JasonK

So this is sold now, gone down to chch. bit sad to see it go but go too many cars etc.

What are the rules about seat belts? just bought a new wagon with three point retractables in the front and a lap in the centre front which is all good but the back seat only has a lap belt in the centre (which someone has put in at some stage i think) and no belts in the dicky seat, its a '79 chev caprice but was first registered here in '80, will it pass a wof like this?

I'm an NSRA member, its a good club but real tight knit. you will have to go to a few meets etc before you can join though to make sure you fit in/aren't a dick haha

As far as I'm aware you don't need a repair cert unless the car was tagged for rust when it came into the country or has failed a re-vin and the guy doing it has said you need one. If you do the repairs well no body should be able to tell anyway

Sucks that I couldn't make the whole thing but shit happens. Was a good night anyway

holy shit what a good week,brain is still on overload. will try n put some pictures up later.

oh well see what we can find, going to auckland now, see you guys there

sweet will give that a go

shit yeah, hitting auckland tommorow, bathurst tuesday. probably should be packing not drinking.

Whats a good australian beer? last time we went we brought up large on some shit the bottle store guy recommended and it was pretty average.

If you want one just for the looks I'd go for that type but your wanting to use it you would definatley be better off getting a newer one

most of the wagooneers have CBs. not much to hooking one up, a power wire and an earth plus an aerial.

just buy snap on/spam

I'm yet to find a hammer handle that is as comfortable as a snap on one. Definitely worth paying the extra if your using it every day, I find the toptul ones especially uncomfortable

we'll be in sydney for a sunday night. I can't remember the name of the motel they gave us, think its some fancy place lol

You driving back to Sydney after the race? Man that sounds super unfun..

PS - JK I left my deck chair at your place on Saturday - can you please bring to Hawkes Boes..

i meant monday haha.

No worries re deck chair, also have a fair few flagons for you

we'll be in sydney for a sunday night. I can't remember the name of the motel they gave us, think its some fancy place lol

I brought cheap ones off trademe and they faded to shit within 6 months but got a roll from repco and has been on there for about 2 years and still good and dark, looks just as good as some of the pro jobs I've seen.

Holy shit yes, the rules say fires are allowed. Also one 24 box of piss or one 750ml of spirit per day per person. But pffft you know how much booze you can stash in a 70's wag?

Which campground are you guys in?

If you don't have a fire on the mountain your the odd one out haha. Make sure you stash booze well, when we went in '10 they went right through the camper and were not even keen on letting us take in the glasses that came with the camper, so you definately wanna make sure you have cans and have put spirits into plastic. Also drug dogs everywhere

+1 for chassis punch, can't beat them

The saw is a johnsered 2040 turbo, would be sweet if you could do that man.

Na I gave it a good drying with a blow down gun before I checked for a spark

Tried a brand new plug today and it ran for about 10 seconds then wouldn't start again so I checked it was still sparking, it wasn't so I checked flywheel gap and it started for another 10 or so seconds, checked and no spark, gap was still mint, kill switch not earthed out when switched to run but does when in off position. Have checked flywheel keyway is still sweet. I'm seriously starting to doubt the coil. Might be time to buy a new coil, but that's probably half of a new saw haha

Not really sure where to set the jet so have just tried them in a few different spots haha

I think I was the only one on here that was from matamata and I'm not there now.

Am Starting to think it might be the coil fucking out because sometimes when you take the plug out and check for spark there is none but other times there is, is there any way to test them?

try a new plug and also take the kill switch out of the equation.

assuming your chainsaw isn't super duper oldschool and it has solid state ignition? it will either work or it wont. If it is oldschool magneto with points etc then its a different story, clean and set you points and try again. If its medium oldschool with a little sperate module pluged into the coil then that could be the issue as they do like to fail.

but yeh there are 99 reasons why a chainsaw/weedeater will run like shit. You get similar symptoms from almost every problem.

9/10 its spark plug. seems to be the smaller the engin e the more sensitive they are.

edit: only other thing you could check on coil would be the air gap to the flywheel magnet. Should be 10 thou. Sometimes if the gap is wayy big you get funny intermitant spark problems.

the easiest way to work out if its spark,fuel or compression is to pour a little petrol down the plug hole. if it starts and runs then cuts out then look into carb.

I've eliminated the kill switch, have tried a different plug that was running sweet in a similar saw but will try a brand new one and have also reset the coil-flywheel gap to about 15 thou. Had it running for a 30seconds or so this arvo without the air filter on and it was spraying a mist of petrol back out at my hand before it died

empty the gas tank, take the cap off and stuff a wet rag into the hole, cover any lines etc with wet rags and you'll be sweet

edit: Beaten

Having a few chainsaw issues, Bloody thing will occasionally start and run like shit for a minute or two then die, I've pulled the carb to bits and cleaned it all out. Am Starting to think it might be the coil fucking out because sometimes when you take the plug out and check for spark there is none but other times there is, is there any way to test them?

ok so let's say you have an 80s car with a urethane bumper which has sagged a bit. it's supposed to have flat surfaces that follow the curves of the bonnet and fenders but kinda has starved horse syndrome. just enough to be noticeable. is there a filler flexible enough?

You can buy bumper filler, but you probably don't need to, you can do wonders with a heat gun and a dolly, just heating and pushing with the dolly from the inside out then give it a blast with a blow down gun to cool it off, if its a painted bumper I normally just give them a quick run over with a body file to smooth it all out then sand and paint.