Hemi

Ill let the old lady know, might be able to help out with whats available Yeah im happy as to be in a ute and drag a trailer, can bring misc stuff that might help. You have mobile BBQ? can bring one of those. umm dunno what else we might need. Ill harras old man with what he has foir camping , little compressor etc.

If its soemthing you guys do , old lady works at Bidvest and can source catering spec good sossies or whatever if thats something.

Also @johnnyfive. Has anyone put their hand up for the support? I can do this, will bring ute with tow bar if theres a trailer around.

Not sure if Si is coming anymore,so i might have a space in gizzy. prob sleeping in the ute for hicks bay at this stage.

Well, no massive update, It got parked up in storage until I got my house then was used to haul everything there and well, stayed parked up. in that time have slowly done a few things, gave the interior the mother of all cleans ( still needs to wet clean the seats etc), serviced the engine and greased it etc, and have slowly been unloading everything out of the back. by last week its was finally clear of any possessions, threw out the grot and dissolving floormat things, scraped out god knows how many years of Schmoo and then hit it with copious amounts of sodium hydroxide degreaser and water blaster ( how good are water blasters) Didnt take a before pic which is a bit unfortunate but holy moly the difference is amazing. I love living in the outback where all the schmoo is now outside the environment and its warm enough to clean and have it dry in a few minutes. Run up the compressor, the bloody thing started in 3 turns after sitting for well over a year! amazing. 13hp vangaurd on it and it runs beauty! Love the unloader valve, old D2 just hanging off the side, along with zero cage on the rotating assembly. Anyhow , had a long term plan of maybe going out on my own and using this. nah being a wage employee is my life atm, soesh with the mortgage now. So plans now? well , after I get back from NZ im going to start removing all the steel in the front end that was used for toolboxes etc, I will leave enough to keep the body solid and wont be touching anything in the reel section, prob remove the big toolbox thing in the centre section. then as Ive said befoire make a mezzanine for a shitty bed, somewhere to hold water and some living things, and something to hold my KX. and then pretty much im going to use it to go on not too difficult wonders. Have started looking at what it would take to put a hairdryer on it but thats a dream atm. one thing is to get a bigger fuel tank because currently it only has a 70L one and its fucking garbage spesh seeings as its shaped like a brick and eats fuel tbh 17L per hundy is what I calculated. Anyhow some pics. All cleaned up Doesnt even break a sweat running this, shame its petrol instead of diesel Ohhh yeah , maybe 3 mins empty to unload, thats pretty good. So good, D2 off a truck and no gaurd. no worries right.

Oh hang on I'm already sorted for Gizzy. Nevermind

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I will, if J5 don't mind

I think there is a thing you can buy? Never used one but as @datlow mentioned, use them to reseal tap threads on fuel tanks when they still have hundreds of litres still in them. my mind was blown when i learnt about them , called bullshit for so long, had to admit defeat. Works on same principle as carby, have workshop air hooked up and it pulls a vacuum

Hrmm I do haven't bothered to sort accom for Hicks bay. Should probably do something about that. Also I'm probably going to be in a ute for this because no bike and don't want to wreck myself if that helps with support things

Well , been feeling a bit under the weather lately so what started as me warming Bess up just to get fluids everywhere ended up with me going "fuckit" and sending her a bit. man,made alot more smoke then I realised, the Firies were called- oopsie daisey. She did mint if not a bit lazy, but im happy as ive never bothered to do anything silly in her. Did improve my mood a touch and had a little chuckle to myself when the brigade did show up

Crud, need to sort hicks bay accom. Forgot all about that one.

This s is a good point, don't you have a ir thermometer? Check the in vs out temp

I've only skim read, but you mentioned something about the intercooler could you add side thingies to it so the fan is pulling straight through the "assembly" instead of just the rad being the one with the pull. I'm Wondering if there's turbulence of pull through the intercooler vs pull going around/ under it. Prob not, don't have wind tunnel. Do you have oil temp and coolant gauges, can tell you heaps as the oil is usually way.more stable so if both are xx and then coolant jumps up but the oil stays the same after half and hour then maybe it is a flow issue? Iunno too many beers deep now. Oh, and are you sure you don't have a rag in one of the rad fittings. Don't laugh, it has happened.

Yeah man, I can bring vehicle or just hang out shotgun

I got accom sorted in gizzy, still to sort hicks. @Beaver my unit in gizzy has a spare fold out bed according to the site, more then welcome to that.

Is kilim the Turkish place, man that was legit

IM going to be in the country during this time for first time in ages. 1000% keen probably in a support vehicle if thats cool or might be able to tag along in a ute for support.

Nah you can run standard nitrile seals in both, ATF is good because it doesn't eat everything, use it to lube up dynamic orings all the time when the grease gets old and sticky. It's also used in auto lubers for compressed air. Has to be pretty gentle or it would fuck everything inside a trans. Brake fluid is pretty safe too. Piston cups are nitrile I'm sure, been using them in systems for years and have no adverse effects. Only used viton in hydraulic systems where it's too hot for nitrile.

Been down the mud track eh. Looks like a mint ride!

