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Hey Dave!!!
Brilliant work on the H van! Love your hot rod bus, seen it at plenty of shows!
Thinking about starting a H van pick up project and would love to pick your brain on some of the mods you did?
Keep up the good work!
Buster
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Dec 13, 2013 12:40:13 GMT
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Hi Buster. Not sure I have much brain left to pick, :Dbut fire away. I’ll help if I can.  Dave.. |
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Dec 13, 2013 14:58:42 GMT
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Hahaha, which discs did you use? I'm guessing from the pics you cut the drum up and just used the center with the wheel studs. Then drilled through and bolted the disc this way? or was there extra pieces underneath.
Doing a fab job though, the diesel engine is a fab idea, how do all the linkages and cables match up?
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Dec 15, 2013 14:31:06 GMT
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With Christmas approaching work has gone a little quite. So had a full week on the Citroen. Spent 2 days tying the 2 looms together to work as one. (Audi engine management and original HY).Cleaned and fitted all the old light units with new lens’s then wired them in. Quick test and engine fires up, no problem, horn works, wipers work, heater works, head lights low and high beam all ok. But no tail lights or stop lights and only one rear indicator works. After rechecking rear connections, switch connections and various links in the loom I'm none the wiser. I must say that by this time I have already done a 12 hour day and was getting tired. (That’s my excuse) In desperation I decided to remove the rear light units as they are over 40 years old and were a little corroded. As I took of the lens’s I spotted my problem….. NO BULBS FITTED…. “What a *wat” Any way fitting bulbs solved my problem. Next 3 days were spent fitting up the front suicide doors. Repairing the rotten twin window channel runners and refelting them took up most of this time. Latch mechanisms were stripped cleaned, greased and reassembled. Door lock freed off. Then new door seals (obtained from France) were slowly fed into there housing and the edge’s peened over.  Yours truly (breaking out into a sweat)  Front arch’s and doors fitted.   Lastly 2 of the 3 pieces of smoked glass fitted.  Would like to spend another full week on the van in the run up to Christmas. BUT was asked last week if I would like to accompany my lovely wife Christmas shopping tomorrow (Monday). I knew as soon as the word “NO” left my mouth it was the WRONG answer…….. ha ha So very rare day off tomorrow. Baaah humbug!!!  Still I can look out for van trinkets… Winner……………  Dave.. x x x |
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Dec 16, 2013 17:20:11 GMT
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Hahaha, which discs did you use? I'm guessing from the pics you cut the drum up and just used the center with the wheel studs. Then drilled through and bolted the disc this way? or was there extra pieces underneath. Doing a fab job though, the diesel engine is a fab idea, how do all the linkages and cables match up? Oh how I wish it was that simple. The front brakes where a nightmare. There is so little space to mount the hub, disc, and calliper. Every component I used had to be machined or ground down to create clearance The discs bolt to the back of the hubs. It took me a week to design, machine and build the front braking system, with many one off parts. Clearance between hub, calliper, disc and wheel is only a few thou. Its that tight! ! |
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I really would buy a set of front and rear brakes from you to the same as you have fitted if you can do one more set?
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Dec 18, 2013 10:41:25 GMT
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Hahaha, which discs did you use? I'm guessing from the pics you cut the drum up and just used the center with the wheel studs. Then drilled through and bolted the disc this way? or was there extra pieces underneath. Doing a fab job though, the diesel engine is a fab idea, how do all the linkages and cables match up? Oh how I wish it was that simple. The front brakes where a nightmare. There is so little space to mount the hub, disc, and calliper. Every component I used had to be machined or ground down to create clearance The discs bolt to the back of the hubs. It took me a week to design, machine and build the front braking system, with many one off parts. Clearance between hub, calliper, disc and wheel is only a few thou. Its that tight! ! It looks tight!! Guess it'll be some head scratching nights in the workshop if I buy the pick up at the weekend! Did you think about machining need hubs, with a small PCD, or is the bearing housing jsut too big? Good work though, can't wait to see this on the road!!! |
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Dec 18, 2013 19:15:54 GMT
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I really would buy a set of front and rear brakes from you to the same as you have fitted if you can do one more set? Not sure what the future holds. I’m very busy with hot rod work next year. Oh how I wish it was that simple. The front brakes where a nightmare. There is so little space to mount the hub, disc, and calliper. Every component I used had to be machined or ground down to create clearance The discs bolt to the back of the hubs. It took me a week to design, machine and build the front braking system, with many one off parts. Clearance between hub, calliper, disc and wheel is only a few thou. Its that tight! ! It looks tight!! Guess it'll be some head scratching nights in the workshop if I buy the pick up at the weekend! Did you think about machining need hubs, with a small PCD, or is the bearing housing jsut too big? It’s very hard to explain. The Citroen is a strange design. You’ll need to see one stripped down to understand why I did it the way I did. The bearing is a monster that protrudes through the centre of the wheel in its housing. Hence the need for a wheel with a huge central hole. I have seen some one fit a spacer enabling the fitting of modern wheels. But then you need to use a large back spacing to keep the wheels within the bodywork. This is not a look I like at all and widening the arches was not an option for me ether. |
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Dec 18, 2013 23:04:26 GMT
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I really would buy a set of front and rear brakes from you to the same as you have fitted if you can do one more set? Not sure what the future holds. I’m very busy with hot rod work next year. It looks tight!! Guess it'll be some head scratching nights in the workshop if I buy the pick up at the weekend! Did you think about machining need hubs, with a small PCD, or is the bearing housing jsut too big? It’s very hard to explain. The Citroen is a strange design. You’ll need to see one stripped down to understand why I did it the way I did. The bearing is a monster that protrudes through the centre of the wheel in its housing. Hence the need for a wheel with a huge central hole. I have seen some one fit a spacer enabling the fitting of modern wheels. But then you need to use a large back spacing to keep the wheels within the bodywork. This is not a look I like at all and widening the arches was not an option for me ether. I looked at some drawings today, the bearing outer is 90mm! Center will be huge! Its good to know someones managed it, I'll let you know if I buy the beast at the weekend!!! Hahaha, and thought about adapters but not sure how much room there, I'll have to get my rule out!! When you hoping to get it on the road? |
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When you hoping to get it on the road? THIS WEEK………………. Its ready now. Just finishing off a few of those silly little jobs that don’t seem to ever get done once a new project hits the road.. Plus a nice dry day would be an advantage..  Dave……  |
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just read this thread from the beginning - Fantastic piece of work.
