So, did anyone actually get out for the long weekend?
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Yeah I did get a lot of slop out of the system, but it'll be a few days before I have time to get into it. Mid headgasket replacement on a volvo at the moment... would you believe 40 bolts holding "upper head" to "lower head" ??? And yes that is as ****ed up as it sounds.
I'm mostly free from thursday on. Wednesday is my sleep deprivation zombie day, so I try not to operate too much machinery
However, a dog sized wrench in plans has come up... "Dietary indiscretions" have her at the vet.
Kinda depends how that goes. Fingers crossed but I suspect we might be on a bread and water diet for a month or two...
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I was going to head out Saturday on a solo trip from Jordan River to Shawnigan (logging roads), but came to the realization that this is one of the worst times to be doing this sort of thing. a. tons of retards in the bush on a long weekend. b. logging companies will have shut everything down hard and likely security patrols because of said retards. This is why wheeling on a weekday might be better - (long as we avoid active logging areas of course).
Got to agree. Luckily I’m able to get local Global news here. Sorry I missed
that incredible lightening and thunder storm!
that incredible lightening and thunder storm!
GTSSportCoupe
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No storm here in Victoria.... Hope no wildfires were started.
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Yeah I did get a lot of slop out of the system, but it'll be a few days before I have time to get into it. Mid headgasket replacement on a volvo at the moment... would you believe 40 bolts holding "upper head" to "lower head" ??? And yes that is as f***ed up as it sounds.
I'm mostly free from thursday on. Wednesday is my sleep deprivation zombie day, so I try not to operate too much machinery
However, a dog sized wrench in plans has come up... "Dietary indiscretions" have her at the vet.
Kinda depends how that goes. Fingers crossed but I suspect we might be on a bread and water diet for a month or two...
Geez, I'm not sure dogs are any easier than kids, haha. Hope that all works out ok. Guess we'll just play things by ear as far as this week goes.
I once did a volvo headgasket job for free out of the kindness of my heart for a friend of mine (old 240 wagon I think). Just got head back from re-surfacing at a machine shop and my Tercel 4wd got stolen with the head in the back. Haha, sort of screwed both me and my buddy. Fortunately car was found a few blocks from my sketchy Esquimalt condo a few days later sans all my favorite CD's but with the volvo head still there. You must be working on a much newer one, because that old one was pretty basic from what I recall...
We got out for a few days with several old club members, lots of fun few cruisers, one 4 runner a jeep and full size furd. One of the cruisers had a feshly installed 6BT, it was very well done and a monster of torque..As Graham said, that things is almost to good. I think he really enjoyed his spin around the camp site.
Cool seeing those pictures of Johnathon and Nick, we had a great weekend. One of the more remote areas I have ever wheeled into, nice not having another single person show up at the lake. Those trout we had for dinner might be the cleanest best tasting, could be in part that its a glacier run off.
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GTSSportCoupe
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Hey Rob, glad you guys had a good trip! Sounds like fun.
It's truly unfortunate our club has become fragmented/divided enough that we don't do this sort of thing as a 'VI Cruisers Club' anymore.... Colin stepped up for a bit, but seems to have moved on now...
stevebradford
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Agreed, no announcement, no invites and no pictures.. Tisk tisk
Was pretty bright in cedar. It did set a couple fires. Green mountain I think I heard? Not entirely sure where that is to be honest.
Yeah this is pity mechanics too. Tenant's girlfriend moved back and the Volvo has been dead for a while, so she's been stuck without wheels.
Hope is that it was the head gasket and not a cracked head. Pretty much have to just put it back together and hope for the best. At least it'll be out of my yard and I might have a buyer for the celica
He definitely did his best to kill it permanently. I figger it's a 40/60 it comes back to life.
What amazes me is the 40 bolts ( closer to 60 with all the extra crap that comes off) hold the upper head ( or cam cover) down, and sandwiches the cams in aluminum. No bearings or anything except right behind the timing pulleys.
The problem the club always had was trying to do any sort of semi regular meeting. Always a pain in the ass because everyone is too spread out, and nobody wants to drive for 2 hours on a weeknight. Were always fun once you were there, it was the getting back in the car after work that sucked.Hey Rob, glad you guys had a good trip! Sounds like fun.
It's truly unfortunate our club has become fragmented/divided enough that we don't do this sort of thing as a 'VI Cruisers Club' anymore.... Colin stepped up for a bit, but seems to have moved on now...
You'd think we'd still be able to manage the occasional weekend thing?
but what can you do. Start phoning and texting people because no one checks any boards anymore?
Hardly even know who still owns a cruiser these days.
Annd then covid arrived.
I think a big part is just that this site is too boring ( too much text not enough memes) for the fruit fly attention span of the younger crowd.
At least I don't remember any arguments that had people storm off , they just wander off to the shiny things on that other site.
Hell even rob and I's arguments are over 5 years old and pretty much just old men yelling at clouds at this point.
Thing for me is, even if I was on that other site (whose name I shall not utter here), I'd never be showing off cruiser s*** or anything like that.
It's waaay too public and half the people wouldn't give a s*** anyways.
At least this place is quiet and hard to find.
