I've had the old bus on the road for a few months now, and driven her when i can..

I could leave her for over 2 weeks unaffected..

However i didn't have the interior lights connected...

Yesterday i connected the lights, and the day after the battery was down to 9v, even though they didn't stay on...

I've recharged the battery and all is well, it is important to know, she had sat a week, before i added the lights...

I noted the Map reading lights in the main front light didn't work, could the car still pass a currant through even if the bulb was kapput, the oddity is BOTH map reading bulbs are knackered. which seems unlikely to be coincidental?

H

Sounds like a fun day out!!

Nice turn out...

Mine need replacing in an ideal world. I was a tad brutish when i replaced them, and might of ruined the threads!!

exhaust is junk though!!

Will your other project be seeing a Janspeed exhaust or something similar?

Hiya Richard..

yes it has filler, it has broken through the paint here!!

Hiya gents..

When fiddling around with the rear of the car i noticed the rear bumper mount, the outrigger from the chassis has snapped in half..

corrosion would be my main culprit, but in fiddling with it, the rust is only surface.

could they break in the event of a slight shunt up the rear?

the bumper is also slightly out of alignment, i guess a fabricated bracket would be the way forward?

Oh and there is this...

any idea as to why that would be there?

a dent repair, maybe?

Cheers H

i ordered brake fluid from ECP and it arrived to my front door the next day..

Not tried halfords,

New stuff added to the dryer..

done some work around the farm with it, and the compressor is cooler, i can wrap my hand around it, and keep it there..

Which is nice, no longer scalding!!

old stuff was like porridge..

I'm not even going to look at mine, coz i feel looking will break it!!

I

Cheers all..

I've hung them out to dry..

Cheers RomanRob i'll be sure to check..

I've cut the foam out, and sandwiched it between 2 boards and run over it with a 2 ton jag...

Got alot of the water out, but are their any other ways?

30ton road roller at work would do the trick lol

Ordinarily i'd agree but the filters were sodden, and we were watching the water disappear under the covers ;)

I used silicone on this occasion..

Time will tell how it lasts.

Ever been so annoyed at something, that you want to burn it?

Well in my case the P38 has been pissing water in for a while, i'd sealed the filters up, and like a fool believed that it couldn't be leaking from there again!!

The easiest person to fool is yourself etc etc..

Anyway..

In an effort to find out the specific area as to where the water was getting in, i got various jugs filled with water and a colourant!!

The colour is key, working from the bottom up "for obvious reasons" you use a different colour for each section, if the water that leaks into the footwell is a specific colour you know "roughly" which area is leaking..

The problem with drenching the car with a hose is it soaks all areas in water and it is hard to pinpoint which area is leaking, using the hose method we narrowed it down betweem the sunroof and scuttle, not very accurate!!

This is the state of the inside after drenching it with a hose..

Not great as you can see, this is after drenching the whole car, at this point water could be getting in anywhere!!

To narrow down the leak i mixed water with MER car polish which is a horrible cloudy stuff, and it worked well, i drenched the pollen filter covers first..

After taking a seconds i opened the door to be greeted with this!!

clearly the MER is eeking its way past somewhere..

It is also worth noting i put the hose inside the scuttle and nothing leaked..

Upon opening the "sealed" pollen filter covers i was greeted with this...

A lesson to be learnt from this is..

clean the covers off before resealing!!

Now i appreciate some old hands will laugh and tell me to fook 'orf..

but i thought i'd share!!

cheers,

Money is the factor!

If moolah wasn't an issue a new V8 developments 5.2 would be going in place of my tired old 4.6.

A little Circlip on the top and they come apart, very simple things!!

My Rocker covers use to leak so i cranked the bolts right up, ya know crank them up until they start to loosen off LOL

no more leaks!!

Mind you, my Timing chain is making itself known now!

With this partial engine rebuild going on, does this mean the diesel swap is on hold for the time being?

18mm seems to ring a bell with me too..

Tappets pump up with oil however crap can be pumped into them and after almost 2 decades use some of them are more than likely full of more crap than oil, once full of shit they can't take oil.. LOL

Pulling them apart for a look is quite easy "nudge nudge"

The GEMS is far easier IIRC..

I used a Crows foot socket, with an unusal combo of extensions and UJ's on my Thor..

Modern rubber is hilariously bad quality..

A new set of balljoint boots on my D2 lasted 8 months before splitting!!

Like you i replaced the boots, repacked with grease..

The P38's were last replaced in 2007 from the records.

Yep i've ordered some of that fangled stuff..

EAS is level too..