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Dec 19, 2013 10:02:14 GMT
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Top stuff chap that's coming together very nicely! Do love those questions we get from the other halves... surely if only one answer is allowed i.e. "yes" it's not a question but a demand  Ah... first world problems lol |
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Dec 29, 2013 17:28:44 GMT
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Again not a lot of work in before Christmas so got another full week in on the Citroen. With all the major components in place it was just a matter of finishing off those fiddly little jobs, A WEEKS worth of little jobs, fit doors and locks, last piece of glass, draft seals, seats, engine covers ect ect.. By Saturday morning the last item was crossed off my long list. The only thing left to do was road test the van. Just getting the HY out of my workshop was difficult. This thing is 7’ wide, Left hand drive with several sticky out parts. With new projects I normally just drive round the block then back to the workshop and check things over. Then repeat, going a little further each time. This time the van just felt write so went straight to the petrol station, then a few times round the town. Then popped to my parent’s house and took these photos.   The rest of the day was spent driving round locally then back to the workshop for a quick check over. Most people I guess would have been happy with the day’s events and I was to a certain extent. But having built several ground up hotrods NO vehicle ever runs straight out the box. There’s always a few teething problems. So this problem free day threw me a little. That was until my last outing of the day. I decided to take a short run up the duel carriage way. All was going well, slowly gaining speed and confidence, when all of a sudden there was a load bang and the side hatch was gone. Pulled up as quickly as I could and ran back to pick up my side panel that was now lying in lane one. As I approached I could see the panel was fairly undamaged with glass intact. Although I was standing in the road franticly waving my arms directing oncoming traffic around my panel. One vehicle was following another to close so didn’t see me and ran over my panel…*UGGER…… Back at the workshop I assessed the damage.  SCRAP ! ! ! ! ! Next day I made up a new frame…  Sunday and Monday was spent cutting out a new panel. I had to weld 2 pieces together as I didn’t have a full sheet in stock. This was then glued on to the frame with tiger seal. (I love this stuff, It’s my best find of 2013) Christmas Eve was spent repairing the edging trims, priming panel and trims then gluing trims to panel.  A merry Christmas was then had by all……………. Dave… |
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Dec 29, 2013 20:48:34 GMT
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Bad news about the side hatch, but as you've shown, you've clearly got the talent to rectify the problem with relative ease. |
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Dec 29, 2013 21:33:31 GMT
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Awesome stuff, even without a rebuilt side panel  inspiration that has had me out in the garage two days straight! Sadly nowhere near as productive  |
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Dec 30, 2013 10:03:05 GMT
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What a stunning build you have done here.
Just went through the thread again with my wife. She loves your build too.
Thanks for posting and sharing.
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Dec 30, 2013 10:16:29 GMT
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Great to see this hit the road, and for it to feel 'right' from the word go. Real shame about the side panel but then you've pretty much already fixed that. |
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Dec 30, 2013 14:05:05 GMT
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This looks excellent, got to be one of the best HY vans around. Whats it like to drive with the 110bhp audi lump? I assume it pulls well and handles good with your brakes etc?
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Dec 30, 2013 19:21:42 GMT
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Thanks for your comments Gents.. Whats it like to drive with the 110bhp audi lump? I assume it pulls well and handles good with your brakes etc? Got asked the same question today by a mate.. Had a quick think then came up with the perfect answer. It handles just like a 60/70s mini (with the rubber cone suspension) In other words *loody hard. Hit a few lumps and bumps at the weekend and completely left the seat. The brakes are brilliant with plenty of feel to them. As for the power, haven’t really tried that yet. Need to feel totally comfortable with the van before I boot it. But the little bursts I have given it feel good. |
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Ah... first world problems lol
inspiration that has had me out in the garage two days straight! Sadly nowhere near as productive 
