What did you do to improve your soobie today

NachaLuva · Post by **NachaLuva** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 10:57 pm

Great work Owen

alang · Post by **alang** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 10:18 pm

replaced the gear shift bushes and greased the bits that move installed cd player and speakers mounted UHF and cb radio antennas on guard mounts run cable to cab. fixed the fuel pump problems installed one with new hosing, purchase new battery from supershit for under $60 270 starts hoping to have running on the weekend also purchased a pair of ball joints lower and a paper copy of the bible by Subaru, its 4 x thicker then the Gregory's

B00sting · Post by **B00sting** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 9:17 pm

finally got the vortex hubs off properly, what a pain in the ass.
finished uhf install.
dummied up new snorkel, realised its still not ideal will probably go the custom stainless route now.

Silverbullet · Post by **Silverbullet** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 9:22 pm

Just an oil and filter change today, runs so much quieter on startup now

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 10:53 pm

Had a bit of a black out with the 21.5 kg bullbar - and some polish

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It's is wrinkle finish (most areas) for anti glareback from headlights and to blend most of the bar into the grille, make the original bumper shape/lines/form stand out .

thunder039 · Post by **thunder039** » Wed Apr 04, 2012 3:21 pm

brought my recovery gear! just hope i dont have to use it

purp · Post by **purp** » Wed Apr 04, 2012 3:53 pm

Finally put a towbar on the Forester on the weekend.

Tweety · Post by **Tweety** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 6:58 pm

"Moving forward"...achieving, etc. words to describe a sense of value from a project.

But when you search high and low to find material to help complete a project and find it in the most unusual places, that sense of achievement is doubled.

Tweety is full of bits and pieces sourced from the internet, the air vents from boating accessory sites where stainless steel items abound. Yesterday I had a problem with making a heater box. The Alfa radiator had been mounted on the front -

With two 12 inch thermatic fans behind the radiator when they go on they just about blast me off my seat! Not so good for my legs in summer. So heater boxes to direct the heat are required. I'd already carried out the task when I had two motorcycle radiators up front but I wasnt happy with the end result in regards to the overall cooling system. When a mild to warm day arrived the thermo fans would come on under the passenger seat where the Alfa radiator was located. cruising at 100kph with fans coming on. Not ideal.

Scouting around my shed for a square shaped item that would make a nice heater box each side of the fuel tank I looked into my large rubbish bin to find a mini suitcase container that a large angle grinder came in. Made from double plastic I tested the material with a heat gun. It took an amazing amount of heat to even just bend it let alone melt it. Far in excess of what forced hot air from a boiling radiaotr would produced I guessed.

This is a picture of the case without the lid. Its the lid I used.

The angle grinder had gone to heaven, a cheap unit that was dropped.

4 hours later...

The floor vents that I'd previously used on the motorcycle radiators were reused but shortened in height. A small vent is on top of each heater box. At idle if the windscreen fogs up some hot air might assist this situation besides, some air has to escape and not be trapped on top of the fans. I learned a while ago to direct forced air rather than control it, if you get my meaning. Efficiency of the cooling system is paramount. When the vents are closed there must be sufficient gaps to the air to escape. In this case hot air can exit via those small top vents and under the unit finding its way under the trike.

I get a real buzz when I complete a project like this when no money is spent and rubbish to the tip is reduced.

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 10:21 pm

With that Panther badge you are lucky we let you post in this thread

Tweety · Post by **Tweety** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 10:52 pm

Good point Steptoe.

Panther dont sell their trikes with Subie engines

VW is the trans and transaxle only which seem indestructible so no need for forum advice

ea81 info is mainly on subie forums

Trike owners have mainly VW or M/C engines

Man without a country?

Trike without a home....a bitza for sure.

Maybe you are lucky to have me?

:D

I'm cuddly

B00sting · Post by **B00sting** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 7:06 am

It's definitely a unique conversion you have there with the trike. As little as I know about trikes, I know about project cars/bikes! So well done, a lot of hard work there.

