1966 German Mk1 firevan make over

[RP123]

Thought I would start a thread for the conversion of my German mk1 firevan,

Plans are to change the front and rear axles, fit the 2.9 efi Cologne V6 and Mt 75 box retaining the V4 front panel and I'm toying with converting to RHD while I'm at it.

Couple of pictures of this afternoons start on the project.

[Luke]

easier rhd conversion with it being an early one its got the twin steering box mounts

[RP123]

Well here we go with some more progress, been busy over the last couple of weeks.

Got the Mk5 independent front suspension unit fitted and got the V6 engine and box fitted and engine and gearbox mounts all done.

I'm sorry I've posted a link to the mk1/mk2 Transit forum, for some reason on here every time I try and upload more than one picture at a time with photobucket it sends me back to the Home page when I click submit with message saying the requested page cannot be found I would have to make over 20 individual posts to add one picture at a time!

So the updates are here, lots of pictures; http://mk1mk2transit.freeforums.net/ind ... 536&page=1

[RP123]

Ah well, for some reason I can't post my updated pictures

[oldyellar]

What a job , you made the ifs conversion look easy what mk5 rack did you use 190 six stud single wheel?

[RP123]

Thanks mate.

I've used the front IFS unit from my 6 stud 190 mk5 I'm breaking. Bit more progress on the mk1 now, the hybrid steering column is all done and bolted into the van, it now steers as RHD.

[RP123]

Well here we go with some more progress, been busy over the last couple of weeks.

Got the Mk5 independent front suspension unit fitted and got the V6 engine and box fitted and engine and gearbox mounts all done.















Made this jig to ensure I got the mk5 shock absorber top mounting positioned correctly in the mk1 arch

















The v6 and mt75 box, fresh out the mk3 fire van pictured beside the engine.





























That's about where I'm up to at the mo, starting to rebuild the bulkhead now and position pedal box and sort the dash out for RHD conversion.

[RP123]

Well I've not updated for a while. The project stalled for a bit while I had a few issues with getting the engine started and running right which resulted in me not making the school leavers prom, basically I had problems getting it started in the doner van before removing it and thought it was one part but it wasn't, anyway got it resolved after 4/5 weeks of head scratching, never straight forward is it!!

Anyway I'm back on the conversion work now and its coming on leaps and bounds.

Here are some more pictures, I'll let them do the talking.

[oldyellar]

Superb work there

[BigMonty]

fantastic.

[mealic]

Great thread,"well done".Nice Porker in the background too

[irmscher]

Looks brilliant and some great work going on

[ake]

Fantastic work

[oldskooler]

awesome work and progress there mate, well done.

[karl]

great work done very proffesionaly as well