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Hola, as they say here in the colonies
Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2022 8:33 pm
by ChileBob
Ex-pat Brit from Cambridge living in Chile - buying a 1995 SJ413 & with luck it'll pass tech inspection tomorrow so I can go play.
Car seems to be in great condition considering its age. Being old isn't a crime & its so dry here that things don't rust.
I miss mud so I'll just have to go get it stuck in the desert, or some spanner time sorting it out, either way it'll be fun.
Re: Hola, as they say here in the colonies
Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2022 9:02 pm
by Jordi
Welcome to the club.
Re: Hola, as they say here in the colonies
Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2022 8:07 am
by maxaret
Hi Bob and
cheers max
Re: Hola, as they say here in the colonies
Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2022 3:20 pm
by ChileBob
Only fault was suspension bushes, pretty good for a car with more mileage than the Space Shuttle. With luck I get it back this afternoon.
Re: Hola, as they say here in the colonies
Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2022 3:57 pm
by Rankine
Welcome along!
Re: Hola, as they say here in the colonies
Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2022 6:19 pm
by ChileBob
Third-Party Insurance $5390 Pesos (almost a Fiver!), Road Tax $24500 Pesos (almost 23 quid)
LOL :-)
Here in the colonies the highways are toll roads & quite expensive, so there's that...not that it'll be spending much time on highways.
Re: Hola, as they say here in the colonies
Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2022 7:23 pm
by Jordi
Sounds like cheap motoring.
Re: Hola, as they say here in the colonies
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 5:34 pm
by ChileBob
So here's one thing that's clearly not in the Chilean MoT - play in the steering.
No kidding, give the steering wheel almost a quarter turn and exactly nothing happens. I'll be tweaking that adjuster on the steering box :-)
Re: Hola, as they say here in the colonies
Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2022 11:14 pm
by ChileBob
Title transferred this afternoon :-)
Things to sort out, some muppet had been in the wiring to install a 'kill switch' - so badly done it was a 'break down in the middle of nowhere switch'.
It also had a Warn winch that was stolen so there's dangling wires. I'll remove all that & maybe cobble together a hydraulic winch, I have a pump & motor laying around from another project. One day, eventually.
Re: Hola, as they say here in the colonies
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2022 2:48 pm
by ChileBob
Oops, I'll be needing a new one of those...although, I have a wrecked Nissan D21 & its hubs look identical.
EDIT: Nope, wont work, Nissan hubs are 28 spline & that's two too many.