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I'm sure they will happily close that loophole. Lets be honest, cars have to meet certain criteria to be allowed on the road. Don't meet those rules and they can't be compiled to be on the road. Whacking some railway track on the front of your rig throws any of that compliance out the window. Surprised it's taken them this long to crack down on it.

Typically an automotive paint shop for me. I find my local one is cheaper than SCA / Repco for pretty much everything. Mine is Spraystore, but if you have an automotive paint shop in town, which I imagine you do, i'd go hit them up when you're mobile again and see what they got.

You've seen quick release steering wheels... But have you seen quick release bullbars??? BEHOLLLLLD my new product. The feathers will sure be flying!

No one cares. As for the actual topic of springs, just give Chamberlains a call, was a year ago I popped in so I don't recall the price for some custom springs. Wasn't cheap, but also wasn't more than one would expect to pay for someone to calculate the exact spring needed to meet the requirements you provide when ordering.

Man I should dig out my C64 games and try flog them. Has been on my to do list for a year easily. Did you test them or sell as is sort of thing? Were they PC games?

Thinking out loud you could also get some progressive springs made, best of both worlds. Long enough to remain captive and secure between top hat and base. Without needing to be a soft spring to be the right length / spring rate. My rear springs are progressive. They are stupidly short, but they are progressive. I'm guessing budget is the reason to run straps or the likes vs new springs that fit the bill? I was pretty close to getting Chamberlains to make me a pair of springs but due to time constraints, I made what I had work. But it would have been easier than the extra effort needed to make my stuff work. Also keep in mind you need 40mm droop or 1/3 of suspension travel as droop. Could be worth having a measure.

Another option would be cobra springs made to suit. That was a path I looked at for the rear of mine. They would do the maths on a spring needed to fit the specs you provide. 20mm longer for example with slightly lighter spring rate to keep final ride height the same? With the keeper springs you may need to make a custom adaptor to your your springs. There were only two sizes of spring that I recall, both within a few mm of each other to suit different coilover brands. I went keepers in front as needed 10mm more travel for cert, otherwise would have avoided as it means springs aren't tight in coilover, but does the job fine.

Those came up mint!

Not going to lie, I don't know what imp suspension looks like. I have similar keeper springs in my Rolla certed though. Is imp coilover or divorced up front?

Multimeter time to check where there is electrons and where there isn't at the charger port?

Solar panels / frames?

Surely there will be a few places around that will do refills. How much longer left on test for your cylinder? Depends how much gas you use I guess too, i'm a very infrequent user so my owner cylinder made sense. Last fill and test was 90 odd bucks and will last me a few years.

Bit cheaper, but doesn't sound like you need it now with an empty cylinder, whoops. https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace/building-renovation/tools/other/listing/4381774118 and Xcel https://www.georgehenry.co.nz/shop/Welding/Accessories/CO2+Adaptor+Xcel+Gas.html

I'm impressed and jealous. They never have the cool stuff I want available anymore.

I think she'd be less upset with a sausage boil up in the spa, than Bart would be if someone leaked oil on his driveway.

Yeah sounds like a plan, good food, good yarns.

Was there any Saturday arvo plans? I went to put Gov pub on the calendar and there is a 1st Birthday party already there. I'm sure he won't notice if i'm at the pub and not his first party, right?

Can you mail me a TGP wof sticker?

I might be missing something, but if this was a known to be loose from before current ownership, why wasn't it fixed when first noticed? Rolling around with loose suspension doesn't sound like a good idea. Yeah should be picked up, but seems like it was known about so should have been sorted before check really. Devils advocate etc. If it was purely just from driving it and noticing a knock / wobble, always worth a look with an unknown car history.

Undercar Service Centre did all the brake work on my diff before they moved to Hayton Road, skimming some rotors would easy for them i'd say. They skimmed my drums and rebuilt the lot including supply of new master. Good service IMO. /thought you had a lathe

Someone who works at Toyota posted in this thread, so that would be a good place to start. Then Amayama.

That ^^

Depends where you are located too. I trust my local workshop but that might be quite far from local to you.

Make it worth the trip by grabbing the pram and bicycle at the same time /and the rest

Talk to Anton first, he can whip anything up. Might even get away with adding a new groove between those two and have it line up ok with a fiddle of the rest.