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So over 18 months and 100% of not much achieved. Was hoping to use this thing as wedding car, didn't leave myself enough time to do anything substantial. What to do? How about the bare minimum? Pulled the rims off, they'd been painted over the original cream, with the body colour turquoise, was looking kinda shitty. IMG_20191031_082525 by John Bell, on Flickr The old retreads were pretty nasty and mostly tore to bits coming off. Glad to see the back of them. Had the rims blasted and painted close enough to factory cream. On closer inspection 1 rim is a different style/offset. It is now the spare. Might keep an eye out for another correct one. IMG_20191109_115330 by John Bell, on Flickr Mounted the tyres, went tubeless, which may not be advised on tube style rims. Fuck tubes though right? IMG_20191109_160709 by John Bell, on Flickr Got some fasteners for the spare on the bonnet. IMG_20191110_182034 by John Bell, on Flickr Gave the insides a clean out, decades of farmer stuff, dozens of earplugs, gloves, matches, boot polish, all sorts. Found a 1985 pocket calendar behind one of the vents. IMG_20191110_180321 by John Bell, on Flickr IMG_20191110_180330 by John Bell, on Flickr IMG_20191110_180335 by John Bell, on Flickr There was also this shaft and repaired, and destroyed gear, unsure if Land Rover or just farm trash. IMG_20191110_155444 by John Bell, on Flickr Put some new cheap repro mirrors on, secured the battery. Scrubbed the insides and badly recovered one seat base. Got both vents freed up/attached and working nice. Flex out, might get a bit more with a good weight on the back. IMG_20191118_121605 by John Bell, on Flickr IMG_20191118_121418 by John Bell, on Flickr Still a bad fit with much travel, and as manky as ever. IMG_20191118_121511 by John Bell, on Flickr Went to a wedding received_2427387784166746 by John Bell, on Flickr Have gotten a bit of a kick out of using it, so will try and keep the ball rolling. Although its driveable, basically everything needs touching up to some extent, time to chip away as funds and time allows. Talky link https://oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/56349-johnnyfives-land-rover/

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She was still running underwater.

@johnnyfiveI will have the weber on board again along with a couple of chilly bins, So anyone wanting liquid refreshments and food transported for the first night there should be room to accomodate this. This will allow us to have bbq food too. I will try to get to your place resonably early fri morning to allow a bit of time to suss this out. Will probably bring a selection of homekill bovine and swine for taste testing.

Yeah nah yeah. All fixed now as @Leyland P.I. had a piston kit on his shelf. lemme just slap these together. Unrelated, Adding cheap bikes to trademe watchlist along the route. #swapabike

Hah, I really don't know if I should thank you or not?!? One of the AC50's (The Green one) is one I purchased off my neighbour in 1984, I remember seeing it as a wee kid thinking it was huge by how it towered over me, bought it off him a few years later and rode it to school regularly until I got a car Ran flawlessly until a mate blew the motor up while I was overseas in Europe Was an awesome bike and cant wait to get back on the road after not having a bike for 20yrs

This is the motu road, its even narrower and very rough in parts. these are very small bikes. i would not be driving a full width car trailer through it, i also would not be driving a bidd ass f150 through it

So, still chugging away on this, finding all sorts under the paint. Nothing major, just annoying. All in all, very straight and rust free. I have been getting some spray gun tips from a friend, so far so good. A few patches of paint from one of the old resprays reacted weirdly, so had to re-strip back further in those areas. Front guards and both sides of the bonnet are primed and looking good. The rest of the car is all masked up, hoping to get it primed this week. Not very exciting really, but will be a big milestone for me to have it all covered and one colour again. Starting to feel like the end is in sight. Also I figured that while it's still a garage queen for a wee bit longer I might go ahead and get some of these. Will get the paint done, everything back together and warranted. Then, when that's done, fit these and sort out the new suspension.

