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Cheers man What am i looking at getting stung to get it rodded? and is there anything you would recommend getting done aswell while they have the tank off

I believe the radiator was checked over before i got it (could be wrong, i will check with him) Does roding just clear all the built up gunk in the radiator? I thought this, but i would expect either gunky oil, white smoke out of the exhaust, or it actually overheating (going past the 3/4 mark)

Hi guys, Just starting to look into why my L26 is running hot..just want to get your ideas before i go buying a heap of new parts Background Old L26 6 cylinder in my Gloria is running hot (sits at 3/4 on the gauge on the open road, just over half on around town) Its never gone past the 3/4 mark, but being that my old engine used to sit around 1/4 and barely get close to 1/2 i am a little concerned... It currently doesn't have a thermostat in it, i tried putting one it but it just started to cook itself (went above the 3/4 mark) with a thermostat in When i put he engine in the Water pump seemed to be in good order I have been told the radiator was in good condition (I trust the person who told me) i have checked it out and i tend to agree The viscous van works, i even have a electric fan on the switch hooked up aswell So what else does that leave to be making the engine run hot?? thanks in advance Nathan

I assume we will need a new location being that it has burned down today!? http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/10163443/Waipara-hotel-engulfed-in-flames

Cheers man, year i wasn't sure how it was going to look, but i really like it, makes getting out the driveway a bit harder though!!

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Hey guys, Having another issue with the 36 Back story Car was running fine ( it is my daily) i got back from lunch park it back up at the office and went about the rest of my day, come knock off time i jumped in it and turned it over and it just keeps cranking...... Engines not getting any spark Power is getting to the both sides of the resistor and the coil Power is also getting to the earth wire that runs to the dizzy Points are opening fine... I chucked a test light in between the coil and the dizzy lead expecting the light to flash as i turned the motor over....it didn't so i replaced the coil and still nothing also grounded the dizzy lead and manually opened the points to discharge the coil expecting to see a jump...it didnt am i missing something obvious? Cheers Nathan

Anyone run wider rims on there scooter? have been digging this look for a while now... I'm wonder what the wider rims do to the handling? anyone had any experience with them?

I tried it on Felt like it gave me more bottom end less top but cant say for sure

They are more or less a bolt on aswell, everything matches up as far as i could tell from testing it out this weekend, The pit bike wheels where 17's as well so the original C50 should fit in there just fine! The are off one of these http://galleryplus.ebayimg.com/ws/web/181173935501_1_0_1/1000x1000.jpg even have the little expansion chamber exhaust, its odd as they are a 4 stroke so not sure why they have the expansion chamber.... might try fit it see what i looks like.... Yea, that was my first thought about the throttle assembly but i didn't know what the OG C50 is set up like (only thing i didn't end up looking at in the weekend) has it just got the standard cylinder thing on the end of the wire that will be universal to other set ups?

Hey Richie, what size are the new rims?

So i pulled these off a old pitbike i had out at my old mans, bit ruff but they should clean up nicely Any body done a similar conversion? need to find where i can get a new throttle set up that will fit the new bars...as you can see the one on there is held together with tape haha

Both are 15x8, ill measure offset next time i have them off, Chris had the offset increased by about an inch from standard

Will likely be selling them if your interested Cheers man, missed this thread.......

Anyone used Elite or other company for getting new outer lips made? any advice/price estimate?

So haven't really updated in a while sorry guys Got it a new WOF the other day Also have sourced another bonnet from RBlover (Ivan on NZDatsun) he kindly gave me to front guards aswell, they arent in that great condition but panel beater might be able to use parts of them Also picked up these the other day, they are 14x6 +11 Long Champ 3 piece welded rims (unfortunately they aren't genuine but oh well) plan is to get Pine Engineering or Elite to make some new outer lips to make them into 14x7.5 (front) and 14x8.5 (rear) and hopefully they end up looking like this :) Discuss //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?showtopic=31099#p722313

Hi Guys, Pretty new to the bike/moped game but i am already hooked! Started off with this little 87 FA50 i brought at the start of the year It did me well and i rode it to work most sunny days, but just didn't quite have the top end i was after So sold the Fa to the mrs and brought this of a fellow oldschooler "Rob" as per tittle its a 1970 C50 It has been retrofitted with an unknown 90cc engine (4 speed manual), has a top end of around 75km at the moment. has been converted to 12v aswell Paints in pretty poor condition and few things missing but it seems like a pretty honest bike. Pic dump Took it for a run up the port hills on Saturday, hauls up the hills Plan is to figure out what the engine is in it, Chop it up, paint it and ride it

Fixed, ended up being a fucked starter, chucked a new one in and shes all go! Cheers for the advice guys!

Yea it does, it crash starts and runs/drives Haha i hooked up a temp switch in the engine bay bypassing all the wiring and it still wouldnt turn it over well is it possible that the starter operates normal under a bench test but the gear wont spin once its loaded up (connected to the flywheel)

Have replaced all the power and earth wires, that didnt remedy that problem unfortunately Bench tested the starter, it seemed to pop out and spin as it should just sounds like the starter hasnt got enough grunt to move the flywheel around

Choice, will try this first! Cheers Cheers!

Hey Guys, Picked up a Ke36 last week that i plan on using as my daily. Having an issue with it turning over, has a good strong battery in it (out of the gloria) but when turning the car over it sounds like the car has a dead battery ??? wiring issue or starter or something, ive never come accross it before... any ideas?? (before you ask no the battery isnt dead, i can chuck it into the gloria and it starts it up straight away) Cheers Nathan

Love the way this thing is looking!

Been a while since i have posted here, So ill give a breif update of the last few months Got this running Daily driver got stolen Needed car to get to work so took Gloria for WoF, failed on stupid stuff (exhaust been classed as lowest point, a couple of minor dents) Took it for recheck at different place, only failed on a few minor bulbs etc, Got a WOF Proceeded to be stoked that it had a WoF Alot of fucking around with the fuel system as it was causing problems and that about brings us to last weekend were i fixed the fuels issues! still needs a tune but its running alot better! So i have registered for Old School Nats in March, need to make sure the old girl is up for the trip! would be nice to have her sitting on some new rims before then but that will depend on how much i can save of the xmas break Discuss //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/31099-dirty6s-1978-c331-datsun-gloria/page-4

Na i never gave out my address to the guy, no way he could have known where it was