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That inspires me to fit as many bells as I possibly can to mine, like a Vespa with mirrors only... not.

The end result of all my polishing and hard work ended up looking like this:

Super happy with the result, just got to find time to finish the ladies one so that wifey can ride too!

About a month ago, I started to put this together...

This is coming together well! Chatto Creek pub has good food. And beer.

Oooohhhhh yeah! Just won an auction for a matching ladies bike in same colour scheme for wifey!!!

Mitsubishi?

It's open?

So took my wheels to the local bike shop here in Mosgiel to discover the dude was a real GC. Understood what I was trying to achieve on a budget, and was happy to do what I wanted instead of selling me new stuff. Hopefully today he will have replaced a few broken spokes and trued my wheels so I can polish them. He also suggested I run the current chain because "it's not that rusty" and "a new chain will look stupid on something like this, just run it as is man!"

Will update when I receive wheels back, but super happy how he has approached it so far.

I could get us in to fire service resto society if you're interested...

I feel your pain, my subaru is in a million bits in my shed with holes cut in it.

So i bought a bike.

Then another.

Anyone got any old bicycles? Could do a drive and then a short ride to the pub for a few bevies?

Brilliant!  Love that vest!

Checked out the frame serial and as best as I can find it was manufactured 1953, which also matches the serial on the Sturmey Archer hub.  The bike is older than both my parents, Lewlz!

So was wasting time on the interwebs the other and ended up buying this cheap:

Then when I turn up to pick it up the GC I bought it from says "you want this?"

So naturally after spending ages yarning in the dark and the rain, I loaded them both up and bought them home.  I intend to build the black one up for a nice cruiser and ride around nice flat Mosgiel.  Got stuck in today and this happened:

I pulled everything down and cleaned everything down leaving it on the fence to dry...

Couple more cool old details:

So basically I have cleaned it down and I am going to steel wool it and clear coat it leaving it to look as is...  Yeaboi!

YEABOI!

Old school ride is still in the garage, but I'm in town and keen as a bean!

I use a Meguiar's product called Plast-X.  It's essentially a fine abrasive polish specifically for the task.  I use this with a low speed linen mop on the linisher and it always comes up mint.

Epic ride my man!  Just had a good look at your build thread and have become instantly jealous.

Auto will have a flex plate and torque converter, not a flywheel.

Found this by accident yesterday (and by accident I received a tipoff and offered to take kids to get groceries so's could call past)...

Marina coupe and Princess, Britain's finest...

 

Dat ass!  

What wise old English gentleman got out of bed one day and decided "Oooh, I know!  I'm going to design car that looks like my grandmother taking a dump, except on this occasion she didn't whip her knickers off in time and filled them!"

Fuck me it's even shit brown!  Some people...

Would like 3.5 Stagea Wagon but they seem to be in the next price bracket again

 Stay away.  The 3.0 (and 3.5?) VQ's are "DD" motors with slightly different timing gear.  A friend of mine went through two engines from timing chains and tensioners destroying themselves.  Went to a VQ25DE, but now the car is so slow that he wants to cut himself.  LOL.

I have had lots of Subarus and still own one, and the problem with them is the people that own them.  Honestly, if you keep good oil and water up to them and you don't let the maintenance slip you'll be fine.  The early 90's ones were particularly weak, but a BLE/BPE will be great.  The 3.0 six is a good solid motor and you have no cambelt to worry about, just be prepared to use some fuel.  The 4 bangers are also good, but no turbo is depressingly slow.  A very good friend of mine has a BP5 (2.0) Turbo Manual with 289,000km on and the only thing he has had fail is a wheel bearing, and he drives like me.

If you get in any factory car and dial up 7500rpm and launch it at every set of lights with bigger wider tyres on the AWD setup you will break something.  It's just a shame so many 17y.o. flatpeakers try this with WRX/Legacy...

I would buy a turbo BL5/BP5 and look after it.  I prefer them to the sixs.  Cambelt kits are not that dear from your local Partmaster, and a good Subaru mechanic will do the job with his eyes closed and it shouldn't be that major.

Welcome to the dark side.

Pete, you are ridiculous.

Ridiculously awesome.

and I'm jealous.

sooooo jealous.

It'll generally be near the thermostat area.

It should be 22630 on this diagram so look in that basic area of yours;

Man you guys are seriously awesome!  I ask one question and get an exploded view diagram and a picture of the replacement sensor!  I really appreciate your help and the effort you have gone to for a simple task.

Cheers!

Replace coolant temp sensor. I've replaced countless ones on taxis for similar issues. Give afm a clean too

Just the sort of answer I was looking for!  Will try that and see how I go.  Why the coolant temp sensor?  ECU thinks engine temp too cold and dumps in too much fuel or something?

Also, where might I find said sensor Chris?

I have an A32 Cefiro S-Touring as my DD and it has an intermittent issue that is a real pain, especially when I have the caravan on!  Car has always been maintained perfectly and belonged to ex-service manager at local Nissan Dealer before me, perfect inside and out, VQ20DE, 170km.  When I lift off down hills (I live in Dunedin, so all the freakin' time) and then pull it down a cog it runs fine, but then when you stop at the bottom it stalls out when it returns to idle.  It only does this when you have held it back with reasonable revs on and no throttle in high vacuum situations.  Gives you a fright when you hit the intersection at the bottom and all of a sudden you have no power steering!  If you leave it in top and fry the brakes it doesn't cut out.  I notice that it has had a second hand AFM fitted in the past also, but it hasn't fixed it/problem reoccurring.  When it stalls it starts again every time but does smoke a little on start up and takes a few extra cranks (injectors confused?)...

Ideas on where to start?

Manage to catch up with these fellas? Any updates?

Too hard! I'm going back to my 70's Subaru. Bugger this modern crap! Thank you all for your help, it seems that lubing the windows helped. Current switch has lasted 8 days so far! As for the heater... I'll just put the windows down. Hopefully.