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 Thu 26 May 2011 @ 07:18
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Ah, its a long story Alena. My carburetor (a 34ICT) has always been very iffy and in need of a service. PortsladeMOT did a good job of getting it more stable but advised that it was really shot and would need to be replaced. I contacted Weber who advised I would need to put an ICH on because they don't make the ICT anymore. He did warn about a 'retenter' issue though but when pressed for info he said it just required a T-joint to be added to the fuel line and that was £7 and it really wasn't a problem. Then when trying to find out what a 'rententer' was, Phil suggested it was 'return to tank', which it is. So I checked with the garage and they said "Don't worry about it we'll get it to fit", then I checked again with the Weber bloke again and he said "Its just a T-section that needs to be added to the fuel line its not a problem", so I double checked with the garage and they said "Its not a problem" so I double checked with Weber again (No really, I did, pumping them for information so I didn't make a mistake) and then, utterly reassured, I purchased the carb and it arrived yesterday. Then Gethin caught up with the chat on here and said that what is actually required is a return line going back to the tank, so the tank needs drilling and a fuel safe connection made to plumb the return pipe back into the tank. This needs to be accessed internally by removing the main fuel feed. That to me sounds like a big deal, not an easy thing, but having slept on it I have decided that if that's what's needed then I'll just press on and get that done too. This morning I went into the garage with Gethin's info printed out and asked them if they were able to do that work and should I run the tank down before booking it in (I currently have a full tank which they would presumably have to drain to drill the tank). He read the info and just casually said "Nah don't worry about it blah blah blah I wont need to do that I'll get it to fit don't worry about it", to which I said "You might get it to fit but it might not work properly" to which he assured me he would get it to fit and it would work fine, but without fitting a return to tank pipe. So now I'm utterly nonplussed. Do I let them fit it without doing it correctly with the RTT? Do I find someone else willing to do the RTT and accept that I'll be paying more costs for the work? Do I return the ICH to Weber for a refund and just chug along with my fractious elderly ICT? I just don't know how to proceed at this point. I would rather the garage had taken Gethin's info seriously and either said "we can do that" or "We can't do that" rather than taking this middle of the road response and just telling me they'll fit it without a RTT, which might end up not working at all putting me even further back than I was before. Every time I try and do something it ends up going wrong. Having never driven a Bedford before I took it on good faith that it was a 4speed gearbox and used the gears according to the seller's instructions on where 1st was, where reverse was etc etc. I order the wrong clutch (a five speed) and had to send that back to get a 4speed clutch. Then, the very day I had the 4speed clutch fitted I randomly discovered the proper 1st gear when yanking the lever out of reverse too hard. So the extra cost and hassle of switching the clutch assembly I had purchased resulted in me actually ending up with the wrong clutch fitted not the right one. This Carb thing feels like I'm heading back into that sort of situation, and whatever I end up doing to get out of it will wind up with me having the wrong thing fitted that doesn't work properly. Just makes me realise I'm not clued up on all this stuff and I should give up now before I end up in a proper mess. = ( ---------------------- |
Thu 26 May 2011 @ 09:04
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bluebedouin Global Moderator Posts : 2444 Location : Northampton,England. Status : Offline 
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Spookytim wrote: ...Just makes me realise I'm not clued up on all this stuff and I should give up now before I end up in a proper mess....
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Thu 26 May 2011 @ 13:47
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;D The above is also available as a fridge magnet 
no sodding good with fridge's with wooden doors 
Tim keep at it we all have the down days, worth it when your boming down the road on a sunny day though 
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Thu 26 May 2011 @ 19:15
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When the previous owner of my scimitar put in a stainless steel fuel tank with only a fuel pickup outlet. They just blanked off the rententer output of the carb…. Seems to work ok. 
