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

[MinorMatt]

So electric rivets = plug weld

[Chug]

I was thinking plug weld when I saw the pics but I was late for work and put spot welds but I thought plug welds was what cherniy was referring to

[cherniy_chack]

Guys, we live in so different countries all over the world that I'm only surprised how we understand each other using only Google translator!
In the countries of the former USSR, this is an "electric rivet", in the countries of the British Commonwealth, this method of joining thin-sheet steel parts is called somehow differently.
But we all use this welding method.
I recently learned to cook using the MAG method.
Then I was 50 years old, now 67.
I do not often do welding work, only repairing my car and very rarely other people's cars.
To obtain a welding point using the MAG method, it is necessary that the hole has a diameter of at least 7 mm, the parts are tightly compressed and work with the maximum possible current - then the molten metal is squeezed out to the inside of the seam and the face of the point turns out to be flat or slightly concave.
The seam is strong and there is less work to strip it.
But this does not always work.
I am sure that those of you who know how to work with the MAG method know this.

[Noctule]

Yesterday - thrashed it from East Germany to Europoort, 600km with 7 1/2 hours to do it in.

Left Halberstadt at midday (had a receipt with 11:55 on it)

Fiiled up at Braunschweig.

Got stuck in queues at Hannover.

30minutes stuck in a queue near Minden due to a crash.

Another queue at Bad Oeynhausen.

Stopped for 10 minutes at Brockbachtal services near Lotte (Osnabrück). Just long enough to use the toilet and get more crisps and biscuits in the front. No time for a coffee or a sandwich as that left 3 hours to do 300km (about 185 miles).

Somehow reached P&O at Europoort with 5 minutes to spare, so averaged over 100kph over 3 hours. Given that Hollands' motorways are 100kph tops until 7pm, and it was raining for the first hour whilst still in Germany (which didn't stop me doing 120km/h), I'm amazed we got there on time. Not bad for a twin-wheeled HiCube.

Fuel consumption took a massive hit, leaving the docks in Hull the low fuel light came on, so the thrashing it took it below 25mpg. Normally can get 28-29mpg when not in a rush, going fast enough to overtake lorries.

Mat

[cherniy_chack]

When I was driving fast in my son's high cube, the arrow of the fuel level indicator fell before our eyes.
25mpg is still good for a car like this at this speed.

[Keef]

Turned this

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Into this

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Sad really, it wasn't that bad but I stuck it on ebay for £200 and sold once to a messer, second time didn't get a bid. Another one bites the dust

[BROWNYS V6]

sod all today, but yesterday we used the van for towing duties to santa pod, didnt miss a beat

[Noctule]

Front wheel alignment. My Trakrite said 2 degrees toe out! It goes in a straight line now. It must have been like that since I replaced the front spring hanger.

Mat

[Bumblebee95]

Started to stop the biodegradable wheel arch and step on Bumblebee. Then drove it with fresh paint drying in the breeze back home fromnthe workshop.
Found out however that it doesn't stop there and needs more metal. Who says these old vans are not environmental when they decompose unlike a lot of the plastic ones out there now!

[gotgcoalman]

Mine let out its water today and the oil filter decided to unscrew.

Oil on drive this morning led to discovering the filter that has been on for 5000 miles had tried to go south.

Header tank was empty as well
Heater pipe was the culprit.
The one that runs around the rocker box

Had several pin prick holes that squirted under pressure onto the exhaust manifold, so no telltale drip of water on the floor.

Vroom vroom chaps.

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[gotgcoalman]

Today I "sleeved" the bad bit of pipe with copper pipe and hose clips.

Had one of those spring clip hose connectors let fly and hit me in the eye whilst trying to put it back on the pipe.

Vroom vroom.

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[Chug]

Swapped over a broken rear leaf spring for a non broken one, the one that had been sitting for years on my spares van came off great, the one on my used daily van had one bolt that was a fecker and I eventually had to resort to the angle grinder, the engine also got new oil and a new oil filter. vroom vroom, toot toot

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[gotgcoalman]

You have the dewilt cheaty gun

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[Chug]

You have the dewilt cheaty gun

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No, but my mate across the road does

but.... it was useless on any of the undoing bits, even after I had loosened the nuts with a bar and socket first and after I had wire brushed and oiled all the bolt threads, the nuts screwed on easily by hand, so I didn't even use it putting things back together

[gotgcoalman]

Used mine yesterday to great effect

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