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There was a bit of a concern on Friday night as we ere unable to find 4 friends in two 60 series cruisers, me and Graham headed out in his mini truck scouring the back roads until our fuel started to get very low. We went to the Henderson camp ground to find the natives had put their own gate with two signs on it locking people out, turns out over the last year people have been finding this spot and leaving a mess and cutting down trees. 
We ended up under a bridge on a very nice river and managed to squeeze all our trucks on the site, next morning we headed out to a spot with waterfalls and lots of area to camp on. Although we were not the only group camping, everyone else was very friendly and things went well. The boys headed out to town again in hopes of finding their friends, luck would have it they did, they were safe and just got lost and late so they camped on the back roads I believe.
On our way out of the camping area on Sunday I saw Paul Z on the bigger hill, he was out with his boys doing a scouting run to access whether his bj74 would be able to pull his trailer up the one big rocky hill. It was a quick hi and by, but it was great to bump into him.
As for pictures I took none, so if any of the lads are on mud I hope they post a couple. As for next year we talked a bit about a north island run, Patrick spends almost every second weekend up island looking for cool places to camp. He spent a week this summer and covered mega miles up island and we are hoping to get out one weekend before the summers is over and check a couple spots out.
Forgot to mentions, the morning of trip the 81 series started only to have the alternator totally crap out. I ran the two days without it and sparingly used any electrical, finally had to get a jump as I finally ran the batteries down flat. Amazing how little juice is required to keep the fuel pump on. Keith Chris showed up at my house with Graham showing up later, I was going to stay and fix it but opted to just run it. Worked OK.
We ended up under a bridge on a very nice river and managed to squeeze all our trucks on the site, next morning we headed out to a spot with waterfalls and lots of area to camp on. Although we were not the only group camping, everyone else was very friendly and things went well. The boys headed out to town again in hopes of finding their friends, luck would have it they did, they were safe and just got lost and late so they camped on the back roads I believe.
On our way out of the camping area on Sunday I saw Paul Z on the bigger hill, he was out with his boys doing a scouting run to access whether his bj74 would be able to pull his trailer up the one big rocky hill. It was a quick hi and by, but it was great to bump into him.
As for pictures I took none, so if any of the lads are on mud I hope they post a couple. As for next year we talked a bit about a north island run, Patrick spends almost every second weekend up island looking for cool places to camp. He spent a week this summer and covered mega miles up island and we are hoping to get out one weekend before the summers is over and check a couple spots out.
Forgot to mentions, the morning of trip the 81 series started only to have the alternator totally crap out. I ran the two days without it and sparingly used any electrical, finally had to get a jump as I finally ran the batteries down flat. Amazing how little juice is required to keep the fuel pump on. Keith Chris showed up at my house with Graham showing up later, I was going to stay and fix it but opted to just run it. Worked OK.
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There was a bit of a concern on Friday night as we ere unable to find 4 friends in two 60 series cruisers, me and Graham headed out in his mini truck scouring the back roads until our fuel started to get very low. We went to the Henderson camp ground to find the natives had put their own gate with two signs on it locking people out, turns out over the last year people have been finding this spot and leaving a mess and cutting down trees.
We ended up under a bridge on a very nice river and managed to squeeze all our trucks on the site, next morning we headed out to a spot with waterfalls and lots of area to camp on. Although we were not the only group camping, everyone else was very friendly and things went well. The boys headed out to town again in hopes of finding their friends, luck would have it they did, they were safe and just got lost and late so they camped on the back roads I believe.
On our way out of the camping area on Sunday I saw Paul Z on the bigger hill, he was out with his boys doing a scouting run to access whether his bj74 would be able to pull his trailer up the one big rocky hill. It was a quick hi and by, but it was great to bump into him.
As for pictures I took none, so if any of the lads are on mud I hope they post a couple. As for next year we talked a bit about a north island run, Patrick spends almost every second weekend up island looking for cool places to camp. He spent a week this summer and covered mega miles up island and we are hoping to get out one weekend before the summers is over and check a couple spots out.
Forgot to mentions, the morning of trip the 81 series started only to have the alternator totally crap out. I ran the two days without it and sparingly used any electrical, finally had to get a jump as I finally ran the batteries down flat. Amazing how little juice is required to keep the fuel pump on. Keith Chris showed up at my house with Graham showing up later, I was going to stay and fix it but opted to just run it. Worked OK.
@Diesel Cruiserman, is that why I heard honking from the back of your group at the big obstacle...low battery? Makes sense now
It was my first time there and that last obstacle shouldn't prove too difficult going up with the trailer. Barely spun one tire a half turn going up without the trailer so I'm hoping the added weight with maybe a bit of skinny pedal should do the trick. If not, winchy winch it is.
As for pics...here's a couple.
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Was pretty bright in cedar. It did set a couple fires. Green mountain I think I heard? Not entirely sure where that is to be honest.
Yeah this is pity mechanics too. Tenant's girlfriend moved back and the Volvo has been dead for a while, so she's been stuck without wheels.
Hope is that it was the head gasket and not a cracked head. Pretty much have to just put it back together and hope for the best. At least it'll be out of my yard and I might have a buyer for the celica
He definitely did his best to kill it permanently. I figger it's a 40/60 it comes back to life.
