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Author:  RevHead001 [ Wed May 13, 2009 6:59 pm ]
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Clearly I do. When the fancy takes me. It wasn't any cat. It was the local menace cat. Always sh1tting out the front and blewing with our cat. Anyway. It's not like I killed it. Just broke it's tail...

Anyway, I'm not a bastard... I know who my parents are.

Author:  Shexy Chester [ Thu May 14, 2009 5:50 pm ]
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are u a cock then by any chance?
:wink:

Author:  RevHead001 [ Thu May 14, 2009 8:10 pm ]
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Geez. You make that 'Don' fellow look like a top bloke.

Author:  Mr Camouflage [ Thu May 14, 2009 8:50 pm ]
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Anything else you'd like to confess to Rev? :lol:

Author:  RevHead001 [ Thu May 14, 2009 9:14 pm ]
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There are many things that I need to confess too... One step at a time though.

I must admit though that I find myself plucking out the random grey hair .

Author:  dirtyleppa [ Thu May 14, 2009 9:58 pm ]
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while removing the gearbox from my L20et in my laurel by myself one late night, i thought i would just lie underneath it and drop it onto my chest. little did i know that it was a cast iron box, not alloy. once it dropped i quicklt figured that 1 out. to make it worse, on the bottom of the box is a casting join about 10mm thick. that does not take kindly to your ribs :? but the worst thing was that my car wasnt high enough off the ground to move the box to one side. i spent the next 90mins trying to get out from underneat the bugger. my left arm did not enjoy it too much either.

another day, i was attacking a commonwhore front end with a gas torch to remobe the rb30 that lived inside. all was going well and to plan until 1 little brass hose halted preceedings. i continued to cut at it not knowing it was the power steering hose. i eventually cut into it and got engulfed by a large ball of flaming power steering fluid :oops:

Author:  Stephen [ Fri May 15, 2009 9:56 pm ]
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RevHead001 wrote:
There are many things that I need to confess too... One step at a time though.
Better not be anything about my gearbox :P heheh.

you'll get your money on monday :D

Author:  RevHead001 [ Fri May 15, 2009 11:15 pm ]
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I made sweet sweet love to it! I had to lube it up somehow. And it was good...

Author:  Mark [ Sun May 31, 2009 12:14 am ]
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Bahahahaha
There's just something enticing about have your way with someone else's 'box' isn't there Don..
:mrgreen:

Author:  green200b [ Sat Aug 15, 2009 9:26 pm ]
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Years ago a friend and I used to catch a northern train line to go and see some girls (the Hurstbridge line for anyone in Victoria). Every time we went up we'd see this pink station wagon in a vacant block by the train line, that never seemed to move. One day, I had a decent look, and realised that it was quite possibly a 200B wagon (having never seen one in person, I think I was 16 at this time). So one day we stopped on the way to have a look. We came across a pink 200B wagon that looked as though it had been dumped. It had rust in the rear quarters, broken windows, and grass growing through it. It had a very nice set of front guards though.....

So a week or two later, we caught the train up there with our tool boxes. In that two weeks the car had had every remaining intact window smashed, and it had been graffitied. The front guards were still good though, so we removed the bonnet and began removing the front guards. Halfway through, a passing elderly gentleman asked what we were doing. I said that we were removing the front guards, and he replied: "But it's my car." I thought he was joking, so I said: "Oh, you own this?" and he replied: "Yes, it's mine."

Both of us sort of froze, having no idea what to do. He looked fairly angry, then said: "Put the bonnet back on while I go inside and call the police." I immediately asked him not to, and after he asked why not, I explained that I was 16, had one of these cars myself, and couldn't find any decent guards, and believing that this car was abandoned, I thought I'd remove them before the council sent the whole car to be crushed. He seemed to calm down a bit upon hearing this, but said that he couldn't work out why it was abandoned when it was parked next to his house, and that he was planning on fixing it up and re-registering it. I looked at all of the smashed windows and the copious amounts of rust, pointed these out to him, after which he explained that it could all be fixed. He then offered to sell me the car for $350. I told him I paid $200 for mine and all it needed was some new front guards, and he said: "Well I suppose I'd go as low as $250."

We exchanged numbers, I never called him or heard from him, and a month or two later the car disappeared. At a guess I'd say the council took it or he rang a wrecker.

