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[bikersmurf]

If you want a finders fee buy it and resell it with a proper/honest description of what it is....

Don't you get enough help and spare parts on the club board to just tell someone where it is if you're not going to buy it to restore / enjoy?

I did tell first in line where it is. I was mostly joking… hence the reference to slave labour (since slavery was long since abolished)

I’ve not got any help yet… some parts though. I’m hoping to leverage it into some help with a little luck (especially since it’ll likely be staying in the group). Ultimate goal is to get my 40 diffs matching and fully road worthy.

I don’t want to tell 5 people where it is and then have the seller get an inflated head thinking there’s sudden a ton of interest in it. It won’t go anywhere if the seller decides it’s worth $20k even though it likely hasn’t moved in 5+ years. And may no longer run.

 

[GTSSportCoupe]

Wonder if @Rigpig ended up with the thing? Me thinks he's building a northern version of this somewhere in the highlands: Landcruiser Heritage Museum - Home - https://landcruiserhm.com/

 

[bikersmurf]

Wonder if @Rigpig ended up with the thing? Me thinks he's building a northern version of this somewhere in the highlands: Landcruiser Heritage Museum - Home - https://landcruiserhm.com/

He said he was planning to check it out today… haven’t heard anything further yet.

I’m waiting on the edge of my seat… I’m living vicariously through others. Until I’m retired, have some acreage in the middle of nowhere, and a 1200 sqft shop… I need to stick to building one Landcruiser.

 

[Rigpig]

Wonder if @Rigpig ended up with the thing? Me thinks he's building a northern version of this somewhere in the highlands: Landcruiser Heritage Museum - Home - https://landcruiserhm.com/

Haha...won't be much to look at up here, can barely get to my 42 let alone other stuff!

He said he was planning to check it out today… haven’t heard anything further yet.

I’m waiting on the edge of my seat… I’m living vicariously through others. Until I’m retired, have some acreage in the middle of nowhere, and a 1200 sqft shop… I need to stick to building one Landcruiser.

Planned on it but fixing my service truck so that i can get back to work is taking up my time.

 

[seapotato]

Just saw this in the winching section. This FID thing is pretty cool. No idea what they want $$$ - Factor55. But this video is a wicked
good demonstration on how to resplice or just put an end in a synthetic line. Don't really need the tool, but it would be a big help.
I also liked how he indicated the known problem with synthetic rope is its abrasion weakness and propensity for breaking. Something
to think about before giving away perfectly good steel wire rope.
I like the teaching aspect of this video, worth watching for everyone.

Cool fid design. Nice to need only one for all sizes.

He should have tapered the buried bit tho. Make it nicer to use.

I have a set of these ones with the barb in the back. They work pretty well too.
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Certainly better than the ones I had 30 years ago without the barb... Doing a rope to wire splice and having the fid come off halfway through can harsh your mellow a little bit.

Crazy how easy it is to splice that new synthetic stuff. Cored yacht braid is a pain in the ass by comparison.

For the ones I did that'd go on the ocean floor for years they'd get a few stitches through them too.

Was cleaning up the shop today and I found one of those wire pull things for running cable.

Figured I'd make one of those fancy fids for something to do. Took maybe 5 minutes, cost $zero.

It works ok I guess. Biggest issue is the step dude in the video skipped.

I didn't taper the tail before putting it into the fid so it made it like a snake trying to swallow a golf ball.

The wire pull is galvanized, so not super smooth, but as it polishes up I think it'll get easier to use.

Bit of bees wax or something might help too.

Still, I prefer the other ss set, burying the tail is way easier with the smooth fid body.

But just needing the one size makes it an easy tool to throw in the truck.

Now back to shop cleanup.

 

[cruiserpilot]

Supposed to be good luck, huh?! My brother says seagulls are endangered, - they will be if they keep crapping on my truck.

 

[bladedog]

Sh!t Hawks, we calls 'em!

 

[seapotato]

Well this is cool.

In case you were thinking that engine was really clean, this pic adds perspective.

2JZ – dbsworks

www.dbsworks.net

If he did a 3b or a 12ht I'd probably be pretty tempted.

 

[seapotato]

Went for a "blow the spiders out of the exhaust" drive yesterday.

For no particular reason.

 

[bikersmurf]

Went for a "blow the spiders out of the exhaust" drive yesterday.

For no particular reason.

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Perfectly good reason… they were there. Enough said.

 

[seapotato]

Perfectly good reason… they were there. Enough said.

Well, the pic was taken while swmbo was checking to see if the pub was open.


Sooo, there may have been another reason.

 

[stevebradford]

Spotted the anvil today

 

[seapotato]

Spotted the anvil today
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Because it's not painful enough when you drop the hood on your head?

Thinking too of all those early 40 hood ornaments with the dent from flying open...this would have a different effect

 

[cruiserpilot]

Shiny new arrival to San Juan, PR

 

[seapotato]

I think I hate houses.

Only consolation is that I'm working for about $1000 an hour.

Almost as much what the HVAC companies quoted, but I'm not as fast as them so wages take a hit.

 

[stevebradford]

That range of emotions you feel when a cheetah s***s on the hood of your Landy

 

[PG45er]

That range of emotions you feel when a cheetah s***s on the hood of your Landy
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Looking at the bright side, the "range of emotions" would be pretty mild compared to if it was an elephant standing on your hood and unloading.

 

[bikersmurf]

That range of emotions you feel when a cheetah s***s on the hood of your Landy
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Well, if cheetahs are at all like dogs, they’ll s**t in areas where they smell s**t… like the guys shorts have.

 

[cruiserpilot]

V12 but keeping wheelbase for offroading? Or else it's Russian

 

[seapotato]

V12 but keeping wheelbase for offroading? Or else it's Russian
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Inline 12 maybe...

If it was Russian, wouldn't it be on fire or getting towed by a Ukrainian tractor ?