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Post by mud_king91 » Fri Oct 14, 2011 6:58 pm

my welds are near unbreakable but i couldnt make something neat like that it,ll be more on the barwork side of things
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Post by 2coupedup » Fri Oct 14, 2011 7:09 pm

MMMM bullbar goodness, looking awesome as always guys...

wish i could afford to get my car up to you guys, not to mention there is probly too much on your lists already... i would love mine to have an overhaul once i have finished setting it up...

keep it up...

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Post by last celtic warrior » Fri Oct 14, 2011 7:44 pm

Anyone that can, and wants it, should go ahead and build something better than i have for this car. I made up what was required and desired for the build. I could do far fancier and extensive fabrications, but it's about making the right part for the right purpose.

As for having the time, my own car needs lots of work and my other one was supposed to be on the road months ago. But too many things being on my plate means some things take longer to accomplish than what we want. On top of the constant Subaru designs and fabrication, I'm also building two go-karts, a flying fox, and other things. It would be quicker if I could just buy the parts I need, but having to make a large centrifugal clutch, planetary gearbox, braking components, steering parts and other bits and peices from sratch all takes time. Especially slow progress when all the machining and forming is done with an angle grinder, drill press, welder and a hammer. But having kids means more trouble than you could imagine, otherwise condom sales would affect the stock exchange more...
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Post by 2coupedup » Sat Oct 15, 2011 3:02 pm

are you sure you couldnt fit more on your plate....

LOL yes kids are as much a handbrake as the wife, think i get to spend a total of 1hr a week building my car... not good for progress...

as long as you keep giving us inspiration and pretty pictures i'm sure we'll all be happy, hehehe...

yous always do better than perfect work... and we all love it...

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Post by lovey80 » Sat Oct 15, 2011 9:03 pm

How the he'll did you get those ratty old mud flaps to come up like that? When I saw Ross starting to clean them up the other day, I honestly thought it was a lost effort. They came up a million bucks, top work!

Funds came through yesterday to finish off the remaining bits and pieces. Will give you guys a ring when I know I will have wheels.

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Post by steptoe » Sun Oct 16, 2011 8:17 am

glycerine from the condiments section of supermarkets does wonders to plastics and rubber

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Post by rtcb65 » Mon Oct 24, 2011 3:41 pm

Started to connected up the lights . Number plate lights on rear bar are now connected to the car. Got a old M.Y. harness and cut the same colored wires out of it, to extend the ordinal wires, as , with the new bar , has the indicators not quite the same spot. Also the new ones are L series , so ends have to be changed anyway.

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Post by rtcb65 » Tue Oct 25, 2011 7:52 pm

One more little problem has now been over come. The E.J. engines ( the ej 22 ) doesn't have very many vacuum lines on it. For that matter , i have only found 2. One for the fuel return and one on the throttle body. With the L series center diff lock box , it requires vacuum to hold the center diff in or out of lock. Also the fresh and recycle flap in the brumby requires vacuum to switch between them. On the manifold there is a blank off. Lucky for us , on one of our spare engines , there was a vacuum out let . So over to this engine it went.

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Post by steptoe » Wed Oct 26, 2011 8:00 am

you got the little square drive blank off plug out easily then? I have never been able to get these guys out, so tight and no real good grip on the square.

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Post by last celtic warrior » Wed Oct 26, 2011 11:42 pm

Yeah, they're probably frozen (to shrink it), glued, and put it with a really big rattle gun... But, all you need is a spare 1/4 inch drive socket, file the square shank of the plug down a little so you can hammer the socket onto it (backwards), then use an allen key in the socket to crack the thread and undo the little sucker.
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Post by last celtic warrior » Wed Oct 26, 2011 11:56 pm

Oops, sorry. That was a trade secret (a simple fix that makes the "technician" look like a wizard).

So, I retract my previous advice and replace it with...:

MAGIC MATE, IT'S MAGIC. LEAVE IT TO US WIZARDS... ;)
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Post by El_Freddo » Thu Oct 27, 2011 12:55 pm

I too had to get one of these little hollow tube pieces to operate the air duct controls on the dash - found one in an early Gen1 liberty. And the blank screw came out with ease, I think I just used a shifter to do the job.

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Post by rtcb65 » Thu Nov 03, 2011 6:59 pm

El_Freddo wrote:I too had to get one of these little hollow tube pieces to operate the air duct controls on the dash - found one in an early Gen1 liberty. And the blank screw came out with ease, I think I just used a shifter to do the job.

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Post by rtcb65 » Thu Nov 03, 2011 7:11 pm

The rear cover tie downs fitted up , Part of the side stripping fitted.

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Post by El_Freddo » Sat Nov 05, 2011 10:34 pm

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Check out that shine!!! Awesome.

But that scorpion in the back needs some attention, it seems to have attracted some dust :(

Other than that the snippets we've received look awesome!

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Post by dave » Sun Dec 11, 2011 7:14 pm

last celtic warrior wrote:Oops, sorry. That was a trade secret (a simple fix that makes the "technician" look like a wizard).

So, I retract my previous advice and replace it with...:

MAGIC MATE, IT'S MAGIC. LEAVE IT TO US WIZARDS... ;)
Does "Barnes Automotive Technologies" manufactuer magic number plates? mine has a few scratches in it, they are about 25 bucks yeah?
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Post by lovey80 » Fri Jul 06, 2012 8:50 pm

A shot of the car now running nice. Still got a lot of small teething stuff to do but she certainly looks nice I think. Im not sure how to make the photo come up on the page?
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Post by FROG » Fri Jul 06, 2012 11:00 pm

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Post by lovey80 » Sat Jul 07, 2012 1:49 am

Thanks Andy! For any members looking for parts I highly recommend Frog to deal with.

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Post by RSR 555 » Sat Jul 07, 2012 10:34 am

FROG wrote:Image
One smick look machine *2 thumbs up*
lovey80 wrote:Thanks Andy! For any members looking for parts I highly recommend Frog to deal with.
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