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Post by roepers on Jul 22, 2014 16:21:10 GMT
Gun Gum! I have used it to fit my heater tubes. Well it peared out to be a stop gap litterally at his best. In my case it didn't function at all.
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Post by joe on Sept 20, 2014 8:51:16 GMT
I've hardly touched Goldie in the past few months, mainly due to life going down the toilet, and mainly because she won't move! So she is covered in dust   In neutral she will start a rev just fine. Put her into Drive or Reverse and she just will not rev right and she barely can muster enough power to mover herself out of the garage. Isit something to go with the Vario system (my guess) at all? Answers on a postcard appreciated! |
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Post by andrejuan on Sept 20, 2014 11:44:08 GMT
Joe
Does she roll freely? I can't think of a reason why she would rev ok in neutral but not in gear.
Just wondering if it's a case of something binding or an engine power problem.
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Post by Richard DAF Webmeister on Sept 20, 2014 19:12:53 GMT
Sounds like something DD could advise on?...
I hope things are getting better for you.
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Post by Patrick on Sept 20, 2014 22:35:44 GMT
Hope things get better soon! (and Goldie). I had an amusing time pulling off the front of my concrete garage this week. Not touching the asbestos, it has a wooden overhang at the front that had let water in and rotted on one side. It was basically a case of hanging onto bits and pulling! I did think that there'd be a hole behind, or it might be part of the structure, but it was just hanging on by a few bolts!
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Post by 33grinder on Sept 21, 2014 9:36:52 GMT
I'm sorry to hear life is being crap at the moment Alex and I empathise as it's dealt me with a big helping of sh!te right now. But at least you have a very nice DAF to take your mind off things and provide some enjoyment. She's probably just having a grumble from not getting used. I hope you sort it out soon, and Goldie of course.
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Post by joe on Nov 1, 2014 9:48:32 GMT
Started her up again last weekend, she needed a bit of a boost, but still she will rev fine in Neutral but in gear she won't It's very odd. I can only think it is something to do with the vacuum system? Otherwise why would it make any difference?  I might end up taking things apart big style tomorrow. |
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Post by andrew on Nov 1, 2014 14:45:23 GMT
I don't think it's the vacuum system that's the problem! When you rev the engine the vacuum is applied to the driven pulley to help the transmission change up and this happens regardless of whether the car's in gear or not; engaging a gear (forward or reverse) merely transfers the drive to the wheels. The vacuum application takes place at about 2,000 R.P.M. If the car doesn't want to rev up when in gear it is possibly because the engine is under load, as opposed to freely revving & so the load is causing the problem. I'd suggest an ignition problem, caused by a failed capacitor.
When the engine's revving freely it doesn't need much effort on the part of the ignition system to make it rev up. However, when it's under load weaknesses can show up & it's then that you can find the weak points (sorry, no pun intended!) and fix them.
Points & condenser & H.T. leads are the easiest things to change. Do these first & then see how the car goes.
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Post by dafdaffer on Nov 8, 2014 19:05:45 GMT
your points failed at princethorpe last year, the condenser needs to be changed, the blowing exhaust will also make this worse
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Post by joe on Nov 10, 2014 11:22:37 GMT
Did you say that the points and condenser were interchangeable with Ford Cortina items once? I shall try and get a set in the week as I definitely need a new battery now. And helpfully the jump start pack I have will now not hold any charge either!
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Post by joe on Nov 15, 2014 19:24:22 GMT
Well points and co.sensor have come through the post, tonight's homework. How to change the bloomin' things!   |
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Post by 33grinder on Nov 16, 2014 18:38:18 GMT
Shouldn't be too bad. Get the static timing first, then you can fine adjust with the dizzy angle. Make sure to put a smudge of grease on the cam so the heel of the points will pick it up as it moves around. Modern points have plastic heals and they wear out far quicker than their fibrous forefathers and that means constant checking and adjustment of timing. If you dab typex on the flywheel timing mark and engine timing pointer then you can usually get the timing spot on with a strobe gun, despite the rumours that you can't time the aircooleds with a timing gun, it used to work well on my 33.  |
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Post by joe on Nov 22, 2014 15:46:58 GMT
Well both my battery and the jump start pack I have decided to both give up the ghost entirely, so this appeared on Thursday, only put me back a week since it was late arriving but still....   On fitting it I managed to do this, not very clever....  Anyway, now she will turn over fine but just will not start, which brings us back to the points and condenser we started with last week. Time to take this apart.    ...so far so good.  EXCEPT. The points I have purchased are wrong, they aren't the same size and they won't fit on the pin at all.  The new ones are on the left, the old on the right. Bugger. Does anyone have any correct ones at all? |
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Post by andrejuan on Nov 22, 2014 16:13:16 GMT
From the photo Joe, the old points look almost unworn. Someone else might confirm this but I doubt they are causing probs.
The condenser tho is always worth changing imo.
Re gap the old and see if she starts.
