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igor

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  1. The bolts'll be whitworth or some such weird arse thread.
  2. Ladaspeed/Pog if that olive drab twin cam wagon went on to get Soviet military police graphics for the Undie 500 then I very nearly bid on it myself when they sold it after the event. Probably should have.
  3. Makes it look a bit like Bob the Builder's tractor with the lights up there eh? The original owner did that to avoid conflict with the loader. I'm only the fourth owner. A neighbour bought it new in 1957. He turned up here one day when I was working on it and recognised it. Somewhere along the line he gave it to his brother who used it for many years to drive a pump. Then a young guy bought it as a project, realised he had too many projects, and sold it to me.
  4. It has a few issues. The electric start has never worked since I got it and the brakes are dodgy. The diesel tank is about as clean as one would expect after over 50 years of hard use so there has been the odd problem with fuel blockages. I've used it a bit to tow things and move stuff around with pallet forks on the three point linkage, and done some minor earthworks with the loader, but mostly it has just sat there gathering even more rust. I'm not sure if it is two or three years since I had it going but it is well past time that I made an effort and at least fixed it enough to use it safely. I'll leave it at that for tonight and continue the story sometime when I'm awake.
  5. Some years ago I bought this tractor to use on my small holding. Drove it home and parked it on the drive.
  6. One of my earliest car related memories is riding in my grandfathers Mk3 Zodiac. I loved that car. So good to see an old Zed still looking sweet and being used. Keep up the good work.
  7. I must admit to being one of those who pretty much ignored most of the Jap stuff for many years but there are a few old Jappas that I do like. Mostly the medium to large sedans. Don't mind this thing at all.
  8. Is it possible to run the cable inside the sill to bypass the crossmember? By the looks of your pic you might just get away with it.
  9. Love how that POS 80" started near enough straight away after sitting so long. I'm a Ford man but I'll give Holden a point for that.
  10. As others have said it sounds like it's running way too rich. Nothing helpful to add though. Good luck with it.
  11. Quite like the new colour combination. Doesn't look silly at all.
  12. Sounds like school camp. Children to bed early, parents on the piss till all hours.
  13. Strong Brothers used to be the go to place for Mini and other A series bits in Aucks in the '80s and '90s. They still got that stuff?
  14. Landlord sounds like a complete cunt. You must have been desperate for a house to accept that shit. Think I would have told him to fuck off. I know Chch is a tight market since the earthquakes but garages are for cars and cars leak oil. It's just the nature of the beast. He needs to suck it up and start living in the real world.
  15. ...with quad tyres for traction off road.
  16. I thought this too but I'd be very happy to be wrong.
  17. Got away with reusing a head gasket on a mate's 3.6 XR coon once. In the absence of a new gasket we applied paint thickly to the mating faces of the head and the block and slapped it together while the paint was wet. Was only a quick survival job on a motor with around 250,000 miles on it though and definitely not to be recommended.
  18. Looks tidy. All original nana spec, not buggered by someone who thought they were fixing it up.
  19. I don't think I've seen a Skoda driving around since the '80s or early '90s. One of our scout leaders had one in the '70s and then a guy I worked with in the '80s had a couple but I never saw them run cos he always drove his PB Vauxhall. He did reckon they were very hard to kill though. There was a Sabre that I used to see regularly in Whangarei back in the day. Rather liked the look of that. I thought it had more style than the later ones but each to their own. Good to see that they are not extinct anyway. Used to have a VHS tape of classic crashes from Scandinavian rallying. It was full of Skodas, Saabs, and old Volvos going hard so yes they did rally them.
  20. igor

    Raleigh RSW 14

    I think I have an incomplete one of those among my bike junk. Now I know what it is. Lucky to get the tyres.
  21. Re dodgy wiring causing random shorts, does the trailer cable happen to pass close to the exhaust? Might be worth checking. One of my EA coons had a similar issue on a family holiday once. It broke the tail pipe off the back of the third muffler somewhere in North Canterbury on the afternoon of Good Friday. We drove on from Cheviot with the windows down for fresh air just in case it was sucking fumes back in. Lost the dashboard lights somewhere in the lower half of the North Island, carried on. Desert road at night unable to see the speedo, still with windows down. Taupo for breakfast, so far so good. Day time again, don't need dashboard lights now. Stopped for juice at Hamilton and no indicators or brake lights working either. Drove on to Northland without indicators or brake lights cos Easter weekend and nothing was open. Described symptoms to ex wife's new husband who'd done his time at the local Ford garage and without even seeing the car he identified the problem having seen it before more than once at his old work. Heat from the broken exhaust had melted the trailer cable and blown multiple fuses. We had just enough functional circuits left for the car to start and run.
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