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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2145 on: September 26, 2011, 07:14:32 PM »
If Ms Fletcher falls  I am sure James would expect to record it and post it here for all to see with the new camera that I recieved today----thanks man!!!  :cheers:

Just by way of explanation peoples Sparky has been very very helpful to us over the last few years. He marshalled the parts we needed to build the 10 bolt Torsen rear end that we now have and has also thrown in ring gears and various other parts, then picked up some tires for us earler this year, it was really great to have had the advice and the on the spot help, priceless. Thing is when I tried to pay him for the out of pockets on it he wouldn't have a bar of it. I just got payback.

Now Bill go to www.photobucket.com and open an account  so you can upload photos that we don't have to click on .

Lookin forward to seeing more shots of the build.
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2146 on: September 28, 2011, 06:28:05 AM »
I had a time in lieu day off today.....just in time for the heavens to open. The Colonel came over and every single thing went, as he kept saying....swimmingly, we'd had an inch and a half of rain in two hours.

I started the day by going shopping , to the industrial zone...bought some rod ends, bolts and the sort of stuff you come away with whenever you go to one of those places, a litre of CRC , that sort of thing.

I got busy sorting out the radius rods after I'd made rudimentary arrangements for the exhaust stubs.



 I plated either side of the rails , I shorted the rear rods and then welded some nuts onto the end of 'em, the fronts just needed a 7/16 hole drilled and a thread tapped into them.Yet to finalize how they will mount.



This is the mount for the steering box, brilliant , it's just that the pitman arm is exactly where I want the drag link to go through the body....



We scrounged a Jag shifter( well I've had it hanging around for years)...it should guarantee that the car will leak oil, rust quickly and the interior will rot out of it in short order.....



We , well Graham got all the electrics sorted out...believe me it was miserable....



I cut the top of the tank, because the motor just sits too high to keep it in one piece...and yeah, we kept going til the light ran out




forecast is bad for the weekend......
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2147 on: September 28, 2011, 01:18:17 PM »
I turned up the light for you.
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2148 on: September 28, 2011, 03:33:35 PM »
 Mate! & you called me "hard core"!!
Ah, a good ol Ozzy rain, when the sky turns dark green, the rain drops are the size of marbles & the roads turn into rivers.
 I dont miss that at all!
  Sid.

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2149 on: September 28, 2011, 05:34:41 PM »
I turned up the light for you.

good man , can that thing build a roof?

the forecast this morning said "chance of hail, Saturday"....
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2150 on: September 28, 2011, 06:27:41 PM »
As you can see , I was prepared for the weather with state of the art waterproof clothing
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2151 on: September 28, 2011, 08:21:51 PM »
 :cheers:

G, and I thought those state of the art slickers were only soldd here in South Carolina! lol
Have 2 just like yours.
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2152 on: September 28, 2011, 08:53:57 PM »
I turned up the light for you.

good man , can that thing build a roof?

the forecast this morning said "chance of hail, Saturday"....
We had the "rain rocks" here yesterday Goggs, I had to wear earmuffs while stuck in the shed sorting out the BOV
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2153 on: September 28, 2011, 09:13:45 PM »
Save your breath Lofty, there's heaps of laughs left in this yet....

Apparently so.
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2154 on: September 29, 2011, 11:19:46 AM »
the forecast this morning said "chance of hail, Saturday"....

Whoa, whoa, whoa - it took me a day to think that one through.

The Aussies have a weather service capable of predicting hail THREE DAYS OUT?

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2155 on: September 29, 2011, 11:24:25 AM »
Chris --

You've forgotten that because of the International Dateline, tomorrow is yesterday, or today is tomorrow, or yesterday hasn't happened yet, or something like that.

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2156 on: September 29, 2011, 11:36:01 AM »
Chris --

You've forgotten that because of the International Dateline, tomorrow is yesterday, or today is tomorrow, or yesterday hasn't happened yet, or something like that.

Stan

And yet my buddies down there can never give me tomorrows lottery numbers today!

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2157 on: September 29, 2011, 05:41:30 PM »
No need number you have already wun twenty five milion in Happy Lucky Aussie Gold Mine Lotery, just send account details and we send your prize, send to:

desperateforracebudget@rustyheap.com

Happy Lucky.

   
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2158 on: September 29, 2011, 06:27:08 PM »
Rustyheap.com??  What happened to fourdoorsh!tbox.com??  :mrgreen:

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2159 on: September 29, 2011, 06:28:33 PM »
No need number you have already wun twenty five milion in Happy Lucky Aussie Gold Mine Lotery, just send account details and we send your prize, send to:

desperateforracebudget@rustyheap.com

Happy Lucky.
Tman - I just got that same e-mail today!

Looks like we BOTH won!

Isn't THAT a coincidence?

I've also got some cash coming my way courtesy of an exiled Ethiopian prince who I loaned some money to in order to clear up a misunderstanding with Lithuanian authorities.
"Problems are almost always a sign of progress."  Harold Bettes
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