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Re: What did you do to your mk 3/4/5 today.

Postby CamperVanBeethoven » Sun Aug 07, 2016 7:15 pm

Hurrah! All door locks and the ignition now work on the same key! From four keys down to two now, and hopefully one once a Tibbe lock fuel cap arrives. Will need to build own lock, running short of discs but out of my old back door and side locks all the discs look good apart from the number 4 discs ... so might reuse the non-number 4 discs.

Had hoped to get sliding door and back door linings redone and remounted today, but it was awfully windy and then it started raining ... decided I'd done enough for one day.

Swapping the front door lock was a bugger of a job because it had a flat key lock in it held in by a load of silicone. Turns out Tibbe locks don't *quite* fit straight in, they're miles loose. Used some plastic as a shim to make the lock fit properly. It is possible (I didn't try refitting it) that the flat key lock was just as loose and that's why there was so much silicone there, holding it in place and masking the problem.

Drivers' door lock also didn't have the little plastic diamond-shaped part on the end of the rod that the lock was expected to fit. Instead, it's just a bit of rod with what's like a three pronged circlip type of thing.

I improvised, took an M4 nut, drilled it out to fit the rod in the middle ... and then rounded the corners to turn it into a spacer to fit inside the lock arm. Then I refitted the clip thingy. What do you call those things? Anyway, it all works now :)

Edit to add: Going through Wikipedia's list of fasteners, I believe it's a push nut.
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Re: What did you do to your mk 3/4/5 today.

Postby CamperVanBeethoven » Mon Aug 08, 2016 9:40 pm

Almost finished relining the side door, but it got too dark to see what I was doing, so I stopped for now ...

I just used spray glue to stick the new lining material on top of the Ford original. Hey, it's all extra insulation (for both sound and heat ya know :) )

Picture tomorrow, hopefully ... :)
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Re: What did you do to your mk 3/4/5 today.

Postby CamperVanBeethoven » Tue Aug 09, 2016 9:11 pm

Side door done!

It certainly makes the van more colourful. It's quite a deep shade really. The camera flash makes it look a lot brighter cause of course it's reflective ...

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Re: What did you do to your mk 3/4/5 today.

Postby MinorMatt » Tue Aug 09, 2016 9:23 pm

Think I have worked out the equivilant of the bosch tweak for the epic pumps...
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Re: What did you do to your mk 3/4/5 today.

Postby CamperVanBeethoven » Tue Aug 09, 2016 9:25 pm

MinorMatt wrote:Think I have worked out the equivilant of the bosch tweak for the epic pumps...

Nice one! Now, can you make them as reliable as the Bosch? ;)
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Re: What did you do to your mk 3/4/5 today.

Postby MinorMatt » Tue Aug 09, 2016 9:28 pm

Quite possibly. They are an inherintly simple design, as far as I can see the problems the pumps experience are due to cheap diesel with less lubricating properties than the old sulphur stuff...

Mine is at 200,000 on the original 20 year old epic pump - but it has had a new stop solenoid plunger
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Re: What did you do to your mk 3/4/5 today.

Postby CamperVanBeethoven » Tue Aug 09, 2016 9:37 pm

MinorMatt wrote:Quite possibly. They are an inherintly simple design, as far as I can see the problems the pumps experience are due to cheap diesel with less lubricating properties than the old sulphur stuff...

Mine is at 200,000 on the original 20 year old epic pump - but it has had a new stop solenoid plunger

So, diverging a bit and maybe there has already been a huge thread about it on here already ... does adding two stroke oil at about 1:200 ratio help with lubricity...?

I did try it for a bit. It did make the pump quieter and smoother. Whether it had any effect on performance is debatable and plus I think I was still purging out crap from the engine from, err ... more sedate former owners. The performance did increase over the first few weeks as I thrashed it harder than it had probably been thrashed for years ... Italian tune-up :D
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Re: What did you do to your mk 3/4/5 today.

Postby BROWNYS V6 » Tue Aug 09, 2016 9:45 pm

drove to work in it and a bit more t cutting, I'm getting there slowly :lol:
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Re: What did you do to your mk 3/4/5 today.

Postby BROWNYS V6 » Wed Aug 10, 2016 10:34 pm

getting bored with t cut, so cracked out the mer today, and drove it some more :mrgreen:
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Re: What did you do to your mk 3/4/5 today.

Postby vanfox » Wed Aug 10, 2016 11:27 pm

Finally got round to fitting the rev counter instruments etc then had to install the missing wire to terminal 8 from the alternator. I now have a rev counter, yippee!
I'll get back with the drop in revs when engaging overdrive.
Anyone got a spare speedo sender and a blue 4.11 driven gear?
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Re: What did you do to your mk 3/4/5 today.

Postby BROWNYS V6 » Thu Aug 11, 2016 10:26 pm

back on the t cut, :roll: only one rear quarter left to do.
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Re: What did you do to your mk 3/4/5 today.

Postby angusp » Sat Aug 13, 2016 4:13 pm

Started filling some of the holes with fibre glass filler
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Re: What did you do to your mk 3/4/5 today.

Postby MinorMatt » Sat Aug 13, 2016 6:01 pm

Got more power than standard from my epic powered van (method not ready for public release yet!)
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Re: What did you do to your mk 3/4/5 today.

Postby derv23 » Sat Aug 13, 2016 9:24 pm

Hmm sounds interesting Matt. Waiting on the public release . Got me thinking , :D
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Re: What did you do to your mk 3/4/5 today.

Postby MinorMatt » Sat Aug 13, 2016 9:29 pm

It works and its not hard (bit more than bosch but it can be done in situ). I just need to work out how to get the idle back to where it should be...
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