Sammy's CF Bedford Van

[Rotti]

Im half way fitting up one of these......
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/HOT-ROD-WIPER-KITS-REMOTE-2-SPEED-SELF-PARK-COMPLETE-/151370944811?pt=AU_Car_Parts_Accessories&hash=item233e69512b&_uhb=1

[John Abbott]

Let us know how it turns out Rotti. Looks interesting

[Merlin]

my mate fitted one of those units to his Vette and found it was absolutely piss weak he had to take the springs off the wiper arms because it put too much load on the motor  and the blades were only 10" long 

[Rotti]

Yeah those arms looked a bit light duty, alright for a small hotrod screen but not a beddy!
I ended up fitting up a pair of f100 wiper arms as they are the old push-on type & strong
Have both arm mounts done using all bedford bits, worked perfect!
pics next

[Rotti]

the first pic is the wheel as sent, the second pic is with added bedford rear mount so i can use all bedford external fittings, looks factory from outside. Just had to run a file through the housing a tiny bit & file down the outer edges of the top stainless washers so the outer nut would fit....

[Sammy]

so, had the engineer come and check out the bedford over the weekend, the good news is most of what i want to do he is fine with, so i can just get it all done now (sounds simple hey lol!) i have some work to do with the steering, need to try and couple the two together without any major mods, anyways should be totally doable just take some time to work it all out.

he seems fine with me making adaptors to fit brakes on similar to restoreids, engine mounts, engine cover, all fine as long as i re-enforce the edges of the cut out properly etc.

the only down side is everything got in the way on my time off and i didn't get to touch the van other than for the engineer stuff .... but hopefully in the coming months i'll be able to make some good progress on moving things forward!

so i think the next steps will be to pull the cross member, motor and gearbox, then i can start welding around the edges of the engine hole, finish off welding up the engine mounts and hopefully while its all out re-build the gearbox so it wont have to come back out after all that (thats the plan anyways)

while the cross member is out i'll try and start working on brake adaptors too and hopefully can have commodore hubs on the car next time it goes back in also!

its energising but i know there isn't going to be alot of time to work on it at least for the next few weeks! hopefully the energy continues hahah!

[wendyh]

thast good to hear then 
bit by bit you will get it done Sammy 
you can always ask anyone on here for some encouragement, IM SURE WE ALL WOULD BE HAPPYTO HELP!

[Gordon]

Hey Sammy, you have taken the best approach by involving your Engineer early in the piece. Its going to make your final certification a breeze and hopefully you won't suffer having to do things over ... although my engineer did change his mind on a few things. Luckily they were pretty minor and easy to address.

Now all you need to do is to make it happen

[Sammy]

hahaha in all honesty wendy im keen as mustard to get it happening, its more time and money at the moment! at least there is alot i can do that is small to nil money and just time and work on my part so i plan to tick those boxes while i save.

gordon, yes i have had more than one car engineered in the past and i have learnt that if you find out what they like and do it that way you get better outcome that and have to only do it once hehe!

this one is probably the most full on conversion i have done though, as others were more a matter of bolting kits on and such, whereas with the bedford a lot more of it has to be custom made one off etc.... or in the case of the brakes, i'd prefer to try my hand at adaptors like restroreids rather then paying over $1200 for something when all i want is the adaptors off them

the other thing is this is the first time i have used this engineer as the other bloke jumped ship once the rules all changed so that was the main reason i wanted to speak to him before i went down a path it would be hard to turn back from!

[cords]

Im half way fitting up one of these......
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/HOT-ROD-WIPER-KITS-REMOTE-2-SPEED-SELF-PARK-COMPLETE-/151370944811?pt=AU_Car_Parts_Accessories&hash=item233e69512b&_uhb=1

looks like a jag rip off
bang for your buck jag is the go cable driven can put the motor any place you like