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Tim's personal notepad

I've been posting in my 'introductions' thread but have been advised to stick it in a blog thread instead, so here is my blog thread, which is really a way for me to have a record of my beddy ownership from day one onwards. It wont be of interest to anyone else, but if you do happen to drop in a read any of it for want of something better to do, feel free to comment or add anything.

Copy&Pasted from my Introductions thread...

Fri 01 Oct 2010 @ 11:08
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Hello there, before sundown tomorrow I will driving my first ever Bedford CF2.

I just thought I would say hello. I know nothing much at all about the CF2, and had always been looking for a MK2 Transit... however none ever came up locally and on a whim I searched for Bedford just this week, and there she was... my dream van and less than 20 miles away.

I went to see her and she was just what I wanted, so subject to a final viewing and drive tomorrow, I'm in like Flynn.

Was wondering... the 2litre petrol engine from a 1987, is it cambelt or chain?

Nice to be here anyway.

= )
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philbradshaw wrote: Welcome to the madhouse. 1987 CF2 petrol should have the Opel 1979cc engine with chain drive for the camshaft.

mikus wrote: Hi there and welcome, have fun with your first Bedford. I did

geebee wrote: hi welcome,id make yourself a card holder its the best 8 quid ive spent in a long time,graham
DAVE ADVANTURA wrote: Welcome. Hi welcome to the club and the mad world of bedfords like Graham says make yourself a card holder it will be the best £8 you have ever spent as there is loads of help and advice on here. Dave

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Mon 04 Oct 2010 @ 06:31

After a slightly tricky situation trying to buy a van on SORN from people who were unwilling or unable to stick a tax disc on it, even though I was happy to pay for it, I have finally, today, picked up my new, old, Bedford CF2.

It goes okay. Its a bit of a knacker at the moment, but I think its exactly what I was looking for.

So I am officially a Bedford CF2 owner, and the bugger's parked outside to prove it.

= )

I think out of everything that needs attention on it, the thing that concerns me most is that the leaf springs at the back are almost horizontal as opposed to curved upwards.

Anyone got any spare leaf springs? or is 'almost horizontal' okay for now....
Also, I forgot to ask...

where do I go to pay my dues for full membership?
I'm not so hot at all this forum malarkey.
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geebee wrote: hi the link is at the top of the listings.

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Mon 04 Oct 2010 @ 19:18
My Van
This is my Beddy, as per the seller's shots via Car&Classic. I'll be starting a blog for its renovation as soon as I have full membership here... although I don't have the skill or the workspace and tools to do any work myself, so my progress blog will largely consist of pictures of stuff that other people have done to my van.





In some ways the van is a nail. I expected that anyway for the price, and it runs so I'm happy to have something I can run locally for now. I do expect any moment that something fundamental will occur though at some point.

I'm really at a loss to decide where to start attacking this first. I guess my priority is to get it to a trustworthy mechanic for a thorough diagnosis and service. Ultimately I plan to have a bigger lump put in it, but if the original (2.0L petrol) lump and gear box are essentially okay for now I'll stick with those and work on getting the bodywork and paint job sorted I reckon.
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mikus wrote: Nice Van, love the colour. It's not that bright white that hurts your eyes

Abodator wrote: Hello and welcome to the club :-)

I like your van. The color is cargo white? Is 5WH in your van's code plate? Or it is your custom color?
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Wed 06 Oct 2010 @ 10:18

I don't know what the colour is. Its what was on it when I got it, but its listed as a grey van on the document. The paint job is pretty bad, and has lots of areas of hand painted touching up with a paint brush.

I'm going to get it repainted in either black (a gloss black not a matt black) or preferably, a charcoal grey (gloss) with the black waterline section as per the pics.

