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Offline alnjan

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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #4675 on: April 23, 2019, 06:07:52 PM »
Also nice, but it's not a $500 problem...

I agree, main reason I don't have one
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #4676 on: April 23, 2019, 06:42:18 PM »
I made my first fridge barrier from security mesh but stuff would get caught in it. Made existing one now from marine ply with a cord mesh top.
See post 9 and 10.
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #4677 on: April 23, 2019, 07:10:44 PM »
Drained a few :cheers: & then planned to locate 8 X 20 L jerries on our Exiodus14  to cover an up coming trip  .                                  ;D                   :cheers:
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #4678 on: May 15, 2019, 04:28:53 PM »
Not so much the Shed or the Man cave, More like front yard / Back yard .. Finaly got around to fitting some Side steps I picked up off Market place, Mongrel brackets were for a slightly different model so the drill got a work out
+  the fact the wife has mobility problems the Left Hand  step is fitted about 40 mm lower to help her to get into the cab ..
Then it was onto fitting the Bull bar salvaged from our Old  Four Runner, its on though still got a couple of holes to drill that didnt line up  and a couple of brackets  to fab up .
As a clean skin when we got it and now with the bits ...
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #4679 on: May 17, 2019, 11:47:32 AM »

Then it was onto fitting the Bull bar salvaged from our Old  Four Runner, its on though still got a couple of holes to drill that didnt line up  and a couple of brackets  to fab up .
As a clean skin when we got it and now with the bits ...

Now for the turbo????  :D
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #4681 on: May 17, 2019, 01:40:31 PM »
Now for the turbo????  :D

3RZ and Turbo MMmmm, Was thinking  maybe a little Toyota belt driven SC14 Huffer to boost it a bit  .  :D Though being a bit long on the Km, a rebuild would have to be factored in .
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #4682 on: May 17, 2019, 06:47:33 PM »
3RZ and Turbo MMmmm, Was thinking  maybe a little Toyota belt driven SC14 Huffer to boost it a bit  .  :D Though being a bit long on the Km, a rebuild would have to be factored in .
Would be fun while it lasted.

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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #4683 on: May 17, 2019, 08:06:18 PM »
I missed something.. So it's a petrol??
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #4684 on: May 19, 2019, 10:37:30 PM »
Yep BP .. Not a fan of Oilers and I just dont do the Km's to make owning one worthwhile, Bad enough trying to keep a petrol alive around town with all the stop start / short runs ..
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #4685 on: May 26, 2019, 12:00:55 PM »
Knocked up some shelves in the caravan yesterday...converted the useless clothes hanging cupboard into a large pantry that a family caravan should actually have in it. Pretty simple process, some 20x20x1.5mm ally angle, 12mm screws, silicone, 16mm whiteboard shelving and 42x19 plastic wrapped pine with a handful of screws to attach it to the shelves was all I needed.
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #4686 on: May 26, 2019, 04:22:39 PM »
Cleaned up the brakes on the camper. Lots of creek crossings and dusty conditions had taken their toll, and they were't pulling up as they should. Fitted new wheel bearings while I was at it....

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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #4687 on: May 26, 2019, 05:30:47 PM »
Post trip inspection noticed a bit of grease around the front calipers,  boots had come of the UCA ball joints.

Nothing wrong with the boots, looks like they were over greased when installed. Fun afternoon pulling them apart and cleaning up. 

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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #4688 on: May 26, 2019, 09:36:00 PM »
Are they black hawk ucas? Had my blackhawk ucas/ball joints fail after one trip recently. Car is still in shop waiti g for warranty from roadsafe. Wasnt expecting a failure as my mates all have them without issue. I must have got a dud batch? Cheers

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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #4689 on: May 26, 2019, 09:57:53 PM »
Are they black hawk ucas? Had my blackhawk ucas/ball joints fail after one trip recently. Car is still in shop waiti g for warranty from roadsafe. Wasnt expecting a failure as my mates all have them without issue. I must have got a dud batch? Cheers
Yes,  Black hawk UCA's. The joints still appear ok,  just over greased in my case which caused the boots to pop off the upper seal.

How did they fail?

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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #4690 on: May 26, 2019, 11:51:05 PM »
Thanks for the reply. Ball joints flogged out, bushes failed. First trip. Only did approx 2000km. Bout 100km off road beach driving. Severe knock sound etc from day 1. Hoping its all resolved this week

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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #4691 on: May 27, 2019, 06:58:37 AM »
Thanks for the reply. Ball joints flogged out, bushes failed. First trip. Only did approx 2000km. Bout 100km off road beach driving. Severe knock sound etc from day 1. Hoping its all resolved this week
That's not good. Pretty sure mine was an installer issue,  otherwise been very happy with them.

Hope it all gets sorted out.

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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #4692 on: May 27, 2019, 10:11:37 AM »
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #4693 on: May 28, 2019, 06:13:16 AM »
I made a start on the Austin. geez, this thing is over engineered by a fair bit.

The little elbow hoses on the clutch and brake booster were perished, so they've been replaced.
The seized slave cyl on the clutch is off and ready for a trip into town this morning. (Autopro Gatton... great guys)

The underbody is good, no rust to deal with there, just a pressure wash and fluids check.

Today will be making shelf space to store everything for it until we paint and reassemble.

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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #4694 on: May 31, 2019, 12:29:08 PM »
Finishing touches to the fire. Boy I missed having a real fire, cant beat it.
Marri natural edged mantel.
Now the boss wants natural edged verticals too now.

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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #4695 on: May 31, 2019, 01:49:22 PM »
Oooo I do like that
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #4696 on: May 31, 2019, 04:08:26 PM »
Very nice Glenn, natural edges work well horizontally. Love the stone work as well
I just finished a Huon pine bread board with natural edges earlier this week.

Is Marri a wa native timber?
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #4697 on: May 31, 2019, 04:26:58 PM »
There's no denying you have a real talent with wood Glen...looks great  :cup:
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #4698 on: May 31, 2019, 04:28:43 PM »
There's no denying you have a real talent with wood Glen...looks great  :cup:

Is that a pickup line?  ;D

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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #4699 on: May 31, 2019, 04:54:17 PM »




Is Marri a wa native timber?

Yeah Pottsy, it tends to have lots of resin and fault lines through it. Lots of nice colours come out of it too.


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