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24 minutes ago, Thphantum said:

Rust Cut (noun): the part you cut out because it's too rusty 

apparently. 

what's the go with billet plates anyway, side wear on the regular plates seems to be a major issue, how does the aluminum deal with it? 

anybody else got an old car legal? fuck no lol 

is it time lads? 

I'll also go one step even more contentious and say new 'wrong' oil is better than old 'right' oil but I think we're all living in fear of a lubricant foamer showing up in this thread 

had to brag about it here because nobody at work cares and I dare not tell my wife 

Bought a hoist, I'll do it myself (if I ever get around to installing it) 

I'd do it in a heartbeat 

Poor old triumph failed it's wof for underbody rust, I had a quick look and didn't see anything too terminal except around some seams. Is there any gc in northland who does the whole underbody sandblast/treat/epoxy shebang? 

right, if im not going to oakura tomorrow I'll drop in 

did it go ahead in the end? or all snotted by the weather 

Then perhaps a guy I know might bring his gt6

if we say that hypothetically the warrant status of vehicles at this show isn't a matter of keen scrutiny, just saying, I mean as a moot point of argument for the sole purpose of fostering robust debate 

who what when why? 

so what did they actually take? just the running gear?? 

On 11/01/2023 at 20:16, DB8-TypeR said:

Depends where you are by the sounds, down these ways its policy that every single break in and theft gets at least visited and prints taken where possible so that eventually when the person gets caught for something then they can be tied to all their previous crimes too

When my mate's Evo got stolen a trillion years ago the cop's response was "well you're insured so what's the problem?" 

9 hours ago, kws said:

My mother had one of these U13s when i was growing up. NEVER serviced it (literally never, no oil changes, no spark plugs, nothing), put heaps of KM on it, overheated it a couple of times, blew the engine (completely seized), replaced the engine and kept going for a few more years until it was replaced with a Honda Fit (Which at my insistence got semi-regular oil changes). A cockroach of a car.

"one lady owner" 

So what happens when it's running and you add 12v momentarily to the field? 

I think the wrong field coil would have an affect, something something less lines of flux being cut etc 

I assume there's some kind of external regulator? Normally there's a few adjustments to be made there

this one is only a couple of months old. And I'd never bring the boy he is the devil incarnate 

I shan't be bringing mine if she's behaving like she is now, phwoar 

damn, I was just thinking I hadn't seen any fellow northlanders post in a while

I will have to clear with the wife... no promises lol 

ah, the rotor and eccentric shaft rotate at different speeds don't they. Otherwise you wouldn't need a rotor bearing at all. The rotor drives the e-shaft like a big end bearing drives a crank, and the stat gear stops it from kicking around the bearing. 

as you were, lads. I believe it's modular monday in three hours 

Trying to picture it now, I suppose it's mounted on the journal but not keyed to it, so without the stat gear it could rotate aimlessly.. why isn't it keyed to the e-shaft? 

Can I ask a dumb rotang question... why does the motor need stationary gears? If the rotor is mounted on a journal on the eccentric shaft, I can't really picture why it also needs to hula around a toothed gear too