What amazes me is the 40 bolts ( closer to 60 with all the extra crap that comes off) hold the upper head ( or cam cover) down, and sandwiches the cams in aluminum. No bearings or anything except right behind the timing pulleys.
That sort of reminds of of the old 5MGE (Supra/Cressida) heads. Weird two piece design. But of course they were straight 6 which is worlds better to work on.
All the aluminum head Toyota motors I worked on back in the day (4AGE/4AGZE for example) didn't have cam bearings either.... Guess the aluminum was considered good enough; I think bearing caps could be replaced if things got scratchy. In fact, I think even the 1HZ/1PZ/1HDT run aluminum bearing caps with no bearing shells in them on the cast iron head.... Weird. Even my 2LTE has a full set of cam bearing shells.
Sounds similar. This is actually a 5 cylinder, just surprized me the cams were just lying there. I guess they figger it'll last a few hundred k and then you'll be sick of Volvos.
I'm not super optimistic seeing as the dumbass overheated it AND froze it but we couldn't see any cracks, and if something was cracked it's not like he was going to go buy a new head for it, so may as well throw it back together with some new gaskets and see what happens.
If it's a smoke show again he's buying his missus a car.
Sounds similar. This is actually a 5 cylinder, just surprized me the cams were just lying there. I guess they figger it'll last a few hundred k and then you'll be sick of Volvos.
I'm not super optimistic seeing as the dumbass overheated it AND froze it but we couldn't see any cracks, and if something was cracked it's not like he was going to go buy a new head for it, so may as well throw it back together with some new gaskets and see what happens.
If it's a smoke show again he's buying his missus Ua car.
Hey it’s good enough for Honda mowers main bearings why not a cam. 18 years old now and it still usually starts on the first pull if it hasn’t been sitting for the last 8 months after just being shut off. I’ve got a GCV 160 that’s on its third crank (Other People hitting sh!t and bending it). I’m still surprised that the crank just slides in. I’ve been getting them out of Texas... about $25USD plus shipping.
Here’s part of the reason I don’t wrench much... and why my 40s not trail ready. I so wish I had a couple weeks and no problems with my spine.
Medical imaging shows fluid buildup... but the specialist I waited years to see didn’t believe there was anything wrong.
This is what happens if I pretend it’s not F’d and paint a wall. Hold my neck a certain way for 20 minutes and have my arm above my head and it almost returns to normal size. The Neurosurgeon I waited three years to see didn’t see anything wrong that a workout at the gym wouldn’t fix.
Can you tell I’m a bit pissed. Know any decent doctors who aren’t pretentious A-holes? Or really good lawyers?
I’m not sure how well photos capture the swelling if you don’t know my hand isn’t usually a blimp. Nor do they express the crushed/smashed feeling.
Sorry for the further derailment.
Medical imaging shows fluid buildup... but the specialist I waited years to see didn’t believe there was anything wrong.
This is what happens if I pretend it’s not F’d and paint a wall. Hold my neck a certain way for 20 minutes and have my arm above my head and it almost returns to normal size. The Neurosurgeon I waited three years to see didn’t see anything wrong that a workout at the gym wouldn’t fix.
Can you tell I’m a bit pissed. Know any decent doctors who aren’t pretentious A-holes? Or really good lawyers?
I’m not sure how well photos capture the swelling if you don’t know my hand isn’t usually a blimp. Nor do they express the crushed/smashed feeling.
Sorry for the further derailment.
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stevebradford
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That looks wild. Least it’s not the penis eating mind controlling mold Seapotato found on WebMD. A couple thoughts, Does it happen after you eat canned spinach? Were you exposed to gamma radiation, the swelling happens with green fits of rage? All I know is I wouldn’t want to get into a fist fight with you!
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That really sucks man. Health can be so taken for granted until it's gone. Sounds to me like a nerve thing where the arm nerves leave the spinal cord; but I ain't no doctor.... I used to work in mineral exploration and had to move 100's and sometimes 1000's of 80 pound core boxes every day by foot. After a year of that I started waking up in the morning unable to feel or move my arms. Turned out nerves were getting munched from all the weight on my spine every day. That's when I decided to go to college and get myself a desk job. Friend of mine has crazy spine issues too...which are relieved by holding his arm over his head all day. This is what makes me think nerves.... Keep pushing the system for help and finding different doctors with different opinions. There are some good ones out there.
I’ve learned what do you call a D Average med student? Dr.
I feel for you, I’ve been on more f’n wait lists than years I’ve been waiting for a doctor
on this island. Which, BTW is 24 yrs. Try going to emergency, first question? Who’s your GP?
Don‘t have one - response : get treated like you are homeless. This is a mild rant.
bikersmurf - what actually need doing on your 40?
I feel for you, I’ve been on more f’n wait lists than years I’ve been waiting for a doctor
on this island. Which, BTW is 24 yrs. Try going to emergency, first question? Who’s your GP?
Don‘t have one - response : get treated like you are homeless. This is a mild rant.
bikersmurf - what actually need doing on your 40?