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Post by roepers on Dec 4, 2015 19:52:19 GMT
I like the beautiful advertisement posters on the wall.
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Post by jolo on Dec 4, 2015 22:44:57 GMT
Amazing. Just one thing missing. Your bed !!!!!
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Post by joe on Dec 12, 2015 10:31:05 GMT
Give it time and I'll probably end up chucked out of the house and living down there!
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Post by andrejuan on Jan 10, 2016 16:00:18 GMT
Amazing. Just one thing missing. Your bed !!!!! And a log burner in the corner ;-)
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Post by joe on Jan 19, 2016 20:59:24 GMT
Far be it for me to bore you all and join the familiar boring chorus of all modern cars are rubbish, but in this case MODERN CARS ARE RUBBISH. I now have a sensible MK2 Focus estate. And everything is a bloomin' chore with it. Perhaps the greatest virtue of the Daf is it's mechanical robustness. I put this down in no small part to being made by a truck company that understood the unforgiving nature of hard toil on mechanical components and the need sometimes to be perform most maintenance tasks with a screwdriver and a hammer. Anyway, the battery on the Ford died over the weekend due to the cold snap and the alternator being buggered and making a noise like a handful of nails in a washing machine. Another expense to add to the list of Garage trips I've already endured. Anyway to change it is a bloomin' nightmare! Tucked up underneath the windscreen I had to take half the ancillaries off around the engine and slide my fingers in just to get the old one out! And don't get me started about the amount of plastic clippy things there are everywhere! I'm never buying a sensible car again. Goldie has been getting me to work in the mean time. Again one of the only things in life one can rely on is the dependability of a Daf!
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Post by joe on Jan 31, 2016 12:30:06 GMT
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Post by joe on Apr 2, 2016 20:19:30 GMT
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Post by andrew on Apr 2, 2016 20:38:58 GMT
That toolbox and table looks far too professional-oh no, wait a minute, that's a bottle of Sol on the side! Excellent!!
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Post by joe on Apr 17, 2016 21:46:59 GMT
I have bought a set of the heat exchanger mounts they club has kindly had made. As you can see they are an exact match to the originals. The only problem is I've realised I'm going to have to remove the engine to replace them! So one thing led to another...and I got a bit carried away. Everything in the engine bay has/is covered in oily sludge. So first off is replacing the front oilseal. And cleaning things up on the way. I've found a very useful step by step guide! www.dafmobile.ournet.org.uk/index.php/page/19.html
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Post by joe on Apr 21, 2016 20:35:53 GMT
So it's been a busy week. Lets get to work! Let us recap. According to the helpful guide you need a puller to remove he pulley assembly. Well all it took for me a short sharp tug by hand! This was the remains of the old oilseal. A fossilised mess! I would imagine this is 40 years old So a new one popped in. New alternator belt, along with new spark plugs and leads. So far so good, but on popping everything together we hit a bit of a snag... The engineering studs that secure the impeller to the pulley assembly are knackered! Has anyone got some at all? There are two different thread pitches on either side of the shank, but I have no idea what pitch they are as I don't have a thread gauge to hand. Other than that there is another issue. HEAT EXCHANGERS. These are mine, and this is what is causing a lot of the rattling at idle. Is there a solution? I was thinking about using high temp silicone but I am loathed to bodge stuff. Has anyone else had this problem?
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Post by joe on Apr 25, 2016 20:08:34 GMT
Hello all again. Well..after some coaxing, I managed to get the nylocs off, and then managed to get them back in the pulley. Well then I had another problem. Now the impeller was fouling the plastic shroud and creating an awful combination of grinding sounds and the the smell of burning plastic. So i slackened them off a bit. Reassembled everything and we were away for a little trundle out! But alas slackening off the nuts was not a great idea as though the impeller was no longer rubbing against the shroud quite clearly the nylon inserts on the nuts were knacked to non-existent. And somewhere outside Holymoorside a strange whirring noise and a clunk and something was ejected from the back of the car. Which turned out to be one of the studs! So were are back to square one!
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Post by joe on May 6, 2016 20:26:50 GMT
DOC Express parts to the rescue! New Studs sourced and fitted and we are back on the road and killing flies in the early summer air by the bucket load! And just the other day, this parcel arrived with a familar address. Another wonderful book to add to the library.
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Post by joe on May 7, 2016 20:12:48 GMT
We have been out for a little trundle today!!
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Post by andrejuan on May 7, 2016 21:57:14 GMT
Perfick !!! :-)))
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Post by joe on Jun 17, 2016 19:50:53 GMT
A parcel arrived from The Netherlands today. In it is something I have never seen before. All the issues of Daf Auto-magazine from 1970, 1971, 1972 and 1973 bound in book form! I can only think this was done internally at Daf. But it is an incredible collection! Which makes up for the fact that Goldie has been in a local Garage for nearly 2 weeks for an MOT. A story for another time perhaps. Her indicators have turned to dust. But they are being replaced now!
