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Mounting the reverse camera! Finally, I found a moment to install the reverse camera I bought earlier. It´s a Pioneer ND-BC8 camera that is almost just plug and play with the pioneer 2din radio. I´ve been spending a lot of time thinking about where to mount the camera. I really don´t want to...

Thanks! I know - I bumped into Hink in another thread - it´s a small world but a loot of good people giving good advices! :) The sealed beams are bright as f...I remember them from my old '93 van where I had one "European rebuilt" and one hi beam on each side - crazy light output! For some...

I´ve been on vacation the past week. We are 500km up north from where I live, so I don´t have all the new parts with me, but I was able to do add a reverse camera. More on that later. Before I left, I got several things done to the car. I had a long day with a good work colleague who helped me...

So to continue on my adventures with the wiring. It turned into a very long night: I was at the repair shop, which is located at the opposite side of town from where I live. No buses anymore. over NOK1000 for a taxi. Thats about $120... The wheel (still with shitty lug nuts) needed to go on in...

So, I´ve had an intensive 4 days in the workshop this weekend! Some very kind guys have let me use their garage/workshop for some days, and I have been able to deal with a lot! I started off with getting rid of my big worry - the lug nut. I had to cut it off with an angel grinder, but off it...

Following the disaster with the lug nuts, I spent the next day with almost no work on the truck. Except changing the belt. The old one looked a bit dodgy, and life have taught me that if I think "I better do something about this", I better. Otherwise, it would probably bite me in the tail...

Todays big project was swapping the main electrical wiring. I´ve bought the kit PT wiring sells both for the main cables and the glow plug harness. I spent a lot of time reading and re-reading on http://65turbogarage.com - a really helpful site with lots of good info, and felt prepared and ready...

More has happened the past week! The who conversion project has started for real now. My multi talent mechanics and welding friend dropped by. He can pretty much help me with anything mechanical, as long as I get the thing out of the car and onto his workbench! He made a quick sketch of the new...

I have just gotten home from a long work travel. I spent my evenings the past month planning and buying everything I need to go ahead and upgrade the car to accommodate my wishes. My very patient girlfriend had been swamped in deliveries the last days before I got home, and the week I´ve been...

I´ve been keeping a build thread at another forum, until I recently needed more diesel specific help and got great help over here! Thought I´d copy the beginning of the build thread over and continue the postings over here. Nice to share my experiences with nice people! :) This summer, after...

Bumped into my welder multi mechanic artíst friend on work on Saturday....met him again at the warehouse yesterday, and three hours and a lot of talking later, this little wonder saw daylight: Can´t wait to install it and get some proper temp readings! :)

Thanks! I found good help here - thank you so much for inviting me over! :) :) :) I have a very simple heat exchanger in the tank, yes. It´s just a 10mm pipe running trough the bottom of the tank to preheat the veggie some. Plantdrive also tipped me about looking for sharp bends and kinks in...

...I couldn't hold myself, so I now have two walbro frb-5s on the way. Exciting times! ;)

I should probably create a new more wvo related thread by now, but it feels like it makes sense to continue the discussion here. Please let me know if I should create a new thread instead! Had a bit of a day today. Was supposed only to be thinking about which lift pump to install, but then my...

I have a heat exchanger from plantdrive, that has some 90degree hose barbs on it. Would AN fittings help me - or would there be a trick with a temp probe I haven´t understood? ;) I originally ordered a T fitting with a nut 1/8 port, but the temp sensor was way to deep to get to the threads...

Thanks to the both of you for chiming in! I really appreciate it! On initial start up after conversion, it took me quite a few miles to really get the oil in the system to the injectors. I drove 70 mph on the freeway switching back and forth for several miles before it caught and stayed...

So, to day was a success! :) At least to some extent. I´ve found the airleak. The airlock was ironically enough, in the temp. filter junction I used to measure the airlocks. I put it under water, and the air leaks stopped. Got rid of my temp. clear hose and sealed it up. Turns out my delivery...

Thank you all for the warm welcome! Appreciate it! It does indeed have the ds4. I´ve been reading a LOT about it before I decided to go with it. Basically, my cunning plan to avoid a IP failure at least the first couple of weeks is to preheat the diesel by running it trough a coolant heated...

I´m at what I thought was the end to my big project of converting my 6.5 suburban into running on wvo. I have re-done all the fuel lines (except the diesel return line, I ran out of hose, haha), and made an almost identical setup for the diesel and the wvo like the following: Diesel side...

Hello! My name is Svein. Since I got a ride with my drivers license teachers Starcraft van, I´ve been in love with Chevys. I´ve previously had a 1992 G30 Starcraft, 1995 G30 Starcraft and a 1999 Starcraft express van. After 9 years with the express van, I´ve now moved on to a 1999 Suburban...