Post by 33grinder on Jun 25, 2011 23:13:41 GMT
Gavina featured in her own thread on the DAF Owners Club forum before the creation of our Essex DAFs thread where Gavina updates have appeared since.
Here's my first post about her from the DAF Owners Club forum from October 2009 - ah, those halcyon days...
Now days she's starting to look a little bit more tatty. She did make it back onto the road, then the engine broke and was replaced, then the clutch...again... In February this year she rear ended a Ford Focus but she's still going strong. For now!
Well, I didn't really want to start a thread about my 33 until she was back on the road, but I've started so many threads on this forum at various stages, not to mention highjacking others' threads so it's about time I started this one I suppose. ;D
I've got some pictures of her (admittedly not great) of her pre-surgery.
Hopefully, gods of photofeckit willing, you'll see them below:
Note I don't go for the toilet role holder, I just have the toilet role on show in its raw form! ;D
If not then here's a link and someone feel free to download them should you so wish.
s979.photobucket.com/albums/ae275/33grinder33/
There's not a current photo of her but it doesn't look that different from my avatar. Today I stripped the clutch housing to check those darn springs again and....I had in fact put everything together properly - Yay!!
I put on my newly hammerited heat exchangers and the clip on guards that go round the cylinder heads (also hamerited) and put all the other gubbins back on the front of the engine.
Everything went quite smoothly apart from one minor detail and a quick call to Mattsdafs72 sorted that out as he had a removed by whole 33 engine to look at and answer my questions - thanks mate!
Necessity is the mother of invention as they say and I realised that, with everything back on the front of the engine, it wouldn't fit into the engine bay sufficiently to allow the garage door to be closed.
Well, it came out on a trolly jack but would it go back in? Three hopes, no hope, Bob Hope and Stanford No-Hope (sorry, that's a bit of an Essex joke there). I even considered removing the propshaft, fitting it onto the clutch shaft and putting the engine in then sorting out the vario end, but I was advised that's not such a good idea. So, onwards and there followed many loud expletives which cannot be repeated on this forum, 'feck' amongst others and that's not to mention judicious use of the 'f' word! Between these exclamaitions I could hear the curtains rustling of the many pensioners in our road and to prevent becoming the 'persona non-gratia' in my neighbourhood a decision was taken to call it a night and get the engine as far into the bay that I could with use of various props etc to squeeze it in. ;D Also my back gave me a warning that all of this lifting Daf's finest was going a step too far and I think tomorrow will be pay-back time.
So, I've come to the conclusion that this is going to be a two man job and, speaking to Mattsdafs72 he has a similar situation with his 46 so between the two of us we'll hopefully get both motors sorted.
Ah well, it's all been good honest fun today but beer o'clock came early, coinciding with the failing light.
I'll keep you informed of all further developments as I know you'll all be eager to hear whether, once it's back together, it'll still grind! If not then need I change my nom-de-plume? ;D
Here's my first post about her from the DAF Owners Club forum from October 2009 - ah, those halcyon days...
Now days she's starting to look a little bit more tatty. She did make it back onto the road, then the engine broke and was replaced, then the clutch...again... In February this year she rear ended a Ford Focus but she's still going strong. For now!
Well, I didn't really want to start a thread about my 33 until she was back on the road, but I've started so many threads on this forum at various stages, not to mention highjacking others' threads so it's about time I started this one I suppose. ;D
I've got some pictures of her (admittedly not great) of her pre-surgery.
Hopefully, gods of photofeckit willing, you'll see them below:
Note I don't go for the toilet role holder, I just have the toilet role on show in its raw form! ;D
If not then here's a link and someone feel free to download them should you so wish.
s979.photobucket.com/albums/ae275/33grinder33/
There's not a current photo of her but it doesn't look that different from my avatar. Today I stripped the clutch housing to check those darn springs again and....I had in fact put everything together properly - Yay!!
I put on my newly hammerited heat exchangers and the clip on guards that go round the cylinder heads (also hamerited) and put all the other gubbins back on the front of the engine.
Everything went quite smoothly apart from one minor detail and a quick call to Mattsdafs72 sorted that out as he had a removed by whole 33 engine to look at and answer my questions - thanks mate!
Necessity is the mother of invention as they say and I realised that, with everything back on the front of the engine, it wouldn't fit into the engine bay sufficiently to allow the garage door to be closed.
Well, it came out on a trolly jack but would it go back in? Three hopes, no hope, Bob Hope and Stanford No-Hope (sorry, that's a bit of an Essex joke there). I even considered removing the propshaft, fitting it onto the clutch shaft and putting the engine in then sorting out the vario end, but I was advised that's not such a good idea. So, onwards and there followed many loud expletives which cannot be repeated on this forum, 'feck' amongst others and that's not to mention judicious use of the 'f' word! Between these exclamaitions I could hear the curtains rustling of the many pensioners in our road and to prevent becoming the 'persona non-gratia' in my neighbourhood a decision was taken to call it a night and get the engine as far into the bay that I could with use of various props etc to squeeze it in. ;D Also my back gave me a warning that all of this lifting Daf's finest was going a step too far and I think tomorrow will be pay-back time.
So, I've come to the conclusion that this is going to be a two man job and, speaking to Mattsdafs72 he has a similar situation with his 46 so between the two of us we'll hopefully get both motors sorted.
Ah well, it's all been good honest fun today but beer o'clock came early, coinciding with the failing light.
I'll keep you informed of all further developments as I know you'll all be eager to hear whether, once it's back together, it'll still grind! If not then need I change my nom-de-plume? ;D