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  1. Peak Engineering textbook and probably one of the best books ever written Shrink fit the axles is a brilliant idea, love it!
  2. Hell yes! Yours has the spot timers which mine doesn't but the article number has now given the right search term to finally get a wiring diagram, epic! Thanks heaps!
  3. Oooh, I have the same Cebora, any chance the front panel writing is still visible, wouldn't be able to put up a picture if it is? Mine is all worn off. Good enough machine but now just a heavy trolley for the tig
  4. Is the crank offset to the bores? Could imagine that might be niggly.
  5. Was out in the shed again today so had a quick measure up and fed the cnc some mdf Quite happy with how much nicer the boot looks with the spare covered, motivates me a bit more to suss some carpet etc. From factory there were a few more trim panels in the boot, hopefully have a set on the way to copy, its something i've never seen before so looking forward to it!
  6. Interior polishing: Like most 50yo cars, the dashpad had cracked up pretty bad, long term i'd like to throw the check book at it, but in a budget friendly manner I called on my lovely GF and her knowledge of spotlight. We trimmed off the worst highpoints and double sided taped a layer of tablecloth liner to the pad, the idea here was the padding would hide the worst of the cracking once the vinyl leather was stretched over This was put on with the bare minimum of contact adhesive to keep the dashpad in close to original shape if needed for proper restoration further down the track. Finish result blends in well, of course the corners are a bit messy, but far nicer to look at than the old pad. Haven't been able to make a firm decision on the carpets but had an idea Chomp out some 7mm marine ply on the cnc, wrap in carpet offcuts from the 4wd.... Floormats that don't shuffle around.
  7. Nothing I can add but how gross! Quick look through the interwebs about what that "essential" little baggy costs to replace and I want crawl into a corner and cry. I hope that is an easy resolution.
  8. Holy crap, now I see why non-dpf is listed as a selling point in Europe Is this the same as what you're faced with?
  9. Not really, i'd like to say I imported a topomap and draw many lines but thankfully I stumbled on this little project https://jthatch.com/Terrain2STL/
  10. Making some thank you gifts for friends that looked after us on our recent trip overseas, reliefs of the mountains they call home. Carved out with the cnc to replicate contour lines on a map then run over with the gas torch to highlight the ridges.
  11. I've had a three piece do the same, right pain, eventually had to split them, throughly clean the join and put back together (sealant between the pieces was a disaster, i'd not do that again unless someone else has a technique?) 100% what Highlux said is what worked for me on the 3rd attempt. Pretty sure we just used window sealant cos thats what we had. Reliably sticking anything to aluminium is nearly impossible, the steps required to passivate are not easy for at home jobs but having it proper clean is most of the way there, clean off any scale and depending on the sealant, light scuffing with scotchbrite may also help.
  12. Motor looks pretty darn good, sounds even better! Congrats, just another weekend away from finished right?
  13. This thread needs a decent pic of the car right? Really want to go get some sunrise/sunset pics, but that will need to wait til daylight savings pulls the sun back to more gentlemanly times, for now, a not so potato pic
  14. Keen to hear how you find the extension, we've found it as useful as it is annoying, ground ideally needs to be flat, quite bulky to pack in the truck nicely but all this balances out in sandfly country!
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