Ben Sale's white 1990 NA6

slug_dub · Postby **slug_dub** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 1:46 am

Nice photos of your drive on the reefton spur in the snow... I really liked that road. Are a the roads up in the snowy areas clear during the winter, I was imagining some of the way I drove last summer would be inaccessible in winter...
I had a sticky brake like you seem to have experienced and did a teardown of them with new rubbers and stuff which fixed it, the slider pins were very unslidey when I pulled them apart!

Postby **Okibi** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 2:43 am

I love the snow pics as well, i'm sure i'd be uber paranoid about black ice driving in the snow.

bensale · Postby **bensale** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 1:11 pm

They are awesome roads, I've been lucky enough to drive some amazing roads recently, but it still rates pretty high. To be honest, I haven't really been much further north during winter, I imagine that some of them would have to stay open to allow access to towns and ski areas, but it would be hard! Thankfully there was no black ice..! We went regardless slowly through the bits with snow and and one stage I even let a HiAce van past me at one point!

I'm going to go and pull apart the calliper now and have a look and see whats wrong with it.

bensale · Postby **bensale** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 3:37 pm

Pulled the calliper apart, one of the slider pins was a bit dry. I coated the pins and sleeves with copper grease and the sliders move freer now. That should hopefully stop what happened the other night re occurring. There is still some pad drag though... I think it's within a normalish range and it might be made worse due to the disks being fairly worn.

davidau · Postby **davidau** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 3:43 pm

bensale wrote:

Photo credits go to -alex
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Where about in Mt Dandenong is this? photo looks amazing!!I am very jealous!!!

bensale · Postby **bensale** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 4:15 pm

Davidau, thanks! Pretty awesome photographer! Those photos aren't in the Dandenongs, they're from the Reefton Spur. You head out to Warnambool then on from there looping around through to Marysville as shown in the pic below. Mt Dandenong is the the bottom left of the picture.

davidau · Postby **davidau** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 4:23 pm

bensale wrote:Davidau, thanks! Pretty awesome photographer! Those photos aren't in the Dandenongs, they're from the Reefton Spur. You head out to Warnambool then on from there looping around through to Marysville as shown in the pic below. Mt Dandenong is the the bottom left of the picture.

man ....I want to tag along :cry:

can't wait to get back to Melbourne and drive my car this Sunday.

bensale · Postby **bensale** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 4:35 pm

I'll organise a run out there (either an informal forum one or through the club) later this year when it warms up a bit. I'm doing a more laid back dinner Club Run through the Dandenongs to Healsville on Thursday August 11th which you would be welcome to come on even if you're not a club member (though you might be by the end of the run =P ).

davidau · Postby **davidau** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 5:03 pm

bensale wrote:I'll organise a run out there (either an informal forum one or through the club) later this year when it warms up a bit. I'm doing a more laid back dinner Club Run through the Dandenongs to Healsville on Thursday August 11th which you would be welcome to come on even if you're not a club member (though you might be by the end of the run =P ).

YES YES!!!

-alex · Postby **-alex** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 6:12 pm

bensale wrote:

Photos came out nicely!
Was a great day, great roof down weather..!
And that hashbrown stack. . . YUM

bensale · Postby **bensale** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 8:13 pm

I almost forgot about the hash brown stack. . So awesome that I'm tempted to go back out to Warburton just to have one myself!

emexv · Postby **emexv** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 8:30 pm

davidau wrote:
bensale wrote:Davidau, thanks! Pretty awesome photographer! Those photos aren't in the Dandenongs, they're from the Reefton Spur. You head out to Warnambool then on from there looping around through to Marysville as shown in the pic below. Mt Dandenong is the the bottom left of the picture.

man ....I want to tag along can't wait to get back to Melbourne and drive my car this Sunday.

Warnambool :shock:

That's one long trip Ben. :lol:

bensale · Postby **bensale** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 8:38 pm

LMAO, *Warburton...

Though GOR and Reefton Spur in the same day would be pretty epic!

emexv · Postby **emexv** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 10:01 pm

bensale wrote:LMAO, *Warburton...

Though GOR and Reefton Spur in the same day would be pretty epic!

That it would be

bensale · Postby **bensale** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 6:47 pm

The car and I went up to Sydney last week and did 3,300km in seven days. :shock:

The trip up and down the Hume was uneventful, didn't quite get the fuel consumption down into the 6's like last time but still averaged around 7.3L per 100km.

While I was up I went along on a few forum things including the 'Epic Run' Alex organised for me! It was well, epic =) Great bunch of the people and great roads. We went from Richmond, up Bells line, to Jenolan Caves, Oberon, then Goulburn, Macquarie Pass and Royal National Park. Awesome fun!

(Photo credits for most of these go to Alex)

The car has a few small issues which I am planning to resolve.

- The handbrake does not release properly, the calliper sticks slightly so I am going to need to rebuild these (annoying as I wanted to do a motorkhana this weekend)

- I have a squeak coming from my rear swaybar bushes which have worn. I'm probably going to need to fit adjustable endlinks.

- My muffler has a rattle sometimes at idle. It sounds like it's dropped a baffle. I like the sound of the system a lot so I'm looking into cutting it open and repairing it.

- I still have the issue where my bumper bar gets covered in black soot. It looks like the car is running stupidly rich but the fuel economy is good. I'm waiting until I wear out my Dunlop track tyres and buy some proper semi's and go from clubman to modified class in Vic club motorsport, I am then going to replace the cat with a high flow one as a failing cat may potentially be the problem.

- My cars paint of a few panels is still dodgy after the damage from flood waters in Tasmania... Alex and I are planning on having a crack at repainting a few panels properly next time I take the car to Sydney. I'm also going to repaint my rollbar when I change the softtop and front lip soon.

- I need a new soft top... My NB one has fallen apart beyond repair so I'm on the lookout for a cheap but decent condition NA top. Also, if anyone is looking for an NB frame PM me