16 April 2016 - Saturday
Everything goes bad wake up late, on road late by 75 min and hit the 7am traffic 2.5 hours later one frustrated KIWI with a ISUZU with hot brakes pulls up at the workshop with a happy puppy delighted to see me. Oh yeah and the wife came along to visit her mum in IPOH also bitched the whole way about my driving.
After the morning Mum greetings etc. Down to the worksop. First parts collection go fix the power steering hoses and swap the elbow bends for straights and get them relamped and purchase gasket glue for fitting the sump. Then the air conditioning hose needs to be found and purchased that turns into nightmare 2 shops dissappear into dead ends with WAZE and then I fluke a 4x4/air cond shop however since my car is not being serviced by them the service guy starts yelling at the shop lady in cantonese and I stand there lisening to strings of cantonese being rattled off like a machine gun. Eventually she rings someone I assume the shop owner and I get 8 feet for an outrageous price. Then need bolts over to the bolt shop for a minor success. it's now pm when I arrive at workshop again so straight to lunch instead. Actually it's LUNCH from FRIDAY and DINNER and SATURDAYS breakfast. Yeah yesterday was a bitch in the office.
First job create a J bracket to hold the blower as curently it HANGS by 2 brackets. Yeah
someone did not finish the blower stuff off properly. Takes me all arvo to create this as I not want to drill a hole in the front of the CABIN as that was the easy way to create a rust hole later. So it take 4 hours of stuffing around just after 5pm I have a nasty bracket made up ready to paint.
Painted and drill 2 holes up under the dash mount the 2 RIVNUTs and then it all bolts together and the blower hoses also fit however we will need to put the window wiper arms in there is no room. So I will have to make up 2 Y joints for the drivers side to provide more space for the wiper kit. The blower doen't shake so the design holds up.
The hoses in place ready for the air conditioning contractor to finish off.
The clutchmaster cylinder and the master brake booster etc have also been fitted and still needs a little finishing.
6pm time fed the puppy etc now to find a hotel and food. Now that's a bad idea 4 beers and a nice chinese later I literaly stagger upstairs for a well eaned proper sleep. Wife went home in the train.
Tomorrow is the air conditioning condenser fit.
17 April 2016 - Sunday
Morning no breakfast woke up too late. Faactory is opened for me 8.30am 9.00am I come back from breakfast to start.
Todays task make these 4 pieces into one joined unit and bolted to the service hatch. Intercooler, Air cond condenser and the shroud and the fan.
The fan has nothing its bare. So 10 brackets (and 10 round down bolts made up) need to be made and fit the shroud to the air cond condenser and the condenser to the intercooler.
I finish about 5pm and bolting it down the FAN Breaks damn, falling off a few months back and hitting Pete on the head then the floor cracked it. Now I gotta order a new one.
Then it's time to fit the sump after sitting on the shop floor for 3 years. I can fill it with oil next trip.
Next trip is on 7th May. I have charity work next weekend and then 4x4 driver training the May long weekend. I take the doors home with me for leading at home.
Parts ordered for clutch slave cylinder and copper piping to connect it all up. I will also start the brakes and next trip finish the gearbox mounts and all the small things needing to be done. Next round of Tanaka parts will have been ordered and shipped.Oh yeah the fan is ordered and ready to pickup.
Centre console will be ready and as also will the speaker brackets along with the service hatch panels all of the above being lazer cut.
7pm hometime its a crawl 3 hours home.