Went out in my van today. I had to buy a new battery for it, but soon as that was in it started up and ran like a dream. A slightly noisy, smelly, bumpy dream, but I love it.
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Stuart Campbell wrote: Hi Tim. I also have flat leaf springs on my van.I have found a chap who will re-temper them or make new ones.Jones springs tel.0121 5687575 in the midlands somewhere.I have spoken to him on the phone,he sounds okay but i cannot recommend him because i havn't had any dealings with him yet.Let me know how you get on with your springs. regards Stu

Mikeyboy wrote: You can get air ride assisters- I got some from a scrap vehicle- and theyre very good!
http://www.bedford-cf.co.uk/mboard/thread.php?id=7403
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Thu 14 Oct 2010 @ 18:02

Haven't been back here for a couple of weeks. Van is going well. I absolutely love driving it around. It starts from cold on the second turn without fail. Never the first, always the second.

Its a great van and I find myself making up excuses to get out in it. I even drove it to work and paid £20 to park it for the day just for the thrill of driving back home in it.

I still haven't sent my cheque and paid my dues to this site, so I'm about to run out of posts (I think I have 3 left now) but I'm planning on getting round to it ASAP depending on when work, a four year old and a 9 month old will give me a spare moment to think about it. I need to do it though because although the van runs great, I am constantly aware that something will eventually go wrong on it and I will really need some help finding parts.

I dropped by at a mechanic who I used to live near and who used to service an old FIAT car I had. I asked him if he would do a general service on the van, change the oils, grease the nips, get a couple of electrical mis-wirings sorted out and provide me with a 'to-do' list of things that are likely to fail in the near future. I don;t know if that's a good idea or not. He certainly wasn't a Bedford-head but equally felt confident he could work on it alright. He was just nervous about finding parts for anything that needs replacing.

My main concerns are:

1. Clutch - The van needs a fair amount of revs to pull away from a standing start, and the clutch action is very high up the peddle. For these two reasons I myself have cooked the clutch plate a couple of times pulling away whilst trying to get used to the van.

2. Leaf springs - as mentioned above, and thanks very much Stuart for the contact!

3.Exhaust pipe - the whole thing looks okay, and yet equally not far from being replaced. I'm guessing the only way forward on that is to have one made up? I checked at a couple of joe-shmo high street exhaust centres if they could fit an exhaust to the van and they said they didn't hold the stock for anything out of the ordinary. I've decided I want to restore the van to almost the exact style, colour and era as the pic below. Despite that very traditional look, I am wondering if some kind of side exiting exhaust pipe would actually be cheaper to have made due to the shorter length and less pipe bending required. Probably a hopelessly naive idea!!!

http://www.bedfordcf.co.uk/br/br32_p1.jpg

4. Rear end of the passenger side panels. Was corroded right through prior to the last owner taking it on. He filled it very badly, and I reckon it could do with being completely replaced as the window frame is quite chewed up and the window leaks.

But anyway, I hope to find a moment to pay the member's fee and join the community properly, but I thought I'd use up another one of my free posts to say hello to all fellow Beddies.

= )
Oh and Mikeyboy, thanks for the advice and the link to the thread. The air ride assisters look like a manageable adaption for a keen but non-mechanical hack like myself.

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Sun 24 Oct 2010 @ 21:11

FINALLY!
My cheque is in the post. FINALLY! It takes SO LONG TO DO ANYTHING WITH TWO UNFDER FIVES TO CONTEND WITH!

Looking forward to being a full member and participating in the site as soon as all the paperwork is stamped!

I'm pretty sure this is my last free post so I wont be here until its all gone through. Been having a lot of fun with my van though. I find any excuse to get out and drive it about. I'm sticking local at the moment as I have absolutely no idea of the van's mechanical history... but all seems well, except for a tendency to hunt and sometimes conk out in this cold weather. I'm remedying that by keeping the choke out 5mm at crucial moments in stop-start traffic, but I'll be looking at the idle jet and solenoid in due course.

I'm also sealing up the campervan windows with bath/shower silicon gel for the winter. The rubber seals all round are perished horribly and bits crumble off just be looking at them. A bucket-load of water came coursing into the back of my van in the horrendous rain of the last couple of days. The rearmost windows in the side walls are the complex one with a glass door at the halfway point. I say 'complex' because that makes one hell of a lot of joints and gaps to fill with silicon.

Cosmetic jobs to do come spring...

