Sold For sells: Another DAF 66 Kombi!

[Mally]

Hang on, when you go for the gauge it changes to £6.95.

Rip off, I wish to withdraw my fine offer.

[Asimo]

It's not revs on their own that gives a change in manifold pressure / vacuum, throttle opening /closing changes it most.

[Fabergé Greggs]

Yeah I guess that makes sense. Weird to think that the biggest throttle openings would cause the biggest upshift effect, but I guess that’s balanced with the natural shift down effect caused by load on the belts.

 

Fuck knows how they calculated all of this, but apparently when it works it works. Which this one doesn’t.

[purplebargeken]

They were most likely stoned as bastards when it was created. It works but no-one now knows how or why. 

 

Hey, it's possible.

[Eddie Honda]

Might be worth speaking to Mac. He's d'man.

 

I don't know if he has a Volvo Special Tool 999 5900, but he might well have a clone of it. He was certainly working on one at one point.

 

 

http://www.volvo300mania.com/uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3209

[Eddie Honda]

Technically, you don't blow down the tubes. You scientifically test with a vacuum pump.

 

 

 

And time the leakage rate. It will leak, it just a case of the rate at which it leaks.

 

 

 

[purplebargeken]

Witchcraft.

[Fabergé Greggs]

Just time for a quick tinker in the evening light after work- and I have a small reward for all my efforts at last!

 

The 4 way valve gives me some considerable vacuum if I press in the low hold switch, but I don’t think I’m getting any vacuum through the change up pipe... so... I switched the pipes over and used the low hold switch as a kind of overdrive and... woah!! At long long last you can go for a drive without a constant million RPM. It changes so nicely with load and inclines, and cruises beautifully at sensible revs at around 50mph.. it’s like a different car.

 

The weird thing is that I can hear the valve clicking when I open the throttle, which lead me to believe that it’s working, but further investigation is obviously needed.

 

I celebrated by going to Tesco and parking between some 4x4’s.

[Eddie Honda]

You hear the solenoid, but it's doing hee-haw as the shroom is fooked.

 

 

Mac has them in stock. (See further back in he thread)

[Fabergé Greggs]

You hear the solenoid, but it's doing hee-haw as the shroom is fooked.

 

DSC00106mod.jpg

 

Mac has them in stock. (See further back in he thread)

Yeah, it all points to that, which is ace as it feels like I’m nearly there. Weeeeeeee

[jonny69]

I celebrated by going to Tesco and parking between some 4x4’s.

Bet they had a laugh and thought your car was well shit. I mean, I know it is, but I bet they thought that.

[Fabergé Greggs]

Whilst waiting for parts to arrive I've started to ponder reversing lights. It doesn't have one but as this will be pressed into daily use it's kind of handy to have one. 

 

I can't really find much info about what would be required legally- something mega discreet would be perfect. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Whilst waiting for parts to arrive I've started to ponder reversing lights. It doesn't have one but as this will be pressed into daily use it's kind of handy to have one. 

 

I can't really find much info about what would be required legally- something mega discreet would be perfect. 

 

If you're only fitting the one, I think you need to mount it on the left side. You can also have one rear fog light on the right side.

 

Would this do for an add-on reverse light?

[Eddie Honda]

If you're only fitting the one, I think you need to mount it on the left side.

 

Well that thought is bollocks for starters.

 

Factory fit lower right:

042 by E Honda, on Flickr

 

A tell-tale warning light is needed for a manual switched one.

 

RVLR 1989 schedule 14: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1796/schedule/14/made

 

The switch on super luxes is on top of the primary and nudged by the arm on top of the power divider.

 

[Fabergé Greggs]

Well that thought is bollocks for starters.

 

Factory fit lower right:

042 by E Honda, on Flickr

 

A tell-tale warning light is needed for a manual switched one.

 

RVLR 1989 schedule 14: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1796/schedule/14/made

 

The switch on super luxes is on top of the primary and nudged by the arm on top of the power divider.

 

reverse light switch 66.jpg

 

 

Hmm that's good to see. I spied the wiring for the switch on the primaries when it was up on the ramp. I might pop a switch in there the next time it's up in the air. My feelings are spilt as it look so minimal without one but people seem to freak right out at me when reversing. I never seem to quite get the chance to extol the virtues of a BASE model before it all kicks off. 