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Post by joe on Jul 16, 2016 10:06:33 GMT
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Post by andrejuan on Jul 16, 2016 12:16:03 GMT
Tell us more :-) Good to see you are getting your "greens" Joe. Beware of the dodgy character lurking around tho, he was there the last time I saw that estate ;-)
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Post by joe on Aug 30, 2016 12:55:44 GMT
Goldie, and by extension myself, have had a very interesting Bank Holiday weekend. First up was a near 400 mile round trip to Essex! Not that this has made any difference to Goldie’s mileage as the Speedo cable decided to give up shortly before this trip. I’ve been meaning to visit Essex Dafs for ages. A wonderful place with wonderful people. The pictures don’t really do justice to the amount of parts there are! As with last years trip to Daf Hobby I ended up taking back some parts for Daf models I don’t even own! A reoccurring theme. There must be over half the surviving 55’s in the country here!! When did you last see a RHD 55 Coupe on the road!? My wonderful old Brown 33. Awaiting restoration. I bought this unseen off eBay and drove it 6 hours back home from Redruth! I love it! So many Dafs! Some in better condition that others! 2/3rds of the total current UK Road Legal Daf 46’s in this picture!! So after a flying visit we were back off up the A1. When a storm hit. Of biblical proportions! Thunder, lightening and torrential rain. Suddenly there was a loss of power, and we coasted towards the hard shoulder………. I tried in vain to get her going, but after getting soaked, the rain let up. And I had to phone the AA. Who towed us to Peterborough services, where we caught up with the storm once again that got even worse! We had a power cut, the roof near the toilets started leaking and the place filled up with people getting off the motorway. However with this break Goldie had dried out a bit. And we got going again, finally getting home at 9pm. After setting off at half 7 in the morning! The rain was ridiculous. The force of it has blown a hole through the paint to the rust bubbling on Goldie’s bonnet! I was feeling slightly more up for Daffing on Monday. So I got round to doing a job I’ve been meaning to do for ages. Goldie’s fuel gauge has never worked. So I got a new Tank Sensor from Steve and borrowed one of his tools and set about sorting it. It looks simple enough, and theoretically it is. Just unscrew the old one, take it out, and screw in the new one. But this job is a pig to do! Without this Adapted oil filter wrench it would have been impossible! But the old one was popped out…. And the new popped in…… And some petrol added to the tank, now to turn the key and see if it worked….. Which it didn’t. So I had a look behind the instrument binnacle. I take it there is supposed to be two wires here!? There isn’t any wires I can see dangling behind the dash. I’ve had a look at the wiring diagram, it appears to show a wire going to one of the warning lamps, but I’m not sure why? Also there doesn’t seem to be any connector behind them without a wire in!
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Post by Richard DAF Webmeister on Aug 30, 2016 19:14:41 GMT
Crikey.
What a lot of excitement - and poor Goldie.
I heard about that storm from elsewhere.
Excellent report.
Talking of which, if anyone else would like to send any articles/reports, please let me know.
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Post by andrejuan on Aug 31, 2016 18:39:07 GMT
Yes, it was a similar story a couple of years ago, I was down to 10mph at times on my way back, like a wall of water.
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Post by andrew on Sept 1, 2016 8:20:17 GMT
Joe, if I may offer a few words of advice regarding your fuel gauge, it might help sort out the problem (& I apologise if you've some some or all of these already!) The first one's a bit of a pain if you've put the sensor cover back on, but I'd suggest you start by removing the connectors from the sender unit & joining them together. This should make the gauge read "full" as the total 12 volts should be flowing through the wiring. If the gauge does move, the fault's in the sender unit. If it doesn't, the next thing to do is to connect the live feed to the sender unit to the car's frame directly. If the gauge now moves the fault is in the earth return wire from the sender unit to the car frame-a fairly easy fix.
If none of these point you to where the problem lies, perhaps you'll need a decent voltmeter for the next stage, so get back to me for further advice and I'll make a few further thoughts...... As to the "missing" wire on the back of the dashboard, all car dashboards need separate earthing leads, as they're usually electrically insulated from the car's frame, so the brown lead is this. Without the dashboard being earthed nothing electrical on the dashboard will work; no panel lights, no indicators, no beam warning etc.
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Post by joe on Sept 3, 2016 8:08:47 GMT
With the help of Steve progress has been made!
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Post by joe on Sept 13, 2016 7:00:12 GMT
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Post by joe on Oct 3, 2016 11:26:19 GMT
I've been doing some fiddling, and I have a working Fuel Gauge for the first time ever!
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Post by andrejuan on Oct 3, 2016 13:09:40 GMT
Well done Joe, electrical issues are my least favorite.
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Post by roepers on Nov 18, 2016 7:33:21 GMT
I thought I spotted Goldie on Flickr: CLICK
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Post by joe on Nov 21, 2017 8:14:51 GMT
That should be attached to the car I think? Goldie got MOT'd the other week. I believe that is the last time that will have to happen. Though I might be wrong. The Exhaust falling to bits, And in fairness it was coming as it was an ancient second (or even third) hand used one that I got for free! Will prompt be to sort some proper stuff out. Engine out, sort the brackets that connect the exhaust to the engine mounts, see if I can sort out the rattly heat exchangers that sort of thing. A lot has changed in life since I last posted in this thread on the 3rd October last year. Just a few days after I went to have a look at a 33 on for sale near Doncaster. Then a day after that I got chucked out of my own house for reasons that still baffle me. So I didn't see Goldie for 3 months. Fast forward and all is better. Managed to get to every DOC event this year (second year on the trot) and even brought a new enthusiast down to Princethorpe. Unfortunately I will be missing the committee meeting this weekend due to family arrangements all up in the air. but ohh well!
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