Thread: Where is Defender Mike?

Hi
last heard
has put a boat back in the water
in Fiji
if on his way home
hope he put the plug in
cheers
Ian

Originally Posted by back_in

Hi
last heard
has put a boat back in the water
in Fiji
if on his way home
hope he put the plug in
cheers
Ian

That man who's passionate about the money holes ?

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The word is, Yachtie Mike (a little the worse for wear) and crew complete with a "Hole in the water" have arrived in Brisbane.

Keith

I'm back in WA selling everything up except for the 109. The yachts on the Gold Coast. Hope to be back in a QLD in a few weeks. I managed to take a Borumbah to the Waroona vintage machinery show today . Looks like I will,be driving her back across Australia but this time with a new gearbox and a new fairey overdrive.
Mike

[/URL][/IMG]Well my good mate Graeme finished my overdrive while I was away complete with new lay gear that I had made here in Perth because you can't buy them. All new bearings shafts etc , so it's like brand new. We fitted it this morning and made a few modifications. I bought an oil catch can from Supacheap and converted the sump plug on the O/D to take a 90 deg 1/4 inch fitting. Plumed this up to the catch can and increased the oil resivour by 100%. The catch can had a sight tube so it's easy to keep an eye on the oil level. The can is mounted so the oil level when full is the same height as the O/D level. I took her for a test drive and it work great not a lot of noise. Quite a reduction in revs then higher top speed as expected. It engages very nicely with a positive feel but disengagement at speed is a bit grinding. There must be a knack to that try a blip of throttle or something. It may need some adjustment as well although there doesn't spear to be any on the rod that engages . I'm getting Borumbah all ready to drive back to Qld in the next few weeks . May fit some new brake pads and do the front CV deals which are getting a bit leaky.

Originally Posted by Defender Mike

[IMG][/IMG]Well my good mate Graeme finished my overdrive while I was away complete with new lay gear that I had made here in Perth because you can't buy them. All new bearings shafts etc , so it's like brand new. We fitted it this morning and made a few modifications. I bought an oil catch can from Supacheap and converted the sump plug on the O/D to take a 90 deg 1/4 inch fitting. Plumed this up to the catch can and increased the oil resivour by 100%. The catch can had a sight tube so it's easy to keep an eye on the oil level. The can is mounted so the oil level when full is the same height as the O/D level. I took her for a test drive and it work great not a lot of noise. Quite a reduction in revs then higher top speed as expected. It engages very nicely with a positive feel but disengagement at speed is a bit grinding. There must be a knack to that try a blip of throttle or something. It may need some adjustment as well although there doesn't spear to be any on the rod that engages . I'm getting Borumbah all ready to drive back to Qld in the next few weeks . May fit some new brake pads and do the front CV deals which are getting a bit leaky.

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Good Idea

I got onto Gus about the OD he suggested moving the selector fork a bit . This worked great moved a couple of mill and it disengages perfectly.
I will be back in a Qld soon and looking for somewhere to store Borumbah while we are cruising .
Mike