Thread: 113-372

whilst your having surgery I could baby sit one of your vehicles.....

choosing at random you understand,,,, ohhh maybe a errmm are they called "gunbuggies"? always willing to help

and max tells me that it wouldnt be hard to get out.... .. I mean... a MIXed up person, who isnt a dog and wasn't anywhere near living at your place has indicated.....oh bugger!







Hey seriously, keep up the good work and take a break after any surgery!
( but remember you have another "parade day" coming up in august - maybe you should organise a "spit n polish" day so people can come around and you can direct them as to what to polish and where to spit!!!! I think youd get a reasonable amount of assistance offered - even a couple hours from someone else helping must lighten the load.)

Cheers & keep up the good work.
Digger.

G'day All,
I managed to get away from work on time for a change this afternoon, so not to waste the short time frame before it gets too cold, I took on a quick job.
I quickly covered the outlets with masking tape and pinched them off to keep the grit out

after a short period in the grit cabinet, it emerged looking like this

it still needed some minute cleaning around the outlets as it had somehow during it's life got oil?? and it attracted crud, the grit just bounces off it, anyway I managed to clean it all and etch prime them


maybe tomorrow afternoon if the weather isn't too lousey, I may be able to paint them Gloss Black, I'm also expecting a visitor Sth Pacific and his wife, anyway cheers Dennis

G'day All,
What a mixture of weather today, misty rain, sunshine cloudy/overcast???, anyway I managed to prep the front guards ready for the top coat of DBG

when my wrists gave out I mixed a small amount of Gloss Black to paint the Master cyl resv and associated bits, I will fit them tomorrow

anyway cheers Dennis

Was nice to say hello & have a cuppa Dennis, you live in a brilliant part of the country . Sorry we 'burned' the afternoon for you. I even have a poodle souvenir on my shoe .

Hope you had better weather than us.

Great to catch up.

Ian

Originally Posted by Dinty

G'day All,
Maybe tomorrow afternoon if the weather isn't too lousey, I may be able to paint them Gloss Black, I'm also expecting a visitor Sth Pacific and his wife, anyway cheers Dennis

G'day All, Ian there is always a tomorrow, I made up the lost time anyway it's good to sit and have a yak occasionaly, ? what Poodle surprise did you get away with ?? let me guess doggy do that I didn't see, we do a doggy do round many times a day here, you must have just been doggone unlucky LOL sorry about that mate, I do my level best to keep the ground clear at all times, anyway cheers mate Dennis

G'day All,
The morning has flown, where did the time go!!, anyway I fitted the Master cyl resv this morning. I needed to make 1 new gasket that fits under the cover plate

punch all 6 holes with a 3/16" wad punch, cut to size n fit. (1mm thick insertion rubber available at all Clark rubber shops)
Next job was to run a 2BA tap through all the holes so the screws go in with your fingers, a little bit of never-sieze on the threads and they will come out easily after 10 years or more

I still need to make a pipe for the clutch, I thought I had a piece of 1/4"OD bundy tubing but I remembered that I used it when I made some repairs/changes to 'Gladys' about 6 weeks ago (craft disease)

anyway back outside to see what else I can bugger up for the day LOL cheers Dennis
ps craft disease (can't remember a flaming thing) or whatever descriptive word fits LOL

G'day All,
Well I have had enough for today, managed to connect a few more wires, place 2 instruments etc, it was hard to push it into place, new wiring an all LOL

I think I have the choke warning light in the wrong place, silly colour blind me LOL

anyway easy fix, cheers Dennis

G'day All,
I haven't done much of late to 113-372, with the lousey weather and work + working on 'Sooty' and shelling out for expensive brake parts LOL.
Well yesterday I started to clean up the tailgate, by stripping off the galv/capping, shook out all the rivet ends, and blew out years of accumulated dust, it looks a bit different but nowhere near finished as yet (no pix either).
This morning I decided to make the clutch fluid delivery pipe, I purchased a short length of 1/4"OD bundy tube, squared off the end, fitted it into my 'Rigid' double flaring tool and made the first double flare

I soon changed the fitting on the end for the union nut, as I remembered that it was better to bend the tubing from the base of the reservoir, anyway it took 2 attempts to get the bends correct so that the pipe lined up with the master cylinder

I double checked all the fittings to make sure they wouldn't leak and proceeded to fill the reservoir, it was then I noticed the fluid level falling !!!!!, being as deaf as I am I didn't hear it dripping from the slave cyl, I hadn't nipped the bleed nipple, anyway that was arrested quickly, water applied in huge amounts to dilute the brake fluid, it doesn't appear to have done any damage to the paint on the chassis, it took just 4 applications of the clutch pedal and I had an operating clutch, I wonder what I can bugger up tomorrow LOL anyway cheers Dennis
ps Ian, thanks for the small package it arrived yesterday, thanks mate,,.