the moment watching the boy jump off things... Wanna see it on a bigger screen!

hehe, whats he jumping off

[lloydy]

Some sort of Parkour assault course. Nothing too high, more fluid movement over/under/through obstacles. Good clean fun, beats playstation hands down in my opinion

[Plasticman]

ah yes i forget he does thsat, wait till he runs over buildings
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[Plasticman]

Well just popped it into rough position to measure up for new hoses etc

the blue crap here will be going soon.......................wont it?

a little tidying to do with the inlet hose run though

ever onwards
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[lloydy]

i am thinking about removing that oil separator.. (blue pipe) and going back to standard.. it does a good job, really works. But it was one of the things i experimented with to get rid of the white smoke.... Is it in the way for what you want to do? As i wasn't going to swap it over to the new engine
Looks like it was meant to be there that intercooler, looks very nice. Almost looks as though it could be a straight run from turbo to inlet of intercooler?

[Plasticman]

no the blue pipes are no problem i will let you deal with them
yes that was the idea with a straight run, will sort a convoluted one to allow and slight movements. will pm you
yes when its mounted and the closures are done it will look right, we both know how
i could have made the outlet at 90' or straight and use a suitable hose but this looks nicer in my opinion ??
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[lloydy]

yep, they'll either stay or go when the engine is swapped over

but this looks nicer in my opinion ??

looks great

[Plasticman]

Well
floor, do want to retain all these holes (some are for the gas tank i know)

here the top closure panel(removed) has to be removed with a spot bit as you do NOT want to drill right through as this will leave a line of holes under the new skin.
for the inner sill to floor you can drill right through as the sill is scrap, i prefere to use a spot bit as they cut quicker through the spotted steel

and

next

its all been fitted and now drilled out to the respective sizes,so a disc run over the choddies and painted the in sides and then weld thru on the required areas


here i have taped all the holes up as nothing worse than loads of paint running through and then the effort to get rid of it

will give it another coat tomoz, with the weld thru its best if left overnight to dry right out, leaves the welds cleaner i find.
so gonna carry on chopping the sill out, pain of a messy job,but needs must
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[lloydy]

I think all the holes are needed (for gas tank and buddy seat) bar one. One of the holes I drilled for the buddy seat came out right on the inner sill, too close to get a nut and bolt on. So that one can go, if my memory serves me right I think I left the hole with none of that grey paint on?

The single hole tucked up by the battery box is where the gas pipe comes in

[Plasticman]

well. first... are these 3 wires specific to each terminal (will label if need to) but thought i would ask first

right thats the cable side of moving stuff over for now
busy removing the inner sill


im looking to avoid removing the rear arm and stuff so luckyly the arm mount is good to the outrigger and in itself its solid so can leave it and work around it

this part goes through and is the part that i have cut away on the underside.it goes through to the outside of trailing arm mount and the wing in turn welds to it

this is the other end of it,top middle

wear eye glasses

semi floating mount

this area is part of the inner sill and im at the stage where the mini gas axe is going to be used

arch end gone as well

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[lloydy]

As far as i am aware they can connect any old way, its just 3 glow plugs..
That last pic, is that the inner trailing arm mount?! What was hiding that? underseal or filler? And is that really bad news....
E D I T

ah on second look its the outer mount?

[Plasticman]

underseal mainly , not an issue as i can get to all the inner sill fine, if the mount itself was suspect them i would cut the lot off and start again , so no worries,
i would add that this area is different on the 16" in so far as there are different stiffeners in back here which mean a slight different approach to the job, but i will point these out as we go along it.
good on the wires, as all the rest of the engine is now disconnected. will check your figures ref the hoses and confirm.
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[kevtherev]

Ha ha ..folks who say "rust free van" or "surface rust" just make me laugh now

[lloydy]

underseal mainly , not an issue as i can get to all the inner sill fine, if the mount itself was suspect them i would cut the lot off and start again , so no worries,
i would add that this area is different on the 16" in so far as there are different stiffeners in back here which mean a slight different approach to the job, but i will point these out as we go along it.
good on the wires, as all the rest of the engine is now disconnected. will check your figures ref the hoses and confirm.
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Cool, Any 16" differences would be great to document.

[lloydy]

Ha ha ..folks who say "rust free van" or "surface rust" just make me laugh now

Shocking that there can be so much! Seems they do rust as much as bays and splits, just in a much more hidden way.