Need to bleed the brakes better though
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Need to bleed the brakes better though
Bled my brakes. Grot
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Yuck, hate to think what mine look like though...
That looks like that Waikato stuff.
Bottle it and send it to the North country.
I am having the same thing, blue/grey smoke quite noticeable when in low range, less noticeable or not present on the highway (probably just can't see it). Gonna change my oil and filter and check the valve clearances and then prepare my wallet if that doesn't help. It's been about 5500km since last change so I'll do that tomorrow and hope it does the trickQuote:
Originally Posted by 223nut
Smashed up to the Growler for the weekend with no dramas. Easy track, mint weather.
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Suspect my old girl needs new oil. Sat for 6months with out being used and then being worked hardQuote:
Originally Posted by gimp
Yeah I didn't realise how many k's I'd done since the last change in like Feb but a couple of trips to Marlborough, Queenstown and Canterbury adds up to 5000 pretty quick
Yeah and the ruc adds up just as quick :XD:Quote:
Originally Posted by gimp
get bigger tyres, then your odometer will read low!
If you can, change to the GU patrol style wheel bearing lock nuts for your wheel hubs.
What's the difference?
In thoery you should be redoing the brake fluid every 12 months.
Far superior in its ability to hold its torque setting (zero chance of coming lose) the middle ring fixes to the left ring with small screws. You still need to repack with grease at normal intervals.Quote:
Originally Posted by gimp
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seriously?!! wow guess i'd better get some more when i go to town. i hate bleeding bloody brakesQuote:
Originally Posted by Chop3r
Get one of the 1 man bleeding kits from Super Cheap. They have a valve on the bleeder hose so you don't suck any air back.Quote:
Originally Posted by 223nut
In theory it's probably wise, I doubt 1 person in 100 does though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chop3r
That would be true Gimp
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I was planning on buying a new double garage but I'm really restricted with what I can do by local building regs and the layout of my section, and the options I was looking at are all a bit expensive at the moment. Solution: clean out and modify existing single garage. The door is stuffed anyway, and is the limiting factor in fitting the truck in, so it's going to go.
So the Cruiser has this going on: leaking around the windscreen and ~*rust*~. Rained 129mm in 24 hours before this photo.
https://i.imgur.com/mnBQHhm.jpg
So I wanted to put it in my shitty small single garage because it turns out I cannot afford a decent sized new one.
https://i.imgur.com/5FLvoFn.jpg
Of course it did not fit into my shitty small single garage. The limiting factor was the height of the door/frame (also furniture)
https://i.imgur.com/WYcNJve.jpg
Some crowbar and sledgehammer work later
https://i.imgur.com/wQE4oO1.jpg
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And a visit to the local hardware store for timber and hinges, then knocked up a set of these
https://i.imgur.com/A8ajR40.jpg
And hung them
https://i.imgur.com/Xo05aTD.jpg
And now it fits. Fucking just. Out of the rain though!! But no room to reasonably work on anything.
https://i.imgur.com/8KmLilL.jpg
Also I got some replacement windscreen hinge covers from a junked BJ74. New production ones don't fit, they're too wide
https://i.imgur.com/zxWgSTH.jpg
How do you get into it in that shed?
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And here was me thinking you could just let your tyres down.....
How do you get in and out of truck?
CarefullyQuote:
Originally Posted by Wildman
We chewed out a bit more space above the door and raised it up a bit. Then riveted some ali angle on the bottom of the door to fill the gap. Made the door a bit more rigid as a bonus. Now have even taller vehicles yet again so they don't fit in any longer. Doors like yours, as bi-fold or tri-fold, running in tracks would be even better.
I didn't like the tilt door as it restricted overhead access when open and prevented having any lighting in that 1/3 of the garage
I agree. They are a pain in the proverbial. I need to cover a 4.3m gap.Quote:
Originally Posted by gimp
Never understood why people build pokey arsed garages like that eh. There was one at our house when we bought it. Accidentally backed over it with the tractor.
Mines the same size. Pain on the ass ay
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I'm still shocked that ply is available on the coast :O_O:
Minis Morries Austins and Standards were not that big back in the day when most of em were built.Quote:
Originally Posted by JoshC
Well IPL at Gladstone make enough of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by longrange308
Did some further re-arranging. Now it's usable (I can sit on my garage couch and access tools) and I can park inside. Still tight. Other plans incoming
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Have you got a beer fridge yet?
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The venison and beer fridge in the laundry does the jobQuote:
Originally Posted by Wildman
That is quite a long way to go to get a beer, maybe 20 or 30 metres..
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Guaranteed to slow any project down by several minutesQuote:
Originally Posted by Wildman
Why don't you cut another door where your truck door lines up with the wall once your packed in the garage :thumbsup:
This is another only semi-car-related post.
I built a lean-to along the side of the garage last weekend, to put bikes/kayaks/firewood etc under. I got a heap of free aluminium cladding off a friend that reroofed his house so it cost next to nothing to put together.
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Then this week/weekend I built a garden shed with the leftover sheets - 1.2x2.7m to fit in a space around the back of my house on the shady side.
Floor in action
https://i.imgur.com/nhAytmr.jpg
Starting cladding
https://i.imgur.com/vaNyGRT.jpg
Finished (ish - I need to get some kind of flashing on the corners but it's raining today and it's too much effort)
https://i.imgur.com/br02bJ7.jpg
And now I have much more space in the garage! (That kayak is going out under the lean-to when it stops raining and the other stuff in front of the couch is also only temporarily there)
https://i.imgur.com/B37JwmR.jpg
Feels good to have more garage space, and to be making use of bits of the section I wasn't using before that were pretty much just growing weeds. I can get the Cruiser right into the garage easily now with a bit of space on each side, so I have space to do some work at least. So, stay tuned on that front..
You been busy since i seen ya the other day.
Yup miserable day today. Was gunna shoot the service match this arvo but way too cold and wet for me😆
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Yeah it's fuckin miserable, thought about going up but noQuote:
Originally Posted by R93