1. invent a way of weathersealing simple panes of reinforced glass or possibly perspex/acrylic sheet into the window holes to get around the fact that i am unable to locate any replacement window rubbers. I have an idea. I might even be quite pretty, but it sadly wont be authentic CF.

2. The previous owners badly hand-painted paint job is not going to last much longer than 6 months, so I have been trying to get respray quotes. They range between £1000 and £5000, so I've been looking at all these blogs, sites and youtube vids devoted to the art of getting a credible DIY paint job, with rollers, using rustoleum, for under £50. I think I'll at least give it a try come spring as I can;t afford a pro-respray.

I'd like to paint the van in a traditional 1950's looking service vehicle grey. Gloss or semi gloss, neutral mid-tone grey. Even though its a late 80's van, I think it could carry a more retro look.

Enough from me for now. So long, adios, auf wiedersehen, ciaou, au revoir, turarabit... until the cheque clears.

Tim
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Abodator: Wish you welcome back soon :-)
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Wed 10 Nov 2010 @ 20:19

I'm back!

Just thought I'd post in here again even though its an introduction thread. I quite like having a thread where I can drop all my thoughts in order to refer back to when I need a reminder. Had a great day in my Beddy today. Apart from driving it home at time of purchase (Worthing to Hove, maybe 10-20 miles?) I have only been making very short local trips in it, mainly as I have no service history and no idea of the previous running condition of the van.

I had it checked over and serviced by a trusted mechanic last week, or the week before (bad memory), and he gave it the all-clear with a few advisories for its next MOT. It has suffered with power dips when pulling away in first though, and a tendency to cut out when coming to a stop when the engine is warm. I had a list of possible reasons to explore when I can next afford the time and the money for replacement parts.

I had a few hours to myself today. Had to take a sofa to the tip in the beddy. A couple of miles in the pouring rain. I dropped the sofa off and then on a whim decided it was time I had a bit of faith in the old girl, so I drove to the A27 which runs along the south coast from Eastbourne to Portsmouth and beyond. Its pretty much motorway driving around Brighton and Hove as there are really long uninterrupted stretches of pure asphalt. Beyond Worthing it gets riddled with roundabouts and lane squeezes and is a bit of a nightmare.

So I hit the A27 and built up the speed. The engine was already warmed up by this point and I felt she could probably do with a bit of a blow out to de-coke her inner workings.

She ran beautifully. Strong throughout the speed range, and I even overtook a few Transits and European vans which surprised me as I didn't think she'd have it in her. At one point we were touching 75mph in 4th gear which was also a pleasant surprise because she wasn't struggling to do it. I eased off though once I noticed the speed.. not wanting to see a piston come flying out of the bonnet like a firework.

All in all I bombed around at a determined pace for an hour and a half in the pouring rain, and when it was time to get back into traffic to get home, it was clear the blow-out had done her some good because she behaved perfectly when slowing, when idling and when pulling away.

I was chuffed to bits.

Now I just have to think of more inventive ways to stop water pouring in through the side windows and the sunroof because she lives outside and it doesn't seem to want to stop raining this month.

Great day though. I really love driving my Beddy. I love the fact that wherever I go, someone will walk towards me to make a comment about what a rare site it is on the roads, and a lot of people have a fond Bedford story to impart. I've never owned a vehicle that makes people want to stroll over for a chat before.

Spookytim wrote:
...Its pretty much motorway driving around Brighton and Hove as there are really long uninterrupted stretches of pure asphalt. Beyond Worthing it gets riddled with roundabouts and lane squeezes and is a bit of a nightmare...

I know it well,helped to build the Montague centre then when I'd passed my hgv helped build the section of A27 round Devils Dyke.(Tippers)

I really love driving my Beddy. I love the fact that wherever I go, someone will walk towards me to make a comment about what a rare site it is on the roads, and a lot of people have a fond Bedford story to impart. I've never owned a vehicle that makes people want to stroll over for a chat before.

geebee: its great isn't it,went to turn mine over last week and there's a chap there looking round her,said he'd seen her on the local roads but had to stop when he saw her parked up.
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Fri 12 Nov 2010 @ 23:28
Just had 40 spare minutes between domestic duties to go and put some plumbers putty in a big corroded gap on my rain gutter, just above the most leaky side window. I also took a small hacksaw with me in the naive belief that it would be enough to cut a new water outlet closer to the rear corner of the van rather than over the rearmost point of the window... again to try and bring a halt to the waterfall that comes into the van.

