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G'day everyone,....
Any chance you can weld up the hole in the oil cooler?
Also I got myself one of those torque multiplier wrenches and with a 110:1 it works like a charm.
Aussie.
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The smaller trees you see around where the old house was are trees that have grown since the Ash Wendsday fires in 82.
Only the bigger trees were there when the fires went through.
Yes they are either public access roads or forestry tracks.
About 40% of the tracks that...
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Collected my Deuce yesterday, also a 60Ltr drum of gear oil.
Then took my Deuce out for 5hrs to my old stomping ground.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UwrX_-BBp0
Found out I now have small leak in heater hose joints and will need to tighten.
Aussie.
G'day everyone,....
Well its not so much as 'what did I do to my Deuce this week' but what I did for it this week.
I ordered a 60Ltr drum of gear oil for it, I may get the Deuce out this weekend and as long as it dose'nt snow like it has the last few days here I might get to take it for a joy...
G'day everyone,...
Well today I lay under my Deuce out in the cold and greased the suspension and drive train, also the front PTO for the winch.
I Kept pumping new grease into the grease nipples until the old grease or new grease appeared,
With the winch PTO at the gearbox end I just pumped...
G'day everyone,....
Collected my Deuce yesterday and will go grease the drive train and suspension today.
Will also clean around the engine and see about a few leaks,...
This is how I woke up to my Deuce this morning,..
I hope it doesn't get to hot to work on today,....
;)
Aussie.
G'day everyone,....
Well as somebody who lives in an arid country and deals with temps over 40deg C with bugs etc,... we put fly screen in front of our radiators and it works just fine!
It will not restrict airflow at all.
You can put the fly screen between the radiator and the brush guard so...
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I have a saying:
"When you lose sight of your childhood, that's when you grow old and die!"
Who dose'nt like to play with toys,..
The only difference between a boy and a man is the price of his toys,...
;)
Aussie.
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I removed the airline just where it connects to each wipers pneumatic motor and dripped a little air tool oil into the airline itself then reconnected it.
Then when I used the wipers the oil was fed into the system to coat the interior cylinder and piston.
As to the...
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This is the camera I got, (3 actually).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEsIbPPBGIQ
The resolution is great on my laptop but its reduced by Youtube, that vid was done at 1080 resolution and when it uploads youtube reduces it for some reason.
I have changed the lighting...
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Well there are some pretty sick people out there!,...
:cookoo:
Here's a short vid I took testing out my new cheap Action Camera,.... the audio sucks since its inside its weather proof case,...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9QPKY8QIjc
I've since changed the exposure...
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As you can see,.... people just love the Deuce and want to have their picture taken with it,....
Took us about 20 mins to get directions to where they wanted what we had dumped.
Everyone asking, "where did ya get it,.... How much did it cost,.... What ya doin with...
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I put the bows on today, (finally!)
Did'nt quite get to put the cargo cover on yet, maybe tomorrow.
Took a load of garden waste to the tip along with an old fridge and TV.
Got swarmed by the workers there who wanted to look at and have their pictures taken with the Deuce...