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  1. Round two.. August 2022 Action shots of Bartlett creek coming over. In this shot you can see a white disc in the water, that's the top of the sewer inspection port that sticks out of the ground about 600mm (check the pics in the previous post) In full swing Right up to the gunwales Here you can see the water soaking through the joins in the chip board, This is where the water overflowed the road and stopped it getting any higher, this is where the wetland originally drained before they put this subdivision in blocking it with this road and providing a 250mm pipe to drain both the wetland and this end of the subdivision.. Good work TDC Looking back towards where our house pool is. This is another part of the problem on the other side of the main road, water just sits here and until this goes down it won't drain from behind us.
  2. Pics of the first flood.. This the day before showing the location of the wetland behind us if you zoom in below the three poplars you can make out a row of fence posts, they mark the location of the Bartlett creek and the source of the flash flooding. In this pic you can see by the top of the water tank a gate in the distance this is where farmer has blocked Bartlett creek with a 300mm round culvert that can't handle the jandle and blows it's load all over the paddock behind us. In this shot looking to the left you can see in the distance a large poplar, it also comes over there. It was fun and games initially.. But in reality getting woken up at 11pm to evacuate isn't so fun.. Looking back up the drive to the rental which is about 150mm higher than ours, the council has a lot answer for, like, why the fuck let our house be built lower than the front house?
  3. Right, some back story, It's a pretty convoluted novel... My apologies in advance. Roll back to 2020 while we were still finishing our place in chch, and Rosie's parent's had rented this house whilst they were having their new house built, the owner (Pete) had come up with a subdivision plan to split the property into two blocks, 320sqm (ours) and 360 for his block, total land area being 809sqm with the rest being taken up by a share drive.. The rear outlook was over farmland with a wetland directly behind us (unbeknown to us at the time it was to be part of a local subdivision and had plans to be filled in and 70 houses built there, the council had deemed it a wetland and unsuitable for building which was being contested by the developers.. Classic, they don't learn..) Rosie's parent's then decided they couldn't afford to buy it so they asked us and we said no. Fast forward to September 2021 and with houses going ballistic up here it became an easy zero mortgage option that we decided to pull the trigger on. So once we were 99% finished with the reno in chch we packed our shit up and came up here to rent it short term until the subdivision plans had gone through. 6 weeks later the first problem arose, fleas in the carpet (ughh) so we pulled everything up and de-flead the place, no sooner had we had everything back down then the first rains hit over Waitangi weekend causing said flooding from the wet land behind our place which is exacerbated buy Bartlett creek bursting its banks behind the wetland (another sharn in its own right) and a partial evacuation. But it went back down three days later and we shifted back in. Whilst all this was happening I had started to have second thoughts about buying such a small property (that flooded), and up came a property directly in front of the in laws with 7500sqm which we agreed to buy with the brother in law and offered a mill which they declined (greedy cunts took a mill two years later).. So we stuck with what we were doing. Around June/July a sunset clause came into effect on the sale and purchase agreement and in conjunction with a subdivision fee that Pete wasn't happy paying (unless we wanted to pay it) caused the subdivision to stall but he gave us the option of buying the property outright and while I was away Rosie gave him an offer that was to much and he accepted it. It was an exceedingly wet winter with near constant flooding from the wetland behind us and in August we had the biggest rains so far causing said creak to burst it's banks into the wetland. That flood came right up to the floor boards and caused them to cup. The only thing saving us was the fact that the wetland overflowed into its original drainage ditch (which the council has surreptitiously blocked with concrete causing more problems) but we evacuated, I made it onto the evening news and we pulled out once again. There's also a lot of stuff going on in the back ground with regards to previous large subdivisions being built on the wetland and associated problems but alot, if not all, the flooding stems from known council blockages and bottlenecks, with another subdivision being put in on the hill above us draining directly into the creek behind the wetland. This has been in issue since about 2007 and has been fought backwards and forwards ever since between the developers, council and local residents. Long story short the council and developers can up with a plan to put a bund along the creek and stop the flash flooding of the wetland, but it still will take a long time to drain as its all pretty low lying.. Our plans were to lift the house anyway and get out of any flooding problems.. But after pulling out again we put a couple of offers on other places that fell through and by May 2022 Pete came back to us with a plan to get a crane in to lift the house and put a new foundation in etc blah blah. We said instead of that well offer you 40k less and you can wash your hands of it, two months later he agreed (but for 35k less) and we struck a deal which was settled on Monday. So, plans are, move fences to expand our part and shrink the rental area right back, essentially maximise our space. Lift out house and land and renovate (to a point) both houses, put a garage in, master bedroom in its own building outside with the laundry etc with it. These are all big plans but it may be better to do the bare minimum and just rent both.. We'll see, anyway.. Pics. So this is the original subdivision plan, ours is the back house with zero parking, an easement right through it and the need for a second water tank only for firefighting. As you can see it's set up to prioritise the front house. Our plans, rough obviously, but move the parking for the rental up the front, by cutting a section of fence out and moving over to the edge of the pergola you can just see, in this pic the fence in the middle on marked in red but we've moved it to 1m from the rental which gains us 200sqm put in the garage/ carport and link the sleepout with a deck. The big red arrow pointing to the garage next door is where the zephyr and 121 are (in exchange for services).
