agents diesel love affair!!!

agentr31 · **Reply #270: May 15, 2011, 10:18:15**

nudge bar came on friday! pitty i cant pick it up untill wednesday OR thursday

now ill have to get my arse into gear and get the rubber strip for the new panel, get a GOOD areial for my CB and organise a day off to fit everything up

should be fun and games some time soon!!!

Shambles · **Reply #271: May 15, 2011, 10:27:34**

Splendid Ian - good luck mate

(PS, might be better starting a fresh thread for your latest upgrades, seeing as this one (picture thread) is getting quite lengthy

)

2i30s · **Reply #272: May 15, 2011, 10:28:36**

it will be interesting to see how hard or easy the job will be.

asathorny · **Reply #273: May 15, 2011, 12:44:29**

Good to see the piccies, nice job

2i30s · **Reply #274: May 15, 2011, 12:48:06**

Quote from: Shambles on May 15, 2011, 10:27:34

Splendid Ian - good luck mate

(PS, might be better starting a fresh thread for your latest upgrades, seeing as this one (picture thread) is getting quite lengthy )

it may be one for the how to section.

agentr31 · **Reply #275: May 19, 2011, 08:52:43**

i picked up my nudge bar today

looks good, just the brackets weigh a tonne!!!!

didnt come with very good templates

just instructions on where to put the holes in the bar, but its pretty desctiptive! so that will be handy, looks good, the bar by its self is very light, now to get time off to fit it all up

ohh BTW i wont be doing it this weekend im on holiday on the sunshine coast

coolum to be exact

Dazzler · **Reply #276: May 19, 2011, 09:29:03**

Have a nice little holiday Ian..

Could a man of your Calibre fashion some lighter brackets out of aluminium or similar ??

agentr31 · **Reply #277: May 19, 2011, 09:56:07**

Quote from: Dazzler on May 19, 2011, 09:29:03

Have a nice little holiday Ian..

Could a man of your Calibre fashion some lighter brackets out of aluminium or similar ??

if i could weld alluminium i could! im not good at alluminium at all!!! and then it impacts on the safety of the air bags ect ect its been complied to work with it all with the steel brackets

agentr31 · **Reply #278: August 28, 2011, 03:59:22**

HELL yeah

after eleventy billion days, im putting my car back together, as some of you may recall i ordered a nudge bar, started fitting it and a new panel to fix the damage a shopping trolley did to my car, then cracked the preverbial shits and left the car in the shed for a "sleep"

well ive got my backside into gear and am fitting up my new panel, nudge bar (well the assembly side of it) new CB aerial and giving it an oil and filter change

i should be back on the road this after noon, its been quite sad seeing it on stands in the shed for what seems like for ever!!

Dazzler · **Reply #279: August 28, 2011, 05:29:58**

Good stuff Ian..

agentr31 · **Reply #280: August 28, 2011, 08:21:23**

done!

pics soon, im just charging the battery up as its been flat for ages

asathorny · **Reply #281: August 28, 2011, 10:19:53**

very nice

agentr31 · **Reply #282: August 28, 2011, 12:08:27**

just found a blown air con hose...

Dazzler · **Reply #283: August 28, 2011, 12:23:30**

Quote from: agentr31 on August 28, 2011, 12:08:27

just found a blown air con hose...

Wonder what caused that

agentr31 · **Reply #284: August 28, 2011, 12:42:25**

appears to be leaking from the crimped part of the high pressure hose coming from the compressor... i looked under the car and its wet with aircon oil on the sub frame, i picked it up this afternoon while servicing it, but i was hoping it wasnt from the aircon hose... then i looked harder and it was apparent thats where the leak was from...

ive spent all arvo trying to fault everything else in the system and it seems (well with out specialist equipment) its lost all its gas from that joint...

Dazzler · **Reply #285: August 28, 2011, 13:03:25**

How long since you've used the car and the aircon?

agentr31 · **Reply #286: August 28, 2011, 13:08:23**

dunno precisely... late june, early july...

it shouldnt make a difference... the maxima has sat for longer periods of time and its fine, its more than likely a hose problem thats taken this long to de-pressurise the system...

agentr31 · **Reply #287: August 28, 2011, 13:15:31**

here are some pics of the nudge bar and fixed panel!!!! let me say this, i dont like aligning panels anymore... its not a fun job and to get it looking factory is HARD!!!

how my car sat for ages!! i stripped it, then due to hyundai always stufffing up as per usual and supplying me with the wrong part, i left it on stands in the shed...

stripped down!

brackets for budge bar

*note they 'clip' on to the bumper bar reinforcing bar thus not affecting the air bag deployment!

closer up

front on of the finished product

side on with the new panel!!

