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10 hours ago, cletus said:

Can be done as long as it doesn't have any sharp edges or anything that would make it more harmful to wayward pedestrians that may end up in front of you

more harmful than 1 ton of car hitting you??? 

If you're in Christchurch take a piston to Cliff Bond down ferry road. They have shit loads of NOS rings on the shelf and can match something up. They'll probably give you some good advice as far ay your crank/bearings. 

I don't think the whale suspension was designed for a boot full of crap and a trailer. 

And a few shots from my travels. One of the straps holding the engine on the trailer snapped just passed Omarama. good thing I had spares.   

Some More shots from Cromwell. Cheers Jonny and Nick for an epic weekend. 

5 hours ago, igor said:

What time did Will finally roll in? Was getting on a bit when he left 'clutha.

I managed to get there just on 6:30. The driver of a purple charger looked really surprised when I passed him with a trailer on. 

Car is loaded up and mostly clean. I've got the better part of 8 hours driving ahead of me. Jonny I'll flick my a pm with my number, what's your address?  And for anyone who breaks down I have duct tape, zip ties and a tool kit in my car so shouldn't be able to fix most problems. 

Right guys, Jonnys tomorrow night, whoever has the smallest car we all pack in. but lets keep our clothes on.

Now I need to find a 126 wagon to see of it has coils. My 126 van is leafs. 

Is yours on coils? 

Whats the rules on bumpers? I like the no bumper look these golfs are rocking and thought I'd do something similar on my Mk2 golf.

http://jp-carparts.com/toyota/cartypelist.php?maker=toyota&type=331140

going off this it appears the 110 was the wagon and the 117 was the van.

 http://www.toyota-global.com/company/history_of_toyota/75years/

this is a good site for info but only lists the 117 for van/wagon.

make it good. I've got a roadie on this weekend and i need an excuse to take stupid photos.

2 hours ago, kiwi808 said:

Yeah mate, loads of room for a trailer. Any chance you could bring a car door down from Chch with you? Seeing as you have a trailer and stuff?

Only minor detail is I'm back in Ashburton and won't be up in Christchurch until the 28th. If you can get it Ashburton or even Rikaia I'm happy to bring it. 

well with that sorted all thats left to do is wash the car.

so after traversing the roadway of baries do we hook a left or right? I'm confused. And Jonny do you have enough space in your back yard for a trailer with an engine on it? saves me toting it around all weekend. 

You'll end up with a boot full of water, looked at the weather forcast lately? 

I'm mostly set. Nabed my dads MS112 as it should be more comfortable and reliable than my golf all be it more thirsty. Jonny what's the go with BBQ at yours? Want me to grab anything on my way into town? 

If anyone desperately want info/pic of the cars there I don't mind diverting there on my way to Cromwell on the 20th.

The more cruzin the merrier. My round trip is creeping up towards 1500km and the Crown coupe only gets 20 mpg.  

For me it was a quick fix that has become semi permanent. the hardest part of changing the thermo switch aside from getting your hands on the right one is not cracking the tank. 30 year old plastic that had gone hot/cold is very brittle.

17 minutes ago, h4nd said:

Any clues on how to shiny up an aluminium cherry pitter / garlic press that I accidently on purpose put through the dishwasher?

Acid / nickel salts bath / DC?

Many hours with wet/dry and a buffer 

For not touching the metal surface I've had good results with paint stripper. You want to hang the frame up and shower it in really nasty, and I mean knock out an elephant with a wiff nasty, paint stripper. Coopers works well. Then water blast off after leaving it to sit for a bit. Scotch bright can be used to polish up the metal surface a bit 

It doesn't surprise me your fan is on a manual switch as the thermo switches on those pack up quite often. Both mine and my brothers ones are on manual dash switch. the water pumps on the 058 block are also known to die and produce crap water flow. chances are you're radiator is half blocked also. My crown wagon randomly tried Chernobyling itself on one day, took the radiator to get flushed and they said it was very blocked and they were surprised it was cooling up until then. I can do the same trick I did to my brothers one and rewire it to run a stand alone circuit with a 2 stage switch on the dash if you want. You'll have hi and lo speed but you'll have to remember to keep an eye on the temp gauge and turn it off when you shut the car off.   

As far your oil burning goes put a liter of Morey's heavy duty oil stabilizer in it with the next oil change. I used this in a 40% mix for a Camry which burnt enough oil to be considered 2 stroke. bit of Morey's reduced the consumption by 2/3. 

     http://www.moreyoil.co.nz/moreys-heavy-duty-oil-stabilizer/

Here sir. 

If mr 808 is happy with us cluttering up his yard for a couple nights then I'm down for a Sunday cruise. 

I can pick up a steady surplus of beverages on my way down.