Maybe you could try this, just to see if the carb is any better than your old one. Nigel |
Thu 26 May 2011 @ 20:39
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I know where you are coming from. My van is ready except they can't get her through emissions. So on the way in to work this morning I am taking the spare carb I have in to see if that will work. So by the end of today I will either have a van or not! I have no idea if my other carb is ok, as it came from the blown engine so I may well be needing to do exactly what you are doing! It is worth asking the chaps there what they would do instead of drilling holes in your tank. Sometimes there is more than one solution to a problem. My van also needed a new rotor arm. The garage couldn't find one locally. There was a spare in the van in the drawer under the cooker. I also told them, they are the same as for a dolomite, readily available via Internet, and speedy spares. By the way did you try them for a carb? They have a lot of old unidentified parts they have no idea what they fit. I found bulb holders and rear lights for a mates Marina in there, got them cheap too as they thought they were for something else!! |
Fri 27 May 2011 @ 05:56
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To be really honest Alena my van only got past emissions because the carb is so weak and they kindly did the test before fixing blowholes in my downpipe. I'm sure it will get through today, then we have to have a mini-meet and check each other's vans out. I think I'm going to take a flying chance on them fitting the ICH without any troubles. The bloke who seems to be the carburetor specialist there seems very confident that he will get it on and it will work, so I guess I will just have to take a chance on it and accept that he knows better than me. In an ideal world, if the carb should have an RTT line I'd rather it was there, but if he can do it without I can at least take it back and get that put right at a future date. I could keep going on the ICT as its working quite well but it does tick quite loudly now since they patched it up (figuratively speaking). Its definitely the the carb ticking too before anyone asks "Sure it isn't your big end going?" and freaks me the hell out!. I mean, there's a slim chance its just another hole blown in my rusty decrepit downpipe up near the manifold, but with the hood up and my ear amongst the oily bits I can be pretty confident its the carb. Blackrock can provide me with van rated tyres at the right size, so I'm feeling a bit more optimistic than I was yesterday when it seemed like all the money I was spending was being wasted on stuff I can't use. ;] ---------------------- |
Fri 27 May 2011 @ 12:47
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Just booked my van in to have some Nexen 205/70/14 100Ts stuck on my Weller wheels and then stuck on the van. Thursday afternoon. I'd like to be excited about this. Its been my mission since I got the van to just have some vaguely wider shoes on the back axle. I'd like to be excited but I know something will go wrong. They'll turn out to be incompatible with my brakes, or wont be correct PCD. Its stamped on that they are and I have measured them but I just don't seem to have any luck with this van. I've sanded down the inner rims once again so they are nice and super-super smooth. There's a few tiny little dots that dip, a barely perceptible amount, below the surface level due to mild surface corrosion, but I'm going to paint them over with superglue and sand them again so they are super smooth too. I just know I'll come home with some other reason why I can't get these wheels on my van though. I've been bitten so many times now with this van business that I can no longer feel anything but dread. This will be the last time though. If I get these wheels on all is good. If I come home with them in the back because they can't be used on my van, I'm selling the van and getting a Ford Popular/Anglia/Prefect instead. ---------------------- |
Mon 30 May 2011 @ 13:24
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bluebedouin Global Moderator Posts : 2444 Location : Northampton,England. Status : Offline
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Spookytim wrote: If ... they can't be used on my van, I'm selling the van and getting a Ford Popular/Anglia/Prefect instead.
Bit of a tight squeeze camping in one of them! ;D ---------------------- |
Mon 30 May 2011 @ 18:59
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Finally something goes right... Small hurray for me today. Got my Weller wheels on. I've been hand-sanding them and filling corrosion dips on the tyre seats like a madman to get them prepared for tyres today. Got a pair of Nexen All Terrains on the rear now 205/70/14, and it has achieved the desired result. I just wanted a slightly broader back footprint... nothing in the realms of a drag racer as she's never going to be that, but just enough of a change to make her look like she's sitting on a sturdier pair of feet instead of looking like a pig on a roller skate.The wheels are slightly offset to push the tyres out a bit too which helps. The overall effect is very subtle, but I like it. When I look in my rear view mirror now I see a wheel and tyre behind me instead of a sloping metal side and nothing underneath it. Chuffed. Something went right at last. 
