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    Quote Originally Posted by sidecar bob View Post
    If you had ever done the plugs in a Toyota V6 people mover you would be feeling like you had got off very light about now.
    Gotta love the turbo goodness though.
    Garage next door to the old Budget shop had the contract to service the police Mitsubishi V3000's.
    To do the plugs in the rear bank, they dropped the front engine mount and tilted the engine....

    My dream of undisturbed frame manufacture has been fucked already. Spent the am sorting a water problem.
    Gravity feed from a tank 5m up - two lines out, hot and cold feeds. Hot line was blocked at the tank outlet.
    Still is...Rodded it through the shutoff valve over a drum. Made it worse believe it or not.
    So cut both lines below the shutoffs and joined them using bits pirated from the old well setup.
    Definitely Mickey duck solution - but we have reasonable hot water pressure again now.

    Back to the frame. Some artistic joint profiling tomorrow.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grumph View Post
    Garage next door to the old Budget shop had the contract to service the police Mitsubishi V3000's.
    To do the plugs in the rear bank, they dropped the front engine mount and tilted the engine....

    My dream of undisturbed frame manufacture has been fucked already. Spent the am sorting a water problem.
    Gravity feed from a tank 5m up - two lines out, hot and cold feeds. Hot line was blocked at the tank outlet.
    Still is...Rodded it through the shutoff valve over a drum. Made it worse believe it or not.
    So cut both lines below the shutoffs and joined them using bits pirated from the old well setup.
    Definitely Mickey duck solution - but we have reasonable hot water pressure again now.

    Back to the frame. Some artistic joint profiling tomorrow.
    I think v3000s run precious metal plugs in the rear bank only so they don't have to be replaced as often as the front due to the ass of a job removing them. Proof that accountants have input in vehicle design.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sidecar bob View Post
    If you had ever done the plugs in a Toyota V6 people mover you would be feeling like you had got off very light about now.
    Gotta love the turbo goodness though.
    By far the worst I think I have done was one of the original box shaped Legacy.
    Whoever thought putting the cylinders facing each other wasn't thinking of the man fixing them.

    V6 people mover would be a dead set cunt though, cars in general aren't as much fun to work on as bikes

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    I recall a local panel beater was working on a Sunbeam Tiger - the one with the 260 V8. It was also due for some engine tuning so the plugs were changed while the front guards were off, otherwise they were considered an engine-out job.

    AND while I was in the garage today, did more on the Suz 1100 in an afternoon/evening than has been done in the past few years. Front brakes (CBR600 rotors and Concours 1000 calipers and m/cylinder) are installed -easy - and bled - arse of a job. Rear m/cylinder has also been rebuilt and reinstalled. As this is the bike I went to my first Brass Monkey 30 years ago I am hoping to take it to the last one. Now I have an extra 12 months to get it ready.
    it's not a bad thing till you throw a KLR into the mix.
    those cheap ass bitches can do anything with ductape.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pete376403 View Post
    I recall a local panel beater was working on a Sunbeam Tiger - the one with the 260 V8. It was also due for some engine tuning so the plugs were changed while the front guards were off, otherwise they were considered an engine-out job.

    AND while I was in the garage today, did more on the Suz 1100 in an afternoon/evening than has been done in the past few years. Front brakes (CBR600 rotors and Concours 1000 calipers and m/cylinder) are installed -easy - and bled - arse of a job. Rear m/cylinder has also been rebuilt and reinstalled. As this is the bike I went to my first Brass Monkey 30 years ago I am hoping to take it to the last one. Now I have an extra 12 months to get it ready.
    Engine out for Spark plugs. PMSL!
    To be fair they last so long these days that they aren't as regular a service item, but an old V8 surely would have had crappy plugs?

    Fuck nice going mate. I have my wife well trained on bleeding brakes before race meetings as its so much easier with 2 people.

    Raining today so won't be tackling the yard, have a few remote jobs to do but otherwise very quiet on the work front for me. Might have to hit Aunty Cindy up for some dollars if its this quiet next month


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    Something else you may be interested in for your CB750 Sidecar Bob https://4into1.com/pamco-electronic-...ProductReviews It's repairable if any components go west and 2 year warranty. My CB550 is still on points and I have plenty of spare ones and condensers.

    Looks like the Dynatech price has dropped to match the above units.https://4into1.com/dynatek-dyna-s-ig...0-cb550-cb750/ 1 year warrenty.

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    I'll consider something electronic down the track, at this stage I have to remember that I'm only making the K2 a safe reliable runner. And if anything is going to get it, it will be the favourite child, the F1.
    It would have been so easy today to have stripped it to the last bolt & nut & have it in fish bins ready for a resto.
    I have to remember that I've got to get a couple back together before I do that.
    Anyway, the carbs look mint & the front caliper & master cylinder have been stripped, cleaned out & reassembled.
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    It's surprising how long a set of points can go. It's about 40,000kms since I last adjusted the 550s OEM points(which are by far the best quality). The original points lasted around 80,000kms before the pivot rivets decided they'd had enough on one set coming back from Cape Reinga. Super glue and lockwire got me back safely to Hobsinville ok though.

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    Stocked up on paint to do the window frames (typical it starts to rain now we are all at home...). It'll happen.
    Also have oil and filter ready to do a change.

    Completed so far:
    Stacked away the last bit of firewood for this winter.
    Reloaded a few hundred rounds for competitions coming up.
    Loaded 2x batches of test loads using a new powder. Need an open range to test these however.
    Did a load of spray painting today... ongoing project.


    Need to pull the last veges out of the garden and bottle/preserve them.

    Might think about going to the supermarket one day as well.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jellywrestler View Post
    i heard they're not breath testing either.....
    Too many false positives with all that hand sanitiser about?

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    Ah heck this is what I'm up to. Duct tape can help any job.

    Tomorrow is motorcycle day so will be garage bound.

    Ah crap, picture on its side again.
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    Don't you look at my accountant.
    He's the only one I've got.

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    And heres the wiff's project. Pit stop Easter bunny in racing carrot. She is quite mad. This the season to celebrate the execution of some delusional carpenter.

    Check out the mechanic jacket she found in an opshop. Even used my old race number.
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    Finished the carbs on the 750/4 today.
    Found a couple of floats had a bit of fuel in them, essentially making them into sinks.
    I discovered that by marking the float with felt tip pen opposite the invisible pinhole where the fuel kept weeping out, I submerged the float in hot water, hole downwards causing the air inside the float to expand, pushing the fuel out.
    Once the fuel was out I found the exact spot by the bubbles coming out.
    I floated a bit of solder over the holes, not enough to change the float weight by more than the margin of error.
    I took the chrome cover off the starter to polish it while the carbs were off & there was the starter just begging for a strip down, clean out & lube, so that's what happened.
    Will polish the top of the engine tomorrow before the carbs go back on.
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    Quote Originally Posted by F5 Dave View Post
    Ah heck this is what I'm up to. Duct tape can help any job.

    Tomorrow is motorcycle day so will be garage bound.

    Ah crap, picture on its side again.
    Are you encouraging us to a lean to the left ...
    When life throws you a curve ... Lean into it ...

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    It's Jacinda's public addresses that must be swinging the tide left. Can you imagine a parallel dimension where Bill Swinglish won the election, as he kinda did, - but a stiff performance from him wouldn't have been very inspiring.

    I didn't vote for her, but she's got my respect at least. Geez I cant believe I'm saying that about a labour politician.
    Far better than that evil Clarke.
    Don't you look at my accountant.
    He's the only one I've got.

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