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As seen elsewhere on os.ng, I acquired a rong-fu mill drill, which necessitated a complete rejigger of the place. No wanting to lose my fuckin sick old chest of bank drawers, I have a plan. Moving this thing means first removing all 22 separate double sinked, adjustable depth drawer, I once tried to walk it across the floor, and as strong as it is the weight started crushing the corner. Chopped four draws high off, the bottom 1.5 draw were missing anyway. Used a spot weld drill, removed the floor, squared up the edges and bent it over with a pair of wide flat vice grips, worked really well. Tucked the corners in nice. Then realized I couldn't actually fit the floor and and to unbend it! And back up, you'd never know bar the plug weld burn through. Less drawers forces me to be more efficient and throw some crap out. Spent ages cleaning and chopping up metal. Nearly went with this design as the mill footprint is only 320 between bolt holes. Fully weldy now, I've got a 2x6 plank for the top.

Think I may have solved my flooding problem, put everything back together, turned on the fuel pump to prime the carbs and it pissed out the side of the banjo fitting! Seems this fibre washer fucked out. So that's the fuel leak sorted, now onto the massive oil leak and yet another broken exhaust mount! VW life!

Yeah I think the china carbs are a super common upgrade. What size engine did these DRLA dells come on @Thousand Dollar Supercar? 1800-2000cc?

Guwd damn, I'd love me some rack and pinion steering in the vw!!

Well, that was inconclusive. It was about now I remembered my eyes aren't as good as I thought. Cleaned everything, needle seems good, floats look okay, float and aren't full of gas. Guess I'll hook it up and see if it over flows again.

Thanks guys, will inspect tonight. I usually change the oil when it's warm, should I dump it cold in this case?

Got given this thing the other day. Brown 80s tiles had to go. Nice solid timber, smashed a bit of ply on the end. And the best bit! Mmmmm boil linseed oil.

Had my first major problem for a while with the bug on Monday evening. Id moved the car outside to work on garage stuff, went to start it later and the motor wouldn't turn over. The left carb was wet and dripping fuel everywhere, got the car pushed inside, removed the carb and sparkplugs, engine turns over by hand, carb was making a gurgling sound!? So hopefully the piston rings and bearings are okay. After a Google it looks like I've got a stuck needle valve or broken float? How or what do I need to look for? Is that the valve attached to the float mechanism? How do I actually diagnose this? Any wisdom from the carb Barrys?

Next project!! Looks awesome man.

Beautiful man, picture with the paper stacked please.

Behold, the finger-remover5000! Made the heaviest duty pastry cutter for my baker friend, I am looking forward to payment.

Lol, which is how I ended up making a shift knob for the boy's slammed out drift missile. Had this chunk of stainless, fuckin thing weights a lot!

Rickenbacker you say....

Got the rest done.

Making use of the deck leftovers. The plastic wood on the outdoor furniture was rotting so spent yesterday afternoon replacing it, am going to let it go silver so everything isn't to matchy matchy. Beanbags look like giant bra?

The problem is you don't have enough oil spraying around the engine bay to keep the dust done! 5th gear must be nice.

Nice work man, stick it to the cert man!!

A cert.

Semi pointless update. I did score these for a reasonable price. 6.5inch 3way JBLs. Asian dude selling several pairs for dollar reserves on TM, look brand new, he had the boxes etc but was selling the grills separately, which I didn't want anyway. I'll 3D print a trim to cover the screws. Plan to make proper front pods like this. Also, this Bluetooth unit sucks! Will have to replace it with something better.

Drove this thing to work today. Unhooked the el-cheapo blueteeth module, test the amp with a rca plug, fine, reconnected the module and it works fine. It does get random electrical interference, the old turn off and turn it back on gets rid of it. Took the gas tank out the other night and turned the tie rod half a turn, tracks much straightnesser. It's running real nice now, once she's all warmed up it just hummms.

Fuck you sistema and your shitty little clips.

After a month in the shed it needed a good wash, also gave all the windows a good clean which really tidy it up. Next thing is the Bluetooth amp has fucked out and I need to sort the long tie rod, I think it's gotten bent hitting the bottom of the gas tank, low life problems.

Father in-law asked me if I could fix his numberplate light off his 1953 Ford Prefect. Some Barry had given him piece of 2mm acrylic but he reckoned a old coke bottle works better. From when tail lights were glass. Stripped it down, blasted it clean, primed and painted it. Cut out a seal for the clean glass. Found some thin frosted plastic sheet. Only problem is now it's the nicest thing on the car!

Nice work Alex, I think you may have out done yourself with the pod set up! Not only the fact you can get all these different parts working together but it all looks so factory, but better!

Once I was happy that was all sealed up, I checked the muffler fitted and tacked it in place and melted it up, note the self clearancing flange. Also took the opportunity to fix a couple other small things. I had to mangel this flange a few decades ago, for some reason the stud was bent on my old head and instead of fixing that I just cut a massive notch. Sorted, and 3D printers think they invented "additive manufacturing" Happy with that I gave it all some more hi temp paint. And fitted it all back together with some shiny new hardware. Took it for a drive seems fine, engine actually felt I bit smoother, I think. Will see how it goes. Pretty happy with the repaired header as I haven't done a lot of pipe/tube welding, TIG welding is bloody cool, so much more control. Chur.