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id go radius all i ever hear is people wanting radius rods as they,ve bent theirs

i went looking for third today and found first luckily i was gearing down it was wet and no-one was looking...

I think it happened only a few posts in :mrgreen: Yeah NC's are a crucial part these days but the manual machines still have their place and always will. What's quicker; chucking a block in a vice on a manual machine and shaving a few mill off and away you go or chucking it in the NC, setting your ...

it is cheating the old school way is much more fun just isnt as quick as the computer way the machine takes 20mins tops have to ask how did this go from speeding ticket to machining ?

Haha it's all in mm now, the only Imperial stuff at work is a massive ancient old English radial arm drill and a few Micrometers in the back of the cupboard, behind all the metric micrometers :rolleyes: So 1 thou is .02mm, does two tenths = .01mm? At the moment I grind my blocks to within +/- .005m...

even weekly is fine they were oily as i rubbed before anything else went into the bores the exhaust prts were a tad oily as well and i have lots of foam.... found it in the bin at work along with 4M of double core wiring and a heap of mesh

im in however im gonna go do something "racist" with an australian flag like hang it out my window

yea my back still hurts from lifting it out let alone thinking about the back in part

nope it was a touch heavy but once we stopped everything grabbing the engine it was fine

well obviously mr fuji was smoking some pretty hectic stuff when he designed the engine

it looks like it should be there but there isnt a matching one on the other side or in the matching head it also leads to somewhere with coolant as i could dry it out and everytime i blew through it seemed to let air out eith the stud hole or water jacket next to it

eh didnt seem worth the gas at the end of the day they dint leave fingerprints so id have to prove it

asshole however the missus car wasnt a pretty site wednesday morning after someone took to the quarter glass passenger and passenger door lock with a screwdriver then looks like they got bored with that and took to the drivers door with a crowbar must have been quite fun at our expense... maybe you ...

im helping restore a tr2

El_Freddo wrote:I give her 6 months maximum before she regrets the decision.

Either way, don't be a stranger!

Cheers

Bennie

wouldnt bet on that... mine made me get a corolla over another subie

Adjusted my timing today on the L series, first time using one but went fine ... Except noticed the light did not flash every time...probably once every few seconds it wouldnt flash. Wondering if this means I might not be getting a spark consistently or if its down to the timing light? All appeared...

D3V1L wrote:i now use toyota red in my cars.

romoured be the best, even nissan,
holden, and ford now use it rebadged as their own


davo

i use mercedes as tectalloy ate my head gasket... FAIL!

the weld looks like its glued on:) To be frank, a 100A arc welder is just useless for any but the smallest of the smallest jobs. You need 180A and more to start doing decent welding with arc. However with a MIG, a 130A welder works good for 3mm+ mild steel - the shielding gas makes all the differen...

Alex wrote:bloody mechanics, i swear i know more than 90% of them and ive only ever learnt about motors and cars thru breaking and modifying them like 90% of the people on this forum.

if you,d done your cert 4 you,d know why mechanics are useless

another reason is cheap and nasty coolant can destroy head gaskets