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Re: Mikes Samurai Restoration (NOW FINISHED !!) !!!! 06/04/2

Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 2:20 pm
by mike harris
Right !

Today hasnt gone well ! First I bleed the power steerings, fixed te battery in, checked it was charging properly, all good. Drove it up the road and got a bit of a knock !

Put it up on axle stands an drove it, and ow dear. Front diff isn't well ! I had it built by a professional, but then I needed to mofify the flange for cruiser props, and I have ruined the backlash in the diff, so i am going to take them both back out and have them built again. do it properly !

But ! The place where I was going to take was shut today !!

Ow well ! So close yet so far lol !!

Got a rear door seal fitted too, jut got to sort this diff issue then il be off !! Bloody thing !!

Mike

Re: Mikes Samurai Restoration (NOW FINISHED !!) !!!! 06/04/2

Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 6:31 pm
by b3n16
thats a shame. i have only recently started following your build and that is a massive shame

Re: Mikes Samurai Restoration (NOW FINISHED !!) !!!! 06/04/2

Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 6:34 pm
by nathan.stevens
must be gutted mate, but all good things come to those who wait, as they say

Re: Mikes Samurai Restoration (NOW FINISHED !!) !!!! 06/04/2

Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 7:27 pm
by mike harris
It's all good lads !! My diff builder is doing them both this week, If ican get the bits of Suzuki !!

Watch this space !!

Mike

Re: Mikes Samurai Restoration (NOW FINISHED !!) !!!! 06/04/2

Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 7:13 pm
by Anton
What bits do you need? I have a pair of 413 (not samurai, just 413) axles lying in the garden waiting to have something done with them.

Re: Mikes Samurai Restoration (NOW FINISHED !!) !!!! 06/04/2

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 8:31 am
by mike harris
as if the diffs wernt a problem, now the engines no good, the heads cracked !!!

bugger !

mike

Re: Mikes Samurai Restoration (NOW FINISHED !!) !!!! 06/04/2

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 8:57 am
by dan_2k_uk
Bollocks.

Atleast they aint hard to swap over.

Not going quite as you planned in the closing stages is it!

Hope you get it sorted soon

Dan

Re: Mikes Samurai Restoration (NOW FINISHED !!) !!!! 06/04/2

Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:37 pm
by mike harris
i will be on this in the next few weeks, got a couple of suzukis to break then il buy a vit and nick the engine for mine, i got the bits off suzuki for the diffs, bloody expensive !!

but needs must, it will live one day !

mike

Re: Mikes Samurai Restoration (NOW FINISHED !!) !!!! 06/04/2

Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:16 pm
by Darrell
Keep at it, you will get there, but she 'aint half putting up a fight :cry:

Re: Mikes Samurai Restoration (NOW FINISHED !!) !!!! 06/04/2

Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 1:26 pm
by mike harris
bloody thing !!

doesn't run now !

i have no idea why not, i am beginning to get really anoyed with the whole thing.

it will start and run for a few seconds then die. and i dont know why.

i am going to try and get to the bottom of the problem today, multi point fuel injection is NOT the way to go people. far to complicated !