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Re: My Essex V6 Transplant

Postby Leeday » Thu May 29, 2014 12:29 am

Adaptor plate has been posted off to dieselhead123 who is making alterations to the starter hole alignment, I am awaiting its return in the post so I can re-assemble everything with the starter hopefully in its correct position :D and meshing with the ring-gear more snugly.
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Re: My Essex V6 Transplant

Postby whitemice » Thu May 29, 2014 1:02 am

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Re: My Essex V6 Transplant

Postby dieselhead123 » Thu May 29, 2014 8:22 am

HI Lee, pm sent mate.

The plate will be with you today, also another flywheel, so no need to worry about any damage that has occurred to your ring gear.

As said in the pm, the starter position had somehow 'moved' compared to our CAD drawing, still unsure as to how this would have happened :oops:

I can only apologise unreservedly for this problem and will produce another plate for 'stock' to enable us to confirm the problem will not reoccur.

Thanks again for your patience with this.

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Re: My Essex V6 Transplant

Postby Leeday » Fri May 30, 2014 6:24 pm

Thursday 1pm, flywheel and modified adaptor plate arrived from Dieselhead (Tim):

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Unfortunately during transit 2 of the clutch alignment pins on the flywheel got snapped off:

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So out with the drill and stud extractors and pulled out snapped pins, heated up my old flywheel and removed good pins to insert into new flywheel:

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Re-attached plate to back of engine, fitted new (cleaned up) flywheel, fitted clutch:

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Put starter motor into place to check alignment and all looks good:

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Spent rest of yesterday afternoon re-fitting gearbox -- on my back with a single trolley jack :roll: , prop-shaft etc, at 9pm decided time to come in.

Started again at 8am this morning, just needed to torque all bolts, connect starter, re-connect battery, lower van off axle stands and turn the key :D
Turns over lovely with no growling noises and started straight up (quietest the starter has ever been)... drove round the block and all was good, so at 11am went off to work, home at 5pm and all is going well :D
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Re: My Essex V6 Transplant

Postby madbri » Fri May 30, 2014 9:08 pm

8) 8) 8)
all credit to all who had input and tim for being the man he is and putting his hands up and helping 8)
true old school. none of this well it should work ive got ure money now do 1
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Re: My Essex V6 Transplant

Postby whitemice » Sat May 31, 2014 2:36 am

8) 8) 8)
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Mike writ '' a vote for lABOUR is a vote for islam and a conservative vote is a vote for islam and a vote for liberal is a vote for islam. ''
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Re: My Essex V6 Transplant

Postby Leeday » Sat May 31, 2014 9:40 am

During the conversion I put a spacer behind the clutch release arm to move the arm forward, spacer was 36mm long, this proved to be a bit to long, so Tim sent me a new one at 30mm long:

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Whilst gearbox was out, removed the 36mm spacer and put the 30mm one in, this has proved to be far better and the clutch is now far better with the pedal being at a better height, due to the extent of the pedal travel I have put a "stop" bolt in behind the pedal to stop the clutch pedal from going to the floor and pushing the release bearing through the clutch:

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This gives a good height for the biting point and don`t have to stretch legs out to get the clutch working :D

Big thanks to Dieselhead (Tim) for all his help during this project and the rectification of the adapter....... he has always been at the end of the phone when needed :D
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Re: My Essex V6 Transplant

Postby limitedblack » Sat May 31, 2014 9:48 am

You must owe him a whole "all you can eat" breakfast by now ;)
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Re: My Essex V6 Transplant

Postby Leeday » Sat May 31, 2014 9:53 am

limitedblack wrote:You must owe him a whole "all you can eat" breakfast by now ;)


:D at the very least :D
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Re: My Essex V6 Transplant

Postby BROWNYS V6 » Sat May 31, 2014 11:55 am

glad you got it sorted lee, and good on ya tim for the after sales service :wink:
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Re: My Essex V6 Transplant

Postby RustWidow » Sat May 31, 2014 9:13 pm

Well done guys, always good to see something fixed
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Re: My Essex V6 Transplant

Postby conrod » Mon Jun 02, 2014 8:23 pm

Well done Lee, glad you got it fixed, and good on you Tim for standing behind your products and helping Lee get it sorted :D

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Re: My Essex V6 Transplant

Postby Leeday » Sun Aug 31, 2014 9:27 pm

Hi all,

Couldn`t make Transitmania :( and am gutted... Will definitely be there next year and may try to get to some other meets this year.

But have a problem with my van and looking for some advice if possible:

The MT75 gearbox I fitted to the back of my Essex V6 has become very noisy. It is quiet on tickover and in neutral, as soon as you put it in gear and start moving it becomes noisy, the faster you go the noiser it gets, on de-acceleration it is noisy but not as bad as when accelerating. It is noisy in every gear.
The only way I can explain the noise is like when you used to put cardboard flaps on your pushbike forks/wheels and it would "click" on the spokes, but the clicking is very fast and continuous on the gearbox and its so loud even the stereo doesn`t drown it out.
The New MT75 gearbox oil I put in is still up-to the fill level plug, so its not short of gearbox oil.
Need the work for van but am worried that the gearbox may break and van becomes unusable.

Cheers for any advice
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Re: My Essex V6 Transplant

Postby madbri » Mon Sep 01, 2014 5:25 pm

lee have u checked ure prop shaft bearings? even new 1s can go very bad very quick... just a thought
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Re: My Essex V6 Transplant

Postby whitemice » Mon Sep 01, 2014 7:41 pm

U/J? .....Is the sound road speed or engine/gearbox speed related?
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