Reply With QuoteOk dokey. Today with the help of a fellow LRRegSA member, Robert, i picked up the s3 diesel van. I fashioned a fan belt out of an ockey strap by undoing the clamp wire at both ends and removing the hooks. Then joined them together using the same clamp wires and, voila, a fan belt between the crank and fan as there is no alt. fitted. Then bolted and insulated the two wires from the alt. together and she cranked over. Squirt of "start ya bastard" and off she went. Noisy bugger of a thing. So we let her idle for a while and warm up a bit. Then came the job of removing it from the back yard from under a huge walnut tree. Not a job for the faint hearted. Not much manoevering room. 15 point turn and we got her out from under the tree and then she stalled. It would NOT restart. So the diagnostics began. Now I'm not a diesel mechanic, but i know a little bit about old school diesels. No fuel. So the search began. Plenty fuel in the tank. Nothing at the injector pump. So hand pumped the lift pump. Nothing. So the search continued. Cracked the outlet line. Zip. Searching the fuel line and i found another filter under the floor in front of the tank. I pressurised the fuel tank by blowing in the broken breather hose. Still nothing, but i noticed a drop of fuel in the middle of the plastic, (another great pommy idea), fuel lines. The fuel line had cracked just where it joins onto the steel pipe next to the joiner on the inlet of the filter in front of the tank. Sucking air. So i detatched the plastic line and fitted a piece of 1/4 rubber fuel hose over the break, and then started blowing in the tank again and finally i'm getting fuel to come thru. So i blow the fuel thru to the lift pump and then i prime the whole system and bleed the air out of the system. Its funny how ppl dont understand that a diesel wont run with air in its fuel lines. I cracked what looked like 2 bleed screws on the injector pump and bled the air out with the hand primer on the fuel pump. Then i got Robert to crank her over while i cracked the injector lines. She sprung into life and was running better than before. Great. Finally got the old girl on the trailer. Then we secured the roof and tub onto the chassis with a ratchet strap and did the same with the rear tailgate and doors, coz no latches and tailgate locks, with another ratchet strap. I secured the van onto the trailer with 2 more ratchet straps and a chain for Justin (case). Didn't get any pics coz left the phone at home, (i thought). Almost uneventful trip home, except for one of our new country men driving a new camry who thought it a good thing to scream up beside me while pulling up to a red light and cut in front of me and expect my s3 with loaded car trailer to stop on a dime. Reckon there was about 50thou clearance between my roo bar and his rear bumper. Dick head! And i let him know it too!! Where are those train horns when u need em, (certain 101 owner who shall remain nameless). Anyway got her home and in the driveway. Now the job starts. Gotta strip her down and part her out. Tub is stuffed. Roof and sides are good. Chassis seems ok. Couple repairs at the back. Gotta check the rear diff ratio as it was going a bit fast in low range first gear. Maybe it's got a 3.54 salisbury in the back?? Hope so. Straight to the (pool room) s2a. It has lower profile tyres fitted so who knows. I'll keep u all informed as to what i find out over the coming (years, weeks) days.
Cheers Rod
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Originally Posted by Lionelgee
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