Nats diary 2022

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[Blacky]

Went out to Eudunda today after the kickoff this morning- would have made a point of going to Birdwood after we did a bit of maintenance back in the motel if I had have known EfiJy was there






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[Blacky]

Some cool old buildings at Eudunda and an FJ ute ready to be reborn




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[Blacky]

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[Blacky]

Show and shine time





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[Blacky]

Presentation night - snuck a stop at Saltram wines in before it

Ammo and Sherri enjoying the night


Stoney and Sherri picked up the hard luck award


Lots of trophies



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[Blacky]

Then the blue ute Nationals was officially over



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[Blacky]

Monday morning was the trip to Dudleys




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[Blacky]

Picked up a bit of treasure- literally- found a FJ grille badge in a bucket of stuff in the toilet and some nice straight FB door stainless on the ground. Also found what I was really after - a couple of decent horn contacts so we can use them as templates to start making them



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[Blacky]

I found a couple of ideas for bonnet mods on the 2 door but had no grinder with me sadly





Then we were off for lunch at a brewery in Tanunda for a couple of sensational stouts and a pizza



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[Blacky]

Then to Another winery and a lookout


There’s no money in wine






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[Blacky]

Then off for dinner



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[Blacky]

Today started out as it should , went for breakfast to say goodbye to our FB/EK family and catch up with Stoney, Sherri and Firekraka for our trip home , had breakfast at Tanunda bakery and noticed a puddle of oil under the old girl ( the ute not Mrs Blacky)
We had adjusted the tappers the night before so I figured it was a leaky rocker cover , we headed off and stopped at Nuriootpa auto pro to buy some oil, a rocker cover gasket and some degreaser , got 2 out of 3 then came out to another puddle of oil .

Had a look and it wasn’t the rocker cover, the harmonic balancer had chucked a wobbly and oil was pissing out the front timing cover seal

Neil and Stoney headed off and we limped the ute back to Mike and Anne’s place in Adelaide- Mike had heard on the grapevine we had a problem and offered a good secondhand balancer and all the tooling required to swap it over

We got back , and stripped the dodgy one out of the car

Farewell Brekky , just before it turned to custard …..


Working out a strategy on the side of the road with Mike


Tear down time - note specialist tooling




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[Blacky]

With the ute ready to accept the new bits we went in search of a new timing cover seal - found one , and a new rocker cover gasket , at only the 5th place we went to ……. So we threw it back together , changed the gasket and she was good to go

“Still in the game “


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