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Got a couple of hours in yesterday, managed to get it back in , was a bit warm in the shed and will be for the next couple of days,,,,

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Good effort. I was just speculating you might need to borrow a car for temora, thinking about whether we could get both our runners there.


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Errol62 wrote: Sun Dec 22, 2024 10:46 am Good effort. I was just speculating you might need to borrow a car for temora, thinking about whether we could get both our runners there.
Might be a good excuse to buy another one :ebiggrin:
not doing anything today, just got back from a club Christmas breakfast and going out at 3 for another get together plus its 41 degrees here :gasp: :econfused:
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Good effort Blacky walked into my workshop yesterday and today thermometer tops out at 50' C expecting it to blow its top, worked at the mother in laws houes yesterday trying to get it ready to sell had to move 3 cubes of mulch and just about killed us in 41'C
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i'll take mid to high 40s as long as it's dry instead of the mid to low 30s here with 500% humidity you can see the moisture in the air you literally only have to think about doing something and you are drenched in sweat :crazy: :thumbsdown:
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Mick wrote: Mon Dec 23, 2024 9:44 pm i'll take mid to high 40s as long as it's dry instead of the mid to low 30s here with 500% humidity you can see the moisture in the air you literally only have to think about doing something and you are drenched in sweat :crazy: :thumbsdown:
Yeah you can keep the humidity Mick, when I was working in Gove, Fiji, Solomon Islands etc it was only ever mid thirties tops but you are sweating like a whore in church all day ......... :shock:
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So I got this far yesterday- got to 43 at one point so a couple of dips in the pool were in order- air conditioning in the shed is a big bonus ImageImagebehind that Lincoln grille is an evaporative cooler
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Coming a long nicely. Must be some relief in sight? Forecast 36C in Adelaide tomorrow.


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Blacky wrote: Tue Dec 24, 2024 12:46 pm So I got this far yesterday- got to 43 at one point so a couple of dips in the pool were in order- air conditioning in the shed is a big bonus ImageImagebehind that Lincoln grille is an evaporative cooler
They arrested me, and put me in jail,
So I called my pop to post my bail.
He said “Son, you’re going to drive me to drinking
If you don’t quit driving that hotrod Lincoln.”.

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White posts looked like a picket fence…….


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Blacky wrote: Tue Dec 24, 2024 12:46 pm
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that's a shitty point to be at you look at it and think just gotts add XYZ and it should start should only take half an hour :lol:
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Close Mick , took about 2 hours after I broke a spark plug and had to go into town to get a replacement…
Running now, have bedded the cam in but I am buggered if I can find the top radiator support bar so I can’t lock the bonnet down and road test it ….
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Good one Blacky,

Always rewarding when an engine fires up after a rebuild.
Lets just hope any smoke is residual, although your muffler might contain a litre or two !!!!

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Great stuff mate must be rewarding.
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