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The space saving though is very impressive vs the gas heater jobbie. Hoiw much of a chore would it be to run from a separate tank of cherry/domesitc heating oil/veg for one of these? or is the bigger concern the loss of space of having a separate tank negating the space gained by binning off the gas heater?


These come with a 10l so can lob cherry in there if you want.

I know the urban motorhome chap calculated the benefits of running cherry and it wasn't much, they are pretty efficent. Much more so than a normal diesel exhaust. The exhaust is sealed well and exits out the side of the van.

An Aussie on youtube showed the difference in heater versus truck which was quite surprising.

The benefit to me is that I can run from the fuel tank so don't need a separate feed in the tank. I have cut the pick up line about 1cm from bottom of the tank filter so the heater will run out before running van dry. Use I think is about 2l a day running with low Hertz.

My intent is to use the van for diving and being off grid a little so it is not just the fire, flue being removed, but also the extra gas cylinder.

They draw fuck loads of amps at start up which means running directly to battery - my leisure battery has dual terminals so no real stress. I have had to run better cables (I will make them more permanent soon)

I have fitted a rubber silencer to pump so inside you can't really hear anything.
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Last week I got a confused.com £20 Halfords voucher. I needed a new jack so used it to get one.

Got an email through for a free MOT - Saab is due one so why not try.

Bugger
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Tbf I thought the windscreen wouldn't pass and the exhaust blow was getting worse. Other bits are just wear and tear.


Briefly I pondered the multipla on here. But then with@NorthernMonkey advice I splashed out on stainless exhaust.. cause lasts and sounds better.

Oh and a new slightly bigger downpipe and performance car. And uprated FPR. That opens up the possibility of a remap in the future.

Then an almost 300 bhp fwd dog wagon. You never know when you have to get to the dog park quickly.

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  • The Moog changed the title to Moogs Motahs - Shabba - shabby swede

This morning was like Christmas day .. I got to open presents for myself

Jetex exhaust for 9-5

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3 inch down pipe
Sports cat
Uprated drop links
Track rod ends
Ball joints

And some oil filters
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Going to be lashing them on to the car on Monday.

I also got to experience one of motorings pure delight - akin to new sheets in your bed - a new windscreen!

Such a delight to have a non chipped or scratches windscreen.

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What a day ...

Plan was to remove the old bits then strap on new shiny things to the Saab.

Nice turboy engine
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underneath is a bit of surface corrosion. Plan is to brush back and corrolless sub frames

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Best bit of replacing stuff is that the choppy chop can come out
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Exhaust removed and then on to the sub frame bushes. These were properly dead
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Following a YouTube video we holesawed the rubber bit
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Before levering the sub frame down and getting the biggish part out. Choppy chop was used cut the inner race - but only after a dash to screwfix for shorter blades after Northern Monkey almost opened his own nail bar by taking off my fingers.

Subframe supported and old out
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Think these might be an improvement
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Then it went a bit downhill

Getting at turbo bolts was a pain, but they started coming undone. Untill one snapped.

The other two are out but reinforcements were called after an hour of fiddling

This is an inductive heater
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It is a flameless approach except the studs aren't ferrous - meaning didn't get hot
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Bonnet was closed for the day - tomorrow the stud will be coming out.

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Fingers and spanners crossed, in my favour is a northern monkey who doesn't give in ... And has big hammers.


It has been one of them days.


Saab out of action
Mx5 still not fixed
Motorhome decided to keep chucking up engine management light and go into limp home mode
Then SMART decided to start grinding rear brakes.


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Just now, The Moog said:

Fingers and spanners crossed, in my favour is a northern monkey who doesn't give in ... And has big hammers.


It has been one of them days.


Saab out of action
Mx5 still not fixed
Motorhome decided to keep chucking up engine management light and go into limp home mode
Then SMART decided to start grinding rear brakes.

 

 

What you need is a nice reliable diesel car. With a turbo on it. A Vauxhall or summat boring like that. 

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This morning started bright and cheerful - hope was in the air

I popped by Halfords to purchase a stud extractor to help the job along

It certainly did that by snapping the stud flush. Fucksticks.

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You can see the bottom stud is bent as well so that will need replacing

Next plan was to take the turbo off to get it drilled...

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That lasted 5 minutes before it was decided to just take the manifold off

Coolant out
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Oil off
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Manifold off - one bolt was finger tight. That isn't good
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Ahh. Bugger. It had snapped in the past and someone has ignored it.
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It has been added to our ignore list for now.

