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All Quiet

Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2015 10:07 pm
by Tramp
So, it's all quiet at the moment,
let's kick some life back into things, what's going on in people's lives? I don't care if it's Suzuki related or not, tell me what's happening!

It's been steady away for me, I spent last week at the east Coast with the family staying in a static caravan, it was a good holiday except for the

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But in fairness that would happen regardless.....

When we were walking one day we found a nice 4x4,

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It had some good sized tyres

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Then now I'm back, I bought another RC car as I'm a bit of a sucker for retro things,

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It's ok but looked rubbish on top of the fridge,

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So I knocked a couple of stands up to position them better, I used a camera ball head mount with some 1/4unc nuts and bolts and tada,

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So that's me for now, my current priorities are:- continue wiring the garage up using SWA cable - the old wiring was appalling and continue making some brackets for the plastic sill covers on my SJ I've made one but have no steel left of the right gauge, plus I want to borrow the guillotine at work to make some appropriately sized strips, the steels a little thick for my tin snips,

Re: All Quiet

Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2015 2:16 am
by twiss
Not much going on for me.... still gradually putting my zook back together fixing everything as I go along!
Enjoying the sun and the hot weather! :D

Re: All Quiet

Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2015 8:17 pm
by Rhinoman
Over the last week I've started painting the outside of the house, a lot of render needs repairing so I won't be getting too far with that. I went to a car show today at Wroughton but it was a bit of a non-event so I went laning around Barbary Castle instead.

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Re: All Quiet

Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2015 3:04 am
by turbo-tom
Cant beat a tw series specially the 35 :rockin:

Re: All Quiet

Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2015 9:57 am
by mark98
Just gone holiday, drove my Jimny from Suffolk to Scotland. Shame there's a lack of greenlanes up here, but should be a good holiday :D

Re: All Quiet

Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2015 10:52 am
by RickUK
Was just going out detecting for the day as the crops have just come off and the top radiator has gone,what a bummer,had to abort and come back home.Trying to locate a top house is not as easy as i had though as most motor outlets dont carry Vitara hoses.

Re: All Quiet

Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2015 8:08 pm
by Jordi
Went to the Volvo owners club meet at Wetherby.

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Turbo's!!!

Re: All Quiet

Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2015 10:07 pm
by donkeychomp
The usual. Work. Carer for my mum and when I get a moment I'm working on the zooks/bikes. On a happy note I sold the Mini!

Re: All Quiet

Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2015 10:22 pm
by andyrew
Jordi wrote:Went to the Volvo owners club meet at Wetherby.

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Turbo's!!!
Lovely motors. I read those guys build threads on
Retro rides

Re: All Quiet

Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2015 8:45 am
by RickUK
RickUK wrote:Was just going out detecting for the day as the crops have just come off and the top radiator has gone,what a bummer,had to abort and come back home.Trying to locate a top house is not as easy as i had though as most motor outlets dont carry Vitara hoses.
What a stroke of luck,phoned around all the main Suzuki dealer and other main car spares retailer and non in stock,but my local SAM centre can get one in for 12.00 and for under a tenner,bet the local Suzuki dealer would of doubled the price and what annoyed me was they said they get most of the spares they use from the same place but put massive mark up on it as well.

Top radiator hose is on and truck is back in action again,and had change out of £8,you could say i am well pleased,must admit it was not a genuine Suzuki hose,a general universal right angle one and had to cut 2'' from each side,total job time 17minutes.