Harold - the T25 van (1.8T content)

[Kiels3927]

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.

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.

[Sunny43.5]

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.

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 .

[GeorgeMK1]

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.

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.

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.

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 .

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

[Sunny43.5]

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 .

[Bryn23]

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

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

[Sunny43.5]

Red is fast but blue is cool .

[Kiels3927]

my Morris Minor

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

[Sunny43.5]

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

[Kiels3927]

No trees in your back yard?

[Sunny43.5]

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 .