Right so ended up buying a house with a lush shed so Bess now has a nice dry home! YAY. Ordered some bits off Rockauto, all OEM, actually got two of most thing because of the freight, wokred out mint Havent really been doing much because getting used to house and getting some hobbies out of my system but decided to give her a service and replace some bits. replaced oil and filter a while back so that cool, got ahold of some HPR5 for free so even better. Today I decided to do the sparkplugs, leads dizzy cap and trans fluid + filter. Sparkplugs uneventful, noted x3 were wet when removed however werent exactlt terrible either, OEM items too so thats nice. Then the leads, i swear to god i swapped them out in sequence but then come unstuck when one looked too long, so i removed them, and forgot where they all went, was also going to replce the dizzy cap but it looked 100% and repinning the terminals went straight in the too hard basket. so got that all done and started her up.... idled like shit , i reached over the engine to wiggle the dizzy and it backfired about 30mm from my face. fuck me my ears were ringing, knew exactly what I had done wrong as it happened years ago with the escort.... i put the leads on in numerical order instead of firing.. fucking DURP. So i rememdied that and funny enough all the leads were much better. YAY! She runs really well now and what i thought was an out of tune carb and just being lazy was either leads or spark plugs not being happy, she purrs. Next was the trans, i got so close to getting the CBF's but today was 38 and dry so was okish to be outside so after a beer decided to hook in and get it done. The manual made it sound like a 2 min job. cept for the rear pan bolts which are obscured by the xmember, fucking thanks GM real nice. anyhow that was easy enough to deal with by unbolting the trans from the xmember and jacking the tail up enough to get a 1/4" socket in. what a mess. next service if i have a welder im going to make a boss and put a plug in. Anyhow looked at the pan and spewed, looked at the filter and spewed , compared old vs new fluid...and spewed. I then realised i had biffed the rest of my fancy pants atf... so many nonce things! So will grab some tomorrow and hopefully the trans might be a bit happier, really tempted to flush it given what i found but i dont think its worth it right now so will leave it be and deal to that maybe when i do the boss mod. Anyhow thats it for now, doing this got me in the mood to do a few toher thigns too like the suspension bushes and all sorts so hopefully that continues , YAY! Also realised that the C10 engine bay and quite comfortably fit x1 Hemi in it, because I got sick of reaching over the grille to do the leads.

SO you cant buy hydrochloric, sulrufic or phosphoric acid over the counter? man ive been buying all of those in bulk because constantly need to remove the Pilbara paint jobs and unclog plumbing. no one cares here, want 40L of glyphoshate in concetrate, pay the money. want 40L of any acid, just pay the man . no one cares.

Im not a light vechiel man , but if i remember right the turbo pumps will have an aneroid cap, which will hold the rail back until it gets boost, so you arent black smoking everywhere before boost. so , does it have a boost hose going to a diaphragm on the pump? I mean this wont explain the fuel usage. turnign the boost down will not save any fuel as the rail/rack in the pump will be set and boost just opens the already preset things. you can run 40 PSI of boost on a 2l if you want and it wont do shit without the fuel. Does it smoke. white? Black? Old mate who turboed it might have messed with things inside the pump that would cancel out anything above. but white usually means either WAY too much fuel or timing. Black is good timing but rich. There are heaps of people that know more about these then me though.

Didnt know where else to put this so will put it in here. As I mentioned wanted to give electrolysis a go . after trying to use a battery charger by itself and it not really doing what I wanted ( it kept shutting off , no doubt because it did not detect voltage as the manual says it must detect). So decided to get around this by running it thorugh a battery, i was worried a battery worth of current would end up cooking something but nah , its just very aggressive, so if you are wanting delicate rust removal you will need to get a dc power supply. I read up and found the reaction will remove the red rust, convert some red rust to magnetite ( black rust) and evevn turning some of the black rust back to iron given long enough. also that one electrode will produce oxygen or something. Anyhow , pretty impressed, tbh the phosphoric acid did just as good job buuuuuuut would get very expensive for large bits, where you could buy a 60L tub or even IBC and the only real cost is the washing soda which is cheap as chips. also you are not dealing with acids. Im pretty sure citric acid is cheap enough too so whatever process you choose i spose. I noticed that anything left in the phosphoric acid and then just left to dry had a coating which can help it to not rust again. so maybe could be an idea to electrolysis then paint in phosphoric acid? iunno depends on what you want i spose.. anyhow , pics! Bubbling away Yesterday arvo , maybe 4 hours in? After a rinse and bit of a brush down , def a difference This morning after running overnight And after some brushing, big difference photos dont really show how good it is , starting to see native iron too, the bubbles are still raging so there must still be quite a bit to go The Anode, brushed that off and its mainly rusty fluff , but you can def see how its being eaten like threads are there but chunks missing. 5 mins after cleaning it and putting back in the tank. goes cray cray. So because this is working so well I decided to hunt for another piece of steel and add another anode because it was really olny treating one end and tapering off towards the other, used light duty cable to do this and its not even remotley warm so must not be a massive amp exercise, the charger is more then keeping up with the battery too . drops to 12.4 then charger pumps it back up to 13..then back down etc. Would still like a dc power source to dail in some lushness though. also just watched a video on youtube were some crazy german used a dc arc welder and was putting like 30amps or something through it.. wholy fuck it was ruckus, seem to work very quickly but. im not keen to die though so a battery will be fine.

So put a cheapo battery revitliser on the Aux batteries over the course of last swing off and they now take charge and are sitting at a happy 12.4 volts, stoked. so have bought a dumb linear charger just to pump them up good. then most of the light in the rear started working! yay. so last night i replaced the broken shitty ones and re-attached some otheres to the roof . so much better , need some more in certain areas like above the roll cab top for working surfaced etc, but pretty impressed, also going to get rid of the spotlight style ones in the front body and mybe mount them to be used as exterior facing lights. the spottie in the rear section of the body still isnt working either , so need to look into that too also forgot to turn them off so they were still going at 11pm when i wombled outside so batts must be ok pic on dusk.