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Black it was! Prepped, primed and painted all in the same afternoon :lol: Gotta be careful of fingerprints on installation. And it got a serious workout last weekend being our October long weekend. 4WD club trip to a private property near Peterborough, very southern edge of the Flinders ranges. It w...

Looks like a fun day out! Where there any major scratches? I find the Brumby/MY platform is great for navigating scratchy tracks as they're so narrow compared to modern fourbies.

This weekends project had some urgency, going on a 4WD club trip next weekend. Only noticed 2 weeks ago when I stuck my head under there that the moustache bar was bent like a wet noodle :o Yesterday I started before 9AM, got the car back together after 6PM so it was a big day and I am very sore tod...

Found a decent substitute for long-perished/broken slider knobs, cheap and plentiful on ebay. Was watching a YT 4wd'ing channel and an interior shot of a LC79 Landcruiser got me thinking... They fit! Pretty tight, don't go in 100% of the way but still good enough to use, makes the sliders easier, lo...

Nothing much to report with the old blue wagon, it just works :biggrin: Still need to replace the sagging rear torsion bars but for now I just wound up the adjusment bolt which has stopped the rear tyres scrubbing over big undulations in the road (there are many around here) The gearbox is being its...

How did you manage to break a zerk?? Got it sorted now? No, not yet. It's a tiny thread I don't have much hope of identifying to source a new fitting. And have to get the broken piece out first. Thinking it might be a job for my better equipped engineer mate when the diff is out next. Bloody grease...

A sign of a well sorted car when you only have regular wear+tear/service items to worry about The uni joints are a fun job indeed, lucky you only had 2 to deal with. Broke a grease zirc on one of mine recently

Went on another 4WD club outing this weekend. At a place called Peake, there is a farm property which encloses a very large area of big sand dunes (in the middle of mallee/bare flat lands, go figure) The owner lets groups and clubs use the camping area and sand dunes for $20 per car per night. And a...

That sounds like a frustrating saga, intermittent electrical gremlins are the worst! :( Couple of questions; Does Basil still have his factory original alternator? 500k km is a lot! And the brushes can and do wear out as I found out this year. Which leads into; Have you measured the battery voltage ...

Not alot has been happening in the last few months, except a number of little niggles building up into quite a list that makes me consider taking it off the road till they're all sorted! :lol: I noticed a split front inner CV boot earlier this week :roll: while investigating a small patch of P/S flu...

It all started with this one on the PS1 https://u.cubeupload.com/Stingrae/20250426024550.jpg Oh wow, what a classic, the memories :lol: I reckon I watched my brother play that when we were kids. That your copy? $48.99!! for a video game in the mid 90's, about a years worth of pocket money :lol: I w...

That looks like a project and a half in the making! :o and ye gods man was that thing driven through a hay field at some point? :lol: A lot of grassy junk on that engine. Do you care about JDM purity? keeping it original? If you're going as far as to rebuild the engine and sleeve the cylinders then ...

Don't need to go that far Bennie, apparently the dark sky reserve measures something like 22.9 on the darkness scale, with 23 being the darkest possible ;) Nullarboor will still be on the to-do list though, one day. Expecting to get my scope tomorrow or the next day. Anzac day weekend might be my on...

All good, the more the merrier :lol: The colour is indeed very close, some things never go out of fashion ;) The next trip depends very much on a purchase I'm making, I should have had it for KI but the only shop in town that sells them is wasting my time so it seems and there appears to be a nation...

The day I packed up from Kingscote I went to Stokes bay for the obligatory rock tunnel entry onto the beach. The wind was fierce, shins got sand blasted. And the carpark was full. https://i.imgur.com/aKvdsK0.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/xA9brOU.jpeg After this went round to Snelling beach for morning te...

Continuing my theme of one camping trip for every month this year, I did a big one for March over the week just passed. I had never been to KI before, but my car has :lol: pretty much exactly 40 years ago. I booked the ferry and camp sites 2 or 3 weeks in advance and had no issues. The weather was p...

That sounds truly awful to have your baby broken-into and mistreated like that :cry: Some of my most horrible nightmares involve my car being vandalized :mmm: And even L series parts are getting harder to find these days, makes replacing damaged items even more frustrating. I have a query for you Be...

The town of Beachport isn't very big. There's a couple of pubs, the jetty, 2 caravan parks. Very quiet little town. Robe on the other hand was heaving with people and cars, a lot more going on. The ice cream shop on the main drag seems to be the place to be for many people :mrgreen: Would love to se...

Overall I think I like it, really took me by surprise they put so much effort building such a monster out of one of these cars. If you see a shot of whats under the "hood" it's just space-frame everything, really amazing workmanship. I think maybe even the whole front comes off as one i.e, hood, gua...

Day 2 breakfast, this is what I had every day :mrgreen: https://i.imgur.com/F5NPsiR.jpeg This day we just spent relaxing on Southend beach, where I did get bogged because the car in front of me did. One spot was extremely soft and the wheel ruts were so very deep. Got myself out though just by diggi...