Inner Toobes?

Right, decided to take some breaks from the pooter and do my GS.

Happy to say, all done, fixed, running and with fabricated / fixed
hoodsticks and new tilt, re-installed the LPG, rewired, made things
'work' - whey hey! Only took a couple of Warren days and about two
weeks of all my own free time ;-)

Now, just been and got some XZLs (900x16) to replace the teflon
barslips, these are slightly bigger than the barslips, and although
the tyres are tubeless, the rims aren't, so I'll prolly need to get
some new innertubes as I suspect using the existing ones will not be a
good idea.

Are these fairly standard in commercial tyre places? (I'll have a ring
around tomorrow). The club does them, but I intend putting the new
tyres on next Monday and doubt the club could provide them that
quickly being as there's stock taking and "etc" going on.

Anyway, runs like a dog on LPG (I have various cheap ideas on fixing
this - green scrubber anyone?), and like a rocket on petrol, 70mph on
the Chesterfield bypass on the GPS - (with more there if I had the
bottle) - I was _very_ happy with that (the speedo is slightly under
calibrated, I'm hoping the new tyre diameter will bring it about
right). Only thing that threw me, before I put the new tilt on, I
rolled the old one up onto the roof above the cab, and at around
65mph...

.... it unrolled itself in the wind ;-)


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Mother wrote:

> Are these fairly standard in commercial tyre places? (I'll have a ring
> around tomorrow). The club does them, but I intend putting the new
> tyres on next Monday and doubt the club could provide them that
> quickly being as there's stock taking and "etc" going on.

Dead easy to get - the tyre place that did Bob got them same day.

>
> Anyway, runs like a dog on LPG (I have various cheap ideas on fixing
> this - green scrubber anyone?),

Try the Green scotchbrite pads. Three in a roll-up worked on Bob.

Steve

"steve" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Mother wrote:
>
>> Are these fairly standard in commercial tyre places? (I'll have a ring
>> around tomorrow). The club does them, but I intend putting the new
>> tyres on next Monday and doubt the club could provide them that
>> quickly being as there's stock taking and "etc" going on.
>
> Dead easy to get - the tyre place that did Bob got them same day.
>
>>
>> Anyway, runs like a dog on LPG (I have various cheap ideas on fixing
>> this - green scrubber anyone?),
>
> Try the Green scotchbrite pads. Three in a roll-up worked on Bob.
>
> Steve

Scotchbrite pads? ...ok, I'll bite.
Where do you put them, and what do they "do".?

I won't need them on my 200Tdi, but I'm always interested in others' ideas.

Craig.

On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 21:12:20 GMT, "CraigB"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Scotchbrite pads? ...ok, I'll bite.
>Where do you put them, and what do they "do".?
>
>I won't need them on my 200Tdi, but I'm always interested in others' ideas.
>

They restrict the airflow at the filter.


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"Mother" <"@ {mother} @"@101fc.net> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Right, decided to take some breaks from the pooter and do my GS.
>
> Happy to say, all done, fixed, running and with fabricated / fixed
> hoodsticks and new tilt, re-installed the LPG, rewired, made things
> 'work' - whey hey! Only took a couple of Warren days and about two
> weeks of all my own free time ;-)
>
> Now, just been and got some XZLs (900x16) to replace the teflon
> barslips, these are slightly bigger than the barslips, and although
> the tyres are tubeless, the rims aren't, so I'll prolly need to get
> some new innertubes as I suspect using the existing ones will not be a
> good idea.

Couldn't you weld the rivet heads inside the rims?

>
> Are these fairly standard in commercial tyre places? (I'll have a ring
> around tomorrow). The club does them, but I intend putting the new
> tyres on next Monday and doubt the club could provide them that
> quickly being as there's stock taking and "etc" going on.
>
> Anyway, runs like a dog on LPG (I have various cheap ideas on fixing
> this - green scrubber anyone?), and like a rocket on petrol, 70mph on
> the Chesterfield bypass on the GPS - (with more there if I had the
> bottle) - I was _very_ happy with that (the speedo is slightly under
> calibrated, I'm hoping the new tyre diameter will bring it about
> right). Only thing that threw me, before I put the new tilt on, I
> rolled the old one up onto the roof above the cab, and at around
> 65mph...
>
> ... it unrolled itself in the wind ;-)
>
>
Could have frightened someone following, an instant full width canvas
sunblind, what will you think of next? ;-)

Martin.

