NickJ

I'm hoping that it will still be better than most knock off guns from supercheap/repco and suitable for my weekend warrior status, I used its big brother of similar vintage to paint my car and while the finish may not be show worthy is still better than rattle cans/ no gun I just need a compressor!

The boys in the workshop had a clean out of unused gear and amongst I found this old gun, being similar to the one I used to paint the Niva I grabbed it, although it looks like it was never cleaned I managed with a bit of soaking to free the internals and all looks happiness, just now I'm wondering about cleaning up the outside, would paint stripper be ok? or should I soak it in more thinner? looks like it will need a good scrub but I don't want to scratch up the finish if it came to scraping, whats the usual go to clean up mistreated guns?

Came back from summer break to find this in the lounge: Inside is all thats needed before I can head for a wof, seatbelts, ball joints, indicator lenses and a few other cosmetic bits and pieces, wasting no time I began to fit and cross items off the list, first of all, the drive donut: Amazed at how mangled these things can get and offer no sign of damage! all was going well til this In my order frenzy I forgot that Ukraine is LHD, so my new fancy wiper arms are upside down, any Ideas on how to fix these? pulling them apart doesn't look possible from the crimping, possibly heat and bend but then will I be able to patch up the powdercoat to look as pretty as they are now? And the reason for the odd shaped package: for 20usd I couldn't resist some aero, it fits terribly, the finish is horrible, but I have some chop strand in the shed and pretty sure the bogan points can be saved! And on the positive side I went for a wof today, even with 4 inspectors crawling over the car the to do list was very minor, rear brake imbalance, high beam warning lamp bulb blown, sway bar not fitted (opps! my bad forgetting to put that back on!) and what would appear to be a typo in the vin number, looks like somewhere in the system a 7 got confused with a 2 and so I need to call ltsa to sort that out, unless someone has done an epic job of converting a Lada Discussion for tips on wipers : //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/49397-nickjs-1989-lada-2105/?hl=2105

I used them heaps when I was working in Europe, they love them over there! I had never seen them before but the workshop guys told me they were accurate enough to not need checking, laced up many snow groomer tracks (600 bolts per side!) and other assemblies with them and never had any more trouble than the ones I did by hand.

Really wished we could have done a build thread while I was involved, so much learning being done and to have access to any tool you can imagine removed all restrictions on creativity, most of the solutions that came out of that workshop are simply genius! Enjoyed watching the live stream on the day, you guys killed it!

We have one of those in the uni workshop, had a bit of trouble with the original torch, hose crimped really easily killing the gas supply, ended up with a different torch and now runs sweet

Ah righto, sounds like the convection is having a hard time forcing a flow through the bottle, a coil seems to be the way to go

Much awesomes! need more surface area huh, could you drill holes in the gas bottle and weld in some pipe length ways? How much room do these have? could a few people partake or is it a solo kinda deal? just built a bench seat out of some large pallets but this has me thinking one is a good idea for winter!

Borrowed a mig today and did this: Still waiting on the box of bits from the Ukraine, pweeease Mr Postman!

Started a new job for the summer and being an easy bike from home the Niva has been a little neglected, amusingly last time it drove we had to push it through the Mcdonalds drive through on Riccarton road because of flooding (surely another bucket list item for the lady ) sadly I couldn't work it out at the time, some gremlins for sure, so today I had a closer look, taking the air cleaner off I found the top plate of the carb was loose, that can't have helped! but while I was there I checked the float and needle valve before securing everything in place, for now it seems to have helped, idle is a bit rough so might have another slight blockage or airleak to find. Moving on the temp gauge was doing a few odd things so I pulled out my thermostat testing rig: All is happy, nice smooth opening, now to look at another possible temperature culprit, for some reason I've been loosing coolant, i've been passing this off as a radiator leak so made the call to pull the radiator out, give it a clean and see if any solder needs a touch up, once again all happy, feeling somewhat confused and being that I had the whole cooling system open I picked up some coolant flush and ran it through, on heating up the system the radiator cap started spewing out foam.... Left is the replacement Repco gave me when my original fell apart, right is the radiator cap from the 2105, that explains alot! pretty much running an open cooling system the coolant has either leaked out the top or boiled off, will have to start another shopping list from the Ukraine! Merry christmas everyone, hope you all have some adventures over the break and drive safe!

Ceramic fuses, like these? if so they are terrible things, quite often the cure to circuits not working is to wiggle the right fuse as the contacts corrode slightly, pop them out and clean up all the contacts, just don't touch them with sandpaper, you don't want to scratch off any plating, I find a dry rag does the trick for 6 months or so

I've been fucking around with the guages on the 2105 and found the temp gauge strains the engine at idle similar to turning the headlights on

Bit of a milestone, managed to get all of the panel bashing work done last week (minus the welding) so with the wind dying off this arvo I took the chance and threw a layer of red on to se if I liked the colour, much nicer! Waiting on a package from the Ukraine with much needed parts for the wof (And some treats ) so once they arrive its game on! Pic of shineyness: Also the bonnet is back on as there is nothing left to fiddle with in the engine bay and I swapped the sports steering wheel from the niva over.

So planned to get the lada out to a friends to weld up a small patch but the A frame was the wrong size, being that its a 20min drive out to his place I don't want to risk it with no wof/reg, so anyone near to riccarton thats not such a drive able to help out/lend me a mig so I can weld her up? Pic of hole, I have a patch cut & ready to go in

How far off is 3d printing from doing a lens, would it even be possible?

Good to see you're finally building something practical!

Depending on the farm situation I might see you out there

Had a package turn up from Azzurro containing the shell and internal goodies of a weber dhs carb, from this I hope to sort out the horrible idle i've been putting up with from blocking off the idle circuit due to the above broken idle mixture screw, and that the shaft is terribly flogged out on my carb! The body he supplied had stripped threads on the accelerator pump but I saved that by finding some longer screws to reach what little thread is left and opened up the worst hole from M4 to M5 to hold the whole lot together. With a good clean its all back together and for the first time since removing the twin carb set up I have a steady idle, i've only managed a quick drive around the block but everything feels fine and she settles to a nice 800rpm idle quite comfortably. As i've been using the 2105's idle screw to block the idle circuit in the niva, it was duly reunited and I had the joy of two magnificent pieces of russian engineering purring away in the driveway.

+1 for awesome, your BBQ is a king + shed envy

Someone better pay good money for the 124 so I don't get depressed over 'it could have been mine'

Awesome, they are built by a european firm, look pretty good from the pics but from the use of the vehicle its possibly easier to buy a trailer! The Aussie ones look pretty smart too Cheers guys

How would portal axles be assessed under cert, is it possible for scratch built or only factory units? A mate has found a company overseas making them and is getting keen for a set which has me interested if they can be road legal here if not an OE item. As they are made to order i'm guessing they'd be assessed as custom and so need weld tests etc?

Have you had any breakthroughs with the carbs? I'm getting excited to hear this thing sing!

good call, maybe generate some text in photoshop at the same resolution/size as the screen for 1:1 reproduction? or by now is it easier to just walk around with an hdmi cable in the laptop

So who's guarding the south island tonight?