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  1. Thats good cos you can scrape it up out of the gutter and pour it back in. Infinite recyling.
  2. Ok I will check that relay setup. It is all going to be pre set up in its entirety on a bench so hopefully i will catch any fuckery before its actually installed...
  3. Please don't make me see such things.
  4. A solution to the spagetti has arrived; There will need to be extra relays set up for the headlight and headlight motors, I'll see what I can find
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    So what is prepsol? Just a solvent? Wouldnt the scotch Brite expose more bare metal to rust up again? Also what happens with the phosphoric etc of there is still paint on there or should it all come off?
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    Ok I just watched a vid of someone using it, it made sense. It looks like deoxidine is essentially the same thing as Oakite. I might mess with a panel and see what happens.
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    Yo. I would like some advice about treating steel with phosphoric acid. I have some Oakite 33 left over from when we did powder coating, I brushed some onto something half rusty and half shiny and left it, it pretty much sorted it out. However I imagine it would be best to rinse it and wipe it off, is that the case? If so with what? This is so whatever I do to the Fiat is going to last....
  8. I was super happy with that tipo engine, it pulled to 9k no problem and was a real screamer. So apart from fixing any mechanical issues not much will change in that area. I ordered a loom kit today and will find an extra relay setup for the headlamps, no sense loading up vintage italian switchgear for no reason.
  9. Yea all of that will get a once over when it goes back together. I have a lot of useful kit/sensors/wiring/connectors left over now the truck is mostly done, I might even go hard and replace the heater tubes that run inside the tunnel if they are looking dodgy.
  10. I have been looking at this, I imagine it would be an improvement; https://www.trademe.co.nz/4211604897 I could even do a proper job using the lessons I learnt on the truck, it would have to be an easier job..
  11. Yea so I have been chunking away at this slowly. First I made a bed/seating area on the router and biscuited it together. I used the router to add much lightness as you can see; I sized the bit underneath to take a mattress so kids can sleep in there if they want which has had a lot of positive feedback. Otherwise the mattress can go up top to be half of a double bed if needed. One mattress will be the back seat base. That probably makes no sense but whatever it should work IRL. I then fucked around for ages with the bed lift, printing many variations of the lift gears and housing on the 3d printer before giving up and ordering some actuators off AliX. I also wasn't happy with the roof, it was going to be a pain to assemble and if anything got damaged the whole thing was a throwaway. So I rejigged it to have a light steel frame with small panels that bolted in, and this weekend got to it. It is pretty compact when down and quite big when up which I guess is the whole point. I ran into an issue with the lift mech, basically the motor has to lift the whole weight which it can without too much drama (after tightening some belts) but you cannot use the manual lift as it just drops straight down again. I will try to solve this with preloaded springs of some type... This will relieve the load on the motor as well, we'll see how that goes later.
  12. So many wires and relays and fuses. I don't understand, all it needs is lights, indicators and power to the fuel pump and coil....?
  13. I printed some motivation Also I dreamt last night I was in the X chasing a bright yellow countach down some windy roads, I woke up when I made a desperate passing manoeuvre, pushed them off the road and spun out trying to avoid an oncoming truck. Shits super exciting already. In actual project news I had a look at the wiring situation and it looks a bit of a shitfight. Enough that I might get a wiring kit and redo it. Someone has spliced a new front half loom in but i am not sure it can be trusted. Its all 40+ years old at this point anyway.
  14. Did this for the lolz with my new printer;
  15. Yea i love the level of barry @kws has achieved in deep diving that injection system but a new contol system would have to be better in so many ways. Still its pretty great as it is.
  16. Man I did the same thing when working out the fuel consumption on the X1/9, I thought it was terrible for a disappointingly long time until I remembered the speedo was in miles not kms. /Forehead smack
  17. So a very minor update, I bought a dessicant dehumidifier and have been running it in the container with an extension cord from the shed. This is good as it will mean I still have a fiat in a month or two, but also isn't ideal as every car leaving the house runs over the lead across the driveway. On Saturday I removed the fairly chunky solar setup from my sisters bus which is probably getting scrapped/turned in to a cabin, and today i installed it temporarily in the container to run the dehumidifier. This wasnt great as even on the lowest setting it was drawing 39 amps. It might be ok once things are dry and its only topping it up but still. Then the inverter overloaded and stopped anyway. So that was a shit experiment but kindof fun. Also this is going to need paint soon and obviously I am too useless to be trusted with it. I can probably convince @HumberSS to come down and sort it with his epic skillset but I have also discussed it with @yoeddynz who is more conveniently placed. This was a fun conversation about international standard paint grades and how 'Imp Finish' was where we are aiming, ie fine from 100 paces.. I think it should be this but I would be interested in any feedback and suggestions.
  18. As I am currently trying to avoid doing a shit job I have no motivation for I have updated the build thread all the original pics i could find.
  19. Its complete and running apart from the heater fan apparently. I am going to set up some sort of dehumidifier in there. It cant come out until I finish the caravan at least.
  20. I am such a bad husband I dont actually know what that is. Its too late to ask.
  21. I still have the original photos so maybe if i am bored ill update them in the thread without the photobucket horseshit.
  22. Yea, do you remember the picture thread a month ago when I said selling it was my greatest car regret... How serendipitous.
  23. All tucked up where it will have to stay for a while until I clear the project decks.
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