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« on: October 14, 2010, 06:08:08 PM »
I don't know what the problem is. If you do them up properly they are very reliable. I have done in excess of 320,000km in mine & it has not stranded me as yet.
Rocket.
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« on: August 03, 2010, 07:49:00 PM »
Blimey, you mean to say that my pedal would then move 2" instead of it's current 1".lol. Actually that would be better. Checked with a brake bloke today and he says that you can machine the HQ rotor down further for the Volvo caliper. But you cannot do it for the HQ caliper. This is because if your pads are almost worn out your pistons would travel to far & fall out of the caliper.
Rocket
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« on: August 03, 2010, 08:22:05 AM »
Hi MaTTe, Because I run a 1" bore master cylinder my pedal barely moves now, so the brake specialist said my pedal will not move a great deal further with the Volvo 4 pots on the front. Making up another mounting plate will take a bit of work though. Also the the Volvo caliper requires that one machines the disc rotor down to about 23mm from 25mm. Which means one can use old HQ rotors instead of throwing them out.
Rocket
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« on: May 17, 2010, 06:51:45 PM »
I currently have the biggest legal size under the back of mine & it takes 62L of gas.
Rod
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« on: May 16, 2010, 03:18:38 PM »
There should be a wire from the gas control module to the dizzy. This is there so that if the motor is not running it shuts off the gas. So when you crank the motor over a solenoid should open because the module senses the pulses from the dizzy. No pulses, no open , no start. All solenoids open at least momentarily when you first turn on the ignition.
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« on: May 10, 2010, 09:06:40 AM »
Did the dumbest thing with my beast. Daughter said she had a post in her yard that her & her hubby could not pull out with their car, so I volunteered to attack it with my beddy.Hooked a long tow rope onto it & started to pull. Daughter yells out that it wasn't moving so as I have a grunty 350 chev I give it a bit more. Daughter calls again that the beddy is a bit gutless because the post still is not moving. Pride gets me so I use a little bit more throttle & all of a sudden post gives. Well it sounded like a gun had gone off inside my van & to my dismay one of my back windows is on the floor behind my drivers seat with the offending post. Now there is very little damage done to van other than a new laminated rear window but jeeeeeezz there was a lol & people rolling on the ground everywhere. DUMB stunt.
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« on: April 04, 2010, 11:53:45 AM »
I can buy the disks on ebay, but it's the calipers & parts for them that is hard to get.
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« on: April 03, 2010, 07:44:38 PM »
I actually have a frame bolted into the van for when I had 5 seats in the back (seat belt mounts) so I just bolted the bed frame to it.
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« on: April 03, 2010, 08:59:38 AM »
You are better off putting a Chev in because you do not have to cut as much floor out & thus can fit your foot between the steering column & cover so making it far more comfortable to drive.
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« on: April 03, 2010, 08:55:13 AM »
It took me about 4 years to get my 4 wheel disk conversion to work to the point that I was happy. I am at present running WB statesman brakes all around but the front calipers are cast iron not alloy (to many problems).I run a HQ brake proportioning valve with a 1" bore falcon master cylinder & Ford double diaphragm booster. I found by changing brands of pads would affect whether the rear wheels would lock up before the front or not (also depended what sort of load I had on board--anything up to 7 adults). I do not suffer any brake fade under normal driving conditions even when driving down from the snow fields (the brakes sometimes get very smelly when pushing along a bit faster though). I am at present looking at installing volvo 4 pots but I cannot afford to take the van off the road long enough to carry out the task. I quiet often tow a tandem car trailer & the brakes cope with this well (one time the trailer brakes had failed & it still coped). WB rear discs & calipers are hard to come by now so one might have to try & adapt Falcon rear discs.
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