For those who worry about a few months lay-up:
WILL IT START?
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movan
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Engineer friend famously says
'No diesel will fail to start when I am present' and so far he has proved right, but then if you have compression and fuel what else is needed?
Geoff
'No diesel will fail to start when I am present' and so far he has proved right, but then if you have compression and fuel what else is needed?
Geoff
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He omitted that a charged battery is a prerequisite . . .
Unless he was cranking it by hand
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On a modern one loads of electronics, the old ones were very robust too much electronics on the new ones.
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It's an old Bedford CF , so yeah it will start , no fancy electronics fitted . Charge the battery , new fuel , bleed the system and a wiff of ether , and it will go . Smoke a bit though ! .
Actually , thinking about it , it could possibly have a petrol engine ? . Bit more effort with that one , but it will still start .
Actually , thinking about it , it could possibly have a petrol engine ? . Bit more effort with that one , but it will still start .
as said above its a Bedford CF, I look after our DIL ice cream van that is a 1970 Bedford CF with the OHC petrol engine.
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the petrols wasnt that good at starting from new
pappajohn
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Well it passed its last MOT.....in Aug 2013.
One or two advisories though.
One or two advisories though.
- Offside Front Brake pipe modified but not seriously weakened (3.6.A.3)
- Nearside Rear Parking brake: parking brake efficiency only just met. It would appear that the braking system requires adjustment or repair. (3.7.B.7)
- Nearside Rear Service brake: service brake efficiency only just met. It would appear that the braking system requires adjustment or repair. (3.7.B.7)
- Rear Brakes imbalanced requirements only just met. It would appear that the braking system requires adjustment or repair. (3.7.B.5b)
- Both front coil springs slightly corroded.Offside front shock absorber slightly corroded.Both rear shock absorber bush slightly deteriorated and slight play.
- Nearside front upper ball joint dust cover slightly damaged.Offside front upper ball joint slight play.Bonnet starting to corrode.Both front inner wheel arch slightly corroded.
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If you look under the bonnet it's a Diesel.
pappajohn
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A friend shoehorned a Vauxhall Cresta 3ltr straight 6 into a CF van with a ZF gearbox..... It was quick.
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airwave
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Ppppop , these bloody vans had all kind of motors lumped in . Transits were the favourite with the CF coming up a close second . Everything from stock to v8's , even small block chevy;s . Biggest i can remember was a 5.7 . Back axle was normally the same though , Jag . Often the Xj series .
So it was a diesel , was it . Inner wings could be an issue , they be like hens teeth now .
airwave
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That's what i meant with a little more work . Dunno what it was with the Bedford , but your right . The company i worked for , had tranny's . Straight and vee , both started with ease , mind you they were Ford . Bedford was never really that popular .
By the way , love the tag
CamperJack
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I wonder what happened to it. Surely it deserves a bit of love?
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