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HSD, SPS and Galloway... now that sounds familiar :). Takes a while to get stuff through that trio, though from what I have seen their work is spot-on.

Being realistic, I reckon I've got mebbe a 10% chance of making DotD. The lineup of busted kids cars in my driveway isn't getting any shorter. It ...

Finally got round to balancing the slicks… kind of...

They mounted the second wheel, and spun it up... The machine was asking for 800g of weight...

... will check with M/T to see if they will warranty.


Patience is a virtue.

One tyre balanced OK, one tyre wants 800g of weight. M/T warrantied ...

Red wagons go faster

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Harv

Errol62 wrote: Sun Jan 05, 2025 12:54 pm Six seater family man’s wagon. [emoji848] something you and Robyn have been keeping from us Neil? [emoji23]

Mebbe he is planning something like this…

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/cTEj6Kqh14o

Youtube



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Harv

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TtFEnchGV ... th=Mjg2NjY

Me pulling up to the lights in the FED next to an FB:
“Hey, that thing has a grey motor too, right?”

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Harv

Intermittent: from the Latin for “to play with one’s mind”.

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Harv

When Dave did the bodywork, he made some plates. They are the ones traced out on the notebook paper in the photo above. I thought he cut open the c-pillar, put the plate in then stitched it back up. The bottom of the c-pillar is open though - may be able to slip them up from under. When the engineer ...

Blacky wrote: Sun Dec 29, 2024 12:29 pmNo GTS guards mate - keeping this a stocker pretty much.

Blacky wrote: Tue Dec 31, 2024 2:44 pm You may scoff you unwashed heathen - but just you wait until I get it hopping !!!

Non-vented aftermarket fuel cap. It has now gone into the "naughty corner" and the old original-equipment cap is back on the car.

Could be worse, took me 6 months to realise the aftermarket washer bottle on the wagon was not vented. It would heat up, pressurise the tank and dribble down the ...

Errol62 wrote: Tue Dec 31, 2024 1:00 pm Nice work. Definitely saveable, and a good price, but then, it is only a HZ.[emoji23]

Only????? Other than the pollution gear, they were a damn fine horseless carriage.

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Harv

Pipe union with a small leak that nipped up, or mebbe the faster pneumatic-fed fuel flow dislodged a little dam of silt from the fuel line?

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Harv

I was wondering what SA rego guys think about batteries in boots?


Be interesting to see. Most places accept them provifed they are well bolted down, some want a battery box (to stop the groceries shorting stuff out), some want the box sealed and a vent tube down through the floor pan.

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Interesting

I’ve got one of these if it helps:
https://www.lislecorp.com/specialty-too ... compressor

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Harv