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  2. Yeah, I don't have expectation of it getting better
  3. Yeah .. I could have held for way more money ..but I got the car back cheap and sold things for what people offered..... I made my money back and enough to get my mk3 all legal.... so happy as with that
  4. Makes sense that it's 6 months from inspection date though.
  5. Fixed the rust hole, no pics cos boring. Made a heatshield for the alternator, first drilling and tapping some brass hex to stand it off, then some CAD, then some shiny so it reflects heat; Then I grabbed the pretty non functional catch can that I made for the truck, modified it so the wire wool was less in quantity and right before the outlet rather than at the inlet, which is why I suspected it didnt work well, then gave it some chode so it would fit in the engine bay; Went and filled it with some 95 as it was pretty low and it definitely needs some time spent on tuning, the low throttle popping and banging sounds good but the afr tells me its not right. Man it feels good to drive tho, the combo of the gogo and the noise is pretty great. If anything it sounds better now the air filter is on, a really purposeful growl.
  6. So the car has pretty much been all sold. *Motor is going into an escort. *loads of parts are going to others to keep other st170s on the road *and the rest of the car is going to palmside to be a race/rally car ....so thats awesome.....no waste
  7. I'd go a hydraulic hose, or we used a hi temp braided line on our 12v compressor in our service ute as it gets farking hot. Or hydraulic hard line with some cutting rings?
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  9. Need help. The pipe that goes from the compressor to the tank is to short. The fittings are M33 x 1.5 and the tube is about 35mm aluminium. I've seen some jokers using a nylon braided flex line which I'm not sure about. This pipe gets hot which is why they're copper or aluminium. Having said that the pipe from the compressor to the tank in my MS51 is nylon and it gets plenty hot. 10 years without and drama. So yea what do you reckon? Anyone got experience with a flex line straight off the compressor? Tell me what you think.
  10. This part of the article is a little concerning. The Tertiary Education Commission has told polytechnics and universities to lift their pass rates. .I hope it means they have to teach their material better rather than just letting the failing students pass anyway.
  11. Vested interests like the mta hate the 6 month wof and the 3 years on new cars so always push the other way. Possibly the vcc lobbies for a shift to 1 year for all.
  12. Not surprised. Vested interests pushing for it?
  13. You'd think in this day and age the computer would do it all for you. I expect if they tried to give it a 12 month WoF the computer would throw a fit
  14. Depends if the inspector is lazy or not. They need to input the expiry when entering the wof into the computer.
  15. What's the go with getting a wof 1-2 weeks early these days? Twice in a row now I have gotten 6 months from inspection date instead of 6 months from original expiry date.
  16. He must of been checking with his boss and when they sed its ok he just gapped it
  17. Solid cruiser, should be driving in no time.
  18. Yesterday
  19. Thread dredge. Anyone know what became of this wagon? I gather @cylindersmoved to Australia and hasn't been on here a while.
  20. Could anyone else with a Triumph that has a tandem brake master cylinder check which ports are for the front/rear please. AFAIK, both lines go to a 5 port pressure imbalance switch thing on the passenger side. Then one comes back for the FR brake, one goes to the FL and another goes to the rear. I've looked in the two workshop manuals and factory blue manual I have but they only show the routing for the earlier single circuit system.
  21. Nope. Which is kind of weird as you can't read speedo at night without a light Has to have high beam light and something to tell you the indicators are on, that's it
  22. Are dashboard lights a wof requirement? I got pulled over the other night for a routine stop and the cop started going off about the dash lights, I was going to show him how there is a factory switch to turn them up and down and off but he went back to his car and then drove off
  23. My old ute sat decomposing in the back yard, and the dodgy neighbour asked if he could work on it to pass the time. He was just out of jail and not working. I said sure, then a month later he was back in jail and ute was missing. Never reported it cos was worth fuck all then (late 90s). Wonder if it's too late to ask the coppers if it's still alive...
  24. So I took the tank to get pressure tested and it had a crack where the motor plate is welded on. I decided to see what was available on the tard and a perfect (almost) tank was for sale for a price less than another pressure test and paint so I bought it. Is 300L, made in 2014 and comes with a pressure switch and some fittings I don't have. The only problem is the inlet port from the compressor to the tank is in the middle. I don't have a pipe long enough to plumb it. I need a new pipe for that, probably about 900 long. I'll try to mount everything into the tank today and get it running without the pipe. Let's see how far I get.
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