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« Reply #40 on: November 03, 2009, 09:46:42 PM » |
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Those parts look suspiciously like lawnmower parts - are you sure you're still working on the right project and SWMBO hasn't bedazzled you and got you doing the wrong thing?? C'mon - you can make Orange!! Get back into it!!
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« Reply #41 on: November 03, 2009, 10:23:56 PM » |
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Weren't you allowed to hang your stuff up on the clothes line to paint them? It's a nice stage getting things painted and ready to reassemble and it's even better when they're reassembled and back in the car! Maybe once Sandra realises a side benefit of you working on the car is more space in the garage you'll be taken off garden duties!
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« Reply #42 on: November 04, 2009, 09:11:57 AM » |
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Weren't you allowed to hang your stuff up on the clothes line to paint them? Kathi I'm sure Sandra would allow Keith to hang bits from the clothes line for painting - (but obviously she wants him to slash and burn a path to the clothes line first...) and Keith, some of us are getting a bit concerned about you ACT blokes (you and the 'invisible man') it almost seems that the closer you live to Orange, the furtherest away you are from getting there!
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« Reply #43 on: November 06, 2009, 08:14:41 AM » |
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Good to see some progress Keith , at least you had the sense to put something underneath the bits before you painted them, not like a certain idiot that now has red stripes on his shed floor . Pedro
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« Reply #44 on: January 30, 2010, 01:37:47 AM » |
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Good to see some progress Keith , at least you had the sense to put something underneath the bits before you painted them, not like a certain idiot that now has red stripes on his shed floor . Pedro Pedro, I can relate to that, I once had a rented house and painted a 36 F#@d Chassis on the floor in the garage. Left the imprint of the chassis on the floor, good and proper. Took ages to clean off, had to hire steam cleaning equipment, pressure cleaners etc. What a nightmare.... I have never forgotten that, much easier and cheaper to just have something underneath. Keith
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« Reply #45 on: January 30, 2010, 01:52:35 AM » |
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Well it has been awhile since I have updated, I don't know if I will get the car to Orange, it is unlikely as there is too much to do, and I still keep finding unexpected things. I don't want to put myself in the position where I have to cut corners to get it there, only to have to redo it when Orange is over. In cleaning up the diff I thought that I will just pull it apart and check it and see how it goes, hoping that at the worst I would have to put a set of bearings and seals through the diff. Well that was not to be, the poor old FC that the diff was removed from, had just about everything else in it either broken or worn beyond comprehension. The diff turned out to be no different. Much metal was found in the bottom of the diff casing, broken centrbolts and wear in the housing where the spring pads mount. It all good fun, but not when you are on a tight schedule. In any case I will be working on it hoping to get the car there, if it doesnt happen, well so be it. That being said I still have few weeks of leave to take mid February and I am hoping to make a significant improvement.
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Paul In Ireland
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« Reply #46 on: January 30, 2010, 09:22:32 AM » |
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Pedro,
I can relate to that, I once had a rented house and painted a 36 F#@d Chassis on the floor in the garage. Left the imprint of the chassis on the floor, good and proper. Took ages to clean off, had to hire steam cleaning equipment, pressure cleaners etc. What a nightmare....
I have never forgotten that, much easier and cheaper to just have something underneath.
Keith
Keith, It would have been easier just to paint the rest of the floor....
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« Reply #47 on: January 30, 2010, 09:41:01 AM » |
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It would have been easier just to paint the rest of the floor....
In hindsight, yes it would have been, and would have been probably cheaper too. Keith
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« Reply #48 on: January 30, 2010, 11:15:11 AM » |
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Keith you can make it to Orange your not going to let a simple early Holden beat you are you ? ........FC427.....
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« Reply #49 on: May 18, 2010, 07:58:45 PM » |
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Keith you can make it to Orange your not going to let a simple early Holden beat you are you ? ........FC427..... Well Mark, in short I did let a simple early Holden beat me. I didn't get it to Orange I had cleaned all the paint off the car, and thought that i would save time in getting the edges done so I sent the car to have the edges, such as around the windscreen, in the roof guttering etc cleaned up. I had time off work so off it went with the intention to return the following day. I had to shase the sandblaster who it turned out got lrger job in, so put my car to one side while he did the larger job, Upshot of it all was that the car sat outside, it rained while it was there so the sandblaster did the whole car, at no extra cost, I didn't wind up getting the car back until 10 days later, so I didn't get anywhere near what I wanted to get done while I had the time off. It did show up some previous bodgie repairs, which look worse when it was all sandblasted. After it was ground down, the floor was full of holes so I need to replace both the rear floor pans as well as some rust in the 1/4 panels and boot floor which I wasn't aware of. The bad news is that I don't have my own mig, and have had to try and borrow a mig from friends, however I have nearly scraped the necessaries together and will be purchasing one shortly, YEEHAA Also, as I didn't make it to Orange in my FC, My wife was right. I was wondering if one of the moderators can change the name to "EffCee's project" please
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« Reply #50 on: May 18, 2010, 10:52:59 PM » |
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'Bout time we heard something from you Keith! 171 days to registration - but who's counting? Oh, hang on, that would be me!
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« Reply #51 on: May 19, 2010, 07:13:53 AM » |
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Yeah good on you Pedro, dobbed me right in. Here's me trying to fly under the radar and almost succeeding.... As soon as I saw your post I put a post up, just to avoid the Evil One's wrath. No worries Keith, that's what mates are for , I notice it wasn't long before you were in trouble, hopefully this will deflect attention away from me , about time Smithy did something too isn't it Kathi , seriously though it's good to see the old girl back from the sandblasters at least you know what's in front of you and you can start going forward from this point, are you going fully stock or slightly modified? Pedro
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« Reply #52 on: May 19, 2010, 07:53:21 AM » |
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Trust me, no-one is out of my sights!
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« Reply #53 on: May 19, 2010, 10:02:32 AM » |
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Ahem... As they say Keith - "now, just get on with it!"
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« Reply #54 on: May 20, 2010, 06:58:06 PM » |
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Shhh!hopefully this will deflect attention away from me too! ;)although hopefully I'll have a progress report soon, Cheers Jack
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« Reply #55 on: May 21, 2010, 12:01:56 AM » |
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Wishful thinking, Jack...
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« Reply #56 on: May 21, 2010, 10:32:23 AM » |
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Keep persevering mate it will all come together. I will be posting pics of the many many rust repairs on my FE soon. Jason
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« Reply #57 on: July 16, 2010, 09:59:58 PM » |
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My long awaited welder arrived today, like a kid with a brand new highly prized toy, I carefully cut the packaging, screwed in the lifting point, hooked up the engine crane and carefully lifted the welder clear of the box and packaging, only to find that at some point it had been dropped on the corner and the corner was all bent. I rang Hare and Forbes Sydney where I bought the welder from, full marks to them, they are sending a replacement welder on Monday.
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« Reply #58 on: July 16, 2010, 10:13:43 PM » |
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What a bummer! You can't play until next week!
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« Reply #59 on: July 17, 2010, 02:42:23 PM » |
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What a dissapointment Keith, after waiting all this time, as Kathi said hopefully you'll get to play with your new toy next weekend. Pedro
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