ThePog

Put 2x in so it is still an 8 cylinder and still have all the space?

CNC routed a box to hold all my cooking stuff for camping.

@Luna Eclipsed will be in chch in his X1/9 on the 5th/6th April, you boys should fix up a meet and drive...

Man I just had the most frustrating conversation with my mother. She wanted a solution for her device charging situation but utterly refused to use anything other than the word 'plug' to decribe either the power supply block, the 3 different usb types or the cables themselves. Then gets shitty when I ask her to explain more clearly, then even more so after I suggested that my mind reading skills were insufficient for the task at hand.

Alex only uses crayons, he wouldn't understand such technicalities.

Like the film based microfiche catalogs etc? Kindof keen if so

The fucking things are proliferating Elliots beast is running significantly worse than a bag of dicks, probably to do with the shitty OE points distributor. So I just put an electric fuel pump and some random points replacement system that he sourced, I just finished that up and it runs mint now. Driving the two is interesting and really highlights the difference in livelyness, mostly that mine has a way, way fatter mid range as well as more top end. But the standard car is still a good time, you just would need more gearbox use to keep it in the top end. In blue boy news, the new rad is working well, and apart from the indicator light in the dash needing a jiggle to get working again, all seems solid. Certainly solid enough to annoy the citizens of Nelson with dodgy cut in/passing maneuvers at full noise and a staggeringly unnecessary amount of popping and banging on the overrun. 100% mint then. Except for the dripping gearbox plug

Maybe it is a FWD van with a 3500kg GVM? Cut the back off and fab a chassis. Job done.

Nuts or bolts? I have lots of spare bolts tha mught work...

Yea cof's are boring.

There is something appealing about the lowness of that DS, any ute or truck chassis would end up too high.

Wof/cof

3.5 ton total weight/ 1.75 ton vehicle weight gives a 1.75 ton load....? Surely thats doable? The X1/9 is only 900kg

I wonder if the cert rules would allow me to build something like this? Not a DS obviously, but some other reasonably grunty FWD toyota...

Righto. I decided to chuck that radiator in today, easy as. I started swapping things over from one rad to the other then thought I had better check that the thermoswitch worked ok, and it turns out the answer is no. Thats a bit odd thinks I (the inevitable start of a new learning experience). So I looked at the wiring diagrams to see if I had misunderstood how that shit works and noticed that the thermoswitch worked as expected but was wired to the signal side of a relay, which was not what I expected. So now I began to understand some things, mostly that assumption makes a fuckwit out of just me. So what has happened is that when I did the rewire I assumed that the wires coming out of the thermoswitch took current because they were fat, but actually the fan probably worked once or twice and then the switch burnt out. So that one time it got hot sitting in traffic without the fan coming on probably blew the head gasket, leading to all that other fuckery of the last few weeks. Cool. Or not probably. So this time I put a second fan so I could manually switch it and then spent the rest of today creating and installing an entire new bit of loom that should solve that completely, one fan on the themoswitch, one on a manual switch. And all run through relays, natch. So hopefully that is the only fuckup on the wiring... It was kindof a costly one really. /facepalm