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10 minutes ago, tortron said:

A big loop of Auckland 

do you have any bikes two man liftable over a farm fence?

ive got a giant burn pile ready to go as long as you dont piss in my toilet

glen proposed a border to border , coast to coast tour if we get stuck

@Mr Vapourwhat is the good stuff you put in the crockpot?

do something new new zealand

On 06/09/2021 at 07:32, MopedNZ said:

Bring an old 2 stroke. Just no twist and gos. 

@MaxPower please connect your brakes to the twister and accellerator to the break lever to scrape past this rule with a twist n stop

I replaced 3 alternators before @Ned pointed out multimeters read high when they have flat battery’s….

On 25/08/2021 at 14:50, MaxPower said:

brought a twist and go with a 70cc kit, do i need special tyres for the gravel or just the road ones? riding talent is low.

youl be fine with road tyres, its everything else thats the issue

ill run a scoot again this year 

no further questions

not the old fc motor?

Keep him doubting so we can all claim a handy 

all i can see now is someone drew a rectangle and hit the extrude-to button

Every one of these I haven’t managed to get my $20 to j5 and I would like to resolve it this year 

can I get someone to aggressively hold me accountable please 

24 minutes ago, moparmuppet said:

Dunno about jet boat hulls but a normal hull has a cruising speed. you can tip double the juice down its gob and get 1/2 knot more speed.

also, the pleasure boat motor will probably have different cams, fuel pumps, injectors etc. as well as turbo. I have seen same series of motor in pleasure boat and Genset application. 60l sump and 50 hr oil changes, double the horsepower, 40% duty, vs 150L sump and 750 hr oil changes making 1/2 the power at 100% duty cycle. Apples aint apples.   Just filled the day tank now, 9500L for 24 hrs on the 2 stroke diesel V8. What do you think about that greta

She is a planing hull, with enough power it will go faster and faster until it topples off its chine/r.i.p

I had a look through the manuals and it just seems to be the turbo that’s noteworthy, bigger picture this motor needs to be replaced with something more modern and fuel efficient, being eco unfriendly is too expensive when there’s plenty of re-man mid 2000’s common rail marine engines on ebay 

the one labelled "3" that must be only adjusted by an authorised simon/jesse

Ok - Next question -

I would like to figure out if my boat (jet - so 1 extra rpm is 1000 more hp and 100 extra kph) is limited to 2650rpm by the pump throttle arm travel limiter screw, or limited by it already being at max torque output. (Max rated rpm is 2800)

The screw is wound pretty much all the way "in" and has a security crimp tag on it. 

So i should back the limiter/stop  screw off a bit and see if the rpm's rise. An extra 150 rpm will be like 8 knots so i'm pretty keen to try as it only does ~25knots now.

It was built/owned by the airport rescue people who would be pretty conservitive, interestingly the hand throttle lever could only ever reach 75% of travel before being limited by the injector pump stop screw which i thought was really gammy and hard to drive so i modified the pivot point.

They make the "pleasure boat" version of this motor with a different turbo that makes an extra 150hp, so if the screw doesn't make it go faster ill swap the turbo.

Diesel newbie....I was about to post a topic asking for help with osmething but then realised there was a hole in my understanding how how a diesel actually works...

does a diesel injector pump "throttle arm" set a rpm governor? 

So the injector pump should deliver whatever fuel is required to deliver the demanded rpm? (assuming the motor can produce enough power to deliver it)

Attached is the "principal" diagram from my bosch injector pump diagram

if you can work up the enthusiasm to make a crappy slide hammer and borrow a welder to weld nuts on to pull, your not going to make it worse, the metal is really keen to go back to its original shape theres not a whole lot of skill required

does anyone have any opinions on spool guns? or have a alloy mig setup they are satisfied with?

brands they have used etc that were ok

ive only used some reeealy crappy ones and have shyed away from this process until now its the only good solution for boat works.

Does it not run hydraulic lifters?

we may need to collect a bike motor from hogans place on Englefield road and bring it back to the plant yard to join the homeward pallet

This weekend - Myself, @Tumeke @slacker.cam and @peteretep are in Christchurch from 7am Friday and going to get some use out of our bikes that we shipped down for molesworth...... 

Plan is to do a day adventure and then stay in chch on friday night (victoria st) I think there is a general understanding to have din dins with EJ and Ant.

Saturday head out around the Banks peninsular - stay in Akaroa - more adventuring Sunday and back in the afternoon to Wainoni to pack the bikes onto the pallets, dinner and fly home that night.

Beyond the above, there is no formal plan, however it would be great to see some people down there and if anyone wanted to come on any part of this adventure or have some beers/lunches/dinners along the way would be awesome.

my numbers 021 774037 - anyone & everyone invited to all aspects. Entry cost is 1 smile. Bring togs.

-David J

updates

Faaark yeah 

Hey man - the 20 or 30 or so people that were doing this are allmost all moved to small capacity bikes for a bit more adventure/not getting in trouble from the velodrome weaners - most dont post here anymore but do goto the events

someone going on the ride have a manned business address i can send a courier bag to in time for this?