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Post by pauldaf44 on Feb 9, 2011 17:14:57 GMT
More work on this one today. The brake pedal was dropping a bit low so decided to investigate. Came down to adjustment. So they are now nicely adjusted. However this did not go to plan as the adjusters on the nearside sheared off. Luckily I had a spare rebuilt back plate so that went on. So in proper Joe fashion here is a detailed how to. First remove the hubcap for this a flat head screwdriver with a decent length shaft is ideal then slacken off the wheel nuts with a suitable breaker bar Now jack the car up. I have used the factory jacking point as I know its strong. If you are not sure use the subframe. Now remove the wheel completly. I like to use a half inch ratchet to quickly wind the nuts off For safety it is a good idea to use an axle stand. Where mine is put is a good strong location and the stand is unlikely to slip under heavy torques Now thats is done. Place a 17mm socket onto the adjuster nut, a 3/8 drive is ideal for this. Turn the adjuster untill the hub locks and back it off so that the hub just starts too turn. Repeat this for the other adjuster Thats your brakes adjusted. Refit the wheel and do the nuts up finger tight. This is done so that the wheel goes on squarely. Lower the car back to the ground and tighten the wheel nuts properly. This being a 3 stud wheel it doesn't really matter which order you torque up. On most wheels remember to torque across the wheel. Then refit the hubcap and move on to the next wheel. If like me you find that the adjusters wont turn on the next wheel you may need to follow these steps. first remove the little circlip and withdraw the grease cap. Use a 24mm socket to undo the nut that holds the wheel on. Now withdraw the brake drum be carefull not to lose the bearing and retainer or to get them dirty. They will pop out as you remove the drum. This is the front wheel bearing which you may as well inspect and replace if worn. With the drum off you now need to disconnect the brake line. Undo this union and remove the flexi from the back of the cylinder. If you just try to undo the flexi you will collapse the pipe as it twists. Now you need to dissasemble the brakes. So that it goes from this to this The 4 bolts in the centre need to be undone and then the back plate can be removed. There is a nut on the back that you need to hold otherwise your bolt will just spin. Once your done it should look like this. I cleaned that up as I dont like rust! If like me your nuts wont turn despite copious ammounts of penertrating fluid and heat you may need to use one of these on the nut. You place it around the nut with the blade in the middle of a flat face and then tighten till the nut splits in half. Of course you will now need new nuts and bolts. Now that the back plate is off you need to swap the slave cylinder onto the new plate. There are 2 10mm bolts holding it on. Now bolt the new plate onto the hub. You now need to reassemble the brakes and fit the drum. This is where taking a photo of how it looked before is handy if you are unsure. Dont forget to smear the stub shaft with plenty of grease. Now take the bearing and retainer and press them in. It must go in the right way around or the wheel will lock! This photo shows what it will look like if its the wrong way around With the bearing the right way around it will press in flush with the drum. Then screw the 24mm hub nut back on tight but not too tight. tap in the grease cap and refit the circlip. Now you can adjust the brakes up as before Now refit the wheel as before and bleed the brakes and enjoy having a nice firm pedal again. Hope you liked the report Paul
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Post by spunkymonkey on Feb 9, 2011 17:44:31 GMT
Nicely done, Paul - of course, the initial wrong-way for the outer hub bearing was one of those deliberate "how not to do it" bits, wasn't it? I get quite a lot of those personally ;D
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Post by 33grinder on Feb 9, 2011 17:51:05 GMT
Well done Paul, great report.
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Post by pauldaf44 on Feb 9, 2011 18:27:57 GMT
Nicely done, Paul - of course, the initial wrong-way for the outer hub bearing was one of those deliberate "how not to do it" bits, wasn't it? I get quite a lot of those personally ;D You learn by mistakes as they say. I put that photo in so that others dont make the same mistake The reason I know the hub will lock up is it did ;D meant I had to put a new bearing in anyway
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Post by dafdaffer on Feb 9, 2011 20:04:37 GMT
nice report paul, you did knock in the hub nut in to stop it coming undone didn't you as you didn't document it, personally i would fit a new one.
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Post by pauldaf44 on Feb 9, 2011 20:50:36 GMT
I use a 6 point punch that indents the top of the nut slightly. Specialist tool. I also use a circlip in the thread. It aint coming of again
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Post by pauldaf44 on Feb 17, 2011 16:45:56 GMT
I thought things where going too well. Pulled away from a junction this morning twang pedal on the floor no revs. Blasted throttle cables gone again. Managed to freewheel to safety. After a couple of minutes cursing and pannicking as car was less than a mile from home I tried to think a way out of it. As the engine was warm I decided I didn't need a choke and connected the choke cable to the throttle. FTW a hand throttle takes some getting used to.
