To each their own. I call vomit.

Thanks for input. I’ve done some more research and seems my council does let citizens dispose of hazardous goods up to 20 litres/kg. I’ll search more thoroughly next time I’m at the tip. Weed killer sounds good too.

29 minutes ago, kiwiplymouth said:

Waste of good weedkiller,glyphosate Is ten fold worse but its sold with directions on how to use it. Drain the shit into something, kill the weeds,the end.

Got plenty of weeds. Does it break down in the soil?

48 minutes ago, kws said:

 

I'm an asshole and sneak it into the waste oil disposal at the tip. 

I’ve done that before in the distant past. Then years later I was chatting to the firewood merchants in the naki where i used to take my waste oil. They burn it in their kiln and he was raging about wankers who drop off oil with antifreeze in it and how it messed up the furnace. Felt the shame....

39 minutes ago, Thousand Dollar Supercar said:

I once asked the council whether it was OK to flush and they said no. I have a lot of used coolant stockpiled and don't know what to do with it. =\

That was New Plymouth about 6 years ago. Might be different now.

Any thoughts? When we were townies, the council said it was ok to flush it down the dunny if you were Joe private. Can’t do that here because septic system. Apparently it’s not PC to put it out for stray cats either. Local recycling depot takes oil, but nowhere for antifreeze. How do you guys do it?

1 hour ago, azzurro said:

Keeping the electomag fan?   For now, yep.

I had same oily reserviour situation in my ute. I ran a couple of rounds of plain water with some dishwasher powder for a couple days each and its fine now.  Will do the same.

The indicator bit looks good for a 125. 

The rust in the radiator support is the main bit, check the chassis rail corner gussets and castor contol arm mount areas too. The support panel and valance rusts from the inside out due to the dumb design on the wheel arch side. Yep, quite suspect looking in those areas!

So, the radiator is a bit of a prick to remove compared to the Vogue I was working on a couple of years ago. I can’t get my ham hands onto the bottom hose for starters. The top hoses came off easy and happily there is very little corrosion on the alloy fittings. You then have to split the fan shroud and wrangle the top half out which only just fits. Then its just 2 nuts, tilt toward the engine and pull up and out. There’s not much clearance though, and not helped by the thermostat still being attached by the bottom hose due to my inability to undo it in situ. The radiator looks new. Next I popped the grille and headlights out (easy peasy, thanks Fiat). Now I can have a good look around. First impressions were the battery area looks good for a 45 year old car.

I can also see a lot more rust. Some expected, and some not! This is the left park light/indicator. You can see its rusted out around the wiring grommet.

And the reverse of this...

So there’s A fair bit of rust where the inner guard meets the nosecone. And then there’s the stuff I knew about. This pic is the radiator support area.

That’s Taken slightly upside down, the white area is my shed floor. Next I took the fan off and rattled the securing nut off the fan clutch/hub but now I’m stuck. I need a puller and I don’t have one. I’d also like to remove the crank pulley but my biggest socket is 36mm and the nut is bigger! Also no room for a rattle gun. Also interesting to note, the crank pulley is not a damper type. I think this is the first motor I’ve worked on that doesn’t have a damper pulley.

I had a half hour spare yesterday morning so I started to dismantle the front end with a view to draining the cooling system and gaining access to the timing belt. The drain cock on the radiator opened easily (phew) as did the engine block drain tap. The coolant looks very clean and green, like a NZ river....

I am quite encouraged by this. Now look as I add the contents of the expansion tank...

The stuff is a greasy sludge. The seal on the radiator cap is also greasy to touch, but I’m not sure there is actually anything wrong. I did have one thought, I have heard the odd Barry go on about putting diesel in the cooling system for pickling purposes when parking a car up for ages. This car was parked up for ages. The coolant looks fresh, so maybe the residual oily crap has made its way and become trapped  in the expansion tank in the 100 or so miles it’s travelled since being liberated from the museum it came from.?

Hi everyone. Having got back from 5 weeks overseas and on the back of finishing and moving into the house, I took pity on this thing today and dug it out of the corner of the shed.

Fired up nearly straight away. Pretty good since it hasn’t moved since January. Then I got all fired up and thought I’d flush the cooling system. It has gunge floating in the expansion tank and I want to clean out the whole system and see if it comes back. 

Looks a bit suspect but it doesn’t overheat or pressurise the cooling system, or milk up the oil so I’m not super worried at this stage. Anyways, I thought while I have the hoses etc off, I should do the cambelt too, so I started getting the tools out, making a plan of attack, and then.....meh. Jet lagged. Maybe later.

Some sort of Nash. Statesman I think 

On 8/14/2018 at 17:44, My name is Russell said:

thread dredge but this seems a happy deal 

https://www.thetoolshed.co.nz/product/12914-sidchrome-spanner-set-ring-and-open-end-10pc

 

SIDCHROME SPANNER SET RING AND OPEN END 10PC

CODE:

 

SCMT22208

 

WAS:

 

$168.07 Inc GST

NOW:

 

$59.90 Inc GST

 

 

Purchased. Hopefully they still make good stuff 

48 Chev truck. Never seen one like it. Original cab but custom sleeper and back end with turntable to tow camper... 

Friend’s Dodge Dart Swinger with 340. One of my favourite cars. (In Canada atm)

Good find. Doesn’t even look like it’s made of rust. 

I have one in the back of my shed. Thinking one day Ford 302and T5 box.

9 hours ago, johnny.race said:

Want to know what works? Check out the tool selection the wrecking yard or scrap yard monkeys use. These professions are the harshest environs tools will ever find themselves working in. If they hack this type of abuse - they will hack anything you will be up to in your mum's garage. Real pro's cart there tools around in stolen/scrapped supermarket trolleys, lol.

My 3/8 FullerPro socket set got carted round the wreckers yard with me where I worked years ago. Still going strong. Cracked strut bolts etc with it. 

Should make some good sucking noises when jandal given.

2 hours ago, Carsnz123 said:

did you guys miss the pic of the box around the filter and the words "It will draw air from the vent by the windscreen." 

Clearly, yes.

Novel solution putting the air filter inside the car. Have you considered A.Noise and B. needing to run it with the windows open in case it sucks your brain out/implodes the windows?

On 6/11/2018 at 21:41, pbaines said:

What's this old girl here like for spray painting anyone know? thinking about picking it up, looks like a great deal!

 

ToolShed Trade 3hp 3 cylinder 70 litre Belt Drive compressor

https://www.thetoolshed.co.nz/product/3274-toolshed-belt-drive-3hp-70l-compressor-non-continuous-16cfm

I bought one last year on special. I like it. Quiet and solidly built. The continuous run jobbies don’t go on sale nearly as often, but for general use this one is still overkill.

Well, it's been a while...I do have a good excuse though, we are building a house and have been living in a 40 square metre portacom since pretty much my last post, so all my spare time has been directed to the build. We're trying to get moved in before winter really bites. 

Would you look at the state of my shed....

However, I have done a Fiat related thing recently. My finger got real busy clicking and resulted in purchasing THIS:

See you in 6 months...

Unbelievably cool. Well done. There's a yellow one floating around Christchurch I've been lusting after. Can't wait to see what you do with it!

Good work on the front panel. Mine's rotting in the same place. It's the only reason I haven't taken it for a wof yet. Would you rate it a complicated diy fix?