Author:  lunchbox [ Sun Aug 16, 2009 8:15 pm ]
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ok, so a while ago with my ol' HQ, thought i'd rip the diff out and weld her up for some fun, apparently diff centers are quite alot heavier than i was expecting so i ended up dropping the whole center strait on the nads... not a pleasant experiance i'll tell you that! then only a few days ago, i'm around at a mates, rebuilding a decent holley for his statesman, well after giving it all new seals and such, we pull off the old rochester and start fitting up the holley, after a fair bit of messing around with gas system, fire up the engineonly to hear a real bad knocking, so off comes the carby, the manifold, nothing... so off comes the passenger side head, nothing, so off with the drivers side, and clearly there's a washer mashed into the 1st piston, so not being a power house of an engine we figure we'll just get the washer out and bolt it all back 2gether, so out come the chisel and a hammer, bit of light tapping later out pops the washer, and strait down the valley and into the oil pick up... so what started as a quick "lets replace the carb" turned into a completely stripped down 308... why couldn't it just be easy? haha

Author:  richardc [ Sun Aug 16, 2009 10:33 pm ]
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My confession is that I have been competing with a friend of mine in the Victorian Clubman Rally Series (VCRS) this year - in a FORD Escort Mk2. I read the maps and - now - inspect the car for obvious mechanical problems.

I have learnt all about fragile FORD reliabilty, and how to fix a FORD rally car during an event.

We have had the clutch fail - twice.
A broken clutch cable at the Mt Porepunka Rally Sprint ended our event.

In the Rally of Bonnie Doon, (April 09) a brand and new expensive close ratio gear box blew - on the transport stage - two sections from the finish. ( Said box was repaired under warranty!)
Next event, the Nissan Nightmoves, the clutch cable adjusting screw unwound because the gear box warranty repairer didn't put a lock nut on it. We managed to finish 20th out of a field of 40 despite running without a clutch for quarter of the event.

Last event we ran was the George Derrick Memorial, July 09. We finished 16th - just!

First, the engine dropped a cylinder by the half way break, but undeterred, because we were running 11th at the time, we persisted (at lower revs) - and the exhaust pipe broke beside the gear box, literally as we drove away from the finish control.

Later inspection reveals both engine mounts broken, hence the exhaust pipe breaking, and something has been sucked through #3 cylinder, bending a valve on the way through, now requiring an engine rebuild. The engine block was stuffed and was already overbored to the max.

This level of maintenance is unheard of in a Datsun 1600!

Despite these little dramas we have been getting better as a team and putting in some quickish section times when we get it all together - and we are loving it!

We are already thinking about the next rally car build up - I am thinking an S14 180SX?, or another confession - a 1995 MR2 Toyota? I have a couple of spare Datsun 1600's available aside from my 1600SSS, but I think they deserve a better "next" life. Bring on the debate!

Author:  thedevilshands [ Wed Sep 09, 2009 4:53 pm ]
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I confused a blown head gasket between cylinders 3 and 4 with some sort of air leak / over supply of air from my 36/36 DCD weber on my A14.

I didn't realise it was only running on 2 cylinders as I had been driving with a lead foot and the prob was only apparent in the lower rev ranges :oops: :oops: :oops:

Heh heh heh.... Is your cam lumpy or are you just happy to see me :lol:

EDIT --- Well it wasn't the head gasket either, I've taken the head off and no holes around the cylinders at all. Got nfi what it was, it sounded like a gasket, when u pulled the plugs off 3 and 4 there was no difference in idle... maybe tight valves??? I dunno

My confession is that I know nothing :thumbsup:

Author:  Ryan [ Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:24 pm ]
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lunchbox wrote:
ok, so a while ago with my ol' HQ, thought I'd rip the diff out and weld her up for some fun, apparently diff centers are quite alot heavier than I was expecting so I ended up dropping the whole center strait on the nads... not a pleasant experiance I'll tell you that! then only a few days ago, I'm around at a mates, rebuilding a decent holley for his statesman, well after giving it all new seals and such, we pull off the old rochester and start fitting up the holley, after a fair bit of messing around with gas system, fire up the engineonly to hear a real bad knocking, so off comes the carby, the manifold, nothing... so off comes the passenger side head, nothing, so off with the drivers side, and clearly there's a washer mashed into the 1st piston, so not being a power house of an engine we figure we'll just get the washer out and bolt it all back 2gether, so out come the chisel and a hammer, bit of light tapping later out pops the washer, and strait down the valley and into the oil pick up... so what started as a quick "lets replace the carb" turned into a completely stripped down 308... why couldn't it just be easy? haha
I did exactally the same thing rebuilding my carb and a swear i was being carefull, but ohwell teach me to use a rag next time

Author:  nitros13 [ Thu Oct 07, 2010 12:49 am ]
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My confession.

Ive had 6 different girls in my Mazda 121, 6 in the 929 and none in the 1600. poor poor effort. Although my old 200B i had 4.

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