NickJ

So i'm not dreaming thinking I saw a rego printer at a servo somewhere? Was going to do it online but risk getting a ticket if I park in town for 'not displaying correct rego' otherwise i'll sort it tomoro and all will be happiness

Is there anywhere in chch open to get a rego sticker on a sunday?

Good luck! I hear the weather up north has been crap today Managed to go for a drive out to Burnham and back today, gearbox feels sweet, except for not being able to stay in 5th def has to come out, almost wish it would blow so I have to swap them!

That makes more sense! Yeah i've been lucky up to now, the bearings have come off with little effort, bashing in the vice is the most effort i've had to go through, seems the clearance isn't too tight. This was the worst I've had, while cleaning out the housing I found heaps of shrapnel, after cleaning it all up wondering if it was diff bits it turned out to be the bearing cage, I somehow seem to catch them just before they totally let go! Must be about time to re-pack the fronts, it's been a few years!

I'm way too paranoid about fatigue/stress raisers on axles I treat them like a bottle of single malt, always good to hear i'm stressing over nothing! Say you do the same with the bearing, meaning you heat them as well?

Its been 6 weeks since the lada packed up and I parked her in the shed, today I finally found the time to repair the wheel bearing, so much time I took photos! Step one, turn the oven to 11 and place the new collar inside; Step two, attack the lock collar with grinder, no need to cut right through, leave about 1mm; Step 3, give the remaining section of lock collar a good tonk with a cold chisel; Step 4, carefully tap the chisel between the lcollar and bearing, not too hard, don't wanna risk damaging the axle, but enough to spread the two apart, if it needs more of a bash, give the collar another tap; Step 5, the whole lot should now have separated; Step 6, apply anti-seize to the axle, makes the next one much easier, cos I'm cheap I use grease; Step 7, drink beer Step 8, drink another beer and realise days off are rad as F Step 9, look busy so missus doesn't ask you to mow the lawn Step 10, realise you left something in the oven cos the missus is screaming, so, with some well sized scrap metal and steam pipe, bash the new bearing into place, important here to only hit the inner race, hit the outer race and you might get more practice next month; Finally, WITH WELDING GLOVES ON apologise to the lady of the house who cooks dinner everynight about leaving the oven on high with nothing in it (no wonder she can never find her car keys!) grab the collar from the oven (while boasting there WAS something in there) it should be at least 250deg, but hot as poss will do, race out side, place on axle and bash into place; Now put the whole lot back together and get keen to go for a drive but you can't cos the battery is flat and so is the spare, so you jump start with the girly's car and fly off down the drive after forgetting to bleed the brakes............

Pretty sure I was asked that same name a few days ago! know it but can't put a face to it (not to mention I'm real shit with names) I was up Snowpark 2004-2009, few years ago now and I'm pretty sure we weren't sober for much of that, most names/faces/events are a blur

I'm 90% unable to attend now due to work duties, pretty gutted. Worked 5 seasons up that hill years ago, best drive to the office anyone could wish for especially the short cuts.

Have a look at what size venturi and jets its running, they've gotta be right for the engine for it to run well, will take some experimenting to get right unless you have access to the right gear, in saying that there should be enough info on the net to get you in the ball park, I've spent what I payed for my twin carbs in jets alone tuning them to a decent level, and I still don't think its right!

If someone is going to skip past all the other cars on here and work out how to disable my alarm system to steal a lada, jokes on them, it'll prob break down before they leave my driveway! Thats what I was thinking, how much effort would one have to put in? theoretically its possible, but in practice?

$30 for a gps tracker is a pretty good investment, looks like my car is getting one, But, would it be possible to turn an enclosed trailer into a faraday cage and then prevent the signal getting out?

Awesome! SI bearings have a few kits on the shelf, as do butlers automart, now to find time to fit them

True, has nothing at all to do with the owners

Cheers bro, will call them tomoro

Ah right you are about getting tighter with mounting, i'm just paranoid about it not being right and having to pull the thing apart on the side of the road somewhere (or worse) even more now that I can't find any wheel kits in the country, anyone know of another car that has a rear wheel bearing 80-40x23mm?

Just brought a new single race deep grove bearing for the rear axle of the lada, how much axial play is normal? there is enough that I feel it may be an issue (especially at wof time) but i'm sure there should be near to none? As its not a factory part, I picked it up from saeco, could it be designed for a different application?

I'm in Wanaka for easter, gunna try loiter for another week to check it out. Are they letting people drive halfway up still? few good spots to park up, set a tent and grill some dead animal.

May put a 'T' into the heater/rear head so the coolant is always looping through the rear of the head (suggestions on this welcomed!) and a new radiator is also on the parts want list - probably modify a RX2/3/4 job as they are cheap and plentiful, depending on the price of a custom job. My heater tap seized up and once it started leaking I just joined the hoses up to bypass the circuit til I can source a new tap, it has had a drastic effect on engine temp, it now sits 20deg lower and solid, no longer rising and falling with the thermostat, I'm told its best to run the engine colder to improve flow over #4 but that might be too much?

