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yetchh last won the day on August 27 2014

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  1. Bench seat column change rules..
  2. Hah, classic 185 probs.. that warm/cold servo is also a massive cunt to change with the dash in..
  3. If you ever need a new rear door latch cable I have a brand new one here I was to put in ours before it got nicked. The cable in ours would jam up and not latch properly, Rosie took it for a wof up here, the back door opened while he was doing the brake test and a bag of apples fell out.. still passed the wof tho #cuntrylyfe
  4. Also new glow plugs, they have a habit of snapping the tip off and banging around inside the cylinder..
  5. Yeah, and he's cheap.. Did some pretty epic work on my kombi.
  6. Yeah bro, I didn't realise you were on the forum. Last I knew you had Chris doing some repairs and he told me what had happened, Really sorry to hear man and fingers crossed you're able to get some sort of mobility back. If I was still crimes I would defo have been there to help out.
  7. Hi mate, you worked for Trevor Hone right?
  8. Put the shoes and drums back on today, my mates at the platers also managed to lose one of the shoe retaining pins which is a cunt, went to a brake place in Nelson yesterday and the closest they had was from a falcon but 4mm to long. Broke it trying to modify it so I barried one up of of a split pin for now.. Also upgraded the oil in the dampers to 40wt and they're much better. Put my other rims on and straight away they hit the innner guard which sucks a bit, after I took them off I put the helper springs on to see what difference they make to the spring rate and it's way better, suits a touch higher also, so I'll clean up the u bolts and put them on.. Looks so much better tho, can't wait to do the front.. Been meaning to do this for about 6 years..
  9. You need to stipulate that should two more cats be imminent they need to be either Burmese or Sphynx.. Also remind her about the damage cats do to the local bird/reptile populations and the purchase of such is only exacerbating the problem and also that cars only damage the local environment when they work..... Good luck and god speed..
  10. So today I installed the cylinders dustboots and springs, hooked up the springs and put the diff back in.. Springs, All together and looking so much better that before and working also, only thing is there needs to be some sort of spacer in the rubber boot as the bolts that hold the boot plate on also hold the cylinder one and so compress the rubber and bend the plate, this was like this before but I bashed the plates flat again, will have to see what I can find.. She's all in and looking very clean, also very low.. After putting it in and being finally happy with the height as will @Valiant I gave it a test and it's very soft, softer than it was which I guess now there's no fiction it's much easier to compress the leaves.. I do have a set of helpers that came off and I painted but the u bolts are an odd size that I can't find, hopefully just the addition of that will change the spring rate enough, that and the additional changes to the damper valves makes it better.. As it is, if I get a couple of people on the back she'd be very low... Now to move onto the front..
  11. After putting the head and axles back in the housing I made some new brake lines and changed the oil in the dampers to 30wt, definitely stiffer.. After changing the oil and putting them back together and in the car I've since discovered thay are still pretty soft, I can do some small adjustments to bound and rebound buy putting a 2mm shim in place of the one you see below and also tightening the nut on the end of the small spring buy 2-3 turns. The other option is to buy a set of adjustable valves from the UK but that's £70 each without freight so if be expecting 400odd landed, maybe not.. New lines It was at this point I discovered the lowering blocks didn't actually fit, the loading pin was too small and the the opposite side the same.. Que another trip over the hill to Alex's armed this time with an actual cake.. End result.. Thanks man, they fit perfect.
  12. That meant I could finally put the spring packs back together.. Dob of 11fc to keep the pads in their place, whoops, a bit blurry.. Ready to assemble with some silicone grease for max slip, 1st one turned out to be a bit of a cunt but once i figured out that trying to put it together without the bolt in, things went a lot easier, just clamped them all together and hold it with zip ties Job done.
  13. Hi, yes still around.. Been slow as I've been waiting for things to arrive that either weren't in the country or painfully slow to access over the break (no surprise) but things are back on track now I have everything. Got the above cylinders sleeved from cbc, $75 each when compared to a new cylinder at 200-300 and still prone to corrosion, it's a fucken good deal and I can't recommend them enough. Also finally found a spring eye bolt from a mate in chch, got the new rubber dust boots for the hand brake actuator and two new springs for the handbrake return.. In the mean time I set about putting the leaves back together but before I did that I had to make the aforementioned antifriction pads, que a trip over the hill to this guy Alex's place armed with some cake, a 250mm rod of uhmw plastic and the best of the factory pads which resulted in some new pads to install.. Top guy that....
  14. Yeah I know cruisers do it as well.. My guess is that most manufacturers do it to suppress the temperature fluctuations diesels create
  15. @Truenotch soz for the spam, I still have a 1kz hangover...
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