Recent content by chrisp

I don’t mean to be nitpicking, but I‘m probably going to be…. Buying at full price == spending Buying at a discounted price == spending Extra money in bank/pocket/piggy-bank == saving So, unless you are placing those ‘savings’ in your bank (or similar), you are actually spending. You might be...

Yep, I like your reply to @marty351 and I was trying to figure out how to phrase a response myself. The ‘drain the swamp’ comments are interesting from Trump supporters. I don’t actually think they are wong when they equate politics and ’the system’ to a ‘swamp’ - the world is ruled by a...

Yep, I have now reached that stage I call ‘use it or lose it’. So, if I find something that has been lying about for sometime taking up space, I now decided to put it to use or get rid of it. A clear working (and storage) space is too precious to be cluttered with ‘one day I might use it stuff’...

Do they still uses pounds and shillings down there? And landlines? :cool:

$14,000 plus fitting costs and it’ll be like-new! https://www.holmart.com.au/holden-v8-ls3-crate-engine-motor-6.2l-ve-vf-hsv-gt

this one? https://forums.justcommodores.com.au/threads/seized-engine-vf-ss-ii.297163/

Don‘t mess with shingles. Many years ago I had some sort of strange sore just above my hairline. Then a sore appeared on my forehead. I went to see my doctor but ended up seeing a student doctor (as my doctor’s practice was a teaching practice). He had no idea what I had but got a scalpel and...

Keep an eye on yourself. Shingles has a 2~3 week incubation period so keep an eye out for symptoms and get the antivirals as soon as possible. I’m not sure if the shingles vaccine will help if you have already been exposed? Maybe visit your doctor, and hit up Google?

And did they then sell it to someone else with ‘a bit of an engine tick’? :)

You must put one on your shopping list! The modern welders are soooo much easier to use than the old stick welders of yesteryear.

When I read the OP my thoughts were that the seller wasn’t quite telling the full story of how that mysterious hole appeared in the block, and what they were doing at the time. But I can’t help wondering, as @Smitty has experienced, just how many rpm was it doing at that time, and where did this...

@HSV-Paul, have a search of the forum, or wait for someone with knowledge and experience to chime in. From my reading and limited understanding, is that those engine mounts are intended for very high horsepower applications and are too hard for road use, so will result in too much vibration in...

How good is the battery and the charging system? If it has a parasitic load of 1.3A ~ 1.4A and is going close to flat if parked for 30 minutes, something is wrong with either or both. A good battery will have a capacity of about 60Ah, so it should hold a 1.4A drain for about 42 hours. So, to be...

We probably need a how-to sticky with a pictorial walkthrough for each platform?

I reckon that if @marty351 is so impressed with DT and the USA, that he should migrate to the US. Then, just maybe, he’ll find out just how welcoming the US is to foreigners.