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Got back from chch last night. Around 2100km total by the time i went and caught up with some mates and a bunch of chch OS gc's. Bit heavy on the way back. 2x l28, 1x h190 diff head, 1x datsun 430 front suspension complete, a bunch of concrete garden ornaments from the in-laws, a pair of KEF home speakers (about a ton each), a whole pile of baby related shit, blah blah blah just off the bumps at the back These fuckin hubcaps are terrible for falling off. Nearly lost another one and i checked them all at wanganui I unloaded using the ray approved method. couple of pallets and a few old tyres on them and just push the motors out the back Now im going to sit back and drink beer until my 90 deg speedo drive box turns up and my shed is finished

Done this before. Easy to do. Take the same off each half. Keep the o ring hole the same and it will be sweet.

N/A already signed off. The floor is not a structural part of the shed so anything goes. Yes it is a panther. It bites me when I don't feed it at 6 am sharp, or if I don't leave it any milk in my weetbix bowl. And it thinks I need more killing practise cos it brings me live animals at night

Yea keen. Will be there Sunday night leaving Saturday morning. Going to Brockys Monday afternoon to scab some parts but otherwise no plans yet.

Done some more work. Got a lot of fill in there and levelled most of it. Got the base of the all important hoist marked out and dug out to be 200mm thick Then i rolled it with my work car until my clutch leg got sore but i couldn't get all the edges. I hired a compactor after work today and pushed it round until my hands went numb. I also left it on autopilot here and there.... G3rF4lNX1o

Picture less update. Went to Hamilton the other weekend for a new windscreen as i cracked it on the way to Nats and it got worse on the way home. Got it done by Hamilton Windscreens/Windscreens Direct. Cannot recommend them highly enough. They let me be a fussy prick and get in their way and muck about with the trim and stuff while they were working. Plus they had one in stock! New WOF also, had to get rid of the bob jane australian allrounders im sorry Bart. Plus a wheel alignment. Handles a lot better with 8.5 deg of camel toe removed. Off to CHCH this weekend with the Mrs and 12 week old, what could possibly go wrong....

Just get a manual box, flywheel and clutch, gearbox mount, clutch pedal and clutch master cylinder. I have done it on a couple of U12's and it's pretty easy if you have the parts. Easiest would be to buy a damaged or rusty manual one and have it beside your car so you can just swap all the parts that are different. Also you will have to short out the park/neutral switch from the auto gearbox so it will start.

the early ca18et blocks had no crank girdle too. years ago i remember guys in OZ talking about water leaking through that water port into the oil drain on the early motor. I thought they came out in u11 bluebird with the uneven 8 port head, and the even 8 port head came out in the u12 and s13. the 4 port came in the 'euro' s13 and random jap imports. but i remember pulling off a n13 at pick a part avondale

http://hi-techmetals.co.nz/ Laser cutters in east Tamaki. They do folding and stuff. good to deal with Especially for tricky shit.

I have seen those tags on the frost plugs before from engine importer motors. If it gets cooked it falls off and no warranty. That means it's probably a Det. Nobody would import then buy a DE right?

Only real difference is compression and oil squirters. Cranks are the same. Pretty sure rods are. Slight changes in cam but not much between ca16de, ca18de, and Det. I think the heads have numbers of 4L and 5L but can't remember. Search on the NICO forums

Anybody here done any work on cng compressors? Got some issues with one that's been dumped on me. Mostly temp related once we are over 160 Bar. need somebody to chime in about valves and how they should look. Photos tomorrow maybe.

jam a couple of steelo pads down the column so the shaft rubs on them

keen.

you can get a positioner with 4-20 input that can have a remote feedback. That way you dont need any programming changes to your control system. Samson make one that i have used, also i think there is a new fisher one. pretty expensive, but maybe around $4-6k per unit incl a positioner is not bad if its self contained Or you could just slap in a small controller to run off your 4-20 and have it drive an i/p with an lvdt feedback Or, a rotary positioner with one of those stupid arms on it and a rod to the end of the ram. then you have everything built into one package. some of the big valves in one of the LPG plants i maintain have this setup. ill try and find a pic

Those electric linear actuators are shit for what you want to do. option 2: http://www.omega.com/pptst/LD630.html I have used these before. they are mint. Look up LVDT positioner.many different types, probably can find cheaper and with a nz distributor with local stock. Nice smooth analog signal, easiest to work with compared to digital encoders -linear or rotary -also that link above is suitable 5-300mm so should be good. option 3: why not vsd? for 300kw motors will be spendy, but suprising the amount of energy you will save. i can get you a price if your interested, we get a good rate on them. why do you need new cables?

didnt read properly, thought it was LD28

yea true. You can get a full bearing and seal kit from bts taranaki for around 160. i used one the other day and it come all japanese nachi bearings

