Popular Post square Posted November 19, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 19, 2023 Welp, 3 steps forward and 1 backward up in here. I got the shits with the flexplate setup and changed it all. The only reason I can come up with is that the counterweight grabbed off centre when I put it on then wobbled loose once I'd driven it. The bolts weren't bottomed out in the crank and came out easy, the spacer I thought was missing isn't used in cruisers and I never checked flexplate runout once it was all installed which might have told a story. Anyway back together and it's going good. Did some at home camping past night, this is the groms hammock up front, she loves it, I wouldn't be able to get in or out of it. The reason for the at home bit was we went to leave and my seat hinge snapped and fell backwards, and I noticed this on driveway It's trans oil and looks to me like pump seal has ruptured, I'm assuming I tore it messing with torque converter, fuck it all. I'll pull it again this week once new seal shows. I bolted and old chunk of trailer wheel arch to the jack to drop the trans in and out, works a treat It still looks cool buttfuck. Cert next week hopefully. 28 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post square Posted November 26, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 26, 2023 I got the trans back In yesterday, pump seal has chewed out when flexplate came loose which I should have checked. I torque checked the flexplate bolts again too, no movement and no leaks. I also got the high / low lever rigged up and got to launch the boat today on a shitty gravel beach in 4 low, monumental moment. I got permit to go up the shotover canyon to the pub up there with the misso and a couple of mates, van rules, especially amongst a row of hiluxes at the launch. Ceritifier has vapourised and has missed a few appointments last week so not sure when I'll be able to get it looked at but there's a few that need doing in town so might try and pool together and get someone in 24 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post square Posted January 7 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 7 I've been getting some miles on this pig, it needs more power, it hates wind when towing and it was undershocked something wicked. Anyway did some camps over new years Twas good, wanged some adjustable ranchos in up front which dampen bumps out great, it still dives a bit but I'm guessing that's just lifted van life with a bit of travel and me sitting over the axle. But towing boat home today the power was really pissing me off so I whipped out injectors and injector pump. Pump will get overhauled and output pumped up via a reshaped metering pin, and injectors looked spectacularly nasty so I'll get them up to trundles this week for some lovin too, hopefully this makes a big difference. Also steering lock is shit, I hadn't checked the stops properly and it's not hitting the hub ones, just the box limits. So I've got a longer Pitman arm blank coming and will get it machined for a ball joint, itll be 15mm longer which should cure my problem Still no word from the certifiers, I'll start hassling them again next week to try and get it looked at. 24 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post square Posted January 21 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 21 Welp, I got the pump and injectors back, old mate said 3 were leaking and nasty, the pump is a work of art, not sure what got reused. Anyway slapped that all in and timed it with a timing tool i got off eBay, man what a rig, much better than trying to hold a dial indicator while turning the crank The difference in performance is major with the new pump etc, it pulls straight away and got up to 100k no sweat, egts were getting up there so pulled the boost back from 17 to 14 or so and will try that. I also put an exhaust temp gauge in, I got a combo one that matches the dash. I also found a NOS dash for it to replace the shit one in there Also had a win with the slow start, after a ton of braining I ended up putting the meter on the fuel cut solenoid power line and sure enough, voltage dumped when it was cranking, like to 0 dumped. So traced the harness back and pulled fuse block out etc found a pin pushed back on the plug into the column that goes up to the key, happy days. It lights on the first bump of the key now like it should. 27 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post square Posted January 28 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 28 Van tune is good, I took it up coronet the other day, temps held steady at 700 egt preturbo ( fuel pump guy tells me I'm good for 850 ) at 13psi which gave me 50 kph all the way up which ain't bad, not too much smoke either. Plenty of scope for more if I add a cooler. I've set max boost at 15. I was still not keen on the ride quality with the new shocks ( nor the missos funbags ), the 3am drunken brainwave looked like this : So I did this But it came out looking like this So extremely aesthetically anticlimatic but it's sorted the damping. The boat rock style oscillation test with me hanging off the roof went from 3 rocks to under 1. So perhaps mathematically 2 x shocks = 3 x more better. 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post square Posted February 11 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 11 I've been driving this a bit, I'm pretty happy with it, it's goes and stops good, no steering feedback or anything. It's got a knock up front somewhere which I think is a shock hitting the cross member so I'll whip them back out at some stage and notch where needed. I hated the dash, it epitomises shitty rhd swaps. Theyd cut up the LHD one then used a combo of builders filler, glass and what looks like grout to put it back together, then laminated over it with faux walnut duraseal or something. No Bueno. It also had a few spare holes. so I found an NOS one on eBay and chopped that up to move guages across. It started like this Then cut and glassed the back Then filled and applied faux woodgrain again and it came out like this Which is much tidier. Edging need tidying but it's way more better. I also made some pockets for the lower springs to retain them a bit better, they were moving a touch and making noise every now and then, the ID of the Chevy springs is slightly over that of the cruiser pads at the bottom. So slapped these on, no more noise 19 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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