Bombardier Bombi -81 restoration, need some help!

[Manlig]

They made this paintjob in a paintshop,they told me that they dident use thinner for this paint and they use a pump not air to spray the paint.

 

[Manlig]

Today i reline the brake bands you will need a speciall tool to lock the rivets.

And i made a overhoul of the track tensioner,replaced the 2 o-rings and gave them some paint.

 

[Snowtrac Nome]

those tensioners are supposed to have leather cups in them. did you reuse yours. I did one last spring it only had the o-ring and leaked like a siv

 

[Manlig]

Ok no thoose most be missing,i had 2 o-rings one on the piston and one in the cylinder.i dont realy Know what you mean by leather cups? Do you have any pic of it?

 

[Snowtrac Nome]

no I don't I had Brad send me up a kit it only cost about 50 bucks. the cups sit at the end of the piston kind of like wheel cylinder cups in your brakes. seams when I would load down the track grease would slooge past the o rings.

 

[Manlig]

Okt thanks for that info,i have to check again if i somehow missed them when i took them apart.

 

[clhsmith]

many of the larger bombardiers have a small removable plate on he outside of the final drive. this small plate is reversible. it is there to DISENGAGE the fnaal drive for towing. i do not know if your bomdi has this. if it has be careful removing the plate. there is a spring laoded pin behind it which can pop out and get lost in the snow.

 

[Manlig]

Yes when towing its easy to remove the splines cup on outside of the drivesprockets.

I have now decide to replace the engine and transmission to a mercedes 4cyl 2,3 injected petrol engine with a 4 steps automatic transmission.I will go and buy the donation car on tuesday. Any thoughts about that engine choice?

 

[Snowtrac Nome]

I would rather have a diesel benz stuff is inexpensive and readily available where you are at so it sounds like good choice. did you ever think of a saab turbo that thing would run so fast Big Al's krusty wouldn't know what to do.

 

[Manlig]

Yeah i would like to get a benz diesel i have been looking for them for a while now but they are quite hard to find and when i find one they are to expensive. A turbo would be cool! To bad all saabs are front wheel drive..

So my choice was between Bmw 4cyl aut and The Benz aut.

 

[Snowtrac Nome]

two words transmission adaptor

 

[Manlig]

Yes ofc i wounder if this guy allready have made the Saab turbo engine swap?
http://youtu.be/6O5hviMT79c

 

[Manlig]

Today i picked up my powerplant donation car.I bought a Volvo 740 2,3 inj with automatic trany. I made this choice becose volvo had a higher gearratio then the Benz.

 

[Manlig]

A small update,today me and my friend took the engine out of the donation car. Its a Volvo 230f petrol engine with about 120hp (90kw) with 4speed automatic trans.It has a bit higher gear ratio then the fordtrany so it will do about 50km/h (31mi/h) at 4500rpm.The chassi is almost done and waiting to get the new engine.

At first i was looking at a mb diesel with automatic trany,but i change my mind when the gear ratio was the same as the Ford.I belive it will not be very fun to drive when the Diesel engine will rev 3000rpm at 15km/h (9mi/h)

 

[Manlig]

All the wheels are refurbish and back on

Made some improvement on the stearing with some extra return springs and it made a big differens.

 

[Manlig]

I think its amazing that 30 year old tires can still be in such good condition!

 

[Manlig]

Parts is mounted. I have set up a temp cauge in the differential so that i can have control so its not getting overheated.

 

[Manlig]

Engine in place.

 

[muleman]

Will you have to redo the engine cover for the Volvo? Looks tight but doable and should give it good power and economy. Good looking project so far.

 

[Manlig]

Thank you. What do you mean with engine cover? Its a squeeze fit but it will work without any bigger modifications. Need to fabricate new motormounts and its not much space to work on so that will be the difficult part.I allso need to make a new manifold for the exhoust.

 

[muleman]

I thought the alternator may not clear the original cover. Exhausts are always a challenge on a transplant.

 

[Manlig]

The alternator will go free with about 1"

 

[muleman]

The alternator will go free with about 1"

That is close enough.

 

[Manlig]

Started with the motormounts.

 

[Manlig]

Got some work to do!

 

[Manlig]

Finished up the engine mounts.

 

[Manlig]

 

[Manlig]

I hade to make a new bracket for the hydraulic pump on the new engine.All the engine mounts are done so soon it will be mounted in the chassi for the last time.

 

[JimVT]

will that tranny fit??

 

[Manlig]

Yes it fits perfectly. The length of the new trany is exactly the same as the original Ford one.