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Please, can we have our 'Summer back' if it's not too much bothe
r LOL
By: DennisM Date: July 25, 2020, 10:35 pm
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G'day All,
Last Friday I received this in the mail, sent to me by Darren
aka Viamphie, many thanks mate
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it was the brightest thing that has happened in the past couple
of weeks, I have managed to do
a few short drives etc in a couple of my fleet, but with that I
found a few issues that needed attention
asap like right now LOL.
My replica LRPV (Long Range Patrol Vehicle)had an issue with the
hydraulics (clutch) which meant
that to get it out and be able to work on it required what has
been known as 'Op Rubic's Cube'
moving around the collection so as to facilitate movement around
the vehicle
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I removed the clutch master cyl, along with the slave cyl sent
by express post Thursday, they arrived
in Lismore the next morning (Fri) @ 0830hrs, the company rang at
1300hrs to say the job was done
(stainless steel sleeves fitted) and they were back in the post
arriving here at around 1300hrs Monday,
all refitted and road tested Tuesday
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the slave cyl as we all know can be a P.I.A but it just fell
into place with no fuss, I think it took me longer to
refit the floor sections
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it bled itself, all I needed to do was one depression of the
clutch pedal and job was done, it's a neat vehicle
I should get it out more often
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The next issue was with Chloe aka 112-501, who I restored 21
years ago, we had her out for a run after fixing
the LRPV I felt the brakes were dragging and the pedal was full
on hard, so I suspected something was not
right, here she is the day we took her out to Barraba lane
Quarrybylong, Dianne looking for a buyer for it LOL
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I had intentions for flying the drone
over it, but I nearly lost the drone due to a gusty wind, so I
canned that idea n quickly LOL, anyway I got it
home, and where it was parked in the carport with 3 others, I
was able to determine what the issue was,
the front rhs was where it was, I thought it can only be one of
a couple things, firstly I thought the flex hose
may have had an embolism and not allowing fluid back from the
wheel cyl, the other was a sticky piston in
the wheel cyl, so it was out with a jack and a axle stand, n get
into it
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just enough space to work in out of the weather, I don't like
working on brakes with the hub still in place
so a full strip down took place, the sticky piston can be seen
yuk
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about 15 minutes later it was stripped down
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on the bench inside the shed, I managed to get the sticky piston
out, using a brass drift, a quick clean
using 1200 wet n dry on the stainless steel liner, clean all the
bits, head off to Maitland to buy the brake
cups, nobody keeps anything locally anymore, then it was just a
re-assemble job, in the previous image
you may be able to see the modified 3/8"UNF set screw that I use
to stop the loss of brake fluid, it screws
into the steel line, it works, here is a close up of it and the
brass hex that I use for the rear wheel cyl's
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after getting home from picking up the new cups, it didn't take
long to re-assemble and refit
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I also let this self bleed to a degree, I use a plastic soft
drink bottle and green oxygen tubing this allows fluid to flow
into the bottle, then with my T/A aka Dianne (wife) it took 2
depressions of the brake pedal job done, but no
test drive as the weather is lousey wet n cold, poor little S2
88" C/R sitting out in all
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so on bended knee, "Can we have our Summer back" please LOL,
here are a couple of images taken from my drone
showing the local area, apologies if I have posted them before,
this one is looking west up Spencer st where I
live, it is showing the Broken Back Range, it's about 3 miles as
the crow flies,
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this one is out at Broke, it's about 15 miles from home (Nth
roughly of Cessnock), as you can see we are surrounded by
mountains, but they are beautiful, the big lump of rock rhs of
image is known as 'Yellow rock'
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anyway I'm not going to ask nicely again for our summer, so
tomorrow morning it had better be back here LOL cheers Dennis
dgs
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Re: Please, can we have our 'Summer back' if it's not too much b
other LOL
By: Viamphie Date: July 26, 2020, 2:40 am
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A picture of Broke you say? In the background must be Broke back
Mountains?
As for your Summer, if you had given us a decent one to begin
with we may have finished with it already but every time we get
a nice bit of sunshine it pisses down with rain the next day. We
don’t mind giving you those days whstle
Nice job on the repairs old bean, we all enjoy it when we see
your fleet being taken out. Keep smiling
#Post#: 63490--------------------------------------------------
Re: Please, can we have our 'Summer back' if it's not too much b
other LOL
By: DennisM Date: July 26, 2020, 4:21 am
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LOL, it's still pouring rain here, it hasn't let up all day, I
have just come up into the house from my wksp, as I have been
lifting things up off the floor in case of flooding which has
happened before, I just hope not tonight plz, Darren the
mountain range is the Broken Back range all part of the great
dividing range which is all along the East coast of Australia,
cheers dennis dgs
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Re: Please, can we have our 'Summer back' if it's not too much b
other LOL
By: BL made it Date: August 21, 2020, 10:37 am
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Grab the nice days when they pop up.
Derbyshire Monday before last
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Re: Please, can we have our 'Summer back' if it's not too much b
other LOL
By: DennisM Date: August 23, 2020, 12:11 am
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Lovely scene mate, with a rare vehicle, well rare here down
under, cheers dennis dgs
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