  4. The plan is to raise the house and the land around it depending on costs etc, but in the 2011 floods it had about 250mm of water through it and thats worst case scenario, so we're gonna go up about 4-500mm. Both properties either side have a higher ground level than us as well to we get runoff from all sides, but we'll lift the ground level higher than them so we stay dry..
  5. Two years in the making and on Monday we finally take possession of the next house project, well, actually two houses.. You may have seen a couple of pics from when we first shifted in about two years ago, namely this one.. Looked pretty bad but it never made it inside the house, we partially evacuated but we're back in two days later after the water went down somewhat but it was a particularly wet winter/year in general and we spent the better part of 6 months with water continually at the back of the section and under the shed at the back. After it did it again in the big August rains we pulled out of what was to be this house subdivided from the front house and offered a price to buy the whole place. But after being out again at the beginning of last year we pulled out again. After looking at multiple other options that for some reason fell through we negotiated a reduced price on this and decided to take it, it is actually in a nice area with a great outlook.. A bit small for 6, 4 wheeled projects but meh, we'll see what happens.... Updates and more in depth analysis to follow.
  6. Nice... looks like a red dwarf.. At "some point in the future" I have this 10hp Broomwade to reco.. Think it was out of a mine
  7. Bench seat column change rules..
  8. Hah, classic 185 probs.. that warm/cold servo is also a massive cunt to change with the dash in..
  9. 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
  10. Also new glow plugs, they have a habit of snapping the tip off and banging around inside the cylinder..
  11. Yeah, and he's cheap.. Did some pretty epic work on my kombi.
  12. 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.
  13. Hi mate, you worked for Trevor Hone right?
  14. 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..
  15. 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..
  16. 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..
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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....
  20. Yeah I know cruisers do it as well.. My guess is that most manufacturers do it to suppress the temperature fluctuations diesels create
  21. @Truenotch soz for the spam, I still have a 1kz hangover...
  22. Must be a power thing then, my 185 was rated at 106kw vs I guess the 96kw of the kzj, what were you getting on standard 31's
  23. I'm pretty sure that only works on early 90's hiluxes, I couldn't do it on my kzn185 (if you can I couldn't find the method) @Truenotch is the van quite heavy? I used to get 9.5km/l with mine and that would jump to 13-14km/l towing with me doing 95-100kph..
  24. The start up sounds epic, 500rpm with cold start enrichment for max lumpy idle.. Excellent job bro, should prob have a drive of the imp in its current guise so I can make comparisons..
  25. They kind did, but the surf had a thinner radiator and smaller fan from the start, prado and hilux both had thicker radiators and fans with the prado having a cooler stat but they all still had issues at some point with a lot of it coming back to the the viscous hub/cooling system condition (and diving style) My 1kz managed to do 360km with its original head but I put that down to me being proactive for the last 120km and taking all steps to avert overheating. When I first bought it in 2013, the gauge would move when overtaking a semi trailer on the open road but I never let it get into the red, they don't use speed for cooling, it's all down to the fan and in the end for me it was only my heavy foot with a load on that would cause the gauge to move, that and the low speed thing which I thick is fixable also. The other thing that you should use is a egt gauge that way you know exactly what's going on.
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