Getting 89 Brum ready for retirement

revmax · Post by **revmax** » Thu Dec 29, 2011 3:50 pm

Bought this one for parts and farm ute on a mates farm.
Fixed the drive to the front today, thanks for the help fellas.
She has a water using issue which may be a blocked radaitor.
I will fix a few things raid a few parts and send her out to pasture, where she will get driven around the farm by my 3 and 6 year old kiddies with my help of course.
This one is not going to the wreckers or metal recyclers.
List to fix.
degrease engine
set ignition timing
Radaitor
oil change
flush the brake fluid
broken seat rail
Rear shockies are RS but that don't matter
Oh and put old tyres and rims on it.
Will blast and paint the rims on it at a later date.

then just raid her for parts

alang · Post by **alang** » Thu Dec 29, 2011 6:18 pm

the body looks good on it. sounds like only small things needed to make her a great ute to driving again any rust in the body ??? looks a good pick up

cheer Alan

revmax · Post by **revmax** » Thu Dec 29, 2011 7:02 pm

G'Day Alan. Nah she is rusty.
It has been around Australia behind an orange bus. second motor.
There is a big dint in one of the headers and it would be restricting the exhaust real bad. (something elese to do)

Just partialy degresed the engine bay.
gave it an oil flush, new oil and filter. (engine is much quieter now but I will do the valve clearances tomorrow)

There are a few things on this one that are in better nick than red brum so I will probably start swaping them over tomorrow.
This is so much fun.

RSR 555 · Post by **RSR 555** » Fri Dec 30, 2011 4:19 pm

Sad to see them go to pasture but all good cars have their day. They are the perfect farm vehicle, my wife's cousins have a farm in Narrikup WA and they had 3 of them at one stage.. they were upset when Subaru stopped selling them.

revmax · Post by **revmax** » Fri Dec 30, 2011 6:38 pm

Pasture is better than crusher.
Well she go some TLC today.
Fixed the broken seat bracked.
knocked the dint out of the exhaust.
Done the valve clearances.
Fitted a back rocker cover. (one was green)
Swapped the realy good seat belts and clips form this one to my red one as the red one had old seat belts.
Put old wheels and tyres on it.
cleaned, inspected and adjusted the drum brakes.
Fitted another electric choke. (Starts easy cold now)
Checked ignition timing.
Hopfully fixed some oil leaks, 1 rocker cover, wrong bolt fitted to oil filler so fitted a shorter one so it pulls the flange down tight.
Tightened the carbie screws, there is one other secrew to check but I have to remove the carb to do it. (maybe later)
The old oil shockies were shot. Managed to pick up a a second hand set of gas shockies and fitted them to. (no more bouncy bum Brum)

Went for a quick blat around the block. She has got some morr grunt now and has got back that soobie growl.

Oll mate that I bought it from reckons it was pretty tyred. I am not supprised he thought that cause the valve clearances were twice the maximum, poor ol thing it couldn't breath and I reckon it leaked more oil than it used.
What a day and it was fun. Fun in the sun with soobie.

RSR 555 · Post by **RSR 555** » Sat Dec 31, 2011 4:51 pm

Much better than the crusher

Glad to see the effort is showing in returns... Long live the Brumbys

Post by **TOONGA** » Sat Dec 31, 2011 5:03 pm

Yes proper valve clearances are a must for an EA81 to run at its best.

Glad to see it will be saved to end its days out in the paddocks:)

TOONGA

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Sun Jan 01, 2012 5:36 pm

RSR 555 wrote:Long live the Brumbys

+1!
+1
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ok I'll stop now, but you get the picture!

Cheers

Bennie

revmax · Post by **revmax** » Sun Jan 01, 2012 7:50 pm

LOL "Go the Brumby"
Put a good second hand radiator in it yesterday cause it was using water and suspected a blocked radaitor, from a Brum I wrecked a while ago. Went for quck spin up the Hwy and back @110kmh. Didn't seem to use any water so hopefully the problem is fixed.
She starts pinging @ 4K and blowing black smoke. I reckon she hasen't had the cobwebs blown out for some time and I bet it has the cheepest fuel in the tank so i filled her up with some 98 and will go for another blat later.

She now has a standard Brum one piece front bumper fitted.
Old red bonnet, grill and right front guard from by Red Brum. (patch work bush bashin Brumby)
Have taken the trimmings off the rear.
the tow bar is better than the one on my brum so a swap is in order.
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revmax · Post by **revmax** » Sun Jan 08, 2012 8:04 pm

retired !!
Oh yer with the change to 98 octane no pinging and she reved right through to redline in the first 3 gears. 110kmh in 3rd easy as and no smoke blowing.