[hairnet]

Nee

[purplebargeken]

You may fit one but only if it is 'rally car stylee' a la small spotlight type one attached to the bumper.

 

That is the only one you can fit. 

[purplebargeken]

Fuck, that little Daf looks like a bloody Matchbox toy car between those two bloody bloaters. Sodding hell.

[PhilA]

If you're only fitting the one, I think you need to mount it on the left side. You can also have one rear fog light on the right side.

 

Nurp, but you aren't allowed more than two, and those two must be mounted symmetrically if you do have two. Also some nonsense about how far off the ground it is and all that usual jazz. As it was a factory option, is there fitment for a switch? Having to manually switch the thing on and off is a chore (though it can be fun at traffic lights).

 

Phil

[Fabergé Greggs]

Nurp, but you aren't allowed more than two, and those two must be mounted symmetrically if you do have two. Also some nonsense about how far off the ground it is and all that usual jazz. As it was a factory option, is there fitment for a switch? Having to manually switch the thing on and off is a chore (though it can be fun at traffic lights).

 

Phil

Yeah, there’s a switch location by the primaries as described above. I was thinking about fitting a suitable high level brake light that could perhaps double up as a reversing light, though that might be a confusing location for a reversing light.

[MorrisItalSLX]

I would mount it centrally like a MK1 Fiesta, would it be possible to use a square front spot lamp or would the MOT man think that was too bright?

[Fabergé Greggs]

I would mount it centrally like a MK1 Fiesta, would it be possible to use a square front spot lamp or would the MOT man think that was too bright?

MOT’s are of no concern any more. MOT expires on the 21st of May, a handy 3 days after it becomes exempt.

[Fabergé Greggs]

Had the idea of checking Instagram today for #daf66

 

The Daf seems popular presumably because #london #hipsters

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Had the idea of checking Instagram today for #daf66

 

The Daf seems popular presumably because #london #hipsters...

Will you be developing a full beard and an Edwardian hairstyle to match?

[Fabergé Greggs]

Will you be developing a full beard and an Edwardian hairstyle to match?

Sadly I rinsed all my hairdressing money on £7 scotch eggs.

[davehedgehog31]

Fuck, that little Daf looks like a bloody Matchbox toy car between those two bloody bloaters. Sodding hell.

Imagine how fuel efficient and fun cars could be if they were similar in size and weight to old chod but with all the mechanical advances of modern vehicles. 

 

Instead everyone is driving about cocooned in these massive, bloated overcomplicated heaps of plastic shite. People more concerned with being able to listen to Spotify than actually having any awareness of the road around them. 

 

All of this on the first exorbitant PCP scheme they could find, tying them to a mobile two tonne fashion accessory that will be out of date half way through aforementioned agreement. Hello negative equity.

[Fabergé Greggs]

Imagine how fuel efficient and fun cars could be if they were similar in size and weight to old chod but with all the mechanical advances of modern vehicles.

 

This but without any mechanical advantages please, I’d just like them not to rust.

[Eddie Honda]

You may fit one but only if it is 'rally car stylee' a la small spotlight type one attached to the bumper.

 

That is the only one you can fit. 

 

Look at the regs Kenny, you can go for a pair of 24W monsters and put it on a manual switch with tell-tale and dazzle* tailgating cunts.

 

*yeah, I know they aren't meant to, but someone must have pushed it back on it's mounting pivot so it was aiming high.

[purplebargeken]

^^ That would be no* fun whatsoever. Nope, not* one iota of fun. No hilarity obtained whatsoever*.

[Fabergé Greggs]

Nearly there now, with some pleasant tinnkering in the sunshine. My rebuild kit arrived so I set to rebuilding the vacuum valve- I couldn't believe how small the mushrooms are!

 

There's the devil. 

 

 

And dissembled.. Not much to it is there? 

 

You can see the offending mushroom (good name for a band), and the solenoid it should be attached to. 

 

Also, this valve is perhaps from a Volvo 340 as it has a diode which isn't needed on a 66. See-ya!

 

Now, the strange this is, all is now working as it should, and a test drive reveals that there is a change up effect, however this isn't nearly as strong as when I bodged it to the low hold side. 

 

The reason seems to be that there is much less vacuum present on the change up side than there is on the change down. This is confirmed by sucking on the inlet pipe of the body without any thing else attached- the change down side is free, however the change up side feels restricted. Is this correct?