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  1. Last night I had been in the shed working on one of my bikes, finished and packed up but still had half a bottle of beer left before I could leave. So I wandered over to the little 7, which has been sitting with the pistons soaking in CRC for a couple of weeks now, and as expected, I lifted it off the stands by the crank handle Had a couple more mouthfuls of my beer, lifted the head back off and gave the pistons a fairly gentle tap with a hammer and block of wood. nek minit NO FUCKING WAY! i’m chuffed to bits, it turns over beautifully smooth, and has no real marks in the bores that I’ve seen yet. We pulled the dipstick and it’s full of oil that looks better than the stuff in my daily. The original goal of “get the wheels to turn” has crept now into “let’s see if we can drive it out of the shed”
    19 points
  2. Got it back last Saturday and spent all weekend and a few nights this week cleaning parts and reassembling. I got a mystery pack of plastic trim clips off Ali which was very handy for replacing all the broken ones Paint is.... meh. It cost $1600 all up, that was to tidy up a couple of dents, do the outside, inside the rear door and touch up one of the front door shuts. There's a few runs and badly masked bits and all of the dust inside when I picked it up Realistically it's better than I could have been bothered to do though and it looks ok all back together I painted the bumpers with black plasti dip type paint which makes them look heaps better, I'll be interested to see how it lasts
    19 points
  3. Jut picked the sump up from Brian. Welds look good. He said it would be okay to linish the outside welds so it looks prettier.
    5 points
  4. Discussion: Lurking in the back shed at my grandads farm for all of eternity has been an old Austin 7. There was a bunch of old cars there that as kids we used to play in, but the Austin had been there for so long that it was completely buried under hoarded shit and was far too scary to play in, but was always interesting to see if you peered past the old L300, Fergie 19 & piles of old timber. As a 10 year old kid, I was smart enough to know that this one was well beyond rescue... Fast forward 20 years: Grandad has passed on and the sheds have been mostly cleaned out for the next generation of hoarding, revealing this little Austin. Now 30 year old Jeff is not half as smart as his 10 year old self... So now I look at it and think "I reckon I can save that... maybe..."
    4 points
  5. We took the car to my dads workshop as he has a bit more gear than me for getting things free'd up, the initial goal being to get it to a state where it could be pushed around and easily moved about the limited space of my own workshop. We got it into the shed, jacked it up, squirted some CRC at the wheel studs and left it overnight. I came back the next day to start the mammoth task I was expecting to get the wheels off. Armed with a range of metric and imperial sockets, I found the nearest I had to the BSW (*shudder*) wheel nuts and gave an exploratory lean on the breaker bar for the first nut. It turned easily and then came off by hand... NO FUCKING WAY... I repeated this for all 12 nuts, yes it has 3 stud wheels! What I had set aside an afternoon for, took me less than 5 minutes. I later went to take the bonnet off it, it wasn't attached properly and only had one bolt in it. No tools required here, I undid this 82 year old bolt with my bare fingers... As I said earlier, this thing has given me a few surprises about how easy it is coming apart. This is probably a good point for an explanation... When grandad parked up a car for what he thought might be quite a lengthy period of storage, he had a habit of pouring a few gallons of waste oil over them. Makes a hell of a mess and collects every spec of dust and dirt, but it does an impressive job of keeping everything working. The 68 Rambler Rebel in the background was in the shed next to this, and everything on it moves and functions and it has minimal rust due to the oil protection. The floor pans in the austin look as though they have had a tube of grease smeared over them, but zero rust there. The only real rust on the Austin is around the spare wheel, and in the sills, where the oil didn't really get. I've been having a tinker to try and get the engine free'd up. So far I have managed to remove the head, exhaust manifold etc, all without any broken studs. Thanks grandad! In fact the only thing I have found seized up on the entire car so far is the lever for the folding front windscreen (and the engine...)
    4 points
  6. A few photos were taken and then onto the trailer and off to the workshop. Yes it fits on a fairly standard size trailer!