^Still got the chalk powder on the tyres, so looking a bit skanky ... but then my van is meant to look skanky anyway, as you can probably tell. I am not loving those smoothy hubcaps by the way, but my missus has insisted that I put them on after the hassle and the expense of getting them and having to pay customs&exise a hefty import duty. I'm hoping a local chav steals them fairly soon. 8} ---------------------- |
Thu 02 Jun 2011 @ 17:55
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the van looks awesome tim, our van flew through emissions too, but i think our carb needs adjusting, as it dies at traffic lights, so we have to leave the choke slighty out to stop the engine cutting out ---------------------- |
Fri 03 Jun 2011 @ 23:55
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That's what mine was like. I'd always have the choke stopper out about 5mm otherwise whenever I came off the gas, or came to a stop, or needed to idle for more than a few seconds, it would flatline. Would always start again like nothing was wrong though. I had my carb fiddled about with and now she's as steady as a rock. I never need to have more than 5mm of choke to start the engine, and I can push it back in again after a minute or so of driving. The carb is on its last legs though I was informed by the mechanic, so I have a new one from Weber waiting to go on. I just need to resolve the differences between a 34 ICT and a 34ICH and I'm happy to cruise around on the ICT until its really necessary to change it over. Anyway, I need to re-paint all the black enamel on my van next. Not looking forward to that as I got utterly bored of doing the grey paint and I didn't even do a very dedicated job of that to be honest. I just slapped it on, thick as gravy. 8} ---------------------- |
Sat 04 Jun 2011 @ 15:24
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bluebedouin Global Moderator Posts : 2444 Location : Northampton,England. Status : Offline
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Tim,I've just posted a link to a greedbay ad for a 34 ict. ---------------------- |
Sat 04 Jun 2011 @ 21:24
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Anon Deleted Posts : Location : Status : Offline |
Cheers Blue. To be honest I've got two 34ICTs already and now a brand spanking new 34ICH. I'm going to get the ICH put on. I've decided I'll trust the old boy who's going to do it, tell he can't do anything to the carb that can't be undone (I don't, like lopping off the retenter valve and welding up the hole or anything like that) and then if I have trouble running it without the retenter I'll just ask them, or someone else, to fit the line back to the tank. ---------------------- |
Sun 12 Jun 2011 @ 19:36
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I haven't been on here for ages again. I have tested a theory and proved it conclusively, that for me, being a bit of a worrier by nature, my van runs a lot better when I'm not reading about everybody else's woes. Its funny how that works, but I started to notice that I wasn't enjoying my van at all, I was always stressing about it and thinking something was about to go horribly wrong. I'd lie awake at night planning in my mind how I would need to get hold of hundreds of quids worth of parts and then get the van to the garage before it fell catastrophically apart on me. Every tell tale sign of a huge problem that any one of you mentioned on here, and I'd start noticing it on my van too. Rattles, doinks, squeeeeks, rumbles... all became signs of the Bedford apocalypse. When I stopped reading the forum religiously I noticed I stopped worrying so much. At first I thought maybe my interest might be waning but it isn't, its still as strong as ever and I still love the van... it just suits me better to avoid reading too many scary stories I guess. ;) Still feel very much part of this place and spent a good 30 minutes telling a couple of CF1 owners all about it today. I just don't post so much at the moment. ---------------------- |
Sun 14 Aug 2011 @ 19:52
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Thats the idea chill out and enjoy,if something happens worry about it afterwards,not going into meltdown worrying about it beforehand.good to see you posting again tim.;] ---------------------- |
Sun 14 Aug 2011 @ 20:30
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I've been kept away from my van over the last few weeks. We've had a couple of family holidays, one where we just stayed local and did lots of house worky style jobs (no time for vanning) and then last week we spent a week in a rented cottage in Bath (actually Freshford, near Bath) which was great. Amazing part of the world, but due to it being a family affair I was forced to drive round in our Ford C-Max which drives me nuts because its really quiet, really smooth, has power steering, and is automatic. Its hardly like driving anything at all. Its more like playing a gentle video game. Today, finally, was the first day in ages I have been able to get in my van. I spent an hour doing various bits of upkeep... 