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I love the looks of the Y60 from the middle east. Brand-new-looking rigs with golden wheels. I must confess that I never liked the look of the steel sunnies, but some of the rigs I see pictures on...

This is the main bar that most of the stuff bolts to. Lots of rust n the section under the cluster.

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Did the CLR + scourer treatment on it and it cleaned up pretty well.

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This is the section that the glovebox screws onto. I brushed with undiluted CLR and then used a pot scourer, one of those green plastic hobbies, to get the rust off.
I’ve since sprayed it with...

Finished off the front, well need to do the grass but that will be on the other side of winter. Brought one of these smart inline switch to control the 4 lights on the house, works brilliantly. Water...

Heater box is finally out. Takes a bit of pushing and shoving but not too hard.

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Leaky heater core..

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Looks a mess..:)

I think the carbon fibre design like that will look ok on the radio & shifter surrounds. Probably better than the 20 year old plastic wood

Bit more progress


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Made a start on it this afternoon. Nothing difficult up to this point.
I’m surprised I had a hollow TX50 spanner to get the airbag bolts out..

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Front brakes were mysterious at first inspection. The pad didn't touch all the disc, leaving a gap of disk unused for friction. Upon removing the pad, I also noticed the pad wasn't touching...

Engine came back from the machine shop looking top notch. They even painted it black.

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New filter in the airbox:
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Thanks 0-TJ-0, that's what I'm looking for. Do they call those adaptors 'add a circuit' or something??? Anyway, bloody useful.

Ah, I think you guys are looking at the combined DC-DC & MPPT models. I've got just the DC-DC model & a seperate MPPT charge controller. See below ...

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I went this way as the seperate MPPT...

Melbourne City is where it’s at these days......Locked down again, Planet of the Deer [emoji1662][emoji23]

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Unfortunately I have been rather busy with work/life in general so progress has been a bit slow (and there is a subdivision going in next door, with construction 6 days a week, so I am trying to not...

OEM lasted this long. Use them again for the win. Any decent shop will get it done.