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Re: BROWNYS V6 MK3

Postby Chug » Sun Feb 24, 2019 11:23 pm

I've just caught up with the underneath scraping pics, a lot of work there sir, hats off to ya, but the condition is great so it makes it more satisfying than finding rust, and I bet the recent nicer weather has helped.
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Re: BROWNYS V6 MK3

Postby BROWNYS V6 » Mon Feb 25, 2019 10:51 pm

cheers chuggy, yeah its been a labour of love, theres a couple of bits I missed, but I can touch them up when I get it to work up on the ramp, will get some underneath pics too,
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Re: BROWNYS V6 MK3

Postby BROWNYS V6 » Sun Mar 03, 2019 11:01 pm

so I managed to get the nearside all fitted up with the new discs, new flexi pipes, hub swop, and pads yesterday and chopped half a coil off my new front springs (way to wallowy for my liking) see how we get on with that, also found some more mud to scrape off the front crossmember, (really)
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Re: BROWNYS V6 MK3

Postby BROWNYS V6 » Sun Mar 31, 2019 9:32 pm

aint touched the van for a while, been busy playing with my hotrod, and bought a knight rider trans am :roll: cant help meself :lol:
anyway, had a bit of time on it tis afternoon, so got the offside stripped of to fit new discs and pads and chop the other spring, got a seized caliper now :roll: need to get the spannermonkey to give me a hand with that tomorrow night, still got the handbrake cable to fit and bleed the brakes out, oh and I still need a pair of front tyres and.....
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Re: BROWNYS V6 MK3

Postby MONSTER 0NE » Sun Mar 31, 2019 9:57 pm

still making progress even slow is better than me on mine mate, as I also have american toy which is taking some of my time (94 mustang 302).
the van hasn't had any real work done to it a year or so now
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Re: BROWNYS V6 MK3

Postby BROWNYS V6 » Sun Mar 31, 2019 10:04 pm

I hope your mustang is in better shape than my trans am, got any pics of it ?
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Re: BROWNYS V6 MK3

Postby MONSTER 0NE » Sun Mar 31, 2019 10:39 pm

mustang first pic.jpg
the first pic is of when i got it a few years ago, and second from last year
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Re: BROWNYS V6 MK3

Postby BROWNYS V6 » Sun Mar 31, 2019 10:53 pm

oh yeah that's nice, wont put a pic of mine up, its been parked under a tree for 18 years :lol:
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Re: BROWNYS V6 MK3

Postby MONSTER 0NE » Sun Mar 31, 2019 11:04 pm

its getting there slowly,s still got a few jobs in the pipe line for it
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Re: BROWNYS V6 MK3

Postby BROWNYS V6 » Sat Apr 06, 2019 7:12 pm

been doin a bit more, on fitting the second disc and new pads, I couldn't get the pistons in far enough to get the caliper back on, plus one was a bit sticky, so pulled them both off the van and stripped them down, both lower pistons had a load of sludge behind the pistons, so ordered a rebuild kit from big red, got them both rebuilt this afternoon, will refit them tomorrow
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Re: BROWNYS V6 MK3

Postby BROWNYS V6 » Sun Apr 21, 2019 11:00 pm

so got the calipers rebuilt and fitted, decided I needed a brake proportioning valve with the discs on the back, had an old wilwood one of the escort, but thought id buy a new one, after fitting 2 new valves that were both shite and didn't work, I fitted my old one, all bled out and no leaks, got a bracket made to hold the sierra handbrake cable, just got to finish it off tomorrow and hope to get it outside for a couple of pics
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Re: BROWNYS V6 MK3

Postby BROWNYS V6 » Mon Apr 22, 2019 10:27 pm

Managed to get the van back together today and outside for a pic
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whyzit wonky, its not on my phone, pah :lol:
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Re: BROWNYS V6 MK3

Postby BROWNYS V6 » Wed Apr 24, 2019 10:10 pm

so I took the van for a spin to work today, brakes are shocking at the moment, new pads front and rear was never gonna be fun, got loads of pedal travel, might need to address that with a mc swop, the diff is whining like a bitch on heat too, hey ho ratio not ideal, but I knew that, pulls like fook in first and second, :mrgreen: not lookin forward to a run on a motorway though :lol:
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Re: BROWNYS V6 MK3

Postby BROWNYS V6 » Sun May 12, 2019 7:21 pm

So I decided not too drive the van with its new whiney diff, made a start this afternoon pulling it out, got a lead on a 4:11 diff,which is better than the one in it
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Re: BROWNYS V6 MK3

Postby BROWNYS V6 » Mon May 13, 2019 11:54 pm

diffs out, oils like gold metallic paint, don't look like its made it into the new wheel bearings, as there still packed with grease on the back, cleaned the casing out, just need to get diff sorted and back together, was quoted 300quid plus vat today for a cwp swop and set up with new bearings in my diff case, bit steep me thinks
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