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Love your work mate. Have contemplated doing something similar, can you explain the chemfix bit? I was thinking of bolting direct to the studs as whatever I build kids will no doubt try and climb on it...

When your stable of fermentation fridges grows (it likely will), a cheap and effective heater is a single bed electric blanket, $15 from the warehouse and has just enough power to step a ferment to finishing temp

New stance: Super happy with how it drives, rides and steers so much better. Unfortunately though my cunning plan that the new suspension would distract the WOF man away from the rust around the windscreen and A pillars didn't quite work, and she failed her wof last week. Prolly $1k to fix, but there's niggly bits starting elsewhere so teetering on going all in and do the full effort blast/fix/total respray. Soooo, anyone able to recommend someone in the kato that will do a damn nice job for a very decent price? Got a couple of ballpark quotes already, but keen for some oldschool recommendations... Cheers

Wof man said I need new leaf bushes, so decided to give cruiser a birthday and do full suspension overhaul. Settled on an Old Man Emu kit - ordered mid December 3 months later full list of parts still hasn't shown up which is pretty dumb. Enough to make a start though, which I did today and found this when I pulled out the first front spring: The eagle eyed will notice that the leaf eye has sheared off and the only thing keeping the spring captive was the wrap of the next leaf. This would give probably 20mm of side play - and quite glad the diff didn't decide to go for a walk while going around a corner at 100kmh. Thought it had shit wandering steering but just put that down to #cruiserlife, Wof man probably missed also as pretty hard to see hidden inside spring hanger box. Anyway, im thinking it might drive quite a lot better. Will chuck up a pic when all installed, is a 2" lift but will probably get 3 or maybe given how flat old springs were.

Nice, old school kiwi batch-spec

Good shit on getting this thing moving, looking forward to seeing what it can do... How are you setting up the dust collection, direct connection to the router or come in after to clean up the mess?

Cool, I found this thread that lathed up some wheels to ride on the extrusion https://www.festoolownersgroup.com/other-tools-accessories/router-sled-with-80-20/ but the above and below (?) multi roller style you linked to looks way better. In my head I was imagining almost identical to what you have built (box steel table with extrusion), but mounting at the extrusion ends rather than just shimmed to rest on top also seems like it'd be an improvement since then the table surface doesn't need to be mirror flat - at least for surfacing rigid slabs... Most of the slabs I've cut are 3.2m x 0.6-0.9m wide, so it is a fair run lengthways... Do you think the extrusion would sag at that length (carrying 2kw router)?

So what rides on the ali extrusions? I've been looking to build a router sled for surfacing slabs, full manual style and fancy linear bearings obviously way overkill but looking for a rail solution that is better than the all MDF projects that are all over the internet...

Been tossing up whether to keep the drive by wire setup or go to a cable throttle body. Was going to have to make a cable bracket or retrofit Chevy gas pedal either way, but making the pedal work looked like it was going to be hard given the shape of the foot well so decided to go manual style. Bought a not stupidly expensive but better than the generic super shit billet throttle bodies that are all over eBay. Bit bigger than what it is replacing too, throttle plate on the new one is 92mm. Made a shiny stainless bracket today and one more thing ticked off the list...

Looks wicked, perfect murica-lyfe tow wagon to suit too. Are you looking to do gigs with this or is the trailer just for fun?

At least you can go faster than 80kmh, DDing the BJ 80kmh is getting up there

Daily driving vibratey sparten interior old cars is the way of the future

Well done mate, looks mint. Did I miss the conditioning step? What wood did you use for the brisket?

Beer and meat on tap - ingenious. People are gonna be pleased to see you showing up at the party!...

This thing continues to inch forward. Have the intercooler mounted and pipes built. Have also done a few other things including mounting a remote radiator reservoir (since rad sits low), and modded this rad support/ crossmember thingee as wanted to get the intercooler as high as possible and throttle body pipe runs straight through. Ended up getting bit more than half of the intercooler in air flow with the grill fitted up, 2/3rds without. Happy with that outcome as with the tanks at top and bottom was pretty hard to achieve And here's what it looks like with grill and bonnet on, keen to paint it I think so is more sleeper/less moustache

Is this also screwed to the hood of the zuki? EDIT damn kimjon il beat me to it

CR500? Is it violent in the cab when you land? Second to last pic is wicked!

The funny thing is I was really grumpy when I made this as the perfectionist in me wanted to do a good job, but the reality is the kids couldn't give a shit and have been playing with it way more than full effort stuff I've made

That's so choice, is that a flying fox I also spy there?

Probably putting out a few more ponies than this lockdown-spec number I knocked together in a couple of hrs on Saturday. Sadly I couldn't find any donor bikes/carts/barrows for wheels so half of the time was jigsawing the epic 7-ply wagon wheels (with stainless tube-bushed, coach screw axles)... Goes hard for what it is

What motor is it rockin?

Forgot to add this crucial pic!

And here's what the inside of the fridge/airbox looks like: And as finishing touches I vinyl wrapped the serving fridge and spun up some new tap handles: Kauri Puriri Final product:

Another project that's been distracting me from getting the damn Hilux finished: Home bar/beer delivery setup As can be dredged from the archives of this thread I am a keen home brewer, and have wanted to setup a fancy beer font setup since our new house already had a basic bar: For the font I bought some shiny Italian taps and some 4" sanitary tube and elbows (dairy spec), that uses triclamps to section together. Here is a test fit (sans taps): Then welded on some legs to fix it to the bench, and buddy CNCd up some tap adapters radiused to the tube. These are acetal as you want the taps insulated from the font so the fridge doesn't have to work too hard. Delivering keg beer from a remote fridge sounds easy enough (recall tui ad), but there's actually some engineering involved as the temperature spike that happens to the beer when it leaves the fridge and hits the tap causes the CO2 to come out of solution = glass full of foam. So somehow you need to keep the beerlines and taps cold all the time, and since I wasn't prepared to spend $1000's on a commercial glycol-cooled setup, I decided to try an air-cooled design ala: Basically in the bottom of the fridge that houses the kegs is a plastic box with a CPU fan pushing cold air up a main tube that houses the beer lines and exposes the back end of the tap to cold air. The tube also contains a smaller diameter return line that allows the air to turn around and return to the fridge to complete the circuit. The first implementation of the above did not really work out, I used some ~3" diameter plastic 'oil suction hose' as the main tube and I was hoping the 5mm wall thickness would be enough insulation, but the font got really cold and the fridge ran pretty much constantly. At that stage decided to go all in and cast some insulation into the font body, which was a bit scary given the cost of the stainless pipe: I also insulated the section of tube that runs between the fridge and the font, which together with the above got the temp leakage under control.

Sounds awesome, and cool that its got some whine to it