Thought I'd do some prep since this is two weeks away. The motor on the a100 was a bit noisy. Prolly explains it.

Same shit as the last few posts. skip to 1:30 if you just want to see some skids. Have heard many horror stories tuning itb turbo setups. But was pretty straight forward once had it setup in the right mode and got bugs ironed out. Fuel equation set as MAP, with main fuel map spanned in tps vs rpm. this takes into account the manifold pressure and adds fuel with boost. Also an afr target table set in map vs rpm, so it knows what percentage fuel to add at given manifold pressure. Still little bits and peices to finish and bugs to iron out. otherwise runs good

Working on scooter too late last night/gettin annoyed that it wasn’t running I started pulling the spark plug when I felt my sock getting wet-with petrol, hadn’t put the float bow on the carb was about to test the spark plug, would of been a good fire

That video card is massive! I got Heretic working but without sound, I only have ISA slots so need to find a sound blaster or compatible. It came with a sound card but I’m still looking for drivers and not sure if it will work with dos games. Also need to find a Serial Mouse... installed windows 3.11 lol

Repower sorted, Going Electric and pushed the button on a 5KW Hub and 120amp Sine wave controller, batteries still being pondered Also have 2 x Suzuki AC50's to work on, new guards ordered, Spare AC50 motor on the way with a swag of other spare parts, hope to have something to ride very shortly, finally

Keep the cool old computer stuff coming. I found an 8gb HDD which must have been from an old family computer. Put it in (hanging out the side) a win7 computer and it’s partitioned to a couple of 2gb drives but win7 doesn’t like whatever the file format was and wanted to format. So I used some free file recovery software and recovered what must have been me doing the same thing 20 years ago lol. Formatted it to FAT and plugged into the 486 and it’s working, currently installing DOS 6.22

Here's what we had.. That was a good game too.

Use to pay SpyHunter and simcity on this,

Cheers Mark. I can put some homekill sausages towards the rolling feed also, although might be quicker/safer if I pick up some precooked ones too. As far as vehicles goes, everyone is an adult, and free to do what they do. I don't feel its my place to tell people how to help out, I will offer my opinion though. The aim would be to gain a bit of efficiency with the cars, so, maximum people and bikes capacity per car/trailer combo. Hence the appeal of 5 seater utes with small tandem/large single axle trailer (preferably open top cage). I don't remember how many seats Max's 3dr Landcruiser had (maybe just 2?), and Marks 1tonner with 2 seats, but last year there were bikes and people coming off and on trailers throughout the trip. At times though I think from memory ute+trailer and the big box trailer were pretty well packed with passengers and bikes. A few people doubling on bikes. I think ideally x2 double cab utes with x2 trailers would be more than enough capacity, without taking excess vehicles. Obviously we can't be too picky though, about people that are choosing to volunteer their time and resources. (Everyone is very grateful to those willing to trundle along, half way past nowhere, slow AF, in the wake of us). I'm pretty excited about this though. Neato. Will try and get some emails out before next week.

20 min to replace, err, install the thermostat: Which one of you fecking OS bogans was in here before me! Those bolts were all not quite tight, and the two RHS head bolts had oil on their lower threads. Possibly implying some degree of head leak. Once the thermostat was in, tightened and the motor actually properly warmed up, it's running with noticeably more zing. Not up to original Japanese engine spec, and there's more to be had, but much better for commuting around the city.

And I ranI ran so far awayI just ranI ran all night and dayI couldn't get away Were A Flock of Seagulls singing about alien abduction or the lure of small 2T bikes?

Cheers guys, yes, its still quite shitty really, but I am feeling a lot better about the whole thing after just a clean and wheels. And it doesn't get used a whole lot, what with a WOF expired in 2006, but do cart the odd thing around the property with it. Will have to try get some footage of the thing in motion, its kinda loud.