Bit of a late update. So i reassembled the gearbox and it seemed to change gears ok. After i chucked it in i made cut up the navara driveshaft to make a new front half 130mm longer. I used the UJ's off the navara front half as they were sweet and the hanger bearing rubber was still good. I turned the tube off in the lathe and cut a section out of the rear half to go in. A mate gave me a hand to assemble it on his bigger lathe and we arc welded it up. It looks like its sticking out a long way from the box, but its only about 8mm further out than it was in the navara. The column changer shaft on the wagon was a tiny bit short but the navara lower half was a perfect fit. They are splined together to be collapseable in an accident. Also the wagon lever did not have enough in and out travel to select the extra row of gears. The part i am holding is the bush from the wagon which i punched out and as luck would have it, the navara with the spring return fitted perfectly I turned the old stopper off the navara shaft and made a new one to grub screw on Complete Once i had it all installed i used a mixture of the navara and wagon linkages to get the shortest shift travel and also mixed and matched the best bushes for minimum slop. First test drive was around the block then the next day ray and i went to hamilton for the night and the next day went to auckland for the cruise to the leadfoot ranch then back to new plymouth. Around 950kms test drive and it went well. Only problem was the bolt on the column change shaft nearly fell out a few km from home and the gear changes got real sloppy. Also by pure luck the driveshaft that was welded by a pair of low flying seagulls seems to be perfectly balanced. got it up to 136kmh and no vibrations Only downside was my rebuild of the gearbox. I mix and matched the synchros but put the 1st and 2nd around the wrong way. When the box is cold it wont go into 2nd when moving. Its no trouble when warm. Also, the speedo drive is on the other side of the tail housing so the cable hits the exhaust. Im waiting on a right angle drive box for the right price to come up on ebay and ill be away. For now its all good.

Done a bit of slaving the last few days with a shovel and barrow to level a pad for the water tank. Got the tank from Devan tanks. $3400 delivered for 30,000L Its 450kg so it was stuck there for a while. Then Ray came to visit yesterday and we did some towing Result! Have to plumb it up this week and also tie it down in case the wind picks up before it rains

Nah, thats just inside. 100mm fill in one corner and 650mm in the opposite corner so an average of around 350-400mm over the whole area of 121m plus a bit extra is around 55m3 looking at a 6m strip across the front for parking also. Getting a few quotes this week for the concrete.

I see you have the later box with the bigger front bearing. you could just chuck in rb20 guts to get some better ratios

I got it from Standard Timber ITM Stratford. Pretty good to deal with. No hassles etc. Yea one of the selling points is that it wont be a creaker in the high wind zone here, and all the sweet hanging points. Also Finished Water tank coming this weekend. Maybe will get fill installed and front of shed cleared for more concrete

After seeing all the sheds going up everywhere recently, actually since i started reading everybodys shed threads i felt like i was missing out. I decided on a farm style pole shed cos they are relatively good size vs cost mainly. Plus somebody would come and assemble it and be gone in a week. (weather, fishing conditions, fridays, depending..) I have gone for a 9x13.5m Flat roof, 4.2m at the front, 3.7 at the rear. They are made in 4.5m squares as the timber comes around 4.6-4.8m long and 4.5m is enough for 3 round bales wide as a haybarn. Couple of roller doors on the front, Should just have enough clearance for a hoist! First i had to clear some trees on the land we have just bought. There were 20 big as pines, over 40 years old that had to go. Their location meant i could not just blow them up and lt them fall. I got a local contractor with some decent gear to do it for me The first tree was one of the biggest. The grapple got ripped off the boom when it came down over the digger. yay. Part way through Total cost was a fair bit due to the effort of pulling the trees up the bank. Was offset by the 3 truck and trailer loads of logs that went to the port however. I could have got more selling the whole lot to the guys that do firewood but i didnt want a bunch of noisy cunce rocking up with chainsaws and wood splitters for the next year. Another problem was proximity to the paper road that is on the edge of our property. the previous owner was here when the paper road was new and planted trees in the middle of it so the road is hard against the far boundary and we get a free 1/2 acre. This meant the shed has to be in the middle of the paddock as the resource consent was for 5m from the boundary. Oh yea, despite paying 1000 for a building consent, the pricks who make the rules said i needed to also get resource consent cos its less than 30m from the boundary and i needed signed permission from the neighbour on that side. Another 1100 thanks. Anyway i got the ground cleared. turns out its not the flattest part of the paddock. by 600mm haha But it is nearly as big as our house! poles up the next day Then it was good fishing tide so they went diving for some crays and came back and did this in the afternoon Should be finished soon. Then i need 55m3 of fill to level up the floor and concrete. but everybody seems to be in some kind of rush cos its xmas. They all say 'OH, you want it done by xmas? well you see we are really busy, blah blah cost cost' SO concrete next year.

these guys made a 4cyl briggs. lots of videos of its construction