Popular Post azzurro Posted September 15, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted September 15, 2019 One of the things i was busy with was a job interview, and i only bloody got it, so gotta prepare for shifting everything 1400km south So gotta get this thing ready to be transported, or maybe enven driven. So to access the drivers side mans turning it around. It only fired up and drove down the driveway and a lap of my test track, and even did a wee skiddy on the way up the driveway I uncovered this in the rear door in 2017 when i derusted this side. What the hell. There were a few other blebs on the outside and bottom so ive swapped the handles and interior stuff over to another door Its from the 125 i wrecked from Levin, ive used a few panels from it now. Rad stickers and brush painted light blue over midnight blue, actual patina! Fits real good I will repaint the rear quarter, front a-pillar and a couple of other minor primer spots on the body but im not touching the rear door so to the front door i think its more effort fixing the rust (and all the bloody bog and sanding that goes with) in the front and rear lower corners, and elsewhere, and the hinge is a bit worn or bent. so ill swap the interior of this over to the light blue front door to match the rear. It isnt much better shape really, but might fit and close a bit nicer. 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post azzurro Posted September 22, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted September 22, 2019 Done a quicky on the painting, minimising the work to get it done, and by done, i mean water proof and ready to roll quick high build prime over the sanded back repaired areas then a blow over with the blue. i mixed a bit much paint and instead of waste it, I got a few sags instead Still, unmasking is just the best Front door bits swapsies. Its surprising how much lighter a car door is without all the trimmings! took bits off all three to make one 'good' one Again, this one fit straight in the hole a treat (after a shim here and a hinge shave there) and now opens and closes the best it ever has so ive decided i quite like the look of these doors and they can stay Tidied out the inside of various mostly empty boxes and various screws, trim and clips, that are now consolidated into one bin Put the grill and headlamp assemblies, nearly all the bulbs now mostly work after a wiggle or a tap. Still a bit of a list of things to do, - Exhaust has a leak, looks easily accessed - handbrake cable buzzes on exhaust - i messed something up when i assembled the rear door, the window snags on the door lock rod when its wound down - sand the runs, flies and dust out the of the paint once it hardens a bit more - polish - clean and install chrome trims I also put the interior of the doors in and gave the dash a wipe. . Looking forward to giving this thing a good blazz again soon! Its mobile and driveable now and only the exhaust really needs sorting for a WoF, and now its together it also means i can start sort a lot of stuff out of the shed and into storage etc 22 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post azzurro Posted October 8, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 8, 2019 Hole in the exhaust was an easy fix, but is somewhere i think i will be visting again eventually Stuck all the many many chrome trims back on And backed it into the sun then down the road and reversed up the drive - this side has been drying for a few weeks so it got a quick polish with the big slow grinder then bunged the trim back on this side too, now its all back together. Last pic of a car in this shed got to be parked on the lawn in waiting for me to bung it into storage for a while sheds now starting to fill with boxes and about 2 vanloads of stuff taken to and from storage and the op shops 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post azzurro Posted November 1, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 1, 2019 Been pretty busy getting my shit sorted and moving to dunedin. Settling in now, so a bit of a belated update on the ol 125. On the way to the WoF man, gave it some doort and it started running on 3. FUUUCK Turned out the old greasy filter sock got cookie cuttered. Ripped them all off and ran #nofilter Underside up on the hoist, i never see this view otherwise oil is mostly cavity wax, but there a pretty bad diff leak, again, not enough to fail tho, so woot! Thats all 3 road legal ready for convoy in a couple of months. Then pretty much straight into storage, not actally had these side by side before, Spot the differences, 1969 model italian mid sized executive family sedan vs 1989 model polish farmers truck storage for the next couple of months 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azzurro Posted October 17, 2020 Author Share Posted October 17, 2020 As detailed in the thread below, a couple of months after my last post we got notice from our long term landlord that were finally going to come back and renovate their small bach we had been living in for the last 13 years! We knew we would never get such a sweet gig in Auckland ever again, so Plan D (that had been bubbling for a few years in anticipation of this) was implemented and I got a good job on fairly short notice to commence in 2 months in Dunedin. Yay, but OMG so much to organise and sort. Cars went onto storage not far from Muriwai in August 2019 and we moved down to Ocean View to a short fixed term rental, (no driveway!) and managed to have an offer accepted house on Christmas Eve Eve (driveway/shed prerequisite) , but not moving in till Early Feb 2020. Plan was to road trip them down with some buddies in March 2020 while they were all WoFfed, but then Covid and yadda yadda. eventually got them all moved down via transporter company in late August 2020. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azzurro Posted October 17, 2020 Author Share Posted October 17, 2020 Few up in August to get these all going ready to dive onto the truck. The property owner had tried to move them for a wedding in the barn (that was cancelled due to the Covid ) but left the batteries hooked up and they were all dead dead dead. There is a parasitic drain on this that flattens the battery within a couple of days at the best of times anyway, as well as four flat tyres. New battery and blowing up my trusty $12 warehouse air compressor trying to inflate 4 tyres from dead flat without a jack (replaced with pretty much the same one but now $25, thats how old it is/was) and this bad boy fired straight up Out in the sun On the truck to the Depot See you in Dunedin! 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post azzurro Posted October 17, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 17, 2020 Dunedin: Not done much to this, it starts pretty much first pop, but today i did replace the main battery fuse with a whole new thing. This somehow blew between me driving on the truck in Auckland and me collecting it from a yard in Dunedin. I reckon someone put the jumper pack on backwards, but it was an old sub amp fuse so was pretty janky, so now has best chinesium 100 amp instead. I do need to trace what is draining the battery too, but leaving the lead off means it doesn't happen, so meh. It has a really bad diff leak (pinion seal and/or main head/housing gasket) and sounds like maybe a pinhole in the muffler, but other than that its pretty much ready to go i think 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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