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  • Birthday 09/14/1954

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  1. I knew about the WW1 origin, but it's not the only way to earn the Digger name. It's also a name for people in the mortuary service and because I know the secret of the shovel, a bad shoulder doesn't stop me from digging with a shovel, but swinging a pick hurts. I didn't know about the tar brush. My grandpa had a small farm and when I was little he had a small flock of sheep. Every year a man come to do the sheering and I was too small to be in the shed, so I could almost see the big wooly's flipped off their feet and a minute later they were clean.
  2. I have a laptop in a docking station so I do have a larger display, but not as big as your engine compartment so I'm guess that the brass colored bolt behind the forward dash pot brass colored nut is the tap for the oil pressure gauge. Not guessing at the fuel shut off valve, just remembering when those things were made to last and wondering if your electric fan was factory?
  3. Done this myself more than once and I've also used 5min epoxy, it's a good fix for cracks on smooth wheels. When texture is important, I make a wax mold from a good section of wheel and pour in fiberglass resin. The guy that showed me how to do this had such a good eye for color he could mix it in the resin and make a virtually invisible repair. He did it for a living, I do it to save money and I always end up painting the whole wheel.
  4. The time to do that was 40 years ago when the people who said come and visit were still alive, but time and money were against me. Today I have time and money, but without the extended family to introduce me to the extended family of my generation, I'd be a stranger knocking on doors. My brother gave that a try, when he was stationed in Japan. He took a hop to Sydney and started looking up old addresses. He didn't find any family, but he did find a nice pub.
  5. Bernie, I follow your postings because I enjoy them, sometimes I'm inspired by what you do and truly appreciate them. I had two really great, Great Aunts, one from Tasmania, the other from New Zealand and when that family visited it was an event. I have a life size picture of a Kuala hanging on my office wall and sometimes I just like looking at the pictures and remembering.
  6. Not everyone includes physical location in their profile, so it's hard to tell how many Aussies and Kiwis are active here, but I do know from his tech help question about Buick wiring, that there is a new Aussie in the last couple of months. His profile didn't say he was from down under, but his question about wiring was for converting red to amber turn signals to comply with Australia law.
  7. Beaters are better, but: Do you respect a guy that so enjoys the challenges of winter driving that he will take on snow drifts and slippery winter rush hour traffic with a rear wheel drive and drum brakes? Or, do you yank him out of winter traffic and give him a nice warm 72 hour psych hold?
  8. If you weren't a half a world away I would be glad to swing by and give you a hand. Volt meters are a great tool, but I have found that they can lead you down the rabbit hole when chasing thing on old cars, so my first tool is the simple light bulb tester. The strands of stranded wire can be 99% broken and volt meter will tell you that you have proper voltage, but it won't tell you if your wire can carry enough current to work a single light bulb and stranded wires eventually break where they flex. Best help I can give you from here is tell you how many problems can be spotted by a good visual inspection of wire termination points and pinching either side of a wire near its flex point and giving it a gentle tug. If the wire pulls free from its connector, or the insulation stretches, the wire is broken you've found your problem. Hope this helps.
  9. Depending on how it shudders, it could just be some carbon build up.
  10. There but for the grace of God. A tree branch falling into an open car while driving is a rare and totally unexpected occurrence. Also sorry to to hear that your car had trouble and was damaged. On the bright side if the Rapier had been running properly it could have been your car and glad to hear that you and Helen are home safely.
  11. There was a time when every American service man that took his US made car to Japan faced this same problem. The easy way to do this is get the https://www.curtmfg.com/towing-electrical/taillight-converters/3-to-2-wire-taillight-converter a variable timing digital flasher and put amber bulbs in your clear reverse light locations. You can use small LED projector lights in the lower section of the of the rear bumper for reverse lighting. You will need to cut a couple of wires and add some wire, but the premade circuit is so much easier that reinventing the entire wheel. Don't connect the stop wire to the converter and do bring the third light stop down to the rear tail lights.
  12. Good to hear that you, the Rapier and your wife!!!, are out and about. Stay healthy and don't forget that the car isn't the only thing that needs a pint every now and then.
  13. My idea of basket case is a car that comes with almost all the parts and needs a considerable amount or reassembly. Your idea of basket case is more on the line of resurrection than restoration.
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