Re: My second 480...... project 'sleeper'
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2017 11:32 pm
Oh yeah, the VERY first thing I connected was the clutch cable and it felt sweeeeeeeet!
The place where Volvo 480 fans come together
https://www.volvo-480-europe.org/forum/
https://www.volvo-480-europe.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=35149
There's nothing stopping me going up to the unit after work and it's not that far away but it is in the opposite direction to home so I can't always be bothered with the extra journey. I do sometimes but most of the time once I finish work I just feel like coming home and chilling! Even I get sick of the sight of engines from time to timejifflemon wrote:Fantastic progress! Do you get to tinker on it during the week or just weekends?
Got yourself a tick sheet of jobs to do? I tend to spend the works days with ideas or "mustn't forget"s running round my head, so like to get them jotted down.
I suspect I'm not the only one on this board thinking your apprentice needs to make a few more of those pipes up..... you know, *purely* for the practiceAde wrote:Had a new apprentice join the department today so I decided that his first 'training job' ought to be the fuel fitting that I need to join my new pipe up to the existing line in the car. It's not quite done yet but he's made a nice start on it, got the tricky bit out the way anyway, the screwcutting of the required M14x1.5 thread and machining a nice 60 degree cone to make the fitting seal
I'm gonna get him to part it off to length and turn a hose tail on the other end to which I can clamp the plastic fuel line in the car and then get him on the bridgeport with the dividing head to make a nice hexagon for a spanner on the flange. Gotta make the most of the 'training jobs' right!?!? Won't be long before he'll be doing 'proper' work so need to get as many training (interpret training as 480) bits made in work time as I can! Once I have this fitting, there's nothing in terms of parts standing in the way of firing it up once all is assembled so I'm hoping to get a first fire up this weekend, even if it's not all totally finished and tidied up, I'm just keen to see it running after being in so many bits for so long! Assuming I have a successful first fire up this weekend, my upcoming week off can be spent putting all the nice finishing touches and making sure everything is just right in preparation for commissioning it as my new daily driver
Then I can dive head first into taking this saab to bits and offering the running gear into 'old faithful'. Should be, shall we say, interesting!
Looks like someone swapped the LCD colour filter inside the display with a blue transparent. If you want the info centre back to its original colours, just give me your address by PM an I'll drop a genuine Volvo 480 colour filter in the mail.Ade wrote:
clocks connected, engine running, all working! not sure about the blue infocentre, better than no info centre and look how much fuel's in it