Time for an update.... Flew up north to catch up with family as Christmas was a write off and dug out a 4 speed box to bring down, amazingly it weighed in at 28kg, so a quick round with a socket set and I had it down to two packages and Air New Zealand happily flew us home. With more time and a clear workbench I began to strip the box down to check on health, replace the seals and get prepared for swapping out, knowing there was a bit of rust from unknown years storage I flushed it out with kero and brakeclean only to find the rust was a little worse, somehow with a light scrub I was surprised to find shiney metal in important places. Next step, removing the input shaft & bearing which was not so nice And then this: Looks like the box has been run dry, the needle bearing between the input and output shafts has melted, only to ooze out and make this mess, that also explains the burnt looking mess on the inside of the casing! I'm quite impressed that all the needles still rotated but the nylon was very brittle and broke out easy with a screw driver, glad that I kept all the bearings from rebuilding the current box, although they aren't the best, they're not rusty!! That was all last week, with the day off I made the plan to spend the arvo sorting the box, hopefully swapping this week, pulling her out of the shed I got things ready, went in for lunch and came back out to find a small puddle under the back wheel. Not all bad, I have a spare seal, 30min should sort it, but nah, wheel off the ground and its obvious, bearing has gone poop, bloodly lucky it didn't happen up the Godley! Might be a few more weekends before she's a go again Here's a small teaser, so a mate at uni brought a 3d printer for shits & giggles, being the poor student $200 for trumpets that aren't even a theoretically efficient shape just don't fit the budget. So we made this, first iteration to see if we could actually print the darn thing, and for testing to see how it feels about living in a mist of 98......

How many teeth do you have to jump before things get messy? surely you could go a few before things get close?

So lessons learnt today; Setting up the twin carbs I was very aware of the linkages and needing to get it right to ensure WOT, I measured all the levers and cable pulls and fabricated parts to suit, in my rush to get it all running I didn't check that I did indeed have WOT, idiot! turns out i've only been a little over 1/2 throttle since the build, quick tighten of the throttle cable and there it is, a noticeable increase in power! Most worthy of the fabrication foibles thread..... Shitty shot, but that is all the throttle I've had and thought the performace as ok..... On a roll of fixing my own mistakes and having had the transfer case out to fix the gearbox I set about checking the shims that line the TC up to the gearbox, the car has always had a shudder on take off especially since I put the fiat engine in, i've lived with it, but it has always bugged me. The standard method to align everything is bung it in 3rd, TC to neutral and hold at 3-4k for a few minutes with all mounting nuts loose before nipping it all up, this generally gets 90% of vibration out but is never quite right, today I climbed under armed with a straight edge, square and ruler and set about the nerdy-method. This resulted in a few shims less in the TC and a washer in the front diff mount, driving around there are near to no vibrations, long overdue victory there! Last of all I had to give the dells some attention, with a quick tune I pulled the idle back a touch and have improved the slight hesitation from low revs, I'm pretty sure I've got a few jetting issues to iron out and a small air leak in #2 but that will all be sorted in time, I'm waiting on a few gadgets to help on the tuning side Love working on these carbs, just joy and simplicity, oh and the battery is only tied in for tuning with the normal position its impossible to access the adjustments Last of all the knock in the steering was found as play in the idler, I seem to chew through bushes so I'm going to pull that right out and check it for concentricity, I'm thinking that could be an issue, otherwise $20 for new bushes aint that bad.

That steel band around the donut, I thought it was to aid installation then cut off once in?

With hunting plans now a total mess I took the chance to head up the godley valley for a day, awesome road and good sights along the way, crossing the maccaulley at the start is alway nerve racking but with summer flows its barely up to the hubcaps, had to search out some deeper water to give the underside a proper wash! Light show Added to my woes there also seems to be bit of a knock coming from around the steering box, have to jack up the front end, crawl under and work that out before it gets worse

Drove past supercheap this morning and thought stuff it, lets try Azzurro's guibo tamer, for 20 bucks its the best thing ever for getting her free! gentle squeeze to get the right spot and the bolts glide out, thanks for that! Also found a 32mm long socket on the shelf, bugger it! I'm starting to like supercheap more than repco, they seem to be holding more stock of useful tools while repco seem to be moving away from stocking any tools at all.

Well my urgent call has turned to be not so urgent, we had planned to leave tonight to head out hunting, with the current weather we've decided to wait it out and try again tomorrow, fingers crossed the rivers go back down and we can get out for a walk! Also I messed up, after Mof's great help getting me a decent socket that worked I couldn't find a torque setting in my rush and so guessed from gearbox drawings and that its a M14 thread that I could give it death and be ok, what a silly mistake that was! while re-fitting the TC I found the gearbox didn't spin freely, back to my web-page copy folder for notes on niva gearboxes and sure enough there is a small note, 'torque to between 60-80Nm, careful to check for binding' bloody muppet! Not wanting to push my luck asking to use the socket again I called into repco on the way home and picked up a 32mm socket to do this: Cutty Cutty Insert scrap pipe here And a quick bit of hot glue So if anyone is rebuilding a lada gearbox and needs a deep 1/2 drive 32mm socket, give me a call!