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igor

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  1. No, I've always used clean engine oil for that. I did run waste oil from a diesel tractor in a BMC A series for several months though. It was burning so much oil I figured it didn't matter.
  2. I've always worked on the assumption that any oil is better than no oil.
  3. Have you considered painting the nuts different colours for front and rear to make it obvious which is which?
  4. Say hi to Biggles and Wendy at Waikaia Pub on the way through.
  5. Looks like the sort of thing one would expect to see on a light weight trailer intended for low speed use behind a farm vehicle.
  6. Is satin finish clearcoat a thing?
  7. Well we do seem to have a large number of Daves.
  8. Tell her if she bends it too tight the electrons will fall off the corners.
  9. It is possible that my parents still have one of those Electrolux paint sprayers somewhere. No idea where it came from and I have no memory of it ever being used.
  10. Four litre petrol straight six does equal Barra though. Doesn't it?
  11. Nothing wrong with retreads. Used to get three months out of retreaded cross plies on the front on my 1098 powered Clubman in the late 80's. Always bought new ones every third or fourth go round when they wouldn't retread my old casings anymore.
  12. Although if the gap is too big the spark won't be able to jump that far. Several times one or another of our vehicles has been hard to start or running a bit rough because the plug gaps had grown bigger in service (very old plugs) and closing the gaps up to the correct spec has cured the problem, at least for a while.
  13. My ex wife worked for Kirby for a time in the early '90s. Unsure whether she actually managed to sell any.
  14. An engineer (the kind who makes things) in the Mangakahia valley did this in the '80s. Was V8 powered but I forget whether it was a Windsor or a Cleveland. No idea where he is now or even if he's still alive.
  15. Take the back seat out and called it a commercial vehicle. Plenty of dealers did that in the mid 80's to enable their customers to dodge new car sales tax.
  16. Is there perhaps a number stamped into the chassis or body somewhere? Wild guess where to look for it without knowing what the car is.
  17. I guess it's to give a large range of options for testing to discover the best possible setup.
  18. So when painting a car it is recommended to mask the tag? Might removing and refitting it not look similarly dodgy?
  19. One of the other dads at our children's school has, or at least had, a Triumph 3500 with a holley carb on it and he reckoned it hogged the juice something horrendous.
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