Investigated the damage today. Because the damage is mostly at the start of the thread there’s heaps of meat further down. Might tidy up the thread and just lock tight the bolt in! Probably hard to see in the photo. Main priority at the moment is getting all my bikes back together and in one piece. I also want to get my 550 sorted for summer all it needs is valve shims and bolting back together. I might look at selling up but it costs me nothing to have these bikes stashed away.

Fuck those sharns were wounding! Did you know that the Maori people didn't migrate here? Their canoes weren't that sea worthy. They were bought here by the chinese, who kept them as slaves. And other shit sharns.

Heretic with no sound or mouse:

How about that serenity tho

Plenty of meat grabbing while riding tbh

I'm confident I will sort a trailer, neighbour has a car trailer that could work as it is nice and low and lots of tie off points.

350W tends to be the constant rating, and a pretty conservative one at that. The 350W motors we run will hit 750W under acceleration. We run 24V and 40A fuses...

I've often wondered how plausible it would be to adapt the front end out of a mid 2000's nissan. They're a heavier car, (pushing 1850+kgs) yet have handling these mighty and venerable mopars could only dream of. I myself am all in favour of the proposed upgrade. Mainly because I can copy it for minimal cost/effort. I think you'd definitely want to also brace the lower arm, as seen on you tube. And after seeing that undercar video of a certain white vg sedan, I'm not really a fan of the under engineered top arm mounts either. (They almost always crack)

A lot of old Commodore's had Green phosphor monitors.

Minor work stripping parts off to see the extent of the rust. The front and rear skuttle panels will be a challenge: The fender shows the prep issue with filler/paint lifting from fairly clean metal (and rust subsequently sneaking under). I would love to hear from folks who know panel&paint on what could have caused this:

For this month's nonexistent Burgerfuel meet this Wednesday the 20th, is there any interest in seeing the Ford v Ferrari movie? It's on at 7:45 or 8:45 at Sylvia Park. "I wanta you to beat those Americans, at any cost!" "But Mister Ferrari, my manifold, she's in danger!"

I've been pining over scooters for a while and nothing to ride apart from the cruiser. edit: and a mountain bike that looks like too much effort that I forgot about. Recent events have led me to believe that I've just been lucky and dodged a bullet on the cruiser more than once and I've pushed it as far as I can go, so I've been in a circle of stagnation for the past 3-4yrs wondering what to do as I need a frame that will support speed and weight but I didn't want to go down the part of a purpose built thing the looks all shiny and..well, Purpose Built. Anyhoo, a recent discussion with Neal and the idea of a light scoot frame seemed to fit the bill, a quick "anyone got a light scooter?' on OS and hey presto, Raizer has been relieved of a part of his hoard. GC even delivered it! So here she is.. The eagle eyed will have spotted the odd blemish like the welded kick start that's been welded on the wrong side, but according to Raiz, that's all that needs fixing and she's a runner! Plans thus far: - Maybe get it running on it's original fossil fuel power plant - Attempt rego. - Maybe transplant said engine and go electric - Maybe add some noisy speed enhancers Tidy'er up and have me some fun. Nice to finally have another fun project on the go.

Bloody fan hits the bumper when its refitted so I'll have to pull that off and re mount it. In shuttle related news... What do you do when you have no job and are saving the money you do have for a holiday? Buy a new turbo. I bought the nissan one years ago as a t28 but i'm not too sure what it actually is, Suspect its off a RFB of some description but its going on trademe. The disco spud should enough for my power goals

Woohoo! Welcome to the cave of small bikes. You might never escape.

