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  1. tortron

    de-coking

    stick the valve in an electric drill and use ultra fine steel wool
  2. any surround or something to cover those metal tabs on the headunit? would drive me nuts
  3. tortron

    de-coking

    oven cleaner on aluminium doesnt sound like a sound idea to me
  4. tortron

    de-coking

    add a cup of meths to your fuel tank and drive around or if the head is off - scrape away with some copper sheet
  5. Hotwheels inspired i would like to see these on the morrie
  6. It feeds upper cylinder lubricant. Cleans carbon deposits, cooler running, helps with no lead. All that jazz
  7. Installing this as we speak Dont have too much of a list left to do
  8. Still have this heap New battery today Starts happily after roughly 12 months of pushing it $65 for a new one - love the availability and price of parts. Also got a black battery-side side cover. Figure il wof and reg it for daily duties again to the new job. This also means i can start saving for a new bike
  9. thats the one Will swap the drives over from the ones i have, clean, polish and lube
  10. nope, the control nut is in many pieces have another starter which may or may not fit. possibly i can use it for parts
  11. Starter just spinning on a good battery dry spring?
  12. Choke - polish Bakelite + repaint C - Replace wire with solid core - Replace outer sheath with new correct length sheath Did i mention i hire the cheese makers?
  13. I have a few pages of codes if anyone wants to check up on them eg. paint code 2RD Volcano red
  14. my ones chassis number was 9B69DG27857683 (actually there should be more numbers there i think) 9b means chevette Usually under that there are printed some option codes
  15. I made this decoder a few years ago. Just put in your VIN and the other 3 digit numbers on the body plate. Will tell you what options, paint and trim your Chevette had http://www.filefactory.com/file/b2b1g00/n/Chevette_vin.zip Just click on the first .exe file and you are good to go. If there is somewhere better to host this let me know and il upload it again
  16. Kinda wish i had kept my 850 engine now
  17. 10 points if you can tell me what this is and where it goes (i just made it by hand because i put the original in a safe place, so i know damright what it is )
  18. keen, ride to hamilton for me?
  19. yea pretty much gave mine away in the end, then the guy who bought it sold it at $1 res and would have barely covered trademe fees Chevettes are sweet/im a bad bad man had a dig though my bits. have a few rostyle wheel nuts, block letter style chevette badge, GL badge from the dash speaker cover and an interior coat hook or two
  20. fuel float correctly set?
  21. want a chevette name badge for the boothatch?
  22. two morris minor side valve engines would make them look confused alright Looks clean
  23. from memory there was at least 4 different pumps used on the 1256
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