*just noticed this while previewing it, but the new panel looks a different colour in the pics... wonder why!!! when its the bumper bars that look different coloured to the rest of the car in the flesh!!!*

Dazzler · **Reply #288: August 28, 2011, 13:22:24**

Very neat job but like you say a very slight pink tinge in that panel in the photo but if it looks ok in the flesh don't worry .. only myself and 2000 members will know about it...

agentr31 · **Reply #289: August 29, 2011, 11:02:33**

well i know why it looks pink...

THERE IS MY SISTERS HOT PINK LOUNGE SUITE NEXT TO THE CAR!!! and a bright red tool box LOLZ

you can see it in the first photo....

agentr31 · **Reply #290: August 29, 2011, 11:04:11**

my car is booked into have the air-con fixed! yay!

Dazzler · **Reply #291: August 29, 2011, 11:06:22**

Good stuff...

Aberdeen · **Reply #292: October 09, 2011, 06:33:29**

Love your posts, keep up the good info..... especially nice to see a proper nudge bar fitted, thought about one until I was told the price - now on the wish list for Christmas one year.
Re your CB MODS.... by chance do you have any further photos you might be able to post or email please ? Seriously looking at the GME 3540 and was excited to see that you did what I was thinking re the centre compartment. The antenna is my biggest decision... but most likely 'L' bracket onto the inside of the right rear roof rail, cable into the rear wagon door and entering the same rubber boot as the lights etc. Any snaps of your mount under the gear change would be a bonus...

Glenn in Adelaide with an 8 week old CRDI CW in Red (because red cars go faster)

2i30s · **Reply #293: October 09, 2011, 06:55:28**

you finally changed the damaged guard.

Dazzler · **Reply #294: October 09, 2011, 11:35:46**

Quote from: 2i30s on October 09, 2011, 06:55:28

you finally changed the damaged guard.

Ian hasn't been on for nearly 5 weeks.. I sent him a PM earler today telling him to get his a$$ over here and that he is a very naughty boy..

2i30s · **Reply #295: October 09, 2011, 11:52:47**

are you going to spank him dazz?

agentr31 · **Reply #296: October 09, 2011, 11:59:59**

mate its dead easy! zip tie the control unit to the shifter cables!! you really dont need any pics, it slips under nicely, BUT put a bit of stick on foam under it so it doesnt rattle!

i think the nudge bar was $500 or something... i cant remember now LOL

its better to fit a nudge bar, it gives you a proper point to mount an antenna!!

I FINALLY HAVE WORKING AIR CON!!!

they fitted a new compressor! re gassed the system, and BINGO! its colder than ICE!

agentr31 · **Reply #297: March 26, 2013, 11:15:23**

i dont know if many of you here know... but a year ago almost to the day i bought a house... best and worst decision ive made!

sure im a 'land barron' now, but it did ruin my relationship...

COMPLETE BASKET CASE... every wall was punched in, most things were hit with a hammer, from the stove to the bath tub, shower was all smashed with a bedroom curtain as the shower screen. the only door in the house was the toilet door, no external doors locked properly the laundry door was the master bedroom door and an insect infestestation FROM HELL... well you get the idea!

the day i got it...

looks ok... but the grass was 4 ft high 2 weeks before... now i have 'lawn' not sticks and weeds with dirt

fixing it

80L of paint later, 3 20kg tubs of plaster and a whole lot of dust masks!

some of my better ideas... renforcing the shelfs in the built in wardrobes... i swear the last owners stored bowling balls, car batteries and lead weights up there it was bowed down 15 cm... so i bashed a stud behind it, and put a pretty lip on it then put the verticle brace in just so it will never droop!

BLINDS!! yer i know, grey, but what the heck, its light, neutral and looks modern (for how long tho LOL)

$10k on the front, a car port, that cost a fortune, as you can see from the roof line it steps back 1m for the rarage, and i had to get a bloke in that specialises in building them around things, as no one else could do the span i wanted!

bigger drive way, a proper garden (with rocks under the windows

) 5 fluros in the car port friggin lights up the whole front yard and road at night...

LET THERE BE LIGHT!!

i have fitted it out with stainless steel remote fans, metal light switches, nice metal lights and black carpet in the rooms, looks clean and sleek i reckon!

Dazzler · **Reply #298: March 26, 2013, 11:40:33**

Thank for the pix and story Ian. Sorry to hear about the negative though

agentr31 · **Reply #299: March 26, 2013, 11:51:05**

well its part of life i guess... ohh and the motorbike accident, that was rather bad, i still suffer from it to this day... i havent ridden a bike since, and i dont trust car drivers enough to do it on the road for a long time...

im sure members here dont want to be bored by pics of my house so ill leave it at that!