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Post by kenr on Feb 17, 2011 17:03:16 GMT
Great bodge!!!
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Post by dafdaffer on Feb 17, 2011 18:46:04 GMT
Bike cable fits 100% with pear grip end.... £1.50
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Post by dafdaffer on Feb 18, 2011 13:54:29 GMT
yes John it fits really well into the pedal and then just ties off at the other end, i think that i even used an outer cable as well.
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Post by pauldaf44 on Feb 18, 2011 17:45:09 GMT
I had to call my local daf friendly garage out as numpty here put her in a ditch when the cable snapped so that she wasn't blocking the road just got the bill £60 ouch but that does include a nice new throttle cable and a carter valve he had sitting deep down in a box of random parts
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Post by pauldaf44 on Apr 1, 2011 17:42:39 GMT
I have a very very naughty DAF. The oil slick on the road under her engine is similar in size to the one caused by the BP oil spill. ;D
I noticed at college today that there was a LOT of oil sitting on her engine, so investigated and discovered that the oil pressure sender was loose. 5 full turns to nip it tight. Halfway home I thought hmm this smells a bit. Stopped and topped up the sump. 10miles later back on the minimum. Having looked again the sender is still leaking, I think the crank seal is too and the amount of oil and how far spread out it is makes me think the pushrod tubes are as well.
Does anyone know where I can get the relevant seals from for everything that can be done engine in situ please?
Paul
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Post by spunkymonkey on Apr 1, 2011 18:37:26 GMT
Crank seal from any bearing / seal supplier (Bearing King are pretty good)
Copper washer for the oil pressure sensor any good motor factor - or heat the old one to glowing and hold it there for about 10 seconds then re-use.
Push-rod tubes fit a couple of normal O rings side by side because you won't find the original type unless I decide to make tooling and have them cast in PU (which is on the to-do list but pretty low priority seeing as O rings work fine).
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Post by pauldaf44 on Apr 1, 2011 19:01:02 GMT
Crank seal from any bearing / seal supplier (Bearing King are pretty good) Copper washer for the oil pressure sensor any good motor factor - or heat the old one to glowing and hold it there for about 10 seconds then re-use. Push-rod tubes fit a couple of normal O rings side by side because you won't find the original type unless I decide to make tooling and have them cast in PU (which is on the to-do list but pretty low priority seeing as O rings work fine). you dont by any chance no what size the crank seal is off hand do you?
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Post by spunkymonkey on Apr 1, 2011 19:02:53 GMT
Not off the top of my head, but a search on here should bring it up - I'm sure it's been posted before
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Post by pauldaf44 on Apr 2, 2011 18:00:49 GMT
Right oh ive had some very good news today. I was up at the west wales DAF centre having a chat with Brian and the subject turned to ally welding. This is where I discovered that my friend before he retired was a blacksmith and still has all his kit and is currently embarking on a project to make some new cylinder barrels for his morgan. Then I had an idea this is it, and Brian has agreed to it.
Take one 15k TIG welder and blacksmith wielding it and a scrap DAF inlet manifold. End product a fully functioning manifold with hotspot pipes.
Does anyone have a scrap manifold spare that could be used in a repair experiment. If this works we would try and do a few to build up a small spares stock
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Post by pauldaf44 on Apr 12, 2011 13:54:00 GMT
Just stripped down Gladys leaky front shock, cleaned everything to within an inch of its life reassembled with fresh oil and seals and now the blasted thing is almost but not rock solid.
Blast!!
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Post by spunkymonkey on Apr 12, 2011 14:28:50 GMT
What oil did you use?
Did you check that the piston rod was straight (max of about 3 thou runout iirc but shouldn't stick below about 20 thou) before reassembling?
