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well im gonna start the weekends achievements off early mainly because i have just come in from the garage and ive managed to get my cruiser back on all of its wheels and able to drive it ...

AAaaannd i got motivated to pull the clutch cover case off my KTM to fix the gearbox oil leak that has been bugging me all week, if i had the new gaskets here i would have put it all back together and had that finished as well... but i havent ordered them yet so thats a bit optimistic

will take some pics tomorrow and post them here...... if i remember

Finished welding the supports for my tanks, permently mounted one of em, one was fallingout of its cradle so "sellys liquid nails" its ass back in there. did some sheet metal work and lined the seat box - was quite fun actually. I would love to get a little bender or make one I think. Went to go get the liquid nails and pulled out of the drive and the bloody head is either cracked or blown its gasket. I'm starting to think if its the head cracked and they cost like 2k then maybe v8 should be going in there

lotsa work planned today for the old girl.

Mike

$1,200 for basic head from Toyota... When I paid for the head to be done it was 2k.

mike wrote: I'm starting to think if its the head cracked and they cost like 2k then maybe v8 should be going in there

I like that sorta thinkin

Me 'n Richie pulled the g/bag outa his Series 3
He had already yanked the g/bag outa the donor S2a.
Only a two hour job, sez he, Yeah RIGHT!!
dark now, came inside to stuff me full of roast chook. Yum.
We had had to make oine g/bag outa two. Is all ready to stuff back in.
Will run his truck back outside tomorrer and waterblast everywhere we have to work
While its adryin, we is gonna go Mitre 10 and buy us a bag of 10X20 6mm bolts . Bloody thing needs 3 full toolkits, one metric, one SAE and one BSW. ARGHHHH


Hope this will fix some of his probs. We will do it all over agian when we locate a decent 5 speed hilo gearbox.
What about a nissan atlas?

Fitted a tow bar off a hq holden ute to the Mrs RAV.. same dimensions for chassis rails so near bolt on.. how weird. now heading back to the barn to weld up stubs and mount brakes to car trailer.. hope to get it all mobile tonight.. its 9.45pm..... pics in the am maybe..

Sorted the axle.. made it 8mm short.. brakes very close to leaves...(read 1mm) now i have the wrong u bolts. where i gonna get them on a sunday. guess it be next week. anyway i need 2 more 5x 120 rims. and some mudguards..
not too bad for a butcher. 12.30pm bed time..

butSpent the day in Neils shed getting ready for round 2 of the Nationals next w/e. Had to sort the CV that we broke last w/e playing
Apparantly it was my fault - came up a steep hill with my side front wheel in the air, locker gets switched off & I pull on the steering brake ........ locker hasn't disengaged & the CV goes POP I refuse to take reponsibility as we have a cunning system to stop me f#&$ing up A big red LED light comes on in front of me when the front locker is in & it goes out when the switch is flicked off .......... but on occaision the locker doesn't disengage as fast as the light ........... hence it's my fault go figure Ask any co-driver it's always our fault
Anyway replaced the CV, checked the diff, cleaned out the brakes, straightened the steering arm - after a little touching incident with a tree at 100+km/h during club champs awhile back (we must have hit the tree bloody hard as the arm's made out of schedule 80 steel!!!!!!!!), new brake pads in the back & then several beers before the missus came to pick me up. Not a bad day in all.

Had a few beers friday night good old cock and bull,then took the mrs new car for thrash through all the usual wankers up town on a friday night,went for a cruise up thompsons track with XJ and 2 germans,absolutely pissed down but still got to the summit.

Cruise to maketu beach saturday night,got pissed again!!!Sunday got a burnt arse at whangamata beach......great lazy weekend...

dixie wrote:Had a few beers friday night good old cock and bull,then took the mrs new car for thrash through all the usual wankers up town on a friday night,went for a cruise up thompsons track with XJ and 2 germans,absolutely pissed down but still got to the summit.

Cruise to maketu beach saturday night,got pissed again!!!Sunday got a burnt arse at whangamata beach......great lazy weekend...

NEW CAR ?
2 GERMANS ?

TELL MORE PAL......

Mammoth progess on the LR today. People thought I was optimistic yesterday when I said I wanted it going by end of today.

late yesterday afternoon




And tonight.



Drove it onto the lawn and back into the car port. Put my foot on the brakes (after spending an hour bleeding the dam things, twin lines to each front wheel) and nearly went through the windscreen. The brakes seem to be scarely good Power steering made turning the old girl a breeze too

Just a few things to tidy up (like a couple of holes in the floors )

I believe one of the longest projects if not the longest on this site has nearly finished its initial build phase Thats a big achievment this weekend/year for me.

