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anti-sway bar is in

plot twist... Gimme 5 months

You are galloping with this.... 5 years, never.....
Most would still be sorting out how to join the sub-frame corner into the original.... we didn't even get a chance to see the parts!
frats,
Rosco

yeah, I forget to take photos sometimes until after I finish (can't imagine how many pages the thread would go for otherwise )

pics of the parts here: https://www.rarespares.net.au/rarespare ... ons?page=0


days are getting shorter - and once winter hits here it'll slow me right down


... here you go - I've also got these

That were quick

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You planning to take off the subframe ? ?

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Errol62 wrote: Wed Apr 15, 2020 7:00 pm You planning to take off the subframe ? ?

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I'll only take it off if I need to ... 'I'm just going to give it a quick cleanup'

Yeah, know that one. See if you can get a bit of fence wire and poke through from the holes in the front through to the hole at the outer leg to sill attachment or vice versa. There is often rust in the firewall behind the apron if you go looking. You want to pump the subframe full of fish oil after it is painted.


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Errol62 wrote: Wed Apr 15, 2020 7:41 pm Yeah, know that one. See if you can get a bit of fence wire and poke through from the holes in the front through to the hole at the outer leg to sill attachment or vice versa. There is often rust in the firewall behind the apron if you go looking. You want to pump the subframe full of fish oil after it is painted.


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Absolutely, Clay - and don't forget to fit rubber bungs into the two outrigger holes on the stonetray/front subframe section - they are wonderful entries for crap getting in and rusting everything up in the corners... make sure the drain holes in each corner underneath are kept open too...

By golly, you are getting into this... I see the Dak Dak's you have... lots of experience to draw on with those...

frats,
Rosco

I learned to drive in mum's oval window beetle. Used to take it all over fleuerieau peninsula looking for waves and magic mushies. Then put $2.50 standard in the tank. Don't think it had a fuel gauge, just a lever on the floor to swap over to reserve.

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Errol62 wrote: Wed Apr 15, 2020 9:26 pm I learned to drive in mum's oval window beetle. Used to take it all over fleuerieau peninsula looking for waves and magic mushies. Then put $2.50 standard in the tank. Don't think it had a fuel gauge, just a lever on the floor to swap over to reserve.

Ha-Ha... did you have flower stickers all over the little Dak Dak?... can't remember what they were called... all the rage in the '70's (wild times).
(edit - yes I can... frangipani's fr/R)
I remember when I first got the old bus in 1972... no matter how low the needle was in the fuel gauge - I could never put $4 of fuel into the tank...
Seems, when we went to litres... it was 15.5c litre... 72 cents/imp gallon.... from there, didn't take long before we were paying 80 and 90 cents for it... have to check my fuel log - kept a constant record of fuel and prices up until today... can't remember when it hit the $ per litre.. that came as a shock.. four numbers on the bowser put shock into many people going into servo's.
"72 was a year down here where everthing lined up... 72 cents a litre of petrol, milk packet of 25 cigarettes and a bottle of Foster's beer..... it was a cunning plan of the magnates.... love to go back to 20 cents for all of those to match today's year....


Dak Daks - how did I get to this subject on fuel?..... my mind should not be allowed out on its own free to wander at this time of night....

Apologies to the OP.. really off the rails with this post....

frats,
Rosco

No flowers but took it to drivein to see herbie the luv bug In our jammies with mum.

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Ah-Ha.... and, Herbie stole my #53..... as used in my little Cooper... not really, that movie was around when Dak Daks were...

frats,
Rosco

Errol62 wrote: Wed Apr 15, 2020 9:26 pm I learned to drive in mum's oval window beetle. Used to take it all over fleuerieau peninsula looking for waves and magic mushies. Then put $2.50 standard in the tank. Don't think it had a fuel gauge, just a lever on the floor to swap over to reserve.

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yeah my first beetle was the same... I kept a ruler under the bonnet so I knew how many inches of petrol I had

put in a new driver's side outer subframe leg



I put the back wheels on blocks as well. That'll be it's resting place for a while and I need my ramps for other cars.