Brazilian Hooker

OMR_007 · Post by **OMR_007** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 2:23 pm

Brucey, we are leaving Brissy on Wednesday 17th November and slowly heading south. Got a couple of places to stop along the way. Show is Sunday the 21st and probably hit the road early Monday morning and be back in Brissy Tuesday night.

OMR_007 · Post by **OMR_007** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 2:56 pm

Just got the word that my 1500 box has been rebuilt and ready to collect!

Plans are moving along nicely so far! See how long it takes to get messy and fuck out

SplitPersonality · Post by **SplitPersonality** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:26 pm

OMR_007 wrote:Just got the word that my 1500 box has been rebuilt and ready to collect!

Plans are moving along nicely so far! See how long it takes to get messy and fuck out

Sweet mate, lets see this thing MAXXED out 3 splines at the rear like a purrrdy little hovercraft

BTW what happened to your rusty panel?

Dasdubber · Post by **Dasdubber** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 6:39 pm

Looking forward to seeing it closer to the deck Dibba!!
Al

morts · Post by **morts** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 7:30 pm

Good to see it coming along. She looks really solid, do you have any body issues? (bus that is....

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OMR_007 · Post by **OMR_007** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 12:18 am

Thanks boys

I still have my super duoper rusty panel, its tucked away out of the weather for a rainy day

Morts, Tonz asked me the same question over on Melburg ... It will probably need dog legs (inners have got a few small holes), front floor sections (been patched already), small rear floor sections and the cargo door sill (full of brazilian chicken wire i reckon).

Battery trays are nice, nose is super sweet and solid and long side is awesome too. All in all a pretty good bus, but remember it is 10 -15 years younger than most other spilts too

Tonight was awesome, got stuck into the adjusters.

First pulled the centre steering block off so you can get to the dimples to drill them out.

Learnt the little trick on KCW about the tie rod threads being the same as the adjusters

Wind it in and bang you heart out without worrying about damaging shit ...

We had a few little hickups with the welder a couple of weeks ago, just with doing high wire speed stuff, but lucky we got it sorted in time to do this job.

Check out the welds .... yes I have a chub on

Back on with the centre steering block ...

One adjustable beam

Started prepping the ends to narrow it, but I got this far and ran out of cutting discs

Stock up tomorrow and then its chop chop time

Dasdubber · Post by **Dasdubber** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 8:52 pm

OMR_007 wrote:

Hopefully thats not you lending a helping hand to Nugget again.

byronbus · Post by **byronbus** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 9:38 pm

haha, where was the hand with the gloves, up nuggets arse?

Leroy · Post by **Leroy** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 10:50 pm

phatratpat · Post by **phatratpat** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 11:14 pm

i figured he was just looking after his manicure
Porsche driving nancy boy !....

OMR_007 · Post by **OMR_007** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 12:10 am

Pink gloves are for Breast Cancer awareness week .... free examinations all round

Its funny it took you to pick up on it Al, I heard you like to stare at other boys crotches

Actually Nug has been waiting anxiously over on the Luft for someone to notice .... suss fuck

splitbus · Post by **splitbus** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 6:18 am

Dasdubber wrote:
OMR_007 wrote:
Hopefully thats not you lending a helping hand to Nugget again.

Nice work Damo, is your Brazilian getting itchy

Tonz Magonz · Post by **Tonz Magonz** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 7:46 am

Dibba..
Good progress there..
How did you determine the placement of the adjuster..?ie What drop in height will this give..?

I'm about to weld some in and looking for maximum drop in ride height..

ps On the weld...
Love good penetration...

Cheers Tonz

OMR_007 · Post by **OMR_007** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 8:53 am

Tonz Magonz wrote:How did you determine the placement of the adjuster..?ie What drop in height will this give..?
I'm about to weld some in and looking for maximum drop in ride height..

ps On the weld...
Love good penetration...

Cheers Tonz

Thanks Tonz!
The open hole you can see here on the right tube is the original grub screw that holds the torsion bars in place.
I just scribed the line between that and the drilled out dimple above it.
If you are using the CSP brand adjuster like me, the overall length fits over the opening with about 2mm of each hole visible on the outside of the adjsuter block on each end.

You get a heap of adjustment out of these things, probably between 4-5" overall I would think. At its highest setting it will obviously be slightly lower than stock (probably around an inch lower) but paired with the flipped spindles (around 3" lower) thats a 4" drop at its highest setting

Best thing is its only downward from there

Clear as mud

Tonz Magonz · Post by **Tonz Magonz** » Thu Oct 14, 2010 7:57 am

Thanks...

Clearer than mud...