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j.e.d.

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  1. Been a minute or two.. had shoulder surgery late last year which slowed me down a bit. Just prior to that I got dad to come up and help me build a retaining wall. Still got the ends to finish off but it turned out pretty neat for a first timer. Moved the bus up to the building platform and built a sketchy roof over it so it could dry out better. I’ve since removed the tarp. I’ve also got my container down there now and the place is looking more like a builders storage yard.
  2. Took it in for a WOF, needed to replace an axle seal, front left brake line and repair a tear in the sill that looked like it’d been there for the last 20 years. Giving a rap to Tuakau Panelbeaters for doing the job on such short notice. Car is sold, I’m happy/sad.. time to focus on building my shed now.
  3. Good to see a couple of paddles handy.. but in all seriousness, looking forward to hearing your plans to remedy the flooding.. Would it be a matter of better redirection of the water or raising the house onto a basement for said vehicles as well as water management away from site?
  4. Nothing like full send on the revs straight after putting it all together.. bloody well done and great job so far man
  5. Those teddy bears are spinning pretty fast.. I think you should call it 107.8 fwtb instead of 107.8 fwkw
  6. Turns out the mechanical fan does a better job with the new water pump.
  7. Looks awesome, prefer the look of a well used and maintained car.. that mechanical drama didn’t sound very enjoyable.. engine bay looks great though
  8. Battery balls hanging from your car.. guess that better than the other tryhards on the road with their fake ball sacks
  9. Agreed, from memory the VIN on this car doesn't match what's on Carjam. Edit.. looked back on my previous thread & it was the calling it a Firebird & not Trans am that was wrong on Carjam. @Al1, wouldn't surprise me if the '5' on the Carjam VIN has been misread & its a 6 or 8.
  10. @MARTS-PL310 wow, love the engine bay pics.. restoration goals right there. Feel free to post more pics of the outside & interior mate.. cheers
  11. @yoeddynz I'm your 200th YooToob subscriber.. do I get a prize?
  12. This is awesome, and in a wonderful part of the country that I feel proud to call home whenever I go back there.. congrats man.
  13. Been a while. Update coming soon on the latest update/fix being done to the car. Took a photo anyway of WIP to show proof of doing things.
  14. @Mr.Mk1 you've done an awesome job man.. watched this from the start & I'm so pleased to see a happy ending to one of these epic projects.. going to be at MCM I gather?
  15. @vk327 love the colour and that headliner is awesome.. was that custom made?
  16. Crikey. I think if they're determined enough a gate won't stop them.. especially if it's not locked. No closed gate, but I had a nice elderly couple hovering around the front of my place in Tuakau a few weekends ago as I was taking stuff back & forth to my ute, then the husband finally committed & headed thru the gate looking full of promise. Barely got good morning out of his mouth before I cut him off and said "now is NOT the time" For my new place I have a solar powered automatic gate opener about to be installed.
  17. Painting.. hmm, don’t enjoy it.. that and digging holes, so finishing off this front fence is a pretty good achievement.. may need to add a couple of posts on the left but I’m calling it job done, tick that off the list. I always wanted to paint the fence black (using old diesel oil.. read: tight arse), and also always wanted to paint the gate a different colour that accents the black and will carry through to the shed and house.. I had a colour in my mind but didn’t really know until I looked at samples what would actually eventuate. Funnily enough this is not what I was thinking of as I originally was thinking a honey colour, but I’m super stoked how it turned out.. Couldn’t be happier. Saturdays effort just before the rain set in.. And todays result.. super happy to get this done. The other day I picked up a bridge. I was gonna build a bridge to access the orchard from one end, but I couldn’t build one for the price I picked this up for. Still gotta smash some steel rods into the ground to anchor it permanently, but it’s where it’s gonna be.
  18. Minor work done, but it is getting slightly warmer albeit raining quite a bit still up here. Daylight savings is gonna help a lot in the next few weeks I feel. Borrowed my mates drop saw to help cut things straighter and did a little job making the top of the letterbox support. Measured the height of the post by parking the ute beside it and eying it up for perfect reach out height. No tape measures were harmed in the making of this structure. Cut the top and angle brace out of the same 125sq senton pile, then decided the brace needed to be ripped down to about two thirds to look better balanced. Sitting on an offcut to see what it looked like.. And now fixed in place. Not sure how useful the box is as it lets in a lot of rain, but it’s just for show really. Locally made by an old fella from Galv sheeting then powder coated.. I like it a lot. Nice to see the trees in bloom and leaves coming out.. spring is here.
  19. Finally managed to pick up the fence rails from a mates yard. Got a whole packet in the end cos my boss gets a good rate directly from the mill down in Nelson. Was waiting for a while as my boss said I couldn’t pick it up due to the weight of the pack being near on 3 ton, so the initial talk was to split the pack so I could. Turned up expecting to get half the pack only to discover said mate has a she’ll be right attitude like me and said ahh that pack is only about 2.5 ton so should be fine.. hmm.. 50 PSi in the tyres and I was away. Got there in the end with a few more grey hairs on the head. Made a couple of jigs which proved to be a game changer when you’re doing it all yourself. Got the easy part done last weekend. Also had my free frames from work turn up that I’ll be building my shed out of. This weekend I finished up the front fence and I’m pretty rapt how it’s all turned out. I checked the rails into the gate posts. Ran the rails down the left side and trimmed all the long post tops down. This is my favourite pic of the day..
  20. Minor success.. installing air shocks for improved ground clearance. Gave the rubber stop bracket on the right side of the car a little trim to clear the air shock housing as the body of the shock is so much bigger than standard. Also needed to slot the top bracket to make it easier to start the bolt up the top due to the size of the shock. All worked out in the end and now the car sits better.
  21. Indeed.. going for the stately look, so an old jag or rolls would look right at home.. its funny you say that though, I was just perusing through Range Rover Vogue's during my lunch break for some strange reason.. damn expensive luxury though. These birch trees apparently have the whitest bark of them all, so I'm looking forward to seeing the results in the following years as I plan to be here for quite a while (maybe even long enough time to own an old British car for once in my life).
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