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No, Newcastle NSW. Couldn’t believe it. I like to support small business, hell, I am a small business. But when there is that much discrepancy, I’ll keep going back to paddocks every time.
I was told it’s a 6cyl grille. Both my series vehicles have the same grille.
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Done. Fixed an air leak on the pcv valve, running smooth as a babies bum now. I have a carby rebuild kit on it’s way to do an overhaul.
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I believe you. It is not the first time I have seen outrageous Freight charges within OZ It sounds like the bloody Bush rangers at the Border wanted their cut.
I have also seen a less expensive ie.(cheap) price for an article but the postage/freight charges are jacked up to make up for the initial low price. E-bay sellers seem to do this a lot.
[bigrolf]
Several years ago I looked at getting a prop shaft (110 rear) overhauled locally. The quote was ridiculously expensive, but what got me was that the shipping cost for a new spline joint and cross and bearing was about three times what it cost me for shipping to get a complete prop shaft from Melbourne.
Luckily I use a few different freight companies thru work in each state, in the past I have just told them to send it to a company I know close to them and I get it shipped at a reasonable price from there.
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That makes a difference?
It's been a few months between drinks on Ernie. I almost lost interest over summer, got very busy at work and put him on the back burner for a while. I was having an issue with overheating and running smoothly. I put a new fuel lift pump in, that didnt fix the problem. I the stripped down the old fuel pump with the glass bowl, cleaned it all out, only then I got decent fuel to the carby bowl. Looks like the lever that works on the cam on these replacement pumps doesnt have enough of an angle on the lift cam to engage the camshaft properly. He would then surge and carry on, and once I realised the carby was sucking air through the main shaft and everywhere else it possibly could, I had a mate rebuild it for me, I refitted it last weekend and now he runs a treat. ( Cant seem to upload the video since I upgraded the computer) I was going to paint a few months ago, but the humidity stayed around too long, right up until Easter, then all the rain stuffed it up, so hopefully it'll happen in the next few weeks.
Cheers Ian
How's progress lately, Ian?
Cheers,
John
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I believe it is possible for the arm to actually miss the camshaft as well.
Hi All
Ernie is coming along nicely, did some fettling, painting and reassembling to get him to this stage.
After a few nights around the fire, and too much whiskey after working on him all day, I decided
to turn him into a camper for boy's weekends away. Pretty happy with the results, I now just have
to fabricate some rear wheel arches, some front guard splash panels for against the fire wall, fit
the mudflaps and a few other small jobs like a radio, speakers behind the seats, might also fit
another near side mirror to the door, as the front guard one takes a lot of getting used to. I have
a gearbox whine which concerns me a bit, I have never noticed any whine in Ralph, my Deisel 2a,
but then again I probably can't hear it over the engine [biggrin]. I also may need to fit a check valve in the
fuel line to the carby, as I am finding it migrates back to the tank after a week or so of sitting idle.
Cheers Ian