FB ute

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Harv
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FireKraka wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 1:25 pm Great to see "Smoky" almost back together mate :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
If this was Smokey and the Bandit, it would need a Screaming Chicken on the bonnet. Given it's more an FB than a Firebird, we might have to settle for a Screaming Bonnet Budgie.

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10 bolts then it’s in, hook up fuel and spark then vroom vroom, whats the hold up ?
Geddittgoing mate.
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EK283 wrote:10 bolts then it’s in, hook up fuel and spark then vroom vroom, whats the hold up ?
Geddittgoing mate.
Greg
Been busy on another project- had to knock up a new fence
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Got it finished yesterday arvo after work
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So back in the shed where I belong last night and painted up more bits ready to reinstall
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Great effort mate


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Looks the goods Blacky
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Engines not bad either. :grinnn: :clap:
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Hahahaha that clearance work on the tree is sweet :lol: :lol: and the car's looking good too- will have to quiz you on the paint on those pipes Blacky cuase ive gotta do something with my genies when it gets closer...
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Bit more done last night , resealed the gearbox and painted it up ready for reinstalling today - BIG difference between Rare Spares grey motor grey and the old PowerPlus PP427 grey motor grey-
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While I had it apart I noticed this bit here had a heap of movement in it so cleaned it up and zapped it up with the welder
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Bought some bolts to bling her up a bit Image
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Bolted the gearbox and a couple of other bits on and threw it in the hole
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Bush chook👌
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Kicked on - was hoping to get the bulk of it done tonight and get it back on the ground, got the engine mounts all done , linkages in and rebushed the bottom of the column , a job that would have been a HELL of a lot easier while the engine was out ImageImage , tailshaft and handbrake all sorted, clutch slave etc , polished the rocker cover and fitted it so I could fill it with oil then got the oil pump primer out and gave it a spin to see if I had oil pressure and that’s when it all went to shit ImageImageImage
Spun the pump for 15 or so seconds and it siezed solid 🤬🤬] hoping it’s some kind of weird hydraulic lock or something- have given up for the night and will find out tomorrow if it’s OK or if it’s all coming out again………..

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Sounds like you’ve been cursed like me lately. Hope it isn’t anything serious.


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I’m feeling you mate, took the Ute to work the other day, parked and then saw a trail of transmission oil :crazy:
Took the Ute because the suspension on my Monaro was feeling really bad, found the top of the shock towers were loose :esurprised: and it had developed a miss in the engine, think it is an injector, so yesterday changed injectors :roll: then pulled the Ute into my workshop put it up on stands and found one of the transmission lines leaking, had to make a new one.

F#@king cars :crazy: :crazy: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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