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Tools for home servicing
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If the 75 is the same as the BMW, and I suspect it is, if you don't have a decent range of tools and your not going to be using the socket very much, the water-pump pliers will, carefully used, work a treat.0
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Joe_Horner wrote: »0
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Joe_Horner wrote: »Like sb says:
It's a 1966 Daf 32 (pretty much the same as the later 33. Free tax, cheap insurance, pretty good on petrol (high 40s on a run) and great for home servicing - simple and loads of access but the complicated bit is under the back seat where the rubber bands are kept
No, really, I mean it...
:eek:
Oh, and it was a freebie - cost about £650 to collect, recommission, paint, MOT and insure for the first year. Plus, it may not be fast (cruises at 65 - 70 all day if the roads flat) but 60 in this feels like 120+ in a modern, so it's fun without risking your licence :T
You just know it makes sense!
you forgot to add that they can go as fast backwards as forwards:)0 -
Yeah, but that DOES risk getting pulled
Then again, my only speeding ticket in the past 20 years + was in one of these about 3 years back :rotfl:
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:doh:......................
That's a variomatic transmission:
Two sets of pulleys and belts, each driving one rear wheel. To "change up" the gears the sides of the front pulleys squeeze together so the belt runs at a bigger diameter on them, which also pulls the belts in towards the centre of the rear pulleys. So small front / big rear gearing becomes big front / small rear.
Each side changes independently to give "limited slip" differential action and all controlled by centrifugal weights and a vacuum diaphragm in the front pulleys.
They're actually very simple, very easy to work on, and very efficient once you get your head round how the system works
eta: You can see it working here:
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That's very interesting, I had the same design on my moped.0
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