1964 Citroen HY Van (part 2)

carlos fandango showing your age there

Looking good, but i would install engine from a Citroen Plenty of good diesels in them.

Needing a break from bodywork, I decided to start on the mechanicals. Having no work booked in on Friday I decided to strip the Audi. With help from my 13year old son we decided to strip out the wiring loom first. Every thing was carefully removed and labelled from front to rear. Passed through the bulk head and piled up on top of the engine. Next the engine and box was removed and it was still only mid afternoon. A quick call to the local scrappy and within the hour the body was taken away. Not a bad days work. Thanks Will.. x x x
Saturday I set about the wiring, stripping of all the binding. And laying it out on the floor behind the engine.


What followed was a horrendous few days of slowly going through every single wire in the loom. Cutting out everything but engine management. As I am no electrician I can honestly say this was the worst and most confusing job I have ever undertaken as a mechanic…
This is what I removed.


Next I had to decide where in the van I was going to put the engine management.
The passenger foot well was decided upon. A piece of wood was cut to that shape and mounted on a pole. Every thing was then squeezed onto this board


So today after another nervous/confusing few hours the final wire was trimmed and soldered into place. The engine was strapped down to the trolley, everything checked, double checked and checked again. The key was turned and………… No one was more surprised than me.. The engine burst into life.

Inspired by the mornings success I decided to move on to the van..
All the floor around the engine and box is removable. The photo below shows how much access this gives.


The front chassis is held in with these 4 long threaded tubes.


Remove these, jack the body up and wheel the whole thing out. Suspension, steering rack. Engine, box, Clutch and brake pedals. All in one unit.



Damn clever those Frenchies…….

At the start of the week I tried the new engine in the chassis.
Unfortunately the turbo had to be removed, Steering pump mount cut off, fuel filter unbolted and Oil filter removed, to get the motor in.


Next the engine was blocked up and checked for square in the chassis


Then 4 engine mounts were fabricated.




With the engine mounted. I had to figure out how to refit the components that had to be removed. First the alternator was relocated under the engine.


The alternator is not as low as it looks in this photo. Its well above the scrub line.

Next the turbo This would not fit anywhere near it original position. Only cutting the chassis completely away would facilitate this. So this was relocated to the front of the engine. If I had the time I would have fabricated a tubular exhaust manifold but with only limited build time (6 weeks) a quick fix was needed. A turbo mount was made.


Turbo mounted and connecting pipe made up.


That’s it for another week… Only 5 weeks left now…..HELP ! ! ! !

Sunday morning…. Snuck out for a few hours this morning and removed the EGR valve.


Back home for family time………Ha Ha…

See ya soon..
Dave..


P.S. nearly forgot.
also made up 2 drive shaft adaptors (forgot photo’s)

Thanks for your comments boys.
As you can see from my posts, I'm a man of few words.
I tend to let my hands and imagination do the talking……
Dave…..x

A picture is worth a 1000 words - a few words to explain whats going on in the picture make for great threads that everyone can learn from so thank you from someone who is following the thread (bookmarked since end of page 1) and enjoying it as well as finding it educational for my own projects

Holy cow, this is seriosly brilliant. I would have felt like THE DADDY if I had managed to start up that engine first try with it sat on a pallet. Mega impressive work.

This is a great project, good job on improving it!

Excellent Project - I've wanted a "corrugated van" HY for years.
My dad has a 1958 2CV - the metal is really thin - difficult to weld!