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I can post you my oxy torch tip files....

I fully recommend it as a good day out to those who have not been to watch the hillclimb before. Some pretty choice varied machinery turns up because its a mix of Nelson car club weapons and Vintage car club weapons (with maybe the odd Uno mixed in...) Have fun peoples!

Well... at least having carbs means you get to generate pretty patterns It is a shame that re-cert costs the full whack, so I believe, even if it's just one thing that's been changed. That was my one gripe and issue I raised when the lvvta did their survey a while back.

I thought you could do injection so long as you dont have an increase in power of more than 20% ? If it were mine Id just slap the injection on there and run it. Im sure any half decent friendly garage wouldn't give a shit. Mine wouldn't. All you are after is better running eh.. not mega power.

Man... you have acess to all the toys. Very jealous. Please tell us more about the race car! Oh and your baby ain't as fluffy as our baby so you have it easy.. no fur to clean up etc.

Yep- I know those issues. We have a cat. Glad for updates. I was thinking about this car the other day and wondering how it was progressing.

Certainly not the prettiest setup but hell- for that price... crikey. I think I paid over 100 nzd for my o2 sensor alone. What sensor is that kit using?

It's a width thing.. our tracks are narrow and we want to keep the that way. Wide enough for a quad. Makes them much nicer for biking a walking. But yeah.. this quad has turned out to be in very good condition, bar the engine repair needed. We will just use it for now and see what it's like. However if I can sell the trailer for ok coin we might end up with a good quad for less than $500 and I won't feel so bad about modifying it. Plus it's a great starting point. I have been looking for ages and there's always good reason why cheap quads are cheap... I'm amazed at how much new quads cost too! New version of these are 12 k plus !!!

My own private Denniston incline. Hmmmm. I’d still get to wear a boiler suit and engineers hat too. Actually my Mum’s side of the family came from the westcoast and Grandfather worked in the mines as a steam engineer. My great Grandfather died in a big explosion there. But an incline would be lots of work and Ive done enough digging for now.. Anyway..back to the Big Red. I took some photos. It has the optional factory fan fitted which will be handy for slow ascents.. You can see the damaged thread here… It came complete with a gun rack and spot light mount. I don’t have a gun (getting firearms license is on the list of things to do as we have many pigs and deer) , but my cousin visiting has some so I tested it out… Hannah has been cleaning the engine parts but we will get something stronger to get the last bits clean. Its not bad but makes sense while its apart. I found another small broken bolt in the cylinder barrel. I mounted it on the drill mill and and managed, with the help of some localised heat, to remove the remains. My next task is to drill out, tap and helicoil the stripped head bolt thread. We bought a head gasket set from a local trademe seller who does up old bikes. Handy to know. Reassembly will commence when I have finished a large trailer build (that I really should be out doing now..but coffee to drink..)

Where can one buy acids? Not at New World that's for sure.

Party time at Denhams work..... Huffing and chroming gtfo... Denhams got the good shit!

Awesome offer !! however I want to get this m/bike sorted maybe even this weekend plus the bits are not so bad to warrant posting it away. However- you are my new BFF and I shall hope to take you up on your cleaning services offer in the future

Oven cleaner.... didn't think of that one. I'll get some and kill gorse too. Then follow it up with torries idea of a lemon wash so it smells nice. The alloy that is.. not the gorse.

Ok so I've a general cleaning old motor bike engine parts question Id like advice on but maybe people have some great tips on other cleaning jobs to do with cars. Perhaps you've found the perfect ratio of diesel to pine handy Andy with which to clean your felt head lining spotlessly.. if so then post it here. My query is how best to clean baked on oil off alloy castings on a motor bike engine. I've tried petrol and de-greaser but not much luck. I was wondering about using paint stripper but wanted to check it won't damage the alloy. Any ideas? If I was made of money and had more time I'd take the parts to a engine recon place and get them to clean it but I'd rather find a way I can do it myself. It's not terrible but since the parts are off I might as well try cleaning them. Plus gearboxes etc when they get that oil stained look. Anyone here found something good to clean them with? Maybe something slightly alkaline?

but not as fun as twisting a throttle/riding a miniature train..

It's all finished ages ago and the owner loves it. Takes it camping etc. Has now got some posh fold out tent thing on the roof.

Shit yeah !!!!! I'd love that and did drawings of an idea after first walking to the ridge but before we actually bought the land of a mono rail with self powered Recaro seats. I'll see if I've still got the drawing. Then started thinking about miniature railway. I think I'd started a thread ?

Hiya and cheers. the hatch was made by one of old boys at that workplace while I was away on holiday. He did a great job. As for the paint job.. not sure on cost but it would not have been cheap. There was a shit load of prep work and a lot of paint on there. You can always message the painter- Shane at Custom Colours, Nelson. he has a face book page here... (copy and paste url into search bar?) https://www.facebook.com/Custom-Colours-Nelson-727054040699835/?ref=br_rs Alex

They'll be over head. Not talking really heavy stuff though. It'll be sensible amounts. Honestly carrying anything up our hill is tiring so even if its just a few lengths at a time I'll be happy. I guess if I had to take something chunky up I could make a simple dolly and tow it, thus keeping the weight down very low. I took some more photos this morning and will post them up soon...

Yeah the thought of rolling it is scary enough.. it's a chunky monkey. 220kgs smashing onto a skull etc. I can see why people get fucked over when they roll one. So yep.. it will certainly be a case of trying it out on the main track we intend to use it on and see what it's like. I've barely any quad riding experience so won't be going in Gung ho like. Try it out, get a feel and evaluate what it might be like with the layout changed. If we decide to just leave it alone then I'll still add a basic roll cage with some rack to carry timber. Only two main corners to go round and both are easy as. So I won't be risking sideways tipping. Main concern will be going downhill. Had a looksie at engine. Only appears to be one stripped thread and it has come supplied with three thread repair inserts. Plus I've got the right tap for them. Sweet ! It'll need a new head gasket. Repco? Motorbike shop? Trademe ? Hmmmmmm time to shop.

