Its Time to clean up the FB

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Re: Its Time to clean up the FB

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EK DAZ wrote:Making a nice job of it. Regards Daz.
X2 :thumbsup:
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Re: Its Time to clean up the FB

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Cheers Daz, and Blacky,
Today was throw the diff back under in an aim to get rolling. I will need to remove the rear springs again as I have not cleaned them up yet.
regards
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Re: Its Time to clean up the FB

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Today working on the front end, I reckon I had the uppers arms on and off half dozen times, referring to the manual, and then when I got to the lowers it was doing my head in figuring out which seals go where? any way should get it knocked out tomorrow.
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Re: Its Time to clean up the FB

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I am from Western Australia, when I went and visited my old man at Christmas I went to a wreckers who had a few master cylinders, I picked out a couple and brought them back to NZ, I have had them re-sleeved but this is how the reservoirs look after being cleaned, so I am on the hunt for a couple.
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Re: Its Time to clean up the FB

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Are they OK everywhere else ? Maybe you could solder them up ? There are heaps of them on Epay at the moment .....
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Re: Its Time to clean up the FB

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G'day Blacky,
I reckon I will try and solder up, and then coat the inside, I had a look on epay, thanks for that, I choked on my morning coffee, the guy wants a $1000, wow, I paid $30 au each for the masters , had all wheel cylinders and both masters sleeved for $470 kiwi.
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Re: Its Time to clean up the FB

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Hey ,Thomo, Where did you get your cylinders done?. Just had a quote of $120 ea, just for the wheel cylinders. Regards Daz.
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Re: Its Time to clean up the FB

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G'day Daz,
the company is called Apex, and they are in Hamilton.
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Re: Its Time to clean up the FB

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Now I have the FB rolling, we can move out from the hoist, the plan is to spray the interior and boot over the weekend, weather dependent!! the plan next week is to hang doors and panels.
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Re: Its Time to clean up the FB

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love the colour...
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Re: Its Time to clean up the FB

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Cheers Rocket,
Please find a couple more, over the next couple of weeks should be a bit more blue going on.
regards
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Re: Its Time to clean up the FB

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looking great mate :thumbsup:
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Re: Its Time to clean up the FB

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looks a bit like cataract grey , sensational job youre doing , hope to see you at beach hop 17
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Re: Its Time to clean up the FB

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G'day All,
a couple of photos of the roof, which was painted yesterday.
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Re: Its Time to clean up the FB

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Awesome work your doing there - the colour will really sing in the sunshine. :starr:
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