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Post by pauldaf44 on Oct 21, 2015 18:17:06 GMT
Well, that's what fuses are for! Bit of a bummer but there's plenty more that could have gone wrong I suppose. True enough took some time to find out what was blowing the fuses in the first place, at least all I had to replace was the alternator and not half the wiring loom, or the whole car, as would have been the case if the ignition circuit was unfused.
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Post by jayvee1980 on Oct 22, 2015 1:17:11 GMT
I took this little video a week or so ago and thought I would share it here. In this Gremlin is fully warmed up and running nicely. She is a touch revvy at this speed but if I can get her above 40mph, which is not safe on that road, she gets considerably quieter. It's been a while since I was regularly driving a DAF so from the video how would you rate Gremlin's performance.
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Post by jayvee1980 on Oct 22, 2015 1:18:36 GMT
Are you sure your vacuum valves are working for the gear chage?
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Post by pauldaf44 on Oct 22, 2015 7:56:41 GMT
Are you sure your vacuum valves are working for the gear chage? She changes up nicely if I go about mph faster. I think most of the issue is she needs new belts the adjusters are now at the max and I can still feel slack in the belts not to mention she squeals like a banshee if you pull away sharply
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Post by macplaxton on Oct 22, 2015 9:13:59 GMT
Paul, twiddle with the length of the rod that operates the mechanical vacuum valve on the carb. Joe covers it well enough at t'other place: dafcars.proboards.com/post/26858
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Post by pauldaf44 on Nov 9, 2015 13:37:11 GMT
Good news. Gremlin passed her MOT this morning. No advisories and the only work I had to do in preparation was to change a side repeater bulb
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Post by mattsdafs on Nov 9, 2015 21:02:09 GMT
Well done Paul..another Daf back on the road where it belongs
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Post by pauldaf44 on Jan 14, 2016 16:49:00 GMT
Gremlin has proved very useful these past few months but unfortunately today she let me down. I don't think she has a major fault but it could take a fair bit of time and effort to find it as she has developed an intermittent electrical fault that randomly blows fuse no 1 and thus she cuts out and loses any ignition switched lives. I can't see any obviously damaged wiring so I suspect i'm going to need to pull that dash out to properly view the loom.
Not something that I'm particularly pleased about as until today Gremlin was the only car I have that wasn't playing up due to the weather. Both the Landy and the 64 plate Kuga are drivable but are taking longer than normal to fire and are giving electrical gremlins. Both of these weren't starting properly due to damp air filters restricting the air intakes.
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Post by Nick on Jan 14, 2016 22:15:59 GMT
make sure that the wire feeding the fuses (on one side of the fuses it is a brass bar feeding four or five fuses on the other side it is individual feeds OFF of this , when I first got Gina back on the road she used to blow a fuse regularly, turns out the wire that should have been onto the bar that fed the five fuses was actually on the wrong side so to get to the distributing power bar it was having to go through the one fuse meaning it was effectively taking the laod of all five fuses... no wonder it kept popping
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Post by pauldaf44 on Mar 30, 2016 20:02:16 GMT
Well looks like i'm going to have another step by step guide to put up on the forum in the near future.
The day before yesterday Gremlin's clutch seized solid rendering her undriveable. I should have seen this coming as her clutch has been a bit iffy at disengaging for a while. You see she was behaving rather strangely and I had just put it down as a quirk. When pulling to a halt she would often stop on a fast idle where the clutch was trying to engage but given a blip of the throttle it would settle down to a normal idle and you could change gear I thought they were unrelated but now I think not. Now though she pulls away on just the starter motor so defiantly a new clutch required. Unfortunately it did go with a metallic twanging sound so I have a sneaky suspicion that it may be a broken spring.
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