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-- Landcrab Owners Club Of Australasia Welcome to newsletter number 141 for February and March, 2008 We all get heavier as we get older because there's a lot more information in our head s. So 1'm nat fat, 1'm just really intelligent and my head couldn't hold any more so it started filling up the rest of me! That I S my story and I I m sticking to it! n UJUUW~ LIVt: tlOnnali Page 1 of2 Windows Live'" Home [ :'..tm",1~ Spaces OneCare Ci New ~ Reply --4!l Reply all ~ Forward X Delete ~ Junk • ... -' Junk Move to is! Options .~ Drafts BMC 1800 Motorhome :T Sent From: Robert Goodall ([email protected]) .~ Deleted "l- Sent: Thursday, 25 October 2007 6: 59 : 51 AM To: Daryl Stephens ([email protected]) Manage folders lID BMC 1800 ... jpg (593.6 KB), BMC Security scan upon d o w nlo a d "' I~ ~~ Y. 1800 .. .jpg (555.4 KB), BMC 1800 ... jpg Today (672 .4 KB ), BMC 1800 .. .jpg (766.0 KB) -.J Mail Hi Darryl W Contacts ~ Calendar Thought you might be interested in this, If you publish these would you be kind enough to send me a copy of the magazine to the below address. Travelling through my local shopping centre yesterday I came across this Motorhome built on a 1966 BMC badged Austin 1800 sedan which has been lengthened but still retains the hydrolastic suspension. I originally thought it was based on a Ute chassis but being early 1966 it predates the factory utes by over a year. Owner has recently purchased this and is travelling around New Zealand. He told me it drives very well and invited me inside which is nicely finished and I can stand up straight with clearance (I'm 6' 3"). I also came across a similar motorhome 25 years ago just outside Christchurch NZ based on a Austin Tasman and a stretched Austin Kimberley limo in Rotorua in 1998 but no photos of these. Robert Goodall Kowhai Imports Box 308 Motueka 7143 New Zealand 1- http: //byl16w . bayl1 6 .mail.live.comJmail!ReadMessageLlght,a~px?lWOOM~§iH~~l4=7 :: : ~/W/W{)7 Mk 1 Oil Filter For some time now I have been moaning about the cost of Mk 1 oil filters, and the fact that they have to be ordered in so I can't just buy the bits on the day I intend to service. I figured that there must be a way of modifying the existing filter set-up to take a Z3 or similar. Then, while looking around on e-Bay I found a gadget for the Mkl MG. From the pictures on the net it looked like it might work, and on contacting the seller (the auction had finished) he too thought it might fit. Better than that, he said that it was a stock item, and if it didn't fit I could return it for a full refund. I parted with $65.00 and ordered the parts. Fig 1: The 235-940 Spin-on Oil Filter Adaptor Kit The kit includes one oil filter, which is not a Z3, but a common one used on Toyota's and other Japanese cars (I'm told). I had bought a Z3 to tinker with while trying to work out how to make something, and to my surprise it fitted the thread perfectly, and matched up with the seal on the fitting. The instructions were very clear, with colour pictures and the kind of information that only an enthusiast would include ("Look under the old gasket, sometimes there will be another that wasn't removed when other work was done"). Fig 2: 12G2400EVA (U8998) vs L30001 (Z3) Having a look at what was under the bonnet caused some worry-the banjo attachment on the existing aluminium part was at about a 30 deg angle, the replacement came out straight. In the instructions it showed a flexable hose, not the steel one fitted to a r Landcrab. After a chat with Patrick Farrell I decided that I would try to re-bend the oil line, and if it kinked, cut it off and get some flexable oil hose from Enzed or Supercheap. Being the sensible type and having a spare very early Mk 1 engine stashed at the school I teach at, I decided to go and fetch it's oil line. That way I'd have a back-up if things went really pear shaped. Surprise surprise the oil line off that motor matched what I wanted exactly, no bending, no cutting, and no swearing! Top of picture, off the early motor, travels a different path to the later one, and looking at the aluminium attachment, the banjo connector comes out