What did you do on your car today?

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Removed the leaking brake slave cylinder and fitted new seals. Stripped the carb and cleaned all the jets and passages. I think I may have found my idling and acceleration problems.
Float bowl. Nice tomato garden I had going there. :shock:
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Speedpump chamber :shock:
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Will refit everything tomorrow and hopefully I'll be mobile again.
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Digging around through some junk found a brand new old fuel computer somebody never used
Its got a flowmeter in the fuel line and a magnet sensor on the speedo
gives a readout in l/100km and also total fuel used on a trip
installed it today, works pretty good :D

its a Mobelec Fuel "Maximiser", looks like it made in the 80's
anyone seen one of these?
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and found some roof racks!
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Damn selecter shaft coupling came undone in traffic and had to struggle home in 3rd gear. :evil:

Got it home,and could atleast fix it.
Damn,I'm good!
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DDunc wrote:and found some roof racks!
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Spent 2 evenings fiiting removing stripping (many times) a set of twin carbs to sort out a splutter issue. Changed dizzy, jets, chokes and several hours of head scratching, only to find a new stock pump not pushing enough juice, and this was at 11:30 last night, had to fit an elec. pump just to check. BTW these babies were completely rebuilt, set of twin Solexe's had them running on my stand (ran beautifully), but after fitting and driving they ran like crap. Will be at it again today chaging the damn pump. :shock:
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made up new oil hoses and installed my exhaust.
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18/08/2009

Replaced brake slave cylinder and bled brakes on the split. Also refitted carb and adjusted it. Now the bus is mobile once again and running and stopping beautifully. :hangloose:
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Nice, glad to hear the Split is running again. When are we fitting the Type 4 :twisted:
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karmakoma wrote:Nice, glad to hear the Split is running again. When are we fitting the Type 4 :twisted:
As soon as Impi is finished with the 2.4 for the bay. :wink:
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beetlefanatic wrote:
karmakoma wrote:Nice, glad to hear the Split is running again. When are we fitting the Type 4 :twisted:
As soon as Impi is finished with the 2.4 for the bay. :wink:
Tell us more! Tell us more! :D
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Relax Blitzie, :roll: Bugger and I have not even taken the engines to Impi yet. You will know all about it when I have decided which route I'm going with the split. Expect a project thread in the not too distant future. :wink:
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:oops: You know how excited I get when I hear guys building Type 4s :P
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I installed my new oil piping and fitted my silencer.
Set my valve clearances and got ready to start the bug again. Only to have my fuel pump stop working....
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SOLD my 63 rat bus, :( moving into a new place smaller garage :( , have not worked on it for a while, :( rather let someone with a fresher passion take over :lol: , I still have an engine, :mrgreen: so am i still a ACVW brother :?: ??
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