Things for the Van

 

Things for the Van.

 

November 2020 has stalled progress in getting things done on the van. Covid and the weather has meant that fitting the body to the chassis has been postponed until friends and family can travel to give me a hand. It needs a bit of muscle power to lift the body on and off from one chassis to another to check fitting arrangements. I have been searching for bits I could do to move forward and come up with these things:-

Electronic ignition for the engine along with electronic oil pressure sensor oil temperature sensor.

Reversing light stalk and microswitch that is operated from the movement of the gear lever.

This is on the Burton

Cold air diverter boxes that fit on the heat exchangers and make provision to go from hot air to cool fresh air from the front of the car.

As fitted to the Burton

123 ignition along with other bits was ordered from Burton in the Netherlands and arrived in a few days with the other electronic bits. Ignition and pressure sensor were fitted quite quickly and tested. The wiring harness that goes through the cowling was also made and the engine still runs!

That was too quick so I then made the reversing light switch stalk fitted the long arm microswitch. This is fitted on the two bolts that span the left corner of the gearbox.

                                                     

Now to the diverter boxes. This was about a week’s worth of work. Constructed from 57mm by 2mm aluminium tube, aluminium sheet 1m, 1.2 and 1.5 for most bits, that I had hanging around and some 3mm by 30mm strip for bearing and support material. Pop riveted together and epoxy resin for the other joining of parts. 4mm and 5mm button head screws. The 5mm screws were used as pivot points and screwed through a threaded portion to lock them in place. The 4mm screws secured the top plates to the body. I have drawings and dimensions if you want to make them yourself. They are quite effective in getting cool air into the cab when moving along. It helps even though the outside temperature was over 40 C on our way to Croatia last year. I also need to look at the heating and ventilation in the van during the rebuild. I have yet to make the control lever that will operate the diverters via a hard wire cables as used on the 2CV heater control mechanism. I want to make a pair of matching levers for vent and heating for the dash. To make more bits I need to get more materials. I am starting to get a list of things together that I want to make for the van.