Starter swap.

I bought another starter motor for Tru a while back, and have finally got around to fitting it.

With nearly 200k km on her odometer and her parts being readily available and cheap, it made sense to me to play with it in the comfort of home rather than being inconvenienced on a trip and copping a tow-truck and a top dollar unit.

Inspecting the old unit showed it to be in pretty good nick, so I cleaned it and slapped a bit of fresh grease where it looked like lube would help. I would have liked to rebush it but they didn't appear easily found online, probably with the entire unit fairly cheap not enough people bother any more.

I also must have been under a rock for the last 30 years as they now have permanent magnet poles on them which work very well. They seem much better than the old electro magnet jobs.

The new starter has a nicer feel to it than the old one which surprised me but it made the job worth while and gave the Tru a new feel when starting her. I'll keep the old one as an emergency spare, who knows? since they fit all 6 cyl Falcons since 1965 it may even save someone else's tail.

A fixture.

This Magna has been parked here every time I've driven past for the last couple of months.

The number plates have been removed so it'd be a fair guess to assume it's unregistered, but without them I suppose it's way too difficult a proposition for the council to pinch it for overstaying the two hour time zone.

Quite an odd case.

A born tinkerer.

I found the white power indicator on the new computer very bland, and I had some green surface mount LEDs here, so I decided to pretty up the new baby.

This would have been easy 30 years ago but age really does weary, and my eyes can hardly cope any more, these things are tiny now.

Time to move on.

Lets see what happens.

It only cost $20 from the Salvo's shop, so I'd feel guilty about making any money from it.

I've had fun getting it rideable again though it reminded me of my dicky knee.

It's time to move onto another plaything.

All clean and shiny now.

Well sort of cleanish anyway. I did clean out, relube and readjust the rolley pedally bits of the pushbike. It's really a bit more complex than I fancy using, it has more gears than any normal person could find use for.

Maybe I'll park it out front and see how long it stays there.

Yuck.

I suppose I'd better clean up the old pushbike. The flood last year coated everything with mud and I'm finally getting things sorted out now that we're led to believe our house isn't going to be resumed.

More bling.

I spotted these felt battery post thingies at Supercheap auto the other day, priced to clear at $1.