As or what I did today, crawled out of bed at 6:30am to work on good friday and make a killing to support the damn brumby ej25 conversion!

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 8:37 am

forget cuddly - i like your old school backyard approach in making other bits work together

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 11:50 am

thunder039 wrote:brought my recovery gear! just hope i dont have to use it

If you don't have to use it you're not going hard enough!

Bennie

Tweety · Post by **Tweety** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 12:20 pm

Boosting

snorkel, body lift, strut lift,

reminds me of my younger days...her name was...

Bennie

If you don't have to use it you're not going hard enough!

now we know why your "L" is on a rotor. And you need a loan for the welding rods lol

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 12:49 pm

Tweety wrote:now we know why your "L" is on a rotor. And you need a loan for the welding rods lol

No rods mate - used the Mig

And that breakage was unintentional, I still reckon I got lucky, it could have been soooo much worse! Airborne while braking isn't good, when you land it goes "BANG!!!"

Cheers

Bennie

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 1:28 pm

Cut a tenth of a second off my quarter mile time. Went in to swap in my tried and tested beefed up pedal box in the Brumby. A squeak sounded too reminiscent of years ago when factory stick welds? on the clutch cable pivot squeaked and then let go - no crutch Fuji ! Today, with it out I could see daylight between weld lump and thin box casing on the lone bottom weld, the top weld started to react as well. Iminent disaster averted.

The go faster bit was to graphite grease up all the pivot rods etc of all the pedal. accy pedal lube chopped the tenth off

I also remembered I should have pulled at least a few items out of the L wagon I chucked - like the brake pedal safety style ppivot pins. Found one anyway and used it on the clutch pedal instead of the impossible to see/remove spring clip - foreseeing clutch cable replacement. This brake pedal pin has a bobby pin / bonnet pin style clip - easier to r and r

dr.gonzo · Post by **dr.gonzo** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 1:19 am

Had a busy day....

New Struts and heavy duty springs all round on my 98 Foz, lifted it well over an inch (old saggy springs).
New sway bar links front and rear..
Replaced cargo blind clips..
installed pollen filter..
oil, air and fuel filter change..
Changed gearbox oil (redline lightweight shockproof)
removed towbar and repainted gloss black, installed new "shiny" towball and slim line 7 pin plug.
replaced globes in cruise & fog light switches + left hand side dash cluster
and sprayed all my wiper arms etc in matt black.

oh and a new starter motor

tomorrow a full polish i think

Tweety · Post by **Tweety** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 9:17 am

Got a mate that purchased 2 airbags at a bendigo swap meet for $5 each!!! Fittings are cheap.

More welding bennie....to strengthen the airbag mounts!

In the 70's munrow air shocks were the rage to jack the car up. Real bone rattle result. Also after a few deep pot holes the shock mounts bent.

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 1:37 pm

They did not improve - I fitted a pair of air shocks to the rear in the eighties,flung them after a few years - just nudged the 90's

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Sun Apr 08, 2012 10:31 pm

Well I've finally nutted out my Power Steering pump replacement issue! After trying to swap in an L series pump because it appeared the same and finding out that they are pretty much the same EXCEPT the mounting bolts are much larger in diametre and the bolting pattern is smaller than that of the EJ's one, I went and purchased another PS pump from an EJ liberty, Gen1 I think.

I got home to bolt that on and found the bloody mounting bolt holes are the same as the L series PS pump but with smaller bolts!

So last week I went back and was lucky enough to find one of the PS pump brackets that fits the L series PS pump mounting bolt design - before all of this I never knew there were two different mounting patterns for the EJ PS pump!

Moral of the story is: If you're ever purchasing a second hand PS pump, grab the mounting bracket that you know will fit it!

Now to find the belt that fits the PS pump as well as the crank and alternator...

Tomorrow should see a pretty solid day on Ruby Scoo, I'm looking forward to it!

Cheers

Bennie