I don't know what I thought these vans were made of, but my little woodworked hacksaw could hardly get through the paint, much less the metal of the gutter. In the end, as another short-term fix, I decided to fashion a water channeller, coming out of the gutter outlet and down the panel at an angle away from the window with the plumber's putty. I doubt it will stick to the paint for long, but its worth a go.

I just got back and Seals Direct have replied about replacement seals for my side windows...

"It is definitely the Claytonrite window rubbers that you require, but we do many different sizes. I would guess that your glass is around 5mm thick (you could check this by measuring one of your opening ones) and the panel either 1.6mm or 3mm thick"

I am fairly sure the glass is thinner than 5mm but I haven't measured it. As for the panelwork, I have no idea. Anybody here have any idea what a 1986 CF2 panel thickness is at the window lip?


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Sat 13 Nov 2010 @ 15:13

Continuing to use this thread as my personal note pad. Hope that's okay with folks and feel free to drop in a tell me shut up or whetever if you feel like it.

Went out for a blast along Brighton sea front in my Beddy this afternoon before the kid's teatime and bedtime routine kicked in. Its driving really well. Behaves perfectly when cold and warm, and since my longish blast along the A27 it now idles nicely without having to have a smidge of choke. It pulls away from a standing start well too... apart from on an incline when it might occasionally still chug a bit until the revs build, but I put that down to it being a 24 year old van. Aside from that though its a perfect drive. Responsive acceleration, tidy stopping, holds a line, is smooth under acceleration and smooth whilst maintaining constant speed.

I think I'll drop some fuel/engine detergent in the tank next time I fill her up, and also use a higher octane petrol for the next tank full to see if that blows any last remnants out of the carb and cures the last little uphill chug-niggle.

Fuel-wise; I have no way of knowing for sure if the van has been properly converted to unleaded with hardened valve seats, or was unleaded from the factory to begin with, or has lead pellets in the tank, or is just happy running on unleaded anyway. It would be really good to know, but with the van's history beyond my reach, I probably wont ever know for sure.

Next time I have it serviced, I'm going to get the carb stripped down and rebuilt. i'm pondering whether I might do it myself but with zero previous experience I'm fearful I may end up in with a pile of fiddly bits and no way of getting it back together.

Also: It has rained down here all day. Not hard, but enough. I checked in the back to see if the side I have been trying to temporarily waterseal is any drier than it has been up until now. Its hard to know for sure but it did indeed seem to be dry (still damp fromt he previous day' leaking, but not sodden with fresh leakage), so the second coating of B&Q bathroom silicon, plus rebuilding a rust hole in the guttering wall with plumber's putty and fashioning a crude water-chute down the wall of the van away from the windows seems to have worked.

Just got to get looking at the driver's side now and also get on with ordering the right replacement rubbers from SealsDirect.

Good stuff though. I really do love my van.

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Pics of my van at point of purchase.

No visible change made to it yet, unless you count silicon shower & bath sealant on the window rubber as 'restoration' hehehe




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http://i.imgur.com/OEcKn.jpg

^ The worst part of my van.

I am trying to order new rubbers for the two rearmost side windows. Its a bit of a dilemma. The multi-windows are in terrible condition, almost falling apart. I don;t really want opening windows in the back, so I intend to take these windows out and have them available for anyone wants them and can restore them, and instead I'm going to get smoked acrylic sheet cut to the right size and shape for the aperture.

My problem is... I can't take these windows out to take size measurements as they will never go back in again, but I don't know how much bigger the window pane needs to be beyond what I can see. They might extend a further 2mm into the rubber seal, or 4mm, or just 1mm all round. If I'm half a millimetre out then the acrylic window wont go back in with the new rubbers.

