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All here- Good luck reading it, it has been written by people who are using money stolen from you to spend as much time as possible at their desks writing words! http://www.infrastru...n/vsb_ncop.aspx

True- you pay a lot for the name and the reliability. But that's why Holden & Ford are cheaper! :laff: We paid $2500 for a SSS N14 locally here, rust-free of course, runs well. small dent in front from kangaroo... The son picked it up at Xmas and its being driven around Melbourne without any problems. Its just sad that the models after that are so ugly!

nooo...!! :( Did you skim the new head? Block was scraped dead clean?? Is that literally coming out where the gasket is between the block and the head, not some little bypass tube or something??

Welkom in! Coast or veld??

Yes, its an addition to the compost.. If I burn the woody stuff I get the minerals only as ash, the carbon and the volatiles go out as CO2. If I compost it the woody bits stay whole and very slowly (over years) rot down and give off the CO2. So this way I lose the volatile organics but keep the carbon. I've been using a couple of those black plastic Daleks from Bunning for compost, but last year I built a proper concrete block one about the sze of an office desk.. The chookens love it and it can easily be forked over, so it composts much quicker Grow some tomatoes in pots next spring.. easy to do and the taste is great! Tonight's food- just eaten the salad before this, but this is all out of the garden except the chop! The grilled cheese is one of my wife's home-made ones.. (Don't askI just eat what I'm given!) That's half a gem squash, a South African plant that is delicious. The spuds are from the feral garden, where I threw the excess seed potatoes in the 'swamp' and covered them with dry grass. They grew OK, but not as big as the ones that we planted in a dug garden, the soil was too hard I think.

Go side-draught... Single DCOE or SU. Rob has the same problem putting the 3Y into his Dyna. The design over the top of the carb is terrible.

Well, now you've got the compressor you can clean the carby. Its basically in three parts, the top (which contains the float) the main bit in the middle (which has the jets in & the float chamber) and the throttle body. (the black bit at the base with the throttles in) You should check the float level & clean the needle & seat in the top, and take out the idle jet and blow compressed air through it and its drilling in the main body at least. That will eliminate two possible problems. If you PM me your email address I'll scan those pages from my manual for you. If you can find a 4K manual they are very good for learning how all the systems work. I've never been trained as a mechanic, all my knowledge is self-taught or picked up from mates.

lol Willis -everything!! Spuds are under the house now, all stored with the garlics for winter, but we are picking zuchinnis, carrots, peppers, cucumbers, beetroot, onions, chillis, tomatoes, (just! Very late this year), beans (peas finished), Gem squash we are eating but other pumpkins are still growing. The rhubarb & the silver beet I don't worry about! We've had the blackberries/loganberries/raspberries & some other berry.. they all end up as jams! Peaches are ripening, apricots finished, plum tree is too young and the walnuts I have to shoot the bloody cockatoos out of every day! Seedlings now are the cabbage/broccoli sort of stuff coming on. Its a retirement hobby! We give stuff away to the neighbours, there's always an excess of something. But yeah, get into it while you're young, I wish I had learned more from my old man that just how to dig. He grew everything for the family when I was young. Now I've tasted real veges again I realise the stuff in supermarkets is pretty artificial.

However it is still unstable... so onto today's project.... A smoke throttle! I was looking for a 50mm diameter cone to drop over a bit of exhaust pipe, but could only fnd this steel ball. That will get suspended on the bike brake cable wire which is drilled through the alloy bar, so I can wind it up and down 50mm. The smoke will come up the exhaust pipe and the ball will let it out to mix with the air going in the chimney cut. The cross-drilled brake line is going back in through the side of the chimney AND the soldering iron, so I hope they keep each other burning. I was planning on cutting the chimney off again above the vent, then splitting it wide down its length and adding a 40mm strip of steel to make its diameter bigger. Then re-fitting it so I had a draught going in all around the edge, but all that seemed like too much work! It also worried me that the velocity in the larger chimney might be too slow to mix well... Any combustion engineers on here?

However, by carefully throttling the air entry (one brick in hte hole) and the gas velocity in the chimney (another brick for the top) you can get the smoke down to a civilised level!

Ok, the brake line is too pissy, so you swipe an old gas soldering iron off a mate and hook that up. Unfortunately the daught still blows it out, and there is a problem of the flame not setting fire to the amazing amount of smoke you find in the chimney.

When that particular neighbour is away you do another run, a good thing as the draught of air blows the flame out all the time... However, this time you get charcoal, fine soft grassy charcoal and gritty little twigs. Note how full the drum is.... remember how full it is to start?

Counting that as a fail, you pay $20 for a crappy piece of tin tube and flare the base. You cut a hole in the drum lid and fit a fine "anti-flashback" mesh to it, then rivet on the chimney base, subtly modified so you can slide the rest of the chimney on and off. A hole drilled in it takes a length of Corolla brake pipe that is cross-drilled and hooked up to a rubber hose on a gas line.

Away it goes.... Then the neighbour but one comes over complaining about the very strong tarry stinking smoke! So you put it out. At 10pm he's back, because it didn't go right out, even though you hosed the shit out of it... so you go out & tip the drum out on the grass & hose it again!

You pack all the shrubbery in the drum, stick the lid on and start a fire underneath. Note how full it is...

Well, seeing as I'm working on this project again I thought I'd egimicate you youngsters for your old age when you start growing a vege garden. Most soils are low in carbon, pure activated charcoal type carbon, as it only gets put there in forest fires and these damm fieries keep putting them out. The carbon binds a large number of ionic minerals and organics so the plants can use them. So... you take all the woody/shrubby/ hedgey cuttings and dry them for a week or two. They're too woody to compost and it costs money to dump them anyway. You get a $10 drum with a lid from the local apple juice factory & cut a hole in the bottom. Throw in 3 bricks and a coarse steel mesh cut to the circle. You get this- Its been used becasue I never took photgraphs to start with... :bash:

So.. you must have the deep-dish "D" pistons with a tiny combustion chamber in the head. The shallow-dish "O" pistons you're thinking of buying will go with your 4K head. The ports can afford to be bigger as they are flowing 1500cc instead of 1300. The 4K will port out if needed. Check the valve diameters. I think the valve springs are interchangeable. Philbey or Evan will know for sure.

You have black in the wrong places!! White the doors and black the bum! Don't forget the wheels!

That would be good if you can Jordy- Get a 4K and both 5Ks so we can put it up in the Wiki.

Probably solenoid in that case, but if its non-repairable like I think it is, then a new starter was the answer. All good-

It'll pink on 98 you know... I hope SOMEBODY worked out what 60thou would do!

Lol! Excellent! Go well Mitch, you've got years of racing ahead of you!

How much money have you got to spend, and how fast do you want it to go?

Probably the best pick. I hate to suggest a Ford, but does that stubby Ford Focus get down that low? They seem to be very drivable, and to my amazment a mate's one has given him no trouble when living in Gisbourne and working in Wanganui on the other side of the North Island. I myself would stick to Corolla or Pulsar, but that's my experiences.

I use 20W-50 in the KE70 & the '88 Pintara. They're pretty low-tech engines that don't see high revs.