RIP Delica

[Head Womble]

I want one like this, what a beauty

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Nissan-largo-/161196538712

My neck hurts now.

[Tony]

Given the ol' girl bit of scrub inside and out and tightened a leaky oil union.  Running on bio.

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Very little plumbing between tank and engine, behind the filter that's the tank, on the right the IP...



Another angle showing the IP



Both seats back, how you get to the engine:



View from the other side of the car

[nigelb]

As the engine is under the seats....what's under the bonnet?

[Julian]

As the engine is under the seats....what's under the bonnet?

Very good point, Nige.

I quite like the idea of working on the engine under cover.

Getting the rocker cover off looks to be a bit of a task.

[kamaangir]

under the bonnet is the spare tyre!

[Rossey]

get a vw bora 51 plate, go like shizz, brilliant on fuel, runs on veg, ticks over on cold start, tax it crazy cheap for a year, lovely drive...

mods to the one I know, tank sender base valve removed (plastic flap) pipe from sender to ip added ((no jionts) and due to a pump leak (cant be bother to change pump) 12 volt valve to stop flow back to tank, wired off stop soliniod valve for power on when key is turned.

Nah you need a MG ZR swap the injectors, up the boost will wheel spin in third.
Mines at around 140bhp, but 185bhp isn't hard to achieve!

[Rossey]

As the engine is under the seats....what's under the bonnet?

Very good point, Nige.

I quite like the idea of working on the engine under cover.

Getting the rocker cover off looks to be a bit of a task.

Its quite easy to drop the engine these.
Two blokes and a old seat belt you cab get it back in.

[Keef]

Didn't realise it's an auto, nice.

Bit like a modern day BMC J4 van really.

[Tony]

Cambelt looks to be hell of a job, several days work without being able to see everything you do.

[greasemonkey]

ERK! That does look a bit of a swine. I think I'd be considering if it would be easier to pull the motor out altogether, or at least get the front end up in air, and drop the front of the motor down.

Your going to have to jam the motor somehow by the looks of it, being as it's a sludge box. Either that or try and borrow a cordless impact wrench, to undo the bottom pulley. That could be a swine of a job, being as you can't get good access.
A cordless impact wrench is a marvellous thing, or even a pneumatic one and a compressor.

[Tony]

I imagine the age old trick of disconnecting the stop solenoid, sticking a breaker bar on the bolt with the handle well wedged, and cranking it would do the trick.  Either way, not much fun getting into that kind of space.

The change interval is 54k miles or 54 months.  I think I'll work on the premise that it's unlikely to fail in the limited time that we own it.

I'm very much leaning in the direction of a Nissan Largo Highway Star, which is essentially the same thing as this Serena but rather sleeker. (And some come in 4x4).

I remember at the time we picked the Delica that the Largo was a contender - just wasn't willing to make the jump to a vehicle with unusually hard to trace spares - the Delica shares a lot of parts with the Pajero/Shogun (or so I thought - that's not entirely true).

But now I have five years of sourcing odd jap parts under my belt I feel a bit more confident about a Largo.

[nigelb]

I do like the look of the Largo. A very pretty vehicle. I also like the look of the Estima.

[Chug]

dropping the engine to do work like cambelt would be much quicker in the long run.

[Tony]

Looks like the IP is driven off a separate belt at the rear of the engine.  I suppose that way if the IP shaft seal leaks then it doesn't risk the cambelt. But that does mean two belts that need maintaining.

[Rossey]

Looks like the IP is driven off a separate belt at the rear of the engine.  I suppose that way if the IP shaft seal leaks then it doesn't risk the cambelt. But that does mean two belts that need maintaining.

My MG's are like that.

Means that if the ip fails you don't have to rebuild the top end.