Don't mind this, it's just a basic, primitive tune i spent the afternoon adjusting // constants won't change. Used here to set a pin number: const int coil1 = 3; const int coil2 = 5; const int coil3 = 7; const int coil4 = 9; const int sensorPin1 = A4; const int sensorPin2 = A1; const int sensorPin3 = A2; const int sensorPin4 = A3; int sensorValue = 0; int sensorThreshold = 200; int sensorMax = 0; // Variables will change: volatile int coilState = LOW; volatile int coilPin = LOW; volatile int sparkTriggerDelayActive = false; //added this to try & see if i can delay spark at low RPM. volatile int sparkTriggerDelay = 0; volatile unsigned long rpmCurrMicros= 0; volatile unsigned long rpmOldMicros = 0; volatile int sensor1TriggerCounter = 0; // counter for the number of button presses volatile int sensorTriggerState = false; // current state of the button volatile int lastsensorTriggerState = true; // previous state of the button/sensor in this case. // constants won't change: // Generally, you should use "unsigned long" for variables that hold time // The value will quickly become too large for an int to store const long dwell = 10; // but this is how long the "points" are open, open longer reduces duty cycle of coils. // constants won't change: const long coilCharge = 2; // interval at which to charge coil (milliseconds) void setup() { // put your setup code here, to run once: Serial.begin(9600); pinMode(coil1, OUTPUT); pinMode(coil2, OUTPUT); pinMode(coil3, OUTPUT); pinMode(coil4, OUTPUT); pinMode(A4, INPUT_PULLUP); pinMode(A1, INPUT_PULLUP); pinMode(A2, INPUT_PULLUP); pinMode(A3, INPUT_PULLUP); } void activateCoilsIfLow(uint8_t inPin, uint8_t outPin) { volatile unsigned long timestamp = 0; sensorTriggerState = true; if (analogRead(inPin) <= sensorThreshold) { if (lastsensorTriggerState = (false)) { delay(sparkTriggerDelay); lastsensorTriggerState = true; } else { coilState = HIGH; coilPin = HIGH; digitalWrite(outPin, HIGH); timestamp = millis(); while (coilState == HIGH && coilPin == HIGH && (timestamp + coilCharge) > millis()); //Busy wait digitalWrite(outPin, LOW); coilPin = LOW; timestamp = millis(); while (coilState == HIGH && coilPin == LOW && (timestamp + dwell) > millis()); coilState = LOW; coilPin = LOW; } } else if (analogRead(inPin) >= sensorThreshold) { sensorTriggerState = false; if (sensorTriggerState != lastsensorTriggerState) { rpmOldMicros = rpmCurrMicros; rpmCurrMicros = micros(); lastsensorTriggerState = false; rpmConsultRatioTable(); } } } void loop() { activateCoilsIfLow(sensorPin1, coil1); activateCoilsIfLow(sensorPin3, coil3); activateCoilsIfLow(sensorPin2, coil4); activateCoilsIfLow(sensorPin4, coil2); } void rpmConsultRatioTable() { if (rpmCurrMicros - rpmOldMicros >= 497512) //sub250rpm { sparkTriggerDelay =0; } else if (rpmCurrMicros - rpmOldMicros <= 255024) //125rpm { sparkTriggerDelay =57; //prev'55 } else if (rpmCurrMicros - rpmOldMicros <= 169491) //177rpm { sparkTriggerDelay =39; //prev' 37 } else if (rpmCurrMicros - rpmOldMicros <= 127512) //250rpm { sparkTriggerDelay =27; //at 250 RPM and 45 degree sensor advance, this would be 30ms to TDC, subtract 2ms for coil charging and subtract more m.s. for advance } else if (rpmCurrMicros - rpmOldMicros <= 85008) //375rpm { sparkTriggerDelay =16; } else if (rpmCurrMicros - rpmOldMicros <= 61000) //500rpm { sparkTriggerDelay =11; } else if (rpmCurrMicros - rpmOldMicros <= 48000) //625rpm { sparkTriggerDelay =7; } else if (rpmCurrMicros - rpmOldMicros <= 41000) //750rpm { sparkTriggerDelay =2; } else if (rpmCurrMicros - rpmOldMicros <= 31500) //just under 1000rpm { sparkTriggerDelay =0; } } Posting this here so i can find it later if i'm not home. Side note: i am probably the only person using milliseconds to determine when to fire the plug compared to using actual degrees.