Mike

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Joined: Feb 22, 2005
Posts: 1314
Location: in the garage...again !
Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 9:52 pm

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dixie wrote:
Had a few beers friday night good old cock and bull,then took the mrs new car for thrash through all the usual wankers up town on a friday night,went for a cruise up thompsons track with XJ and 2 germans,absolutely pissed down but still got to the summit.

Cruise to maketu beach saturday night,got pissed again!!!Sunday got a burnt arse at whangamata beach......great lazy weekend...


NEW CAR ?
2 GERMANS ?

TELL MORE PAL......

Brought the mrs a 99 legnum,all the bullshit,mags,tints,full skirt,bla bla bla,just another jappa.
Marks had a few german tourists staying with him took them for a play,they kinda shit themselves ha ha ha !!!!!

nice work

nothin done on dayglo..

went wheelin up the back of lake coleridge.. great fun..

Cleared out some Landy parts that have been messing up the rumpus room - Wheels/Tyres/Susp arms/etc (few xmas bbqs lined up at our place so missus put her foot down to clear it out).

Thought about cleaning LP after last trial but thought its going to get a hell of a lot worse at the ORE bbq coming up so it can wait

Stared at Mikes avatar some more

Three days following the WRC around the Waikato

Did over 700k's of road work following it around

Went out to the wimak on sunday arvo, lots of water flowing through all the tracks. Took the cruiser swimming through a few holes didnt get stuck even with the water at bonnet level when stopped

lilpigzuk wrote:Cleared out some Landy parts that have been messing up the rumpus room - Wheels/Tyres/Susp arms/etc (few xmas bbqs lined up at our place so missus put her foot down to clear it out).

LANDY parts...... you got any stuff we might need/ like o/drive unit?

How about 16 inch jap sixstud wheels? we want four rims, cos the donor truck came with 4 good tyres, but Driving wagon has got FJ 40 axles. (we think they might actually be 60 series, ask ben later...)

Stared at Mikes avatar some more

You too? I spend an AWFUL amount of time doing that.
What it must be like for you younger buggers, I dont know, but it revs up MY old blood, thats for sure.
OHHH BTW, I tried to show Siwsan, but she just cant seem to get the point of it. WOMEN!!!!!
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Spent most of saturday geting the hilux body and chassis back together, had to make room in the inner gaurds for the new shock towers



Bolted it down, now its time for the new suspension to be fitted

far man thats one WICKED colour!!!!!!!! very very cool

Thanks James, Its acually a standard Holden colour (Hot House Green) seen on alot of new commodores. Looks heaps better on a hilux!!

Mark.

LOLYF wrote:Thanks James, Its acually a standard Holden colour (Hot House Green) seen on alot of new commodores. Looks heaps better on a hilux!!

Mark.

oh yea now you mention it i have seen the new commo's with it yea must agree there much better on a lux , you should start a build up thread on it, what mods your doing etc im keen to know

Your right i should do a build up thread its just that i generaly spend so much time in the shed id never get around to it!

basic specs are:

1991 short wheel base single cab
yn100/ln130 hybrid chassis
coils front and rear
four wheel disks
rear lockright/ front electric locker
lexus V8
manual box
warn winch
sky manufactureing wide axle kit
and a bunch of other shit!

LOLYF wrote:Your right i should do a build up thread its just that i generaly spend so much time in the shed id never get around to it!

basic specs are:

1991 short wheel base single cab
yn100/ln130 hybrid chassis
coils front and rear
four wheel disks
rear lockright/ front electric locker
lexus V8
manual box
warn winch
sky manufactureing wide axle kit
and a bunch of other shit!

mint!!!!!!!! yea yea start a thread!!!!!!!1

My weekend was pretty boring consisted of:

sleeping milking sleeping milking sleeping milking sleeping milking.

Oh and I managed to put new rear shoes and get th rear drums skimmed as well as bleeding the brakes now the pedal actually doesn't hit the floor when I put them on lol
I was gona go to the burnouts at the WRC on saturday but the rain made me decide it wasnt really worth it....

Now I have the week off from polytech yahoo! wot to do, wot to do....

Hey LOLYF, I'm with Mro on this, please post up a build up. Don't even put in any words if you don't want to just pics

MULLET

Went to Blenheim and Nelson for the three days of Canterbury show weekend.
Were planning to do the Mongatapu track from Pelerous Bridge to Nelson but this is what the rivers looked like.
As the other 4WD that was with us was a very shiney we decided to stick to the seal





Rugby was out of the question



And this was the Wairau River on the way back.



So I serviced the spare set of injectors for DaveM's SAF for something to do.

man alot of you guys are busy, i just managed to go to whaanga coast road on sat and drink piss eat bbq and watch wrc on sunday, good weekend away with the boys.if you saw 2 hiluxs with tarps over them with choppers parked all around that was us.