Van a gone.
Sep. 30th, 2010 06:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
growler_southThe van is currently in a million and three pieces all over the workshop, the engine mostly disassembled, awaiting parts from around the world (well, the North Shore and Japan). No seats, rear floor, or cargo liner panels. No glass in the sunroof. This is actually an improvement, because last week it didnt have a dashboard or windscreen either.
This is all because the van had a leak around one of the wiper spindles that made the passenger footwell damp.
To get to them the dash had to come out, which revealed some rust around the windscreen.
To get the windscreen out the roof lining had to come off, revealing some rust around the sunroof.
To get to the sunroof the glass had to come out, revealing some perished seals.
The perished seals are the same on all the fixed glazing, so that had to come out, revealing some cracked spotwelds in the door skins.
To get to the cracked spotwelds the door glass and winder mechanism had to come out, revealing some dried out grease and sticky dirt.
Reassembly is the reverse of disassembly, only with much cleaning and greasing of old mechanisms, until...
While reinstalling the sunroof mechanism I dropped a screw into the engine bay, where it fell into a puddle of coolant on the side of the engine- which led to the top cover of the engine coming off to get to the water pump, which revealed a missing timing belt, which led to the removal of the front timing cover and crank pulley, which revealed oil and diesel leaks, which led to the disassembly of the timing sprockets, which revealed a damaged oil pump drive sleeve.
Which is the part I'm waiting for from Japan.
Brian is in deep despair.
This is all because the van had a leak around one of the wiper spindles that made the passenger footwell damp.
To get to them the dash had to come out, which revealed some rust around the windscreen.
To get the windscreen out the roof lining had to come off, revealing some rust around the sunroof.
To get to the sunroof the glass had to come out, revealing some perished seals.
The perished seals are the same on all the fixed glazing, so that had to come out, revealing some cracked spotwelds in the door skins.
To get to the cracked spotwelds the door glass and winder mechanism had to come out, revealing some dried out grease and sticky dirt.
Reassembly is the reverse of disassembly, only with much cleaning and greasing of old mechanisms, until...
While reinstalling the sunroof mechanism I dropped a screw into the engine bay, where it fell into a puddle of coolant on the side of the engine- which led to the top cover of the engine coming off to get to the water pump, which revealed a missing timing belt, which led to the removal of the front timing cover and crank pulley, which revealed oil and diesel leaks, which led to the disassembly of the timing sprockets, which revealed a damaged oil pump drive sleeve.
Which is the part I'm waiting for from Japan.
Brian is in deep despair.
