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Oiled and in, 

Then I put some heavy polythene I had left over from the foundations all those years ago one the frame falling into where the gutter will be, also the some nailing on for decking around the outside. 

Cut some drainage pipe in half for the gutter. 

Can see the the capping and ply falling into the "gutter ". 

Outlet, hopefully it works. 

So... Spent a good 4 days redoing the back deck. I guess it's because I always like to fuck things up for my future self.. 

This was another of my just throw it up and not really think about what I was doing jobs.. 

Old setup, 

Easy part was stripping it, took all of 30min.

So as to make the underside dry and useable I decided to put some plastic with fall into a gutter between the house and deck, 

This is the last of the capping that goes under the deck, just extended it with treated ply which I then oiled. 

Gutter should pop out here,  can see the ply which I also put fall on away from the corner. 

Main reason for this is its where we put our bikes. My seat sits where this junction is and my cracked seat gets wet which then wets my ass. 

Decided I should prob add these bits in here.. 

1 hour ago, EpochNZ said:

Anyone want to put forward any ideas/opinions on the "exotic engine swap " idea?

Looking for some guidance here....

1kz....

4 hours ago, kws said:

Anyone know somewhere that can redo glass in a wing mirror? the Marina mirrors are in good condition except the silvering is coming off the mirror glass ( so you can see through the mirror). I want to keep the mirrors, so need someone that can fit a replacement mirror glass that is cut to the weird shape. I feel like novus/smith&smith are a bit too generic to do it right?

I need to do this also so bought a 300x400mm plastic mirror from the warewhare.. Have yet to make them and mirror its still sitting on the kitchen table where I left it 2 months ago. 

2 minutes ago, SOHC said:

There was a split windo kombi on TM a few years ago that had the whole front rusted off and it sold for over 7k

There was a xb landau on ebay a few years back, rusted to fuck seized engine and tranz sat in a paddock for 15 years.  Some poor sap from nz bought it for 7k

Fuck yeah bro. 

2 hours ago, yoeddynz said:

 

My kind of mahi.. 

1 hour ago, sheepers said:

using the forum to host multiple pictures isn't the best idea.

I, and I'm sure many others, cant see any pictures in your thread because they take way to long to load.

some people might wait for them to load but it takes ages.

just letting you know. 

You need to get your vaccine.... 

By the time you've done all the hanging panels, the body of the car will be nothing.. Plus you'll have mastered paint application by then too..  It doesn't take that long and you then don't constantly have left over media appearing while you're painting. Keep it up. 

Shit to a blanket.. 

Mmmm.. Stylish 

Finished up the threshold, can see the addition but you always would.. Might stain the whole lot a bit darker.. 

Also put the trims up to hide the soffit joins.. 

Soffit before, they don't lol bad in the photo but there's some height differences and gap variation.. 

The photo has a wack bracing setup cos I didn't want to waste any timber on it.. Typical idiot I was getting a wedge out of a bucket by the front door and totally smacked my head on the cross bar knocking the entire lot down on my head.. Knob.. Luckily the trim stayed up glued by the 11fc, my initial thought was I had and I was spewing as once 11fc goes everywhere its a cunt to get off.. Makes exceptionally good glue tho. 

Tomorrow I'm gonna take all the spare timber down to store at my old lady's place, then make a start on the back deck.. 

Pm'd

Also got up and had a look at the roof.. Not sure what to do if anything. Needs a paint tho. 

Also got to clean up this mess, but now have an extra 7 days.. 

Made the surround for the califont yesterday and finished it today, has a 25mm gap all the way around so hopefully it's ok. Doesn't seem to get particularly hot anyway, even when it's been cranking for 10mins. 

Dowelled and lightly glued the sides on, 

Just 11fc'd the top on, also routed some slots on with side for the bottom cover. Then discovered I couldn't slide it in because the cap below was in the way..... Sanded some off so it just slides in. 

Oiled. 

Finally did the taps as well, wanted a brass plate against the timber but couldn't find one so used a brass nut instead. 

100%? Yeah almost.. Just got to finish the threshold.. and... Put two bits of timber over the joins in the soffit above the front door (something else I forgot) pretty simple. 

Yesterday I made the gas bottle gate, spent to long extending the back door threshold and making a surround for the gas califont.. 

Gate, just sitting there as in my Haste last Tues I forgot to get hinges. 

Offending threshold, discovered it was actually rimu and not cedar which makes it easier. 

Rummaged around in my wood stock and found this mystery block from a ship in the early 1800s (came from an 1830s cottage in lyttelton we restored a few years back. Bloke who built it made all the windows and framing from timber he ganked from the ship repair Dock. 

Cleaned it up, pretty sure its rimu. 

Make it work, 

Epoxy the bitch in. Still gotta sand it as I forgot today. 

Three harley carbs.... Aren't they a 45mm? 

Yeah there's the other triple on there that's homemade but it finishes before the other one so there's no back up haha.. 

I find there seems to be a distinct lack of information regarding the zephyr 6 engine, especially since gale force went under. I want to do some porting and upgrade pistons/valve train but there is zero information.. 

OK, so now it really is 100% done, but. 

Rosie pointed out to me that I'd forgotten a bit of cladding, so I filled it with a fillet. This is the only example of why I went with the bigger corners. The reason I haven't done this one is I ran out of mac, well I thought I ordered 5.4 lengths of  150x40 but when I came to do them I realised they'd sent me 4.8s. Was a bit pissed. Have about  7 offcuts of 2.2m 150x40.

Anyway, 

I'll just use yours.. 

Back seat.. Thats where all dreams are made. 

Baited breath to see what's going on up the front... Knowing falcons.. 

On 15/12/2019 at 20:15, Benno said:

In more exciting news, I've got my hands on some triple carbs for it. Not sure what the condition of the SU's is like, but externally they look all good. 

Hey @Benno what did you pay for those SU's? These triple zeniths have come up on the tard that I'm fairly keen on picking up. They're fairly pricey but then again they never come up. 

Talked to zep (galeforce zephyrs) a while back and he reckoned the triple zeniths had more initial punch than su's but its a struggle to get an air filter to fit under the bonnet.. 

Yeah, they aren't cheap.. Even second hand like mine. Its missing a few things and I need a thinner riving knife as it jams with my thinner blade. I really want to get the dewalt thicknesser but then I need to find something to use it for..