Once the turbo was off, it was checked for play.

It wobbled more than a weeble - new turbo time.

£120 for a new unit and delivered Saturday.

Plus exhaust manifold gasket, oxygen sensor and cv boot.

Parts are over 4 figures now - better not blow head gasket next week!

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1 hour ago, The Moog said:

This morning started bright and cheerful - hope was in the air

I popped by Halfords to purchase a stud extractor to help the job along

It certainly did that by snapping the stud flush. Fucksticks.

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You can see the bottom stud is bent as well so that will need replacing

Next plan was to take the turbo off to get it drilled...

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That lasted 5 minutes before it was decided to just take the manifold off

Coolant out
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Oil off
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Manifold off - one bolt was finger tight. That isn't good
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Ahh. Bugger. It had snapped in the past and someone has ignored it.
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It has been added to our ignore list for now.

Once the turbo was off, it was checked for play.

It wobbled more than a weeble - new turbo time.

£120 for a new unit and delivered Saturday.

Plus exhaust manifold gasket, oxygen sensor and cv boot.

Parts are over 4 figures now - better not blow head gasket next week!

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Jesus. This car does not want to be fixed. 

Sending positive vibes. Hopefully it's all downhill from here. 

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Yep. It definitely goes downhill from here.
Not my day for turbos.
Just to develop that point...

NM had to get his new (very nice) car from auction. I went with him to drive his RR home.


Way there it started making squeaking noises under load....
Way back it dropped the contents of the sump through the passenger side turbo!

Many faffs resulted in a big white taxi being called
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The Smart better not want a turbo soon or I am going NA and buying Huggy.
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Took advantage of the nice sunny weather to de rust and recoat some the chassis brace for the Saab

Had seen better days
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Wire brushed then built hamber applied
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Once dried then it was on with couple of coats of correless chassis paint
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Let it dry in the sun and it goes rock hard

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Took some time to have a look at the Motorhome. The fuel pump doesn't seem to want to run.

Pulled it a out to check for bad connections but can't see anything. Think it might be a case of replacing it.

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*shudders* brings back fond memories 
Oh yes... Like a creature from the black swamp when I finished


Before
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During
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After

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Neil also had fun and games removing the old drop links, the wheel of death was employed to great effect.


Shiny bits also arrived today
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Just waiting on turbo studs and a exhaust gasket before slapping it all back together, then getting an MOT.
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10 minutes ago, hairnet said:

When can purchase and collect gearbox m9?

@NorthernMonkey when can hire ramp to paint/wire brush hairdressers car please (many ££€£€£€)

Next Friday may be a possibility if you just want to do a bit of fettling, otherwise it’ll be into May at the new unit (as long as you don’t get paint all over my shiny new floor!😂)

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Reading back through this lot, it's clear you've had some misserable times of late car wise, I can relate, although my troubles pale in comparison.

Seeing you battling on here spurs me on somewhat, sometimes old cars are proper bastards! It's not hard to see how people end up getting fed up and scrapping them eh?

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Saab fixing part twelvety

New shiny bits
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Cutting off the old exhaust damaged the O2 sensor.
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A new one came but I stupidly cut the plug off the wrong one, requiring so electrical sticking back together
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Slow being built back up including new turbo
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Then shiny bits part Deux
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All strapped to the car
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Recap
It has got
New turbo
New downpipe
New exhaust
New track rod ends
New uprated drop links
New ball joint
New JR air filter
New oil and water feed lines to turbo


Two of the exhaust studs have snapped in the head, but going to chance a MOT on Friday.

It will need the head taking off at some point to deal with the studs - probably a good idea to uprate the fuel injectors at the same time.

Going forward it needs
MOT
Tracking
Exhaust studs sorting
Crank shaft oil seal replacing
Springs and dampers

Much thanks to Northern Monkey for doing most of the work and tightening/untightening my mistakes :-)

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16 hours ago, jonathan_dyane said:

You can drill out the studs in situ if you make up a couple of drill guides to slip inside the manifold and use one of those 90 degree drill accessories. I would recommend using left handed drill bits ideally and it should make it unscrew on the 2nd hit.

That's good to know.  

The fact we have mostly had it apart and that it has a healthy oil leak from the crankshaft seal, probably means it is easier to take head off. We can then renew the timing chains & guides, then get a local place who charges £30 or so to fix it. 

 

 

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