Here are some other 'worst parts of my van...

http://i.imgur.com/M7xJ7.jpg
v/^ Badly chewed rear passenger side arch.
http://i.imgur.com/zHqqN.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/SgvSY.jpg
^ Badly bodged panel between badly bodged window aperture and badly bodged wheel arch.

I really need an entire new passenger side rear quarter wall.

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Sounds ridiculous I know, but for the sake of improving the look of my van short term, in order for me to get on with giving it a decent coat of competently applied paint in a decent colour, I'm going to cover up the badly buckled, rotted and filled mid-section of the offending panel by buying a really long, really wide ventilation grill, like the one shown above, and some mesh, then painting a panel of matt black and screwing it onto the side of my van over the top.

It will do nothing at all as there will be solid wall behind it, but it will at least disguise the badly buckled metalwork behind soemthing that looks like it might be serving a utilitarian purpose inside the van. Like a mobile chippy or something hahaha.

Then I can justify painting the van so it doesn't look like such a crusty old lump of rubbish.

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Wheel arch



My plan for a short term fix here is to trace off / get a rubbing off the flat circular 'front face' from the nice crisp rear wheel arch on the other side of the van, take that as a pattern to the steel cutters up the road. Ask them to cut me a piece out of 2mm sheet, then flip it and screw it to the filler as best I can on the bad side, and fill around it. That way, I will at least have a nice flatted rim to the wheel arch. It will stick out 2mm wider than the other side, but this is all about short term fixes for now so I can live with that.

The other idea was to buy some plastic screw on wheel arches a la 1980's boy racer, but the skinny wheels would then look ridiculous.

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Peronally, Id avoid short term fixes- they tend to make final solutions rather more complicated. If its not an MOT requirement, or affects usage, save your pennies and do jobs properly first time. Its too easy to spend what seems a small amount and then realise its totalled up to something near a proper job!

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I see your point. I'm trying to find ways of doing stuff myself for now though rather than handing it over to someone else and paying lots of money.

If I could locate a new panel then I'd just jump straight into a proper repair, but I haven't found one yet, and I don't want to destroy another CF2 just to cannibalize a panel from it.

So if I leave it and wait for that panel to appear, the rear windows will fall out and the rain will continue to eat the back of my van... that means I have to make some kind of short term fix for the greater good of the van's survival. The van has largely been repainted and touched up by a brush and what appears to be standard B&Q household paint, not vehicle paint. So really it has to be painted before the long winter kicks in.

If it needs some sort of paint job, then it will first need the rearmost side windows sorted out. If it needs those sorting out, then I need to find a way to straighten out the panel first and get the window aperture weathertight.

So if I'm doing all that I may as well spend £50 on a couple of bits of metalwork to try and improve the look of that panel before I go to the trouble of painting it.

Its like a domino effect. I totally agree with you, but I don't think half my van will make it through to spring 2011 unless I tackle some problems now, before a replacement panel becomes available.

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What a body.

Hi Spookytim,

Having looked at some of your problems I think I would start by cutting off the rear body and buying a secondhand fibreclass hightop body that would sit on the floor and go right over the cab roof.

Doug.

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AMEN to that Doug....bloody good idea!!!!!!

No great loss cutting off that back end - and would be very useful to have a one-piece fibreglass box on the back, something like a BT box. They come up on ebay quite regularly.

130454731671 would suit the bill....

Carl

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Great idea, but its the aesthetics of the standard van that I love... I'm not planning on turning into a camper I just drive it as a van... so this would change the aesthetics too much. Nice idea though and thanks for suggesting it.

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I agree with you.
Just bodge it for now and a panel will turn up.
If you spend a bit of time thinking abouit were to cut it it shouldnt be too bad of a job.
To be honest I would grind the filler oiut, plate the hole and re fill it, our local paint place sells brush on car paint for £10 a litre, take your time with a gloss roller and it looks good, the Suzuki in my Avitar was done with this total cost £40, for all paint primer and brushes etc
Whats the back door like as these are often rotten.

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Back doors are really good. I suspect they were replaced a few years back. All other panels are absolutely fine on the van, they just need stripping, treating and repainting. There's a few bubbles of surface rust here and there, the odd spot of filler evident on the left hand side, but really its in very good nick panelwise. Its literally just that one rear quarter that is an abomination.