1. trying to clean out the channels at the top of the wings where they align with the windscreen surround panel (whatever that panel is called). I got about 5 litres of compost out of there (okay I'm exaggerating) and then I pumped Sikaflex into the gaps and ran beads of it along the tops of the panel gaps in an effort to try and stop the water getting in there. I've got the classic bubbling going on at the top of my front wings. Not that the rest of my van is particularly let down by this... it all looks like crap, but I do have a thing about my van not rusting away even if it is an old banger. 2. trying to fix the passenger side wing mirror which, in typical fashion for the previous owner, is being held on by two self-tapping woodwork screws through a badly rusted bracket. He was a real character that previous owner. He worked in a garage (A sort of kwik fit rival place anyway) and yet all his bodges heavily feature the exact same little inch long, tapered, phillips head, self tapping brass coloured wood screws. ITS ALMOST LIKE HE HAD A BAG OF THEM GOING SPARE IN HIS TOOLBOX OR SOMETHING!!! ;D 3. Trying to seal up the badly fitted sunroof that was in the van when I got it. In the end I just pumped a load of shoegoo around and am now hoping for the best. It can't be any worse, and frankly I'm sick of driving along on a hot sunny day in the middle of summer, then finding, quite out of the blue and for no apparent reason... an ice cold shower of water suddenly trickles out of somewhere, and off the sunroof's little handle, right down my arm. After that I went for a drive. The van was surprisingly healthy considering its been neglected for about three weeks. Went blasting all round Sussex for almost two hours non-stop and it was a joy to be back in the driver's seat again, listening to the sound, feeling the vibration, having to actually steer as opposed to just gesturing, and using a proper set of gears again rather than letting an auto box decide what's best for me. When I got back to the local traffic lights though, I heard the familiar sound of my alternator belt squeeling. This hasn't happened in ages, after I shifted the alternator over a bit to tighten it, but I guess its time for a new alternator belt and have just ordered one off Vauxhall-car-parts.co.uk. Also got back round to thinking about putting a faux livery on my van again. I'm going to put some lettering on the sides and back, paint my bonnet and the strip beneath the radiator grill black, and make it look like its a retired van from a defunct company. I'm really excited about getting started on that now after pondering it for so long. The livery will say 'British Industrial Salvage" down the side, as though that's the name of a salvage company... but in reality its what I think of my van as being... a salvaged bit of Britain's industrial heritage. ;] ---------------------- |
Sun 28 Aug 2011 @ 22:59
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Bodgit & Scarper? |
Mon 29 Aug 2011 @ 07:58
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So, I've asked the missus to buy me some Bedford plastic surgery for Christmas. That means I can get the bad side smoothed out, then paint work sanded down and re-done smoother, then finishe off replacing the windows. Paint work will still hand done, but I actually like the hand-rollered rustoleum look where its flat. Its only where the last owner used a catapult to apply half-dried paint skins to it that its horrible. === I spent all yesterday morning under my van. I decided I didn't want the ultra rusted-on spare wheel bracket under there any more. I'd rather have the spare wheel in the back of the van. Also, I really want to lose the back step and instead have a couple of steel bars fabricated to keep people away from my rear end. Its was all big bolts and they had all been tightened into place 25 years ago and have been slowly rusting into place ever since. It was bloody hard work considering I only have a modest set of spanners, not long arm wrenches that I can apply a bit of leverage with. Anyway, took the skin of the backs of most of my fingers, banged and bashed most bones but finally got the entire spare wheel rack off and the bolts that hold the step on. Step didn't budge though. At first I thought its probably just rust keeping it in place. After jumping up and down on it for ten minutes though I concluded, and then confirmed, that its also welded to the underside. So in desperation I decided to hammer an unwanted chisel into the weld in the hope it would crack. Net result of that: The weld held strong, and accepted the chisel with good grace, refusing to let go again. So I managed to remove the spare wheel bracket and install a chisel. Two jobs done! By the way... does anyone have any ideas about where I might be able to get two bars fabricated like the ones below? and secondly... would they need to hook under my van or is it possible to drill directly through the rear sill either side of my license plate and bolt them to the metal behind there? 
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Sun 30 Oct 2011 @ 20:00
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Hello Tim, Glad to see you're still keeping at it. Rae & Ann ---------------------- |
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