Melvin,

 

How did the import thing go?

7 hours ago, VocalNeal said:

Melvin,

 

How did the import thing go?

 

waddya mean did go? still going man!

 

parcel arrived LoS on 28th of July, after tons of hassle Customs were finaly cleared middle of last week

now just waiting for FedEx getting her yayas out and deliver it

 

somtimes thing goes at dizzying speeds in LoS

in particular; the speed of EXPRESS is hard to follow

 

10 hours ago, mogandave said:

Good luck with it


Sent from my iPhone using Thaivisa Connect

 

Ta, thought I would need that when I read your post this morning.

 

But, no really, this went smoother than silk. Amazing LoS.

 

What the Marine Departement wanted me to do was to

a) have the police certifying the authenticity of the copy of the police report that I had

amend the report, almost 2 years old, through adding more information

 

Thought a lot about this yesterday and today's early morning. I was more than skeptical about this;

altering a 2 year old police report? Give me a break.

My idea was that I would be extremely lucky if I managed to pull off the certification of the photocopy.

 

Right, arrived at the station 9 oclockish, first spoke to a chap in a side office.

He did not seem disturbed. Noted the name of the police man who had written the report, the guy had the day off,

the chap in the office phoned him at home and explained what farang wanted.

Chap at home asked when did I make that report? Ultimo October 2016 the chap in office said.

No problem, go ahead add said chap at home.

Right, out of office and to the report writer on duty this morning.

New explanation and he was shown the data frok the old Tabien Ruua that I would like to have added.

No sweat, the chap just wrote a completely new report. Gave me the whole report-book so I could go and make

photocopies of "my" page. Then he stamed and signed, certifying my photocopies.

 

Bloody hell, 10 minutes I was set and out, and no sweat. I was just speechless.

 

Trying to do the same where I come from in Northern Europe would represent a MAJOR challenge,

and would take days rather than minutes.

 

Amazing Thailand!

 

 

 

 
Ta, thought I would need that when I read your post this morning.
 
But, no really, this went smoother than silk. Amazing LoS.
 
What the Marine Departement wanted me to do was to
a) have the police certifying the authenticity of the copy of the police report that I had
amend the report, almost 2 years old, through adding more information
 
Thought a lot about this yesterday and today's early morning. I was more than skeptical about this;
altering a 2 year old police report? Give me a break.
My idea was that I would be extremely lucky if I managed to pull off the certification of the photocopy.
 
Right, arrived at the station 9 oclockish, first spoke to a chap in a side office.
He did not seem disturbed. Noted the name of the police man who had written the report, the guy had the day off,
the chap in the office phoned him at home and explained what farang wanted.
Chap at home asked when did I make that report? Ultimo October 2016 the chap in office said.
No problem, go ahead add said chap at home.
Right, out of office and to the report writer on duty this morning.
New explanation and he was shown the data frok the old Tabien Ruua that I would like to have added.
No sweat, the chap just wrote a completely new report. Gave me the whole report-book so I could go and make
photocopies of "my" page. Then he stamed and signed, certifying my photocopies.
 
Bloody hell, 10 minutes I was set and out, and no sweat. I was just speechless.
 
Trying to do the same where I come from in Northern Europe would represent a MAJOR challenge,
and would take days rather than minutes.
 
Amazing Thailand!
 
 
 

It is amazing what goes and what don't...

So often it all about attitude.

On 22.8.2017 at 4:14 AM, VocalNeal said:

Melvin,

 

How did the import thing go?

 

rumours from normally reliable sources has given me the impression that the parcel might arrive later today

On 22.8.2017 at 4:14 AM, VocalNeal said:

Melvin,

 

How did the import thing go?

 

Now, finally I have got it.

 

Picked it up from my friend's Sukhumvit address last night.

 

Arrived in LoS late July, so much for costly EXPRESS.

 

 

 

We have your parcel and it is on its way.

Item tracking history
Date	Time	Location	Tracking event
8/8/2017	18:08	Rottingdean	Collected
29/7/2017	1:39	SIN	Arrived in destination country
28/7/2017	22:08	CAN	Tracked in destination country
28/7/2017	22:08	CAN	Delivery delayed and rescheduled
28/7/2017	17:34	CAN	Arrived in destination country
27/7/2017	16:34	CDG	Tracked in destination country
27/7/2017	15:23	CDG	Arrived in destination country
26/7/2017	23:38	CDG	Arrived in destination country
26/7/2017	22:42	STN	Exported from the UK
26/7/2017	14:34	STN	Prepared for export by air
26/7/2017	12:22	Gatwick Depot	Prepared for export
25/7/2017	17:47	Gatwick Depot	On route to hub
25/7/2017	16:42	Gatwick Depot	Collected

Show less tracking results

Nederst i skjemaet

Why more people choose Parcelforce Worldwide

Delivering reliability

There's a reason we're trusted with 70 million parcels a year

 

 

 

right,

at last, mill up an running again,

 

smooth as silk? don't know yet, must test more tomorrow

 

what an adventure this has been, fill u in tomorrow

 

That was quick...


Sent from my iPhone using Thaivisa Connect

4 hours ago, mogandave said:

That was quick...


Sent from my iPhone using Thaivisa Connect

 

yes, can get dizzy from lesser speed . . .

 

doesn't help much that I have smashed up my right shoulder somewhat,

must be very carefull with it, cant screw anything hard or lift anything heavy,

need help from neighbour for all proper tightening of nuts/bolts/screws except the smallest stuff,

 

can do proper cabling though.

 

 

 

having the necessary spare parts,

arranged a day with the neighbour to do the seals on all the valves

 

off with sparkplug cabling and injector stuff and fuel piping and an amount of wiring before

uncovering the cams and valves

 

its a DOHC engine, but still, the idea was to change the seals without flicking off the cylinderhead,

had read a thorough tutorial on how to do that

taking out the sparkplug then fill the combustion chamber with ordinary string in order to

prevent the valves falling down onto the pistons

 

the tutorial and also some guys on UZ forum claimed this was easy peasy and a quick way

to do it

we wasted 3 days trying to hack this, then we had fixed 1-one-1 valve, only 31 to go

 

no way,

off with radiators, radiatorfans and emergency cooling stuff

off with the whole engine front and all the timing stuff

off with the camshafts

and off with the cylinderheads

 

working on the terrace rather than in a boat bobbing up and around

