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Not a huge amount of progress this week, under the pump with work and waiting for the block to be ready. Ended up picking it up all freshly cleaned and machined on Friday: Gave it a coat of Cast Iron engine enamel: Nice fresh canvas to work from, which inspired me to clean up a whole bunch...

Hahaha, nice. You should have asked though, i upgraded to a swivel base one and am selling the 6x4.:ROFLMAO: The bandsaw setup is really nice though, just so easy to work with and can leave it running and come back later to a nicely cut piece with minimal finishing. So good.

Got a few more little bits done over the weekend. First up was giving the ports a bit of a clean up, as the castings are more than a bit average: Half an hour with the die grinder, carbide bits, and flapper rolls took most of the edges off and enough for what I want: Its not a race engine...

Tons of room there, what are you complaining about. :ROFLMAO: Should have sold you my 6x4 bandsaw too, probably would have been less stress for both of us. I do like the idea of putting on the full roll cart. I have mine on a 3 drawer Kinchrome one with an external stand and the drop saw at the...

For the stainless wire balustrading you can actually buy the ferrules and a hydraulic lug crimper from ebay is about $30. I used to fuse all the strands together with the TIG and then pop it in and crimp down. Works a treat

Yeah, should be able to finish it off soon, even with lockdowns. Getting it in the garage door was rather dicey. Certainly made me wish for a 'proper' garage again.

A couple of weeks on and I have made a bit of progress between work things that needed to be done. First up was stripping the head from the Hilux to see if I could figure out what was wrong. Out comes the Snap On valve tool: This thing is a bit of magic and can be used easily for removing...

More teardown time over the weekend. Timing chain side of things on this one looks as clean as the other one: Pulled out the balance shafts, big lumps of cast iron on either side of the engine: Looks like the bottom end has been apart at some point too, more than enough RTV on the sump...

After i got home from work today I was curious about the engine, so I threw on the overalls and started tearing it down. Now almost every crevice and valley was just filled with caked mud, like this: And i was fully expecting the inside of the engine to be more of the same, a sludgy mess...

Thanks Matty, getting there. Had a bit of unexpected time today to work on the Hilux, as I was originally expecting it to be pouring. Finished stripping off the rest of the ancillaries (starter, alternator etc), and then started to figure out how to get to the upper two gearbox bolts. Because...

Nice one, and welcome to the forum. Although i dont think you need to apologise to most of the forum for Victoria having cold, wet, and dark winters. It is far worse in most of the places up north.

Havent been doing much constructive work in the garage for the past couple of weeks, mainly just tidying up. But this weekend I thought it would be good to get started on the Hilux. A couple of weeks back I picked up some wheels and tyres for this. Babs had a set of basically brand new Dunlop...

Had a mate come over on the weekend and he helped me move the MX5 around the back of the house and into the garage: Which is a bit of a milestone, as it has been outside for just under 12 months while i sorted everything out. But now that it is inside I should be able to get some more work...

So, this next phase has taken a while, but mainly because it has been so cold and rainy. First up i needed to tidy up the garage so that I could shove all of the big and heavy stuff down one end: Because it has been so wet I couldnt just dump it all outside, and so therefore i ended up doing...

So true, the last 18 months have been a shocker, and im certainly looking forward to getting away.

Looks like a fun little trip. Nice travelogue, always enjoyable seeing where others get to.

I spent the last week at home with our newborn, and got a few moments throughout the week to potter around in a sleep deprived daze in the garage to get a few little projects done. First up was giving the grease guns somewhere to live: Just a quick little set of 75mm pipes with end caps. I...

No smaller washer on the bottom, the underside of the bolt is chamfered enough to not worry about it and once its locked together it wont be moving as it isn't loaded in that direction (or if it is then there are much bigger things to worry about)

Re: Garage takai - My Australian 2 car rental garage Ah nice. I didnt think about Alibaba. These were more of an impulse buy while i was in the US.

Looking good. Cant deny im jealous of that garage space too.