Mikes Samurai build / use / fixing broken bits after abuse
- mike harris
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Re: Mikes Samurai Restoration (NOW FINISHED !!) !!!! 06/04/2
Right !
Today hasnt gone well ! First I bleed the power steerings, fixed te battery in, checked it was charging properly, all good. Drove it up the road and got a bit of a knock !
Put it up on axle stands an drove it, and ow dear. Front diff isn't well ! I had it built by a professional, but then I needed to mofify the flange for cruiser props, and I have ruined the backlash in the diff, so i am going to take them both back out and have them built again. do it properly !
But ! The place where I was going to take was shut today !!
Ow well ! So close yet so far lol !!
Got a rear door seal fitted too, jut got to sort this diff issue then il be off !! Bloody thing !!
Mike
Today hasnt gone well ! First I bleed the power steerings, fixed te battery in, checked it was charging properly, all good. Drove it up the road and got a bit of a knock !
Put it up on axle stands an drove it, and ow dear. Front diff isn't well ! I had it built by a professional, but then I needed to mofify the flange for cruiser props, and I have ruined the backlash in the diff, so i am going to take them both back out and have them built again. do it properly !
But ! The place where I was going to take was shut today !!
Ow well ! So close yet so far lol !!
Got a rear door seal fitted too, jut got to sort this diff issue then il be off !! Bloody thing !!
Mike
Re: Mikes Samurai Restoration (NOW FINISHED !!) !!!! 06/04/2
thats a shame. i have only recently started following your build and that is a massive shame
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Re: Mikes Samurai Restoration (NOW FINISHED !!) !!!! 06/04/2
must be gutted mate, but all good things come to those who wait, as they say
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Re: Mikes Samurai Restoration (NOW FINISHED !!) !!!! 06/04/2
It's all good lads !! My diff builder is doing them both this week, If ican get the bits of Suzuki !!
Watch this space !!
Mike
Watch this space !!
Mike
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Re: Mikes Samurai Restoration (NOW FINISHED !!) !!!! 06/04/2
What bits do you need? I have a pair of 413 (not samurai, just 413) axles lying in the garden waiting to have something done with them.
1985 SJ413VX (SJ50V) with SPOA, rear disc brakes, 31x10.5R15 Kaiman Malatesta tyres, an MOT and a lot left to do!
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- mike harris
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Re: Mikes Samurai Restoration (NOW FINISHED !!) !!!! 06/04/2
as if the diffs wernt a problem, now the engines no good, the heads cracked !!!
bugger !
mike
bugger !
mike
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Re: Mikes Samurai Restoration (NOW FINISHED !!) !!!! 06/04/2
Bollocks.
Atleast they aint hard to swap over.
Not going quite as you planned in the closing stages is it!
Hope you get it sorted soon
Dan
Atleast they aint hard to swap over.
Not going quite as you planned in the closing stages is it!
Hope you get it sorted soon
Dan
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Re: Mikes Samurai Restoration (NOW FINISHED !!) !!!! 06/04/2
i will be on this in the next few weeks, got a couple of suzukis to break then il buy a vit and nick the engine for mine, i got the bits off suzuki for the diffs, bloody expensive !!
but needs must, it will live one day !
mike
but needs must, it will live one day !
mike
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Re: Mikes Samurai Restoration (NOW FINISHED !!) !!!! 06/04/2
Keep at it, you will get there, but she 'aint half putting up a fight
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Re: Mikes Samurai Restoration (NOW FINISHED !!) !!!! 06/04/2
bloody thing !!
doesn't run now !
i have no idea why not, i am beginning to get really anoyed with the whole thing.
it will start and run for a few seconds then die. and i dont know why.
i am going to try and get to the bottom of the problem today, multi point fuel injection is NOT the way to go people. far to complicated !
doesn't run now !
i have no idea why not, i am beginning to get really anoyed with the whole thing.
it will start and run for a few seconds then die. and i dont know why.
i am going to try and get to the bottom of the problem today, multi point fuel injection is NOT the way to go people. far to complicated !