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New to transits and I've got a few questions

Postby Matt83 » Wed Jan 17, 2018 8:17 pm

Hello!

My girlfriend has just bought a 1987 mk3 transit campervan, and I'm wondering if you could let me know what I'm looking at under the bonnet. I don't know much about transits (or diesels in general), but I've got a bad habit in '70s Bedford CFs, so I know which end of a spanner is which.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/17Dv8RUCHVpgzRPt8632XINHQUrCTkvRD/view?usp=drivesdk

Here's the motor (in the link). I get the feeling it isn't the original? The loom looks messed-about, the oil filler feels too modern, and there's some kind of butterfly and paraphernalia by the air intake that's been blanked off / disconnected (some kind of antipollution system?) There's also some weirdy disconnected stuff in the rad pipe front centre (right by the engine lift hook in the photo). No idea what it is, but its got a snipped off cable coming out of it.

I'd love you thoughts on where this engine has come from, and what the disconnected bits are. The motor has a "76ps" sticker on the plastic cambelt cover, if that helps...

Much obliged!
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Re: New to transits and I've got a few questions

Postby gotgcoalman » Wed Jan 17, 2018 8:56 pm

Bosch pumped "nanna" engine from a later transit.
Bits missing/dissconected are for the EGR which at a look of the pic appears to be missing.
On a plus the pump doesn't apper to have been fiddled with (the cap is still on the top)
snipped off cable is more than likley the temp gauge wire?
I can see the sender with the wire cut look for the bit I mean next to 6007 on the timing cover in the pic.

It's got the older metal thermostat housing.



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Re: New to transits and I've got a few questions

Postby V184 » Wed Jan 17, 2018 9:06 pm

could do with a fanbelt
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Re: New to transits and I've got a few questions

Postby Matt83 » Wed Jan 17, 2018 9:23 pm

Haha, good spot V184. I took the picture while changing the belt.

Thanks for your observations gotcoalman. Glad to know I don't need to work out what an egr is and remove it (as everyone tells me I should), if it's already been done.

The sender wire you mention was hooked to a non-functioning aftermarket "sports" temp gauge that I removed, hence the snip. Is the sender and it's bit of metal pipe actually from a transit?

Also, it appears that originally the coolant top pipe was that bit of disconnected hose you can see poking out from under the bananas, but that's been disconnected and replaced with a grand ark of assorted hose bits that loops around to that sender unit mentioned.

What is the metal bit just to the right of the temp sender? It looks like if I wanted to use the actual top hose again, I'd need to change this bit for a 90° bend?

Thanks so much for your thoughts,

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Re: New to transits and I've got a few questions

Postby gotgcoalman » Wed Jan 17, 2018 11:28 pm

thermostat housing to use the top pipe.
thermostat housing.jpg


You'd need to find where the pipework was altered to use this housing though.
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Re: New to transits and I've got a few questions

Postby cherniy_chack » Thu Jan 18, 2018 10:00 pm

Matt83,the machine was in the hands, as they say in Russia, "kulibina." :lol:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Kulibin
The thermostat housing corresponds to the year of manufacture.
Part of the hoses of the cooling system is clearly from the machine Mk4 or Mk5.
The intake manifold is also with Mk4 or Mk5.
In Russian is called "crab".
The air filter is so-called "ramjet".
Most likely, there should be an intake manifold of the type "Pirburgh" and a square air filter. As in the photo.
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