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P-Star - it is possible that you will soon be in the market for a large custom trailer to carry your fine selection of rusty death traps? We may have a great deal for you!

Dolan, it has 185R14s now that are basically unworn and holding air well, but crazy perished. Also tall. Could easily lower it (underslung to over, c-notch or unsprung) but, meh. Not planning on keeping it long.

Mr Out, they may be perfect, at least for WoF, new purchaser can replace original heavy duty tyres on original rims should they care about what they are towing or other road users...

YES! (except 4x114)

but achully no, smaller is probably better so tray is lower for car loading

all donations gladly accepted

however the brakes are pretty big so 13s may not fit over them, and all going well we will need some rims/tyres in the next couple of weeks or so for WoF time.

But yes. Trailer stance.

worst happens we can steal a couple of rims from the Primera   (Mrs Gra-ant, can we borrow a couple of rims from the primera for the road fort me and chris have been building?)

sunday #4: First paint

Last weekend we finished the heavy stuff, and today we mostly finished welding 'structural' improvements back on, including extra underfloor cross bars, a side rail for the side ply to screw to, and a tie down rail above that.

May put in a few droppers between the two side bars for strength and stop tie downs sliding backwards and forwards.

Dropped the axle out and pulled that apart, apart from the rims being well stuck on, all the beanings and brake parts are in good condition and have/will clean up nicely.

Then we wire wheeled the rough bits, coat of rust converter then a thinned coat of killrust.

Chris is gonna chop a bit more steel for the tail gate and light bar at work so get that all done and another coat o paint next weekend.

BLIMP!

yep, my dellortos are (now) ace

gas definitly shoudnt come out the top - float level is way out (not shutting needle valve), needle valve is worn not shutting off the gas, or fuel pressure too high (no more than 2-3psi like kicker said - for carbs you need flow not pressure).

You can set the float with a drill bit of the right diameter betwen the float and the cover with gasket on just closing the needle - there are pletly of diagams online - its about 7mm for dellortos, but find a reliable site and look up your float (they are differnt weights = different cleances)

just adding to the love of your work

- clean underparts, fresh paint and squeaky new bushes

yumyumyum

so keen for burgers with the never taken option of mexican.

anyone coming up from Hamilton that could drag a couple of rims with them? xox

Yeah, we are gonnal leave the box as1: its more work to remove and 2: leaves more options for future use (bill board/caravan/coffee cart/horse float/mobile nudie bar etc). Or just pop a tarp on it for camping or whatever.

Will be a small car/big garden trailer initially

also

WANTED:

TYRES

Sensible Option 14" commercial tyres to replace current ones (185/C/R14 van type)

Other option: 2x random 4x114 rims with tyres - maybe lower profile to ease car loading steeps.

PLY: 4 maybe 5x sheets of thick ass treated ply for floor, sides and tail gates.

PAINT: thinking rust converter and Killrust, or Por15 system.

Suggestions/hookups or what have yous?

Episode 3: Progress is Made

Last weekend we made a start on this thing.

Idea is to make a trailer that is actually usable for day to day stuff from this b-train, and sell it  once jobs are done for project moneys.(or keep it).

Either way, its too big for anything but towing a blimp, and we havnt got one.

We started by ripping off all the shitty ply to see how rusty it actually it and what we would be working with.

It turns out its not really rusty at all. Everything is intact and working (apart from lights and tyres are perished).

Its just BIG

Dr Euro-wees preparing the precision instruments

After much whiteboarding, engineering calculations and focus groups we decided to chop the front and end sections off.

Then cut the drawbar off the front and weld it back on:

stackin dimes

Trailer is now towable again, and is no better or worse than when we started, just smaller.

Its about 3.65m tray which will fit most small cars.

Plan is to use the scrap to strengthen the bed a bit, (where the car wheels will go) add a low side frame (leaving the existing box framing) and a front and rear tailgate that can be used as ramps and see how we go from there

This episodes costs:

7 hours each

10x pack cutting discs

1x box Wild Buck, 1x 1.5l Mountain Dew and 3x Pita Pits

1x garage fuse, 1x grinder lead.

Episode 2:

Story as far as i can recall, is that it is/was the trailer for the More FM blimp, and it won sign of the year in 1992.

Trailer box is 5.8m in length and 2.2m wide, 1.65 between the wheel arches a,d about 2.5m in height internally. Its MASSHUUUVE

We went and picked it up last weekend, and after about 2 hours of faffing around, removing the rear doors pumping tyres and whatnot towed it via the long back roads way to Chez-Grant from its last 10 years or so resting location.

Towed sweet, no trouble no fuss, once the flatspots in the tyres smoothed out.