    4 points
  7. Sometimes the chain and the jack swap positions, but pretty much like this for the most part. I use heat with this setup too sometimes. I use big blocks of wood too. It depends how much it needs to move and which part needs to do the moving. I don't (ever, lol) bend it with the bar running right through either. The bar is basically for checking. Some cunts actually weld them up with the bar still in them then wonder why it becomes stucked' in there.
    3 points
  8. Just my vote for no painting, just make it run, fix the rust and drive it... Also so nice to catch a glimpse of the rock star hair again, so dishy.
    3 points
  9. Here is my bike, its not as bad as it looks, it hasn't been apart I think and it is just rusty, the guy just sprayed everything silver, I recovered the cost of most of the bike by selling the exhaust and the rest of the stuff in the pile.
    3 points
  10. You guys are polluting this threads atmosphere with emissions chat
    3 points
  11. The reed valves seemed OK, so I was scratching my head, (even ordered some carbon fibre sheet to make new ones) and then this happened: So I started pulling it down today. Even with a powerplant the size of a big family box of weetbix, it still looks like I'll have to pull the engine and transaxle in one go. I thought it looked about 50 / 50 that I'd be able to shufty the block out sideways off the transaxle. I'll have a big cuppa, and ponder that tomorrow.
    3 points
  12. Also last nights meat was another goodie! Made it to BP to pump tyre up on the van and made it back home sweet as. She's dead flat today though hahaha.
    3 points
  13. this is one of OS's greatest threads. the four-wheeled equivalent would be to mod a Nissan Tiida with a 3" lift kit, muddys, lightbar and the latest Ranger running boards
    3 points
  14. So I started to hatch a bit of a plan. Retrieving it was going to need a decent plan, the poor thing has been parked there for nearly 50 years and had literally started to become one with the earth. I started a tradme saved search for "Austin 7" just to see what kind of stuff came up. I scored a good set of wheels, and then some tires that were just round the corner from home. So armed with knowing that I had decent rolling stock, it was time to start seriously thinking about uplifting it. From the limited access we could get, the underneath of it was looking pretty rusty, so we wanted to be very careful about what we lifted off/pulled on to get it out of the shed. The plan was to put some box section through underneath it from one side to the other, and jack up the box section lifting the car on that. I was going to get it high enough using that method to then wheel the trailer underneath and lower it back down onto the trailer. Lets face it, its been 50 years, those wheels aren't going to turn...
    3 points
  15. Tried my hand at painting some pin striping - not a bad 1st effort. I replicated all the factory stripes it originally had
    3 points
  16. I had also reconditioned a whole pile of other bits. i unearthed all those today too.. Moteur all done - big-bore 50cc piston, honed barrel, new headlight and plastic side cover. Front mudguard and engine mount plates painted and everything plated. Including fuel tank that took way too many hours splitting it apart, panel-beating it, sealing it back up. still to be painted. before.. after.. Exhaust - gutted out and tidied up Brake calipers zinc plated and reassembled. New tail light and re-plated/refurbished bulb holder Tread plate cleaned up new mudflap + re-plated support handle bars re-chromed and everything cleaned + re-assembled. also new bell The auxiliary power units were re-chromed, nos pedals, and rebuilt main bearing and lastly - re-plated bolts throughout
    3 points
  17. I reckon the roller kits are bit of a waste of time. 50c brushes from bunnings are the go, plus cheap mixing cups.
    2 points
  18. I ran the alignment bar through a couple of OEM length/uncut housings today in order to check their suitability for a job. Sometimes when a certain pinion offset and width of diff is wanted, it can be got by cutting only one side of correctly selected factory width housing. The challenge then becomes one of sourcing that width that is in a usable condition ...especially on the side that you are not going to shorten. Candidate on the bench. The first side looks pretty good. Its almost on and for a factory ute diff with a zillion mils on it - I'd call it straight. Note, the bearing cup assembly can't be pushed on by hand when its being held center to the axle axis by the alignment bar. But take the bar away and it'll slip straight in and work/look correctly. Pity this is the side that's getting chopped. Meanwhile at the other end ... Near all of the OEM width ones I've checked (but I don't do all of them) are somewhere inbetween these two. Its a funny old world ... demanding tolerances measured in 0.000"s is the only acceptable standard for some parts of them while other parts ... try but yeah ... nah. lol! Ps. My bar and dummy bearings are good if you were wondering and the stuff I do comes out straaight as! (really) Churr.
