On my Clan Crusader which was used for Sprints, Hillclimbs and Race Meetings I dumped the track rod ends and fitted rose joints with selectable spacers to dial out the bump steer. Would that help?
On my Clan Crusader which was used for Sprints, Hillclimbs and Race Meetings I dumped the track rod ends and fitted rose joints with selectable spacers to dial out the bump steer. Would that help?
I would like to avoid rose joints. They are noisy and harsh on a road car. I’m sure I will get it sorted with repositioning the rack
They used something very similar on the Frontera B series, part no 97136882 for RHD or 97124925 for LHD
Good advice there. Thank you Sir 👍 Quick message to a customer of mine who supplies 4x4 lift kits etc,and yes he is sure he has one kicking around I can have 😊
Finding all the missing bits of the engine has been proving a bit harder than initially anticipated. My 1800cc Honda Goldwing engine was missing a lot off the back of it That’s how it was. Missing the back cover, clutch assembly, clutch cover, starter, alternator,water pump….the list goes on. Found the back housing where the clutch lives Found a complete clutch, might need plates, but it’s proper beefy. Think superbike size plus 20% VAT 🤣 Found a clutch cover….and that’s where the Sherlock Holmes adventure began….
The clutch uses some parts that look like a type of retainer that is twisted into place, like the black one in the photo that the red arrow points to. Thats where the fun started…
Included with the clutch basket were the two parts above. Roughly the same size as the clutch parts. No amount of wiggling would see them fit. WTF? Well, after an eternity of trying to find photos or drawings of the clutches Honda used, it turns out I wasn’t loosing my marbles, the seller who I bought the clutch from had… Does that look clutch related? …Well, that’s a couple of days of my life well spent, not 🙄 Into the skip they went….
Got a new starter. Then the quest started for an alternator. No so easy . Loads of cheap Chinese that the general consensus of opinion is to steer well clear of. New ones from Honda are close to £500 and secondhand are nigh on impossible to find. There seems to be issues, more about that later. You see the alternator mounting on there,and the crankshaft pulley? Nope, neither do I 🤣. And here in lies the issue. Not just a case of bung any old alternator on. It’s engine specific and instead of a pulley has a splined shaft. Searching for a couple of weeks yielded nothing. Asked on one of the forums and have got a supposed dead unrebuildable one. Unrebuildable? I laugh in your general direction Black is beautiful? Err…no….🫣
How does the layout of the engine bay suit the boxer style engine? Looks like it might be tight or is it a smallish engine, its a job to get scale from the pictures
Some of you will be glad to hear the van avoided the project cull. Not without, I may add, serious consideration. It will, however, be heading in a different direction. Whilst the allure of a flat six in it was strong, on further investigation it wasn’t the route to take. Yes, I could have shoe horned it in. Yes I could have got it to work ,but at what cost? Not the financial cost, but the cost to the van? It would of entailed cutting the living bejesus out of it to make it fit, and in retrospect, that was a price too high to pay…
So a more suitable engine needed to be sourced as a starting point. I settled on a tiny little donk of an engine, but I have big plans for it…The mighty Suzuki swift 1300 twincam…🤣🤣🤣
Seemingly much harder to find than originally anticipated. Now owned either by mad Welshmen who think the world owes them a living and expect me to pay for the living deficit all in one swoop, or trainee politicians that promise a lot and deliver…errr..not a lot
. “ One careful lady owner, never been raced or rallied in good running order. Dry stored for many years”…Yes dear… The years and storage had not been kind. It may have been running when the vikings left,but even then the key word would have been badly. Following a four hour drive to get it, my displeasure was made well known to the eloquent advert writer/ owner. Money changed hands, but significantly less than what he expected and I came home with a heap of dirty ,basically worn out suzuki parts .Stripped down and cleaned it showed up worn cylinders, burnt valves and not insignificant corrosion to the head sealing faces. Clean up time..
This episode kind of mirrors my life at the time..promising a lot but delivering not alot. With Dad terminally ill in a coma at the time ,I had alot of time to sit and think. Him passing away two weeks after I got back from seeing him in South Africa came more as a relief than a loss. His suffering was over. So, a new chapter begins. Clean start. Clean slate , and clean engine castings. The Suzuki is an all alloy engine, considerably lighter and more powerful than the A series engine that the van started life out with.
Bores are a bit rusty from vapour blasting, but seeing it’s being rebored,it’s not an issue 
