Gimme 5 years

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62ekute
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Hi Clay, I suppose that considering your visor is at my place until you pick it up, there's room on this thread for a pic of it. Patrick
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Hi Blacky, I'm in Hillarys for a bit. Patrick
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Good job Patrick
Look forward to following your progress on prepping & painting Clay’s sun visor......

Stephen
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choices are Gloss Red or Matt Black at my place
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You need to borrow Clay's tin of "Oh My Goodness That's Orange" to paint that visor :P :lol:

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Jolly jokers


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62ekute wrote: Wed May 12, 2021 2:22 pm Hi Blacky, I'm in Hillarys for a bit. Patrick
you are more than welcome to come over on Saturday for a catch up and chinwag if you are interested ??
Hillarys is around 40 minutes from EKmart
I started with nothing and still have most of it left.


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Sent PM Blacky
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a couple of wheels arrived while I was in WA, so I thought I'd ease myself back into it all and tidied them up

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It'll probably be a while before there's progress on the ute ... I might stay in WA for a couple of months to avoid the Canberra cold.

Sold off some spares when I went home last week so I've been hitting eBay and gumtree. There'll be heaps of deliveries happening back home 😄 ...

After seeing all of the talk about camber on Clay's thread, I thought I'd post a pic here ...
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I haven't seen any pics of FBs or EKs with serious negative camber - do they exist?

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Had a fair bit on my ek when I lived in the hills but nothing that serious. You can get a couple of degrees out of the rear end and they do sag over time according to the suspension guru near me. Any more and the splines will bind in the spider gears.


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How do you change the angles on the rear axle?
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Bend the housing, which happens naturally over time anyway. They used to bend them on the commodores pre irs.


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Like they do with front truck axles?
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Gotta love a smoothed dak dak.....


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