Total Cost to date:

~3 hours

$20.80 ($5 crow bar, $10 sledge and $5.80 sabre saw blade)

To Pay: 1x bottle of Bourbon purchase price

Episode 1:

Ive been looking for a trailer to do a couple of jobs with. (strip croma, do scrap run, do dump run etc), but holey shit, they go for more than i imagined on trade me. Far more than I wanted to pay for a couple of weekends jobs.

Then, Chris sent me a txt.

oh-oh.

After some discussion we decided screw it, if its fucked we will take it to the scrappy ourselves, if not Winning!

Forthwith, here is the tale of our winningness (and scappies, probably)

well, its a good start, ill give you that...

http://www.midwest-bayless.com/storefrontprofiles/DeluxeSFItemDetail.aspx?sid=1&sfid=208227&c=192675&i=310566604

the housing comes in a few flavours (different angles and number of tapped holes for sensors depending on fwd/rwd and age) but they all have the same bolt holes/gaskets im pretty sure, 2l may be different?

the one in that link doesnt say for 2l, but im pretty sure i swapped the one from my old 1608 onto my 1995

yeah, exhaust has two mufflers, one big one small - big one is not straight through (and taps on the driveshaft sometimes) will replace with bits from croma soon.

has good induction noise tho!

stink about the housing, i dont think i have a spare, as i swapped the one off my 1608 to the 1995cc, will have to have a lookey.

mean.

im sunburnt, car went great.and I have a sore go-pedal foot.

thanks uncle rod! (i wish)

Bring

Over

Another

Thousand

also, awesome (but only vicariously)

fanx man

i feel like im gonna jinx it if i get too chuffed that its seemingly all sorted.

Im sure i will have to fix it again, then

fling it around turns,

fucking idiot assembled this funny italian attempted technology?

Lolll

get money, fiat bitches

Took the car to get a wheel alighnment done the day of BF meet, which was all good (guy was very complementary, also mentioed it is also very straight) but car started missing on the motorway commute back home to pick up the family.and had to stop for a fiddle a few times, and at home but couldnt solve it.

Was not running very well to or from BF either, nearly had another solo meet at Henderson, but kept rolling. Feels like the miss that ive always had right at the top end was getting more random and slowly moving moving down the rev range.

New fuel regulator guage says no, fuel pressure fine (2.5-3.5 psi)

Next culprit, Spark.

Ohoh, thats not supposed to be there - oil must have wicked up the dizzy shaft, and started messing with the Pertronix sensor.

Must be time for full electronic dizzy time!

Ive been meaning to do this for a while, and had been collecting bits, just missing the 'special' dizzy to HEI module cable. (2 tiny female spades on dizzy to 1 normal and one middle size spade on module)

These were as fitted to Lancia Betas i think, and came with the big pile of parts that came with the first 2L engine i got.

I spent the day making 1 good dizzy from the three i have (Bosch Z44),

it has a reluctor instead of points, still with a mechanical advance, and is the same overall size as the old points one ive been using for ever and is much more modern (date stamp says 78, vs 68 for the old one):

L: Magetti Marelli S144 with Pertronix kit, R: Bosch Z44 with reluctor and homemade cable

this then runs to a GM style "Hi performance" Acell HEI that sits on the special heat sink thiing under the Magnetti Marelli coil (sorry its such a terrible pic - wiring in that corner is also terrible).

After getting the static timing close, it fired up into a steady idle straight away

Only issue is the Tach is a bit lazy now?

Run to Coffee and Classics <link> and then the long way home it went super duper awesome.

Then

• rebled the brakes (finally got the bubble out that was making it spongy, and yay still no leaks from rear brakes!),
• tightened the handbrake,
• adusted clutch cable
• checked diff oil (not low but gone manky - water ingress?)
• gbox oil (drained a bit as it was a touch overfull, but very clean and no leaks) 
• put in gbox reverse switch,
• new front wheel bearing caps,
• and swapped tyres round and fitted center bore locating rings.

THEN DRAGS

Have an egine bay pic since im finally actually happy with how its running!

stopped for breakky on the way so was a bit late

looks like this one was getting ready for a mural on the back

so many 80s cylinders

cool beetle

dat ass

i couldnt look away.

these wheels and brakes

and this engine bay.

blEUG GT indeed!

rinse my eyes out

West Auckland weirdos, wanna do mitre10 7ishpm again?

I resent your implication, mainly the one that the BT Xtreeem Teem could be on time(ish) to anything

ken

we love burgerers

took the fiat for a drive to test out the new shocks, with Chris and Tara

300km round trip for pizza and a walk on the beach

They are on full soft, and while a wee bit stiffer than the KYBs are less bouncy, yet firmer, and were well tested on a range of road surfaces.

Rally test

Instagram that shit

copilot

hardparking

in the weeds

Defintly need a wheel alignment and to bleed the brakes again. Engine is still great - oil is still clean and clear and havnt topped it up once since building it

mean, form filled and ready for action.