Build update
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2021 6:06 pm
This afternoon was pretty momentous. The Triking lives! You may wonder why I say that, well let me explain...
I went for a bare chassis build of my Type 4 after which I dismantled it again and sent everything back to Alan for powder coating - including my chassis mods of course. The all new hand-crafted engine wiring loom had been built and tested at this stage so I knew that side of things was working prior to dismantling.
Cut to mid December last year and the newly powder coated chassis was back in the workshop and on its build frame, the engine was on another frame I used to mount it whilst I gave it a thorough going over. So far so good but then disaster struck.
On the evening of the 23rd December the house and grounds flooded (long story cut short, its never happened before so totally unexpected and unprepared for). The results were pretty devastating for the house, the garage/workshop my Lotus (insurance write off) and the Triking components that were all neatly packed in crates waiting to be reassembled. The whole lot was submerged in about 0.5m of brown muddy water. Fortunately the engine and chassis frames were higher so they escaped.
Having cleaned, inspected etc all the flooded stuff I got everything reassembled leaving me wondering if it would work again - especially the electrics/ECU/wiring loom. Primed the fuel lines, checked for leaks and then hit the start button....It worked!!!
A few challenges along the way although it transpired the problems were caused some relays which didn't work reliably / at all and had to be replaced - took a while to figure out it was only the relays and not the ECU.
As I say, the Triking lives! (phew)
I went for a bare chassis build of my Type 4 after which I dismantled it again and sent everything back to Alan for powder coating - including my chassis mods of course. The all new hand-crafted engine wiring loom had been built and tested at this stage so I knew that side of things was working prior to dismantling.
Cut to mid December last year and the newly powder coated chassis was back in the workshop and on its build frame, the engine was on another frame I used to mount it whilst I gave it a thorough going over. So far so good but then disaster struck.
On the evening of the 23rd December the house and grounds flooded (long story cut short, its never happened before so totally unexpected and unprepared for). The results were pretty devastating for the house, the garage/workshop my Lotus (insurance write off) and the Triking components that were all neatly packed in crates waiting to be reassembled. The whole lot was submerged in about 0.5m of brown muddy water. Fortunately the engine and chassis frames were higher so they escaped.
Having cleaned, inspected etc all the flooded stuff I got everything reassembled leaving me wondering if it would work again - especially the electrics/ECU/wiring loom. Primed the fuel lines, checked for leaks and then hit the start button....It worked!!!
A few challenges along the way although it transpired the problems were caused some relays which didn't work reliably / at all and had to be replaced - took a while to figure out it was only the relays and not the ECU.
As I say, the Triking lives! (phew)