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  1. Clunkmeister
    Good to have you back, Harv. Now get building!!
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    Valve or injector noise? Maybe chain noise?
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    Make sure there’s no coolant in it. I’d change the oil again and run the engine, get it up to temperature and let it run. Then change it one last time.
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    Milky oil isn’t cool. Where’d the water come from?
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    Yes yes yes yes!! I’ve been looking for a decent one for years. An old girlfriend had a Lada Fiat style Sedan that thing was the only car that would start when it was -40 outside. And the heater would melt your skin off at -40.
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    Yup. It was the single worst piece of kit the CF bought in my entire time in Service. Slow, unreliable, unstable, top heavy, and don't forget how it was prone to starting grass fires if left sitting with the engine running for a minute or more. Like when, for example, you were acting as a repeater station and you needed to charge the batteries. Plenty of German fields went up in smoke due to that pile of crap. It's the ONLY Army car I've ever known that literally fell apart from the recoil of Ma Deuce.
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    Now Martin, Though shalt not ride around on performance tires in the dead of winter. Keep it safe in the garage until the snow's gone, then go find Ronnie when he's out in his Vette and show him a clean set of Ford taillights.
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    Yup, I saw that after I looked closer. But German jeeps give me the shivers, all because of that piece of crap Iltis. Typical Canadian Army Generals vetted by a hippie led Government that refused to spend money on it's Military. We were offered the G-Wagen as well as the Humvee back then, but they much preferred a cheap throw away piece of junk. They would had been better off leaving us with our hodgepodge of worn out Jeeps. An M2 BMG would shake the Iltis to pieces, they rusted almost immediately, and they'd just up and quit running for no reason whatsoever, no warning, nothing, just poof, you're walking, and lugging all your stuff plus your mounted MG and all it's ammo. And in the end, after the Iltis fiasco, guess what? They went and finally bought G-Wagens like everyone else in the modern world.
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    Oh good grief! When they took our old Jeeps away from us we all thought they’d issue us Humvees like the US forces were getting, but somebody got paid off and they gave us these horrible VWs they called Iltis. They were truly World Calais Galloping Pieces of Schitt The shape alone of that thing brings back bad memories and gives me the shakes . The shape alone of that thing brings back bad memories and gives me the shakes . Even a Kubelwagen would have been better, and if they absolutely insisted on buying German, why not G-Wagens like everyone else with a real brain bought.
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    As usual, I look into one of Cees’s builds and find myself picking my jaw off the floor. Un-bloody-believable is all I can say. Blown away!
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    Nige, we're counting on you, Brother. Don't lead us all to doom. The pressure's on now.
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    Lots done but didn’t quite finish. Still need to drop the seats in place, mount canopies, dullcoat followed by lights
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    Next lamp oil burner will be Aero-Vodochny L-39 or Mug-15. L-39 is the best looking jet ever made, by any Nation, ever.
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    That little Yuck should go together nicely. KH kits are decent, but have their little foibles. At times, the guy writing the instructions gets dyslexia and reverses part numbers on handed parts. But it’s usually easily caught. I love challenging kits, and this kit is far from challenging. It’s just a nice, easy build. The challenging part is the research, because it almost seems like no two Nations F-5s were optioned the same.
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    Scott, that 66 looks like it was pretty tough. Awesome save, man.
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    Scott, that compact disappears in my pocket, but I keep it in a shoulder rig. Just easier and more natural. And you forget you have it on. Until you need it. I don’t keep Glocks or any other Tupperware. I dread getting Glockfoot from my 30 year hammergun habits. It’s a self preservation and anti limp decision I made years ago.
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    Ahhhh, man! I just realized that big curved area in front of the pilot was supposed to be see through!
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    Well, just snowing where I am today. She’s finally on her legs.Nose and main gear doors tomorrow. Then probes and various antennae, plus nozzles. Followed by a nice easy wash and then the canopies to the finish. This kit has been a pleasure to build. Undoubtably, there are several details that F-5 gurus will see and change on their builds, but all in all it’s been a straightforward, decently easy enough build. Beware of the dyslexic instructions at times, with part numbers reversed L to R in places, and watch for misaligned locates pins, but all in all, as long as you test fit first, it’s a simple build that almost clicks together. No noseweight is needed. Don’t install any.
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    They’re single circuit power drums. Totally adequate for 1959, but not good for today. It’s an easy conversion to front discs with a 1990s power booster and dual circuit master cylinder with proportioning valve. The suspension is even easier. Ford full size car suspension was pretty much identical right up into the mid 80s, so parts are plentiful and interchange easily enough. Using shock absorbers with different valving helps settle the ride down, and a thicker front sway bar helps as well. The aftermarket has a heavy duty sway bar for the rear as well, which really fixes all the Wobblies and lean in corners. Those simple mods, along with radial tires (tyres for you Brits), turns these cars into totally competent and extremely popular road machines. A properly set up full size American car with a big V8 can be easily made into a very comfortable and durable high speed cross country machine. Those fins actually do help stabilize the car at very high speed.
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    Scott, you owe it to yourself to check out the Cz.75. I’m sold on these, and have a small family of them. The big Shadow for competition, the buffed out 75b as belt jewelry, and the 75d compact as a carry pistol. I’m old school with pistols and don’t do plastic or striker fire Tupperware stuff. Cold steel, that’s it. The Czechs make very good pistols. They always have. Since trying my first straight 75, I haven’t picked up a HiPower or 1911 since...
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    I’m gonna love this, Bill. You’re doing the Dambuster, to give people a bit of extra water, and I’m doing a SAR Bird, to get people OUT of the water.
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    So, main gear’s on, drop tank’s being seam filled, arrestor hook’s ready, as are the gear doors. So tomorrow, give her a light wash, mount the doors, antennas, and probes, flat coat, canopy, and call her done. Unsure on the crew yet, but I’ll verify with Glen. Then..... Lanc time.
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    Actually, it’s small for a 1959 American car. Wheelbase is only 113”, when most American cars were 123” or more. There’s not much room inside either. It seats 4, two molded buckets up front between a tall console, and 2 mounded semi buckets in the rear. Thunderbird was exremely well built with a full unit body that was way, way overbuilt and even today offers a super strong and no squeak or flex ride. It weighs over 4600 lbs with options and fuel. The big V8 has 350hp and 490 ft/lbs of torque, and even the small V8 had 300hp and 395 ft/lbs of torque, and it needed every bit of it to move it along. But the 59 Thunderbird convertible will run 120 mph all day long with 4 people and not even break a sweat. When the average 1959 American sedan cost about $3000.00, the Thunderbird convertible, optioned as this one is, cost almost $6000.00. That’s almost $53,000.00 in today’s dollars. Plus tax, title, and delivery. Too rich for my blood. My regular car is a Ford Focus.
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    My wife had me get the Bird out, take her to the shop, and get working on her. I’ve got to get the interior out and redone, so away we go. Gotta love big American V8s with tailfins and a marshmallow on soft springs ride and wet noodle handling, too. But a massive V8, slushbox automatic, and full power equipment gives us zero to 60 mph in 6 seconds flat. Pretty good for 2 ton cruiser.
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    Good to see you here, man! We’re having fun here, building and bantering, and just enjoying life with models,
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