    2 points
  19. X ray laboratories. Much better price than sgs too
    2 points
  20. Remember all the contaminates in the oil have probably settled at the bottom. May want to remove the sump & clean it (pretty sure you can on those engines?) I thought the oil in an engine looked great, but it was acidic, so acidic i found the big-end bearings in the bottom. Dissolved to a fine powder.
    2 points
  21. At this point the efforts to try and get the engine free'd up had been to grab the crank handle and lift the car off the axle stands while seeing if it will turn... some 2 stroke oil and CRC down the spark plug holes didn't help, so I pulled the head to see what the state of things was. I was worried that the valves might be stuck in the guides and didn't want to damage them trying to force the crank around, so I took off the manifolds and exposed the valve springs to see if they were free. All but one moved nicely so I fed the one some CRC and left it for a week or so.
    2 points
  22. Fuel is 87% carbon atoms Gallon of fuel weighs 6.3 pounds Weight of carbon in a gallon of gas 5.5 pounds Then most of the weight comes from oxygen added from burning it which comes out to 20 pounds
    2 points
  23. Good meet . Well done to @Archetype for winning 4 FREE BURGERS in the Jalapeno eating competition!! It's amazing what a man will do for free burgers. Well done to @Zeubin for a respectable third place. And cars:
    2 points
  24. Got my high quality Fenix radiator and shroud today. I suspect they’ve never test fit one into a car but I can make it work. Didn’t come with a filler neck / cap which is a bit gay cos I need to weld one into the end tank. Looks good tho
    2 points
  25. I've actually done heaps to this, like; - source and fit factory airbox and intake pipe (as seen in pics earlier). - fitted nice new K&N filter. - wheel refubishment finished, tyres remounted etc. - replaced dashboard with one that wasn't cut up where the stereo sits in the DIN slot, also a nicer dashtop than the one in there. - installed new audio. Alpine head unit, Focal components up front, Focal 2-way coaxials in the rear. - existing door trims had been hacked to fit some dubious audio, so replaced those with some sourced from same car new dash came from. Full clean/shampoo of upholstery brought them up A1! - rear interior stripped, everything cleaned, all fasteners sourced and replaced (had maybe 1/3 of what was supposed to be holding the side trims in) replaced and there's not 677864254% less rattles. - front bumper resprayed by Brendan at Platinum refinishers, no more stonechips or cracked paint. Scrapes on underside of lip reappeared pretty quickly while negotiating driveway though. - full Royce-spec paint correction and wax. Including ceramic coating on the wheels (OK I did that bit...). - new OEM Type R stickers on quarters, it had non-OEM ones on there and they weren't put on straight. - boss kit acquired to fit my Personal Neo Grinta wheel (although the plan is a red stitch MOMO Monte Carlo in time). - OEM optional rear strut brace fitted, and shock covers cut and trimmed as per the OEM template you received if you bought this new in period. Did it like they did in 1998 basically. - replaced rear boot carpet with a bloody mint example Mr. Jimmy Lucas scored from Zebra for me. - bought a replacement OEM key cos well, choice, and available. - replacement foam inner for the drivers side Recaro has been purchased ex-UK, just need to install/get @64valiant to help me install. - sourced and fitted an OEM clock, mine had a blanking plate fitted but the Type R-x was supposed to have a clock (loom was there etc) Then I got word Honda NZ had a single, solitary one of these NLA Type R cam covers sitting in their stock. So I thought "that's pretty flippin' neat" and I bought it because magpie. Haven't fitted it yet. 2019-06-24_01-57-46 by Richard Opie, on Flickr So we're sort of nearly where I want it to be. Some stock suspension on it's way from Japanland also. I actually haven't taken any other photos of it yet.
