Harold - the T25 van (1.8T content)

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Originally Posted by GeorgeMK1

In order to undo the drain/fill plug for the transmission - I didn't realise I needed a special hex. I didn't have one, so welded up a nut and bolt together and used a socket to undo it. Worked well.

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Had a similar issue with a Landrover but we heat bent a bolt with the right head so we could use the tube of the wheel brace as a handle.

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Originally Posted by Kiels3927

Had a similar issue with a Landrover but we heat bent a bolt with the right head so we could use the tube of the wheel brace as a handle.

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Wow talk about same thinking Kiels , exactly what I did with my sons T4 gear box , although I used brute force and a vise to bend the one I did .

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Originally Posted by HaydEn

As long as it's all tight. I had to do this one a VR6 in a maccas carpark at GAD one year.

It's still going 2 years later.

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Hahaha, of course if anything was to go wrong it would be at GAD.
yeah dude it's on there tight! I doubt I'll have any issues, but still worrying.

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Originally Posted by Kiels3927

Had a similar issue with a Landrover but we heat bent a bolt with the right head so we could use the tube of the wheel brace as a handle.

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Originally Posted by Sunny43.5

Wow talk about same thinking Kiels , exactly what I did with my sons T4 gear box , although I used brute force and a vise to bend the one I did .

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Love how everyone becomes and engineer when we get caught out haha. I didn't think of bending the bolt, that would have made me struggle a lot less! Will keep it in mind fellas :)

It,s probably because some of us [not everyone ] could be of the old school upbringing and we were taught to think outside the circle . When I did my first disc pad change on my T5 I had a hell of a job getting the piston back inside the caliper , when I figured out how it worked I then modified and old socket and used that in tandem with a G clamp and it works a treat .My uncle was a mechanic and taught me a few good ones as well , we were trying to remove the old front wheel bearings from my Morris Minor and hit the wall in the attempt . My uncle turns up gets a couple of bricks under the axle to brace the axle gets a hammer and an old chisel two whacks the the damn thing breaks in two , he walked away mumbling about useless back yard wanna be mechanics . Sixty seconds to do something dad and I had stuffed around with for ages . Keep up the good work with the conversion and remember think outside the circle , there is nearly always another way .

Now if u used red silicone tubing and adapters, the van would have been faster and unbeatable

But as you used blue, its only awesome :cool:

loving the thread by the way, you are almost there.

Red is fast but blue is cool .

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Originally Posted by Sunny43.5

my Morris Minor

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Ever pull both floors out & drop the gearbox on your knees to change the clutch?

Plus pulling the engine out with a piece of 2x 3 tied to the head to lift it out .

No trees in your back yard?

Nope I think from memory we lifted it out between us with the lump of wood , unlike these vans when I replaced the clutch in my T5 I had the van on ramps several jacks and chunks of wood , lying on my back and manhandling the bloody heavy gearbox at first on my chest until I got it to the ground and slid it out on a piece of plywood . Unlike when I changed the complete engine gearbox in my sons T4 just removed the whole front grill / bumper and then used and engine lift on wheels to roll it out what a dream to do that was . As I swapped out his engine and replaced it with a donor one and then refitted his old one to the donor van I got pretty quick around ten minutes to get it into place and do up the mounts etc .