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Shitlords. I never bench bled the Gem's one and it's always been fine. Wish I hadn't forgotten about the need to do it, now will have to remove it all and start again. Mate is gonna be pisssssed.

Hey everyone, I'm helping a friend put his (my old) Beetle back together after a paint job and am encountering some weirdness when trying to bleed the brakes. Details: '73 Aussie Beetle, drum rear, disc front. I did NOT bench bleed the master cylinder. There are no leaks in the piping from the reservoir to the master cylinder or in the brake lines. We started with the rear left - rear right: bled absolutely fine. Fronts, not a lot of action going on here. At first the fluid was pushing through the caliper well, then it just kind of stopped. Mate pushes the pedal, fluid doesn't come out of the caliper. Some times it does, but very very slow and not very much (like 20mm in the tube). Then it appears to creep back into the caliper even though the valves are done up! What might be causing this lack of pedal-fluid action? Especially when it seems to be intermittent. Am I going to have to rip off the m/c and bench bleed it? I thought it might be because the master cylinder is gravity fed and it wasn't getting enough fluid from the reservoir but checked that and fluid pissed out all over me. Help?!

Matte black g-zeros with stretch.

Cleaned the garage. Phone camera does weird things to my car - it stretches it out, looks funny. Looks way better irl.

Hah, completely forgot I needed this! Gonna grab Pete's one.

That radiator might have different spacing to mine. The Aussie Gemini radiators (and probably the 80s NZ ones) are not as wide as the early ones. But I can measure it anyway if you like. Looks like you drill your own mounting holes in that one anyway. Thanks for the comments, gonna get it done.

Thanks man.

Umm, not super immediately, whenever suits them for me to pick it up.

I might have a dying viva, but the Gem is having life thrust into it, few pics to show how I'm getting along. Dash with tacho in place of the clock and the gauge panel coated black (with additions of switches and isolation switches) Engine bay tidy-up progress and new catch can I made (my mum has a sieve the same as the tin!) And a photoshop concept I did for black bumpers. I like it, makes him look like he has a pencil thin moustache I'm still not sure whether or not to go with the gem or Chevette bumpers. The Chevtte bumpers will require cutting up the Gemini mounts which I'm not that fond of. Either way, I'm not willing to shell out to have the Gemini or Chevette bumpers rechromed at the moment so I'll paint the Gemini ones black and see how I like it - if it's total shit I can always open the wallet.

Pete, I might steal yours as you're out of the country. How would I go about obtaining it?

Cheers people, Tara, let me know!

Anyone got a rivet gun for putting in riv nuts? Would be keen to borrow one! Cheers

Regarding the water, a lot of it came when I took off the head. Not sure about how that shit got so rusty though - looks like even if it was the head gasket, it wouldn't have been long till it was ruined anyway.

Got pissed off when I saw it and didn't check the valves, not sure what happened but I'm sure I will soon. Yeah, it doesn't look mint in there eh, though it has had water sitting in it for the best part of a month now. I've seen the other thread and am in contact with the guy.

So I bought a head set for the 1057 to sort out the head gasket problem, only to remove the head to find that it was not the head gasket that was the main issue:

If anyone sees this white Subaru Impreza sedan, non-turbo, numberplate FSG841 cruizing around, please let me know. Colleague of my dad came home from holiday to his flat robbed and all his crap piled into his flatmate's car which was also stolen. Big call, but any info would be awesome. Cheers.

So I sold the 1256 that I had because I couldn't be bothered swapping the engine. On friday I had a catastrophic head gasket failure. Out the exhaust it was a smoke screen. From the bonnet, a geyser. Steam was coming out the radiator cap, radiator over flow, air cleaner nose, and literally both sides between the block and the head, it was amazing! So I'm probably going to need to find another 1256, preferably one that is running.

Fine. Introducing the worst pictures ever (garage is pretty dark). You get an idea of where they sit in relation to the guards though.

Super meticulous Kadett C rebuild http://65833.forumromanum.com/member/fo ... 73.1..html

They have enough grunt to push themselves along the desk. 100+CFM it's crazy. I agree, it's hot enough under there to not bother with a heater.

Here is an entire page of them: https://www.absolutemarine.co.nz/products/?id=4484 Jase, I am using one in my gemini. I've mounted a plumbing t-piece to get it to blow in both directions. The only thing you have to do is cut away the back of the console (the part you put your wallet in) to get it to fit in there.

Just ordered some slotted ball joints from the states as these new wheels are looking like they might need to come in at the top. Max front camber here I come / fail warrant under new rules.

Search for them on google NZ. Easy to find.

What car are you talking about?