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Re: The Shagpile is on Order Dance Boogie Wondervan!
Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2021 11:52 am
by 8BAK465
paulplom wrote: ↑Tue Mar 02, 2021 11:44 am
Have you binned all the door panels? Would it have not been better keeping them for templates?
They were like rotten pulp had spores growing on them and stank of rodent piss
There was one on the floor in the rear it fell to bits when i picked it up and the passengers side one had turned to stinky wood porridge at the bottom
Its easy enough to make card templates so they just went out along with some of the smell
Re: The Shagpile is on Order Dance Boogie Wondervan!
Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2021 12:17 pm
by 8BAK465
So I have been waiting for this one! Removing the hideous looking AC Unit from the centre of the dash!
So with the van clear I decided to pull out the aftermarket HVAC system bodged into the dash as not only am I not keen on the look but it’s not connected to anything much under the hood!
There’s two pipes under the hood and there's an accumulator just hanging under the hood but no acc compressor and the condenser has gone too!
So first I removed the front and disconnected all the wiring
So still need to remove the evaporator core from the dash and pull out all the pipes but having disconnected the wiring I snapped what I thought was a hard wired ground
It wasn't a wire though it was a tiny thin pipe going to the evap from the level control Ooops it hissed a bit then I hammered down both ends flat. Don’t think there was much in it?
Got the stereo out looks like it’s been on fire at some point
Can’t get over how crude the fibreglass enclosure for the ac unit is!
Looks like it was knocked together by a five year old!
So brushed and shook it all out wont throw it away as somebody will want it
So now I have this spaghetti rat nest of bodged wiring to figure out
Oh what fun
Re: The Shagpile is on Order Dance Boogie Wondervan!
Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2021 12:47 pm
by 8BAK465
Re: The Shagpile is on Order Dance Boogie Wondervan!
Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2021 1:07 pm
by paulplom
Great stuff. I'm looking forward to getting my spanners out soon.
Re: The Shagpile is on Order Dance Boogie Wondervan!
Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2021 5:32 pm
by DodgeRover
Do you have any plans for the AC set up Jo? Have been looking for an after market one for my transit for ages!
Re: The Shagpile is on Order Dance Boogie Wondervan!
Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2021 9:42 am
by 8BAK465
DodgeRover wrote: ↑Tue Mar 02, 2021 5:32 pm
Do you have any plans for the AC set up Jo? Have been looking for an after market one for my transit for ages!
Its yours if you want it but most of its missing
Id rather somebody take it for free than it go to the tip.
It only has the evap core and dryer (me getting mixed up with names of parts) needs a condenser and AC compressor plus the pipe is now snapped on the core getting it out
But if its for the facia parts to be able to fit your own new cheap Chinese kit you might be on to something?
Re: The Shagpile is on Order Dance Boogie Wondervan!
Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2021 12:11 pm
by DodgeRover
Sounds like it could be made to work, it's the period bit that goes in the cab that is difficult to source.
Can you hang onto it for a bit until I can collect?
Re: The Shagpile is on Order Dance Boogie Wondervan!
Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2021 8:23 pm
by 8BAK465
DodgeRover wrote: ↑Wed Mar 03, 2021 12:11 pm
Sounds like it could be made to work, it's the period bit that goes in the cab that is difficult to source.
Can you hang onto it for a bit until I can collect?
Yeh no Problem have PMed you
Need to make some sort of plug to fill the hole left by its passing until I work out what i will do with the dash long term,would love another better one but hardly any over here and bringing another whole dash from the states would be astronomical I am guessing so ill get my thinking cap on and make do and mend with what I have
Re: The Shagpile is on Order Dance Boogie Wondervan!
Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2021 9:37 pm
by 8BAK465
Something I forgot from last week
Waited a week to get two new mirrors for the Van from Rock Auto in the states and they turned up smashed to pieces!
Give credit where its due RA seemed to pack them well Around the internal boxes but the internal boxes themselves the company that manufactures them should be ashamed of themselves as the boxes are a fair bit bigger than the mirrors no polystyrene or anything in them to stop them moving around a thin layer of bubble wrap and the fixings were situated above the glass so all the way here they have been happily smashing the glass
! In fact they could of been smashed before they left the packaging is soo poor
On another note I ordered a tune up kit that's been overpacked! Somebody on the line put too many leads in as instead of 9 it has 11
Fast forward and Rock Auto have been absolutely useless
They want me to send them all the way back to them i provided all the pics all the evidence and suggested they just sent me new glass as if they have them back there's shipping and duties they would be libel for both ways but they just argued and argued it seems i have to send back at my expense then claim it back I really couldn't be arsed
I was trying to help them by explaining the manufacturers insufficiently pack them and if they sent replacements they too would be smashed to bits
A guy in a Van group I am in has suggested Acrylic Mirror sheet you can cut yourself and a neighbour told me of a glass place that can cut mirrors to size so will go one of those routes as its really not woth shipping them back to Madison USA where they came from
Re: The Shagpile is on Order Dance Boogie Wondervan!
Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2021 5:31 am
by paulplom
That's a bastard. Our old local hardware store used to cut glass and mirrors if you took a carboard template.
Maybe have a look local.