at the same angle as the replacement. (You can't realy see that in the picture) Fig 4: Two different banjo fittings Of course things were going too well to last. I fitted the part and connected the oil line, things were looking good. Then I tried to put the Z3 oil filter on. Guess what, it's diameter was about 2mm to big, and fouled the block. Now was the time to swear, until I remembered the supplied filter. It fitted. I would have preferred the big, beefy Z3, but at least the U8998 fits and is readily available. Fig 5: Attached. Fig 6: It doesn't fit! Fi!! 7: Oil filter fitted. Cheers, Supplied by: Peter Collingwood (Mk 1~ and Mk 2) http://stores.ebay.com.au!Sports-and-Ciassic-Spares CAN YOU HELP ME?? LOOKING FOR ALAN WALKER. MOTOR MECHANIC FROM MELB IN LATE 70'S. RESTORED OLD CARS. LOVED CRICKET. MARRIED AN ENGLISH GIRL ??? MAY HAVE MOVED TO QLD??? f' [email protected] 0402989563 1 from th~ arehiv ~s This little gem from Peter Jones circa April 1994 POLARITY CHANGE Many owners of old cars would like to fit a new FM radio, cassette deck, or CD player to there car. But because the car has a negative earth system and all new electronic gear is positive they are unable. Well why not change the earthing system of your car, it's as easy as A, B, C. Step A: disconnect the battery; Step B: reverse the battery connections, so that the negative terminal is connected to the car body; Step C: connect a wire to the battery positive and spark the other end to the 'F' terminal of the dynamo; Step D: remove any old clocks and radios; Step E: reverse the connections to the coil and ammeter (if fitted) . You can now fit your modern electronics to the car with no danger. A good idea is to put a sign under the bonnet to warn other people of the change of battery polarity. For Sale For Sale: - Workshop manuals for Austin A40 Devon, Austin A70/A90, Austin Kimberley/Tasman and Morris 1500 ohc Nomad and 1300 automatic, all $25 each plus postage COD. Also acomplete set of badges suit Austin Tasman $75 + postage COD. I also have electrical parts to suit Austin Tasman, Morris Marina Six and 6 cylinder P76, as well as 2 Tasman grilles and 2 dashboards. Contact Peter on 0413 389410 or email [email protected]. ~Bue's Ga((er~ "SMO 223G the London Sydney race car recently sold at the Bonhams auction at Goodwood in the UK for a world record price of £30,475 sterling" Ken Green Peter Fog Laursen's 1966 Morris Monaco oxy gelr fr. :ee;",.i:a1iliCJOCls- power stroke. , Ana the ignition is much more' pn;ciseJ han a spark RIug, Wood says. <~O:Ureii:gineaOesli·tn.ecifasp.ark plug," he says. "'fh;e oxygen-free radicals ignite the extra chatge of fuel without a spark, so it's . , ' essentially dieseling on the last power stroke. The change "ili~o me~ an engine will be b~1ieving 'six.-stroke eng'in¢s in p~nger cars "It's very simple, actually, and you get llghter, with stlJaller over.all dimensions for and eVen spans cars is just a matter of'tlm,e. more power and more torque and fewer similar capaeities. ' "PetrOl atid die8eI engineering is defmitely emissions for free." . While two major carmakers are believed to merging," Wood says. Oxygen free radicals, a by-product of be funding the Bosch development, Lotus is "It will lIl'l'iVe ~t the point where it is no normal ignition. remain free for only filillisec w(i)r~ clqsely~~.heavy-.duty e~gjne-~er longer the mechruifCal en~g that will be onds and are normally emaled directly out ~of Eaton, ~ the ~i$ ~-stroKe engtPes Wln see important, but. the chemical en~n.eering.' · the exhaust JIianifold, p~u:~fiO~ fk~ ~fi:~ct~ and heavy .truc~. So he says petrol comp;;!llie:ulc;mld-be~· Lotus uses Formula One suspension tech~ . We thinlot ~~lcome mto. pro?uctlOn fl~st '.JR develop a fuel between- today's unl¢adr noIQgy t& bfiilg' them· back, iJlto ' tlJ.e cy,fbl.der in lUh~vy -dllty dies.els. We have tied up Witb· ,and dies.el. ' a rapid, preeiSe way, It. developed a thJ,y. E,~o'i..f for biS ~c~ engines;, and th~e are new '.. ' 'It seems obvi:ous to uSJbaf,. e¥eP,tua1l¥, th' vetsipn o'f its :Q;y,@iil;\u~¢ally ,:co~tr(jl1ed . ac1).v~ ilieselleg~ti9~ ' Ul 201'2- W~od ~ays. 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