confused about the octopus - part 2

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yes to your first question, the three long pipes to the left do travle up onto the top of the O/S chassis rail through a plastic sleave, and continue directly to position's 1 2 and 4, be carefull when pulling the elbow of 4 from the tank as there is a small ball bearing just laying in there,


the short one top left is a push fit straight to a short metal spout on the front hight corector,

the slightly longer one bottom left is a push fit to one of the metal pipes atatched to the underside of the O/S/F chassis rail, that continues onto one of the strut return/leg pipe's,

the long one bottom left runs through a plastic tube and across the sub frame cross beam, and on to one of the N/S leg pipes via the metal link pipe under that chassis rail,



the two spouts pointing towards the top of the picy have two plastic trickle return pipes pluged into
(one lightly fatter than the other), so should go in the apropriate sized spout,


in the crutch and pointing to the right are two more spouts which take the two plastic return pipes which run inside the plastic sleave on the sub frame cross beam,

then there is a port on the face faceing you in the picy which a short length of black plastic pipe plugs into then continues on to the other O/S strut return/leg pipe,


the usual point the pussy fails used to be the shortest pipe on the left as it bends round tight then on the the hight corector,


the main block/body of the beast just sits on the lower section of the front sub frame behind the O/S intermediate drive shaft joint, and along side the front hight corector,


when you have had as much prctise as i you can fit one in around 2 hours,

i just cut all the tenticals of and pull the dead bits out, then fit the new,

best not on your first attempt :twisted: :lol:

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citronut wrote:when you have had as much prctise as i you can fit one in around 2 hours
that's probably about 2 days for the likes of me then :o

but nice description :)
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Post by rayfenwick »

Have you seen this Brian?

http://www.mars.dti.ne.jp/~ynar/bxorg_a ... /m15e.html

It makes things a lot clearer. I'm ready to buy another octopus and have another go after reading it.
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Post by MULLEY »

Ray, i've got that 2nd hand one if you want it incase another new one goes pop? If so, did you want me to post it or meet up at wetherby?
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1990 Gti 8Valve SOLD - looks like it's been scrapped
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Post by BX Meteor »

I came across that on the internet a few years ago Ray, but never bookmarked it and only vaguely remember it, and is probably how I thought I knew that the octopus is actually 3 return systems.

Even better, go up to the Index where it says "This site is made by some amateur Japanese BX lovers. All contents are based on our personal Do-It-Yourself experiences. Most of photos were taken by each related contents".

At some point in the future I was going to ask about the rear arm bearings, but they have it there too .... ahhh so.

They even have "sphere recharging" ....OMG.... titanic
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MULLEY wrote:Ray, i've got that 2nd hand one if you want it incase another new one goes pop? If so, did you want me to post it or meet up at wetherby?
Wetherby's fine with me Mulley. I'm really looking forward to it :)
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