I saw, briefly, on the seller's wife's laptop some photographs of how it looked when he acquired it. That panel had a really open horizintal gash of rust right the way along it, about halfway up. He said that the van had been left against someone's shed so the driver's side had been well protected but the passenger side was exposed to the elements and due to the crappy window holes and perished rubbers it had just rotted through. The seller had filled it and painted it over. I think he used half a breeze block to shape the filler, a cheese grater to sand it down, and (this next bit is true) tins of paint from B&Q to paint it over.

After agreeing the sale of the van I asked for those "pre-filler" photographs to be emailed over but they weren't. When I asked again after I had collected the van and taken full ownership of it, he claimed his wife had deleted them. Those pictures must have been taking up a much needed 400k of hard drive space!

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winchman wrote:To be honest I would grind the filler oiut, plate the hole and re fill it


Yep, that's what I think too. I lack the expertise and equipment to ever make this van concourse, and I'm alrgely happy to accept it will always show its age. Having said that though, I would like to improve it, and I do think that someone would be able to shape a new piece and blend it on, and do 'something' with the wheel arch to make the whole thing look less tragic than it looks now. I'm happy to pay a bodywork place to do it too, but the first one said they wouldn't touch it, the second is in the Midlands and estimates £5000 and the third one suggested £1000 but said he might only be able to improve that panel's looks by 20-30%. < Those costs are for a full respray too BTW.

I'd happily pay someone to straighten out that panel with some patching, and then do a really good job myself of one of these home roller paint jobs.

I just feel a bit stuck, going round in circles, not knowing quite what to do next.

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Where abouts are you in East Sussex Spooky? I have a welder and can weld, I also have quite a bit of spare flat steel lying around. What I don't have is a garage or anywhere to do what is a fairly large job as it looks like the window lip will need re-modeling when the panel is cut out. So I don't know how practical it is to say I would help you, but in reality perhaps not until the days are a bit longer. It would be free though, just a small cylinder of gas to pay for. Bear it in mind anyway.

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I'm in a place called Portslade, next to Brighton & Hove.

I too don't have any kind of space to do the work though. I would gladly pay for a lot more than the can of gas... I'd pay going rates for someone to help me get my van straightened out.

If I can find a place to do the work then maybe we can discuss this with me paying you for your time, equipment usage and expertise in these matters when the sun comes back.

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Spookytim wrote:
... next to Brighton & Hove...

Actually.;D

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Hahaha, quite. We've started a campaign to get Portslade (which is quite a 'tatty' and run down sort of place) as well known as Hove by coming up with a rival slogan for "Hove actually"

When asked where we live, Sladers say "Portslade I'm afraid"

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Day off work today so I thought I'd fire up the Bedlam and give it a run. It was a bit crabby at first but its been sat for a few days in the cold and wet. Started second turn though as always. I drove to Powerflow exhausts in Hove to see what the cost of a new steel exhaust would be.

Bloke said "First time I've ever had to fit an exhaust that's worth more than the vehicle". Had a look, said the frontmost pipe (presumably from the manifold to the first box) is okay and the rest would cost £250.00.

That's a lot of money.

:C

He then asked if I'd tried a standard exhaust fitting centre as he thought they might be able to replace it. So off to try Kwik Fit and all those this afternoon.

Also filled her up with high octane for the first time, and have dropped a serving of redex into the tank. I'm anticipating some serious backfiring next trip out.

I read on the bottle about doing an intensive carburettor flush by removing the air filter and pouring the redex directly into the carb. I think I'll try that. Something somewhere between fuel and air is still not quite right on her, though she definitely runs a lot better on a full tank than when she's at the half tank mark.

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looking at that rear panel.looks as if its had a good shunt,whats the inside of van like at that rear n/s side?,thats quite a bit of filler present on outer panel,take a lot of work to fix in present state,even with filler removed,a lot of damage there,i wouldn`t say it was all down to rot.
probably best to leave it till you can source a rear quarter,or ask a bodyshop for a quote.

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