Recent content by Lawrie

that is a wombat lawrie

Today, a big drive for us at around 450klms, not normally a problem,but the wind made for tiring driving. Still enjoyable though. We are still amongst the old fiats and someof them pass us and others we pass them. Flies, they are called march flies, they are big and plenty of them at some...

yesterday i did a bit of maintenance on the cars just a check over, found my brake lights were not working, so took the switch apart and cleaned it and in the process lost the two 3mm nuts in the dirt , i tried my magnetic screw drive to find them but the stones must be iron as the were sticking...

A relatively short frive today at 330 ks, great to beout of the really cold weather we thought, until this morning where it was only .6c , the first time since my youth i actually shivered in bed this morning. We both realised that we had a small heater in the camper but were too cold to,get out...

Friday night was the gala dinner and presentation,lots of folks dressed in period clothes,meal was first class, and plenty of it. The trophies were all made locally and from local timber, very nice. Cheryl got a really nice trophy for the longest distance driven, well deserved. Bus took us to...

Ryan,thank you so very much,this forum is a great place,and i appreciate you taking the time on it,and thanks for keeped it secure. lawrie

I wouder how a carb of a pre injected harley would work,designed for gravity feed and a more modern carburettor lawrie

Well , yesterday we had a drive out to the war museum ( recollections 0f war) there were two choices of drives out to it,one just straight down the hiway the other via a couple of bays, both spectacular,the one called shelly bay was accessible via a dirt track and one way dirt road down the hill...

the 30 tudor is an NZ new car,the owner's grandmother bough it from Lysons inLower Hut on the 6th june 1937 for 120 pounds, the his father had it then him,he bought it over to,australia when he moved over. We had the manditory run today of 175 ks, i was in the passeat navigating,but was...

Great day today. Bus trip ,so no driving,except to drive over to the rally headquarters. We went to see the giant Tingle trees,very good from the elevated walkway, The drive out in the bus was fun,we were at the back of a queue of about 30 Model A fords, about halfway there,one of the ones...

We had our first day activities on the rally today. We went out to the coastline here, its spectacular for sure, also went to a whaling station that shut in 78 i think, it was a gruesome place to work in for sure, they processed 14600 whales over the time it was in operation. we saw the cutting...

it will probably have poured mains , i would sure investigate by pulling the pan lawrie

the pinion roller bearing is not sticking out is it,it should be flush lawrie

yes phone is same Rob Today was a real easy day and no driving so not much happened. We into town and got another couple of oil filters ,one to change out on Cheryls car and a spare for mine. then some groceries , also bought another pair of thongs,(jandals for the kiwis ) as the other one were...

book in somewhere and come down,me and cheryl drove 5188 ks getting here