Someone needs to sacrifice a small engine to the moped gods for appeasement to allow safe travels with no accidents or breakdowns. Nobody wants a free ride to the A&E with a grumpy real estate agent again

Nice van! I've just finished certing my commer van with a lexus 6 speed, rapier engine and chev diff. Massive PITA now it is all said and done. If doing again I would go for a holden 6 and auto box and change the diff/ratio to something taller. The biggest pain was getting the linkages right for the lexus shifter. It took a LOT of fine tuning but now it is done, it can run off the clock. Only thing that needs work is the cooling system. Over 55mph it starts warming up as the air passes below it rather than up into the radiator in the dog box. Probably because I lowered it too much. I'll work on a scoop and aux radiator etc shortly. At 55mph it is sweet though. Good luck!

Sweet we will have a yarn about it at shed night. I'd have thought anything with a trailer would be more of a burden in that situation than something without a trailer?

Also tried the recovery software on the 426mb drive which came with the 486, at first it wouldn’t spin at all again. Tapped it on the table and then it started spinning lol. Surprisingly it reads fine, just has some win95 files and nothing else really. Not worth using though if it’s going to refuse to work some times.

I reckon 3 support vehicles will be good. F150 sounds like it would make a sweet ambulance too.

Just cook them as you drive along and the riders can grab them as they pass you

Blackwood is my brother. Dads driving the Ute. all good totally understand all that. Dad will be bringing his gear too so the 3 of us will likely take turns riding as our backs fuck out haha

I thought there was still only 3 support vehicles as per J5's post a couple pages back?

Just turn it around so the wear is on the other side. Good for another 500,000kms m8

Dad is planning to bring his F150, we are hoping to be able to have room on the back to pick up 2 broken bikes. Its a 6 seater. Trying to avoid a trailer if we have enough room just to make it a bit easier to get out of the way of "Young Brody in his venerable bush Hilux" We will do a trial pack this week and see how much space we've got.

I still have my last save game from 1996 and it works!

Nearly there. Out of time this weekend...but so close!

Been crazy busy of late with real work, so haven't spent any time on my fun projects. But for a bit of timeout today I took a break from work and did this: Dome fitted to cylinder, this allows me to set correct squish band tolerance. Pull starter cover now doesn't fit, so a bit of nip and tuck... Tadah...sorted. So nothing spectacular, but it gave me 30 minutes of tuning out time and a few steps closer to finishing it.

Righto bitches. @cletus pointed out the issue with my turbo positioning, ie the drain and the slope and the strong possibility of non draining etc. This caused me to spend considerable time looking for both electric and mechanical scavenger pumps, including a brief talk with Skidfactory's Al about what pumps he uses (which I only mention to give myself the opportunity to let you know that Big Al himself thinks the truck is 'mint'. I know, I am a cunt, but shit its Big Al). Whatever, this all caused me to decide to move the turbo so it can drain properly, it now sits thus; This meant a very stubby adaptor manifold that I forgot to take pics of but you can glimpse in the first pic. You can also see the beginnings of a dump pipe, things looked like they were getting pretty tight for an OEM one so I cracked on with a custom jobbie. Probably not the approved use of a band saw. A long time with the die grinder got me this. I also built an airbox with a prado panel filter; I was going to make a snorkel, but thought it would be a bit wanky. Maybe later. I then made some shit to brace up the rear spring perches as the internet tells me these are weak. I was going to weld some bracing in but I wasnt sure of the airbag situation so thought I had better wait. I have some things going to the powdercoaters tomorrow, I will chuck this in with that so it ends up all pretty like. Lots of other little stuff got done as well, screwing down the decking, running the diff and tranny vents, finishing up some wiring, sorting the heater and vacuum hoses, finding a thermo switch to run the fan etc etc... The list is getting shorter though.