On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 21:57:35 +0100, Mother <"@ {mother} @"@101fc.net>
scribbled the following nonsense:

>Right, decided to take some breaks from the pooter and do my GS.
>
>Happy to say, all done, fixed, running and with fabricated / fixed
>hoodsticks and new tilt, re-installed the LPG, rewired, made things
>'work' - whey hey! Only took a couple of Warren days and about two
>weeks of all my own free time ;-)
>
>Now, just been and got some XZLs (900x16) to replace the teflon
>barslips, these are slightly bigger than the barslips, and although
>the tyres are tubeless, the rims aren't, so I'll prolly need to get
>some new innertubes as I suspect using the existing ones will not be a
>good idea.
>
>Are these fairly standard in commercial tyre places? (I'll have a ring
>around tomorrow). The club does them, but I intend putting the new
>tyres on next Monday and doubt the club could provide them that
>quickly being as there's stock taking and "etc" going on.
>
>Anyway, runs like a dog on LPG (I have various cheap ideas on fixing
>this - green scrubber anyone?), and like a rocket on petrol, 70mph on
>the Chesterfield bypass on the GPS - (with more there if I had the
>bottle) - I was _very_ happy with that (the speedo is slightly under
>calibrated, I'm hoping the new tyre diameter will bring it about
>right). Only thing that threw me, before I put the new tilt on, I
>rolled the old one up onto the roof above the cab, and at around
>65mph...
>
>... it unrolled itself in the wind ;-)

never mind the GS, how about the aircon on Grumble???
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Oily wrote:
> "Mother" <"@ {mother} @"@101fc.net> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Right, decided to take some breaks from the pooter and do my GS.
>>
>> Happy to say, all done, fixed, running and with fabricated / fixed
>> hoodsticks and new tilt, re-installed the LPG, rewired, made things
>> 'work' - whey hey! Only took a couple of Warren days and about two
>> weeks of all my own free time ;-)
>>
>> Now, just been and got some XZLs (900x16) to replace the teflon
>> barslips, these are slightly bigger than the barslips, and although
>> the tyres are tubeless, the rims aren't, so I'll prolly need to get
>> some new innertubes as I suspect using the existing ones will not be a
>> good idea.
>
> Couldn't you weld the rivet heads inside the rims?

Not a good idea - the rims won't have the 'hump' at the bead to keep a
tubeless tyre seated.


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Mother wrote:

> Are these fairly standard in commercial tyre places? (I'll have a ring
> around tomorrow). The club does them, but I intend putting the new
> tyres on next Monday and doubt the club could provide them that
> quickly being as there's stock taking and "etc" going on.

Yes. Should be available at any tyre place that does much HGV work, and
also at any decent 4WD tyre supplier.

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On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 23:18:39 +0100, Simon Isaacs
<[email protected]> wrote:

>>... it unrolled itself in the wind ;-)
>
>never mind the GS, how about the aircon on Grumble???

That's reached a hiatus at present. All sort of fitted, but I'm
trying to work out how to run the pipes and drain - oh, and how the
electrics are s'posed to work...


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On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 23:00:45 +0100, "Oily"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>> ... it unrolled itself in the wind ;-)
>>
>>
> Could have frightened someone following, an instant full width canvas
>sunblind, what will you think of next? ;-)

It was still fastened to the top of the cab at the front. As it
unrolled it all flopped down between the rollbar and hoodsticks


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"Mother" <"@ {mother} @"@101fc.net> wrote in message
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> That's reached a hiatus at present. All sort of fitted, but I'm
> trying to work out how to run the pipes and drain - oh, and how the
> electrics are s'posed to work...


Get Steve to bend some ally in an L shape, run the pipes to the roof cross
beam and then along side the crossbeam to the vertical side supports....
then down to the engine bay. I'd guess Eberspacher side would be simplest.

Use the L plate shape to cover the pipes where they run along the roof
support so that the base of the L is flat against the base of the roof
support, then it can be neatly screwed up and hide all the gubbins but be
easily accessed if required.

Just a thought.

Lee D

Mother wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 23:18:39 +0100, Simon Isaacs
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>> ... it unrolled itself in the wind ;-)
>> never mind the GS, how about the aircon on Grumble???
>
> That's reached a hiatus at present. All sort of fitted, but I'm
> trying to work out how to run the pipes and drain - oh, and how the
> electrics are s'posed to work...

If you can wait until November I'll give you a hand with the electrics
part of it.


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Mother" <"@ {mother} @ wrote:

|| On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 21:12:20 GMT, "CraigB"
|| <[email protected]> wrote:
||
||| Scotchbrite pads? ...ok, I'll bite.
||| Where do you put them, and what do they "do".?
|||
||| I won't need them on my 200Tdi, but I'm always interested in
||| others' ideas.
||
|| They restrict the airflow at the filter.

Ah.. I though putting them in a roll-up meant you'd be smoking them.

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On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 09:27:37 +0100, "Lee_D"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Get Steve to bend some ally in an L shape, run the pipes to the roof cross
>beam and then along side the crossbeam to the vertical side supports....
>then down to the engine bay. I'd guess Eberspacher side would be simplest.
>
>Use the L plate shape to cover the pipes where they run along the roof
>support so that the base of the L is flat against the base of the roof
>support, then it can be neatly screwed up and hide all the gubbins but be
>easily accessed if required.

Everything is going 'padded'. I need to make a box section to go to
the driver side (RHD) into which I'll also place a 7inch touch screen
monitor for use from the 'living space' and a couple of lights. The
pipes run inside this, then down the side channel I left for wires,
into the engine bay by the vapouriser toen forward to the compressor.

I have it all planned, oh yes indeedy. "Doing it" is the issue at
present...


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