shavenYak

yeah same here, will be going to see Head Like a Hole tonight, but might hve time to stop in and say hi

gonna need new hq location since readings is still closed

bowser rulz

sidehack rulz

moonshine rulz

yeah same here hayhayhay I'll just drop mine at yours or kickers place during the week?

So plan is to load up Manus/208 steeds and my steeds Thursday night,

Then Friday, pick up Joe and his bikes roll round to Kickers and load up his, and roll out from there

 

Any one else?

Oscar and or luke, do you need me to take your bikes?

yeah mang just a 20, I can take it to joes or something to save time if you want

you bringing backwards bike LEE?

yeah count me in for one raleigh 20 pls mr heyhole.  

I'll be there and I'll bring my friends falling over Oskar and drunk lost babbly Oskar.

YAY SCAFFBIKE!!

Will be there +1 nezuminora.

Gonna try to build a bike in the three weekends between now and then.  GO!

awesome ride boys and girls.  I managed to lose my helmet and am sore all over.  feels good man

Don't know where you're located, but when I was up in Auckland I always found these guys were good and really cheap:

http://www.staparts.co.nz/search_makemodel.php

yeah i got shitty spare 2 speed coaster hub if you need. no rim though

Exhaust flange lip is broken off on one side. Exhaust shops would stock these type of flanges right?

Tidied up the engine bay. I don't think satin finish white will be that great at staying white. My crossmember is now brunswick green.

Was going to drop the engine in today, but first I had a poke around under the chassis rail and found some nasties under a splash shield:

someone put pieces of the planet Mars in there? Weird.

So chassis repairs - I assume needs to be professionally done, or at least done to a professional standard.. Since I don't really have money at the moment I think this means I'll focus on getting the ute running well for nats instead of this. Will have to take the van to Nelson next year instead. Boo.

agree with manu. pretty sure this never happened?

First coat of engine bay paint, just to show I haven't been completely neglecting this.

yep am aiming to be sleeping in this at rangiwoods. Just need a bit more rust work, drop the engine into it, get new flange welded onto exhaust, and recore/replace radiator. But I've got ages till nats though, right?

Cut, weld, cut, weld, drink, cut, weld etc.

both sides pretty much done now, which is just as well since I ran out of gas for the welder.

Will have to get a refill as I need to attack the rust that's lurking below the rear bumper, which will be interesting cause I find it really hard to weld upside down.

just to fill in the timeline gap: Replacement block was sourced through Fueeeel. Got a hone and new bearings, reassembled and after a couple of trips back to Hastings the thing was back in action.

Has been pretty good apart from some carb troubles and losing water from somewhere. Managed to let it overheat a couple of times, which leads me to present day - got a bit hot on the motorway, pulled over to take a look and top up water etc and noticed poo brown milkshake oil. Grr..

Got the head looked at - as it turns out I could have spotted the issue pretty easy had I had a look.

Here's a photo of my big gaping crack: (NSFW)

Bought a new head and will be installing it this weekend.

Thought I'd better make use of this nice dry weather we're having and crack into some of the rust on this thing.

here's some!

don't know if I'm gonna be able to get this back in..

slapped some POR15 into the holes

Procrastinated too much today so this was as far as I got. New steel goes in tomorrow.

RIGHT, so almost a year later - I still own this beast. Joker was kind enough to lend me his trailer after Hawkes Boes, and KK and his grunty Commodore towed it from Ashhurst to our new place in Wellington. Bless.

Some time later I scored a cheap 12R that is supposedly in good running condition, got it back home and then more time passed...

Until today, when I finally mustered some motivation and cracked into the first half of the engine swap; getting the engine out.

Wasn't as hard as I thought it would be, and with Amber helping we got it out in about half an hour.

Now I have a large space where the old engine once was.

Next steps are, clean up the engine bay, get the new engine in. Then once that's done, I need to sort out the exhaust, which is broken/rusted out. Should really get the radiator re-cored, and of course fix lots of RUST!!!!

thanks guys - kk: 2 piece adaptor sounds interesting, I hadn't thought of doing it that way. But yeah to keep things simple I think I'll get the holes filled and redrilled. OR I could just slot the holes in the carb.. Hmm decisions, decisions..

by the way, this is my build thread you silly geese!

discussion izt here: //oldschool.co.nz/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=12230

yeah not sure how because the stud patterns are so similar - there's only a mm or two each way. So as far as I can tell the bolts would clash.. but I dunno - you tell me, you're the engineery type!

I've had this Weber 30 DGS carb lying around for a while now. Bought it reconditioned from Weber specialists up in Auckland. It's originally from a Citroen GS.

Only problem is it's mounting bolt pattern is only just slightly different to the original carb, so making an adaptor plate would be difficult.

So I was thinking of getting someone to weld the holes on the intake manifold and re-drill to suit the carb. Other option would be to widen and slot the holes on the carb, which seems a bit rough.

Who knows someone who could weld aluminium for me? Other suggestions?

DROOOOOOOL!Kghhgabblrarrrrrfgh I just jizzed with my mouth those wheels are gonna look AMAAAZING!!