Oh yeah- it would be easier as far as work involved. But a trailer wont work with the corners, plus I want a tipping tray, a rack up top and a more usable quad. Basically build a simple load lugger that suits our application. Forward control means we have more weight and grip over the front axle for up hill and we get a longer tray for the given wheelbase. It will only be our feet over the front. our backsides will sort of reside over where the current h/bar is. Im not at all worried about losing attack angle on the front because there is no where that we need super amazing bank descending/ascending abilities. A trailer will stlll probably happen as well, but as an extra. I will draw some sketches but today its entertaining uncle time and bbq/beer consumption time. Edit; oh plus.. i want to build my own creation so there is a whole lot of fun and challenges right there.

Yeah. I laughed when I read in a recent bike mag review of latest honda about the Powersteering. I thought Wtf !? Ps on a quad!! But actually even on this just pushing it about its hefty enough. With two people up front on soft tyres it'll definitely be needed. Plus if I add it at the head tube where the h bar currently rotates through I can take all the stress off what ever mechanism I use to transfer the h bar movement backwards.. be it cables or rods. And I could cut the bars down in width. I've also toyed with the idea of a rack and pinion but it only moves a small amount.

For ages Hannah and I have been after some sort of vehicle as a means to get stuff up to our ridge top for a cabin build plus for lots of other carting shit about the place. I had originally been thinking of some sort of tracked vehicle. Years ago, like 22 years ago, I worked for Doc for six months on the West coast. Among counting Kiwis, penguins, painting huts etc I did a lot of track work. On one of the tracks we had use of two power barrows. Honda powered things and quite cool. I learned quickly that on the way back from dumping a load of gravel you could stick it in reverse, stand in the tray and ride it backwards. Great fun (at 10kph...). So my idea was to get one of them to modify. But so spendy and so slow. We have three neighbours in our valley who have got the side by side farm thingees. What are they officially called? Anyway.. they are cool and I want one. But again..not cheap. Plus they are a bit too wide. I started thinking about adapting a quad bike. I want to get long lengths of timber up easily, plus, in true Kiwi fashion, I want to build something. It’ll be fun and I can design it around what we need for here. So for yonks Ive been looking on TM for a cheap quad to rip apart. Something beyond usual economic repair, like a rusty or damaged frame. I asked and left our number at the local motorbike shops, asked our neighbours to ask about among the local farmers etc. Nothing turned up suitable or people still wanted space ship money for something I was going to chop up. Then my uncle rang me. His mate had a 1988 Honda Big Red ( or otherwise known as a Fourtrax) TRX 300 AW that had been sat a few years with stripped head studs but otherwise in really good condition and on a trailer. He wanted a grand for it with the trailer. He sent some photos. It looked good and he knows the bike well so a deal was done. My uncle delivered it today and its good. It has really good tyres and the owner had had the wheels galvanised before having the tyres fitted. Which is nice. The frame has only really got light surface rust in places. The plastics are good although faded and the seat is good too. Rear brake works but front fluid is down. I suspect the wheel cylinders have poorly seals and they have emptied their guts out into the drums. The engine is clean, although in two halves. The cylinder liner shows no wear and the head looks good. Apparently the owner couldn’t get the plug out as it was seized in. He broke the plug so took the head off. Freed the plug but in replacing the head stripped the stud threads in the block. Or something like that. I dunno. I’ll just fix what needs fixing. Heli-coils or what ever is better. I know there are different options out there for thread inserts and I have no experience so any advice welcome. Until I have a better look I cant say what the holes are like. So our plan is roughly this. Sell that trailer. Make some coin back. We don’t need or want it. Fix the engine, clean it up, run it a while and ride it. Try it out on our tracks. Probably roll it and break something/someone. If it goes hard for what it is then I’ll strip it back, sell the plastics, seat, tank and any other stuff we don’t need. I want to lengthen the frame from the engine forwards by roughly 200-300mm, heavier springs up front if possible so it can take the extra weight of having a forward control setup. I have no plans or need to drop it down into river beds and no need for crazy attack angles so having feet over the front wont worry me, so long as I protect them. Rough ideas at this time are to utilise the existing handle bar with all its controls. It will most likely need powersteering added from a later bike, maybe with an electric pump? Or are they full electric assist? I have no idea on how quad bike systems work. I could use gear box cables from old fwd cars to control the gearshift. Or rods. Its unlikely in use on our land to see much more than second gear anyway. Build a lightweight steel frame over the front to take a basic bench seat for two, a roll cage with a rack on top. The extra wheel base will move the engine weight back and that combined with the forward control layout will allow a tipping tray on the back. We have a lot of fire wood sitting already to come down and many, many trees for future cutting. A decent tray will be handy. It has a good tow bar as well so a future trailer will certainly be built. I shall draw some sketches and post them up. It has till now been totally just me and my grey matter rummaging up simple ideas in my morning day dream slumber. I’m totally keen on any advice. I think once I put some sketches up you’ll all get a better idea. For now here is a photo of what we have… I can see it now.. it'll work perfect as is and I will just leave it alone, build a trailer. But shit.. where is the fun in that!!! So tempt me with neat ideas

Just drop another rod down inside the oil cap as a spare. You only need four but three will actually do. Remember- its not some silly toyota. Its British so it will run happily on oil alone.

You're doing well son. Doing well. I've had my stint. I hand the baton over to you.