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Post by dafdaffer on Nov 22, 2014 16:57:27 GMT
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Post by daydoodler on Nov 22, 2014 17:40:05 GMT
Joe condensers lose their power slowly till they fail
I always change points/condenser every 10,000 miles and clean gap every 5,000 miles
From your photos you can see micro beads of water on dizzy cap/leads and coil
so you have a damp problem. this on top of dirt will track power away and give a weaker spark
most people put a spark plug across the engine to check the spark, but atmospheric pressure is 15psi
and compression pressure is 100+ psi so it needs more voltage to force the spark through the denser air
fit new point and condenser give it all a good clean and you should notice the improvement
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Post by joe on Nov 26, 2014 12:26:01 GMT
Thank you all for your help, I've got a new set of correct Points and Condenser from DOC HQ. Today I had a bit of time to try them out. New points in a correctly gapped (according to my old greasy feeler gauge)  Still won't start, so then I take it to bits again and try and change the condenser.  That little screw is giving me no end of problems! I spent about half an hour using various tools, both of the mechanical and household variety and then 20 minutes trying to find a can of WD40 to see if that could help. The heavens opened again and the damp problem you mentioned earlier.....well it got worse as the roof of the garage no longer functions for the task it was designed for. Since everything was getting drenched I have decided that it is probably making things worse rather than better, and my darling wife wants me to drive to the East Midlands Outlet, so I shall try again tomorrow. Probably going to change the HT leads too. As I feel they look iffy. Which is where my technical knowledge on these things ends. Although not all is lost today. I still managed to get round to doing another Daf-related job.....  ...these press pictures came in the post from Belgium a few weeks ago. And I wonder why I haven't got any money! |
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Post by dafdaffer on Nov 27, 2014 20:25:33 GMT
Remove the coil with the 13mm nut, loosen the bolt and lift off, will help no end mate
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Post by joe on Nov 30, 2014 16:20:58 GMT
Thank you, I never thought of that! I'd did help no end! I was at the Hospital for most of Friday (another reason Daf related things have taken a back seat) So onto Saturday and even with the extra space and copious amounts of penetrating oil it still took a good half an hour of grief even with the coil off to get that screw to come out.  Finally it came out. So in goes the new one after a good white a whittling the square plug down into a round shape. Which was really quite therapeutic.  Wonderful! This was all on Saturday afternoon. But fading light and patience meant I would wait until today to properly sort the points out. And after two hours of fiddling with them, re-adjusting, re-gapping etc. BANG! WE HAVE IGNITION. For the first time since July Goldie was back on the road. Not far mind. But still. Now we're motoring!  So she is back in the garage, rear end first which will make it much easier if I need to fiddle with the points in the future because that garage is very very dark.  Which means now I can get the exhaust sorted. Wonderful stuff. Until the next problem arises! |
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Post by andrejuan on Nov 30, 2014 18:18:08 GMT
Great result Joe. Glad to see her up and running again.
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Post by swissdave on Nov 30, 2014 18:35:03 GMT
Great news, you deserve another glass of Advocaat!
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Post by Richard DAF Webmeister on Nov 30, 2014 20:25:35 GMT
I'd advocate that! (ooooh sorry!)
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Post by 33grinder on Dec 1, 2014 13:22:36 GMT
Well done that man!  |
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Post by joe on Dec 1, 2014 16:30:25 GMT
This is the most technical thing I've ever done in my life. And it worked. I am quite speechless to be honest!
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Post by joe on Dec 9, 2014 18:48:46 GMT
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Post by joe on Dec 16, 2014 13:17:06 GMT
It's a been a bit cold for Daffing, I was going to take her to work the other day, but she was frozen! So I decided against it!  Though we have been out when the sun has shined and she has thawed a bit....  Some parcels have arrived from The Netherlands in the past week, first this wonderful calendar has arrived. This shall cheer me up at work no end.   Then this arrived. This is my Christmas present to myself. All will be revealed soon....  |
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Post by joe on Dec 20, 2014 11:23:07 GMT
I was going to trundle into work this morning in Goldie, but as I came out this morning I was greeted with this:  Looks like the offer in the Club magazine will come in handy! |
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Post by joe on Dec 21, 2014 17:07:02 GMT
So, yesterday I spent most of the afternoon after work looking for my foot pump which handily has complete disappeared. Then I decided I might as well put the spare on. Because although I wouldn't like to do any sort of distance on it as I'm almost certain it has the original tyre is was supplied with when new on, it would at least stop Goldie looking so sad, listing like a sinking ship in the drive way. I haven't used the spare since I repainted all the wheels on the hottest day of the year in 2013. It was fine then......  But now as you can see it is also buggered! Wonderful. |
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Post by andrejuan on Dec 21, 2014 17:49:16 GMT
It's only flat at the bottom |
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Post by 33grinder on Dec 21, 2014 19:21:27 GMT
Ah yes, you need a bottle of bottom tyre air. Pesky stuff!  |
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