Tools for home servicing

colino

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.

Wig

Joe_Horner wrote: »

:doh:......................

s_b

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:)

Joe_Horner

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:

Joe_Horner

Wig wrote: »

: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:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n03FAEAZN80

Wig

That's very interesting, I had the same design on my moped.