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Post by pauldaf44 on Apr 12, 2011 15:17:42 GMT
Motorcycle fork oil. Could not see any bend in the shaft but dont have a lathe to check it. The shock isn't sticking it still moves it just requires a lot of force. I think ive likely put too much oil in. I put just over a litre into it
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Post by pauldaf44 on Apr 13, 2011 16:00:35 GMT
Gladys has had some more attention today. You may remember last year I skinned some fibreglass over a rust hole as a temp fix. Well today that was removed cut back to nice sound metal and a patch welded in. Shield your eyes it aint pretty and is going to take some hiding with the filler. Must learn to weld better!! as you can see the rot extended quite a long way back. I will mask that repair with a thin layer of filler tomorrow. Meanwhile I had noticed that there was a crack appearing at the bottom of the passenger wing. This made me think FILLER oh yes it was. All of that was dug and sanded out making the workshop resemble the arctic. leaving a sizeable hole in the end of the sill and no bottom to the wing. So I patched the sill and built a bottom to the wing out of sheet steel. Again with a touch of filler to mask it should look nice Im quite proud of this second repair I must be starting to get the hand of this welding lark On a side note my oil leak problem is ongoing. I have confirmed there are no leaks from the pushrods , the oil sender is properly sealed again. I have traced the leak and its a weird one that I cant think how to get around. Its bubbling out of the dipstick tube only with the dipstick in place. Any ideas on how to stop it?
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Post by pauldaf44 on Apr 14, 2011 16:56:14 GMT
Give that american a banana. Carter valve. had dislocated and was blocking the tube. Seeing as in the condition its in its doing bugger all anyway ive left it off. Its happy now and no more leaks. Just need a new valve and airfilter from danny now
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Post by pauldaf44 on Apr 27, 2011 17:07:29 GMT
Finally got a new airfilter this morning and the difference in Gladys is unbelievable, she quiter faster and much more torquey.
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Post by pauldaf44 on Apr 28, 2011 16:50:42 GMT
Today has been presented to me by the devil himself!! Got up this morning and took Gladys up to do some work on Bruce who fought me every step of the way and 7 hours later im very tired and haven't really got very far. Bad Bad car! I decided to call it a day chucked all the tools in the triumph jumped in DAF and headed home only for her to decide to break halfway home and all the tools are 7 miles away in the ruddy triumph! Anyway this is whats happened Open bonnet hello that dont look right where the tie bracket gone? waa waa waa too seperate pipes where there should only be one That silencer is less than 500 miles old to say that I am pissed off with it would be the understatement of a century. So I strapped it up and limped home with a missfiring engine. No back pressure and a harley davidson sound track. Only I now have to remove the silencer to repair it and remove that engine mount to make a bracket to reduce vibrations. Oh and did I mention all the tools are in the ruddy Triumph!! ARRRGGGGHHHHHH Paul
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Post by 33grinder on Apr 28, 2011 16:57:21 GMT
That's sod's law for you Paul. I had to run Gavina for about 50 miles like that with a broken exhaust. It'll all work out in the end I'm sure...
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Post by pauldaf44 on Apr 28, 2011 17:06:40 GMT
That's so d's law for you Paul. I had to run Gavina for about 50 miles like that with a broken exhaust. It'll all work out in the end I'm sure... Hmm if I get the exhaust of today I can get it repaired tomorrow however at the moment I dont really feel like touching her incase I vent my frustration with a sledge hammer. Anyone fancy a cube shaped daf?
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Post by spunkymonkey on Apr 28, 2011 17:34:52 GMT
That's why the rear heat exchanger support (in whatever form it takes on the 44) is so important, Paul. On the plus side, you haven't been chasing another piece of newly discovered rot halfway around your o/s rear suspension! Swap you......
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Post by pauldaf44 on Apr 28, 2011 17:55:39 GMT
I would happily swap that for the rebushing on the Triumph which was a ruddy nightmare. Polybushes are wonderfull if you can get them in posistion!!
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Post by pauldaf44 on May 10, 2011 15:42:44 GMT
Anyone want to buy Gladys before I lay into her with a sledge hammer?
I repaired the exhaust today welded the crack up and fitted a new tie to the rear of the heat exchanger. Before I got home the bloomin' thing had snapped in 2 again. Im now really losing patience with this cars exhaust. You wouldn't think a 4 month old pipe to be giving so much grief all the time
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Post by pauldaf44 on May 13, 2011 8:04:35 GMT
Well. I took the exhaust off on wednesday evening which as we all know is a swine of a job at the best of times. However having inadvertantly welded one of the heat exchanger mounting flange nuts to its thread does not make life any easier!!.
Anyway refitted yesterday and thankfully no longer doing a Harley Davidson impression
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Post by 33grinder on May 13, 2011 12:26:05 GMT
You see, things are looking up already! All of your woes are part of the 'love/hate' cycle of classic car ownership and to be expected. Many are the times I've had to 'put down the angle grinder and walk away'... Glad to hear Gladys is on the mend!
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