    2 points
  26. Hoping to setup a YouTube account soon and put up videos of me gapping Busa’s at the lights etc. In the meantime, here is my solution to a problem that plagues all of us: where to store all my damn helmets. On a damn handsome helmet rack.
    2 points
  27. Been away lots lately so no progress on the rubbers. Back in NZ next week so need to get them sorted. Fitted off the front quarter bumpers and had to do a few adjustments to the brackets to get them sitting right. Unfortunately the left front one has had a crappy repair before caroming so it’s off to the strippers for that and the rear bumper and Greg will get them mint before getting chrome plated again.
    2 points
  28. The interior has this lovely shade of green everywhere, which somehow looked quite familiar. I asked dad if it was in fact the same shade as the benching in the kitchen at my grandparents house when I was little. The very same. Jeez grandad was resourceful.
    2 points
  29. So given this complete bombshell of how easy this was looking like being, we put a strop around the diff. Put the VX landcruiser in low ratio, and gently towed it out of the shed. To blow my mind even more, I think I jokingly said, "wouldn't it be easy to steer if I could wind the window down" at which point I grabbed the window winder and wound down the bloody window! This little car blowing my mind with how much of it still works is kind of becoming a theme.
    2 points
  30. Yuck to not so yuck, sugar soap and a water blast . And dungeon spec interior
    2 points
  31. I'm stoked at how good the tank turned out. I painted it last week and finished it over the weekend.
    2 points
  32. Hung the painting out to dry... glossy goodness. and a couple of bits needed a bit more fettling too
    2 points
  33. Ore progress on trial fit up, installed glass but not happy with the new rear quarter window rubbers so looking at another supplier. Quarter bumper brackets need so work as well as bumpers don’t sit quite right.
    2 points
  34. Some pics of the wheels i restored. Rims and spokes were too far rusted to save. New rims, and spokes, and whitewalls. Plus cleanup and re-chrome of the German " Torpedo" single speed, back-pedal brake hub.
    2 points
  35. Well... this got put under the bench and forgotten about for 3 years updated pics back - some pics are lost unfortunately. Its back out on top of the bench and the bits are being worked on. Some primed bits some of the pitting I have been dealing with .. which I'm priming, then skim filling and sanding it, then high fill priming after
    2 points
  36. Hello, I have been after a mid 70s Suzuki TS250 for a wile, I really wanted a TM250 but they don't come up often, I ended up getting on on facebook, plan is to turn it into something like this,
    1 point
  37. Yeap you are right a 3 ohm is the go. Cheers!
    1 point
  38. Love the crown! You’ve got me thinking of digital dashes now, so rad! I had no idea they had them that early in the crowns.
    1 point
  39. This thing has been reliable as fuck and still makes lots of noise and goes hard for what it is. Decided to add a vintage sissy bar ive had for awhile. Next up is a suicide shifter
    1 point
  40. The cert plate in riveted to the car. Now to finish the compliance and then enjoy
    1 point
  41. Gave it a wash and drove up to auckland a few weeks back. Came up pretty shiny. Fitted some new shocks to go with the reduced suspension travel and its lush again. Had a few funny issues at first and stopped and gave all the spade terminals on the coil/ballast resistor and away she went. Sat on 70mph the whole way, even passed a car up the mahoenui hill at more than 70 Also, gotta catch em all!
    1 point
  42. Outer mould patterns finished and ready for printing. 3D printing is good but it also means to have to design the under side! Twice as much work!
    1 point
  43. Buys italian project vehicle. Is surprised by random issues and electrical gremlins.
    1 point
  44. Shell is back from the blasters and ready for the final weld off. Rear quarters been dipped and already to go back on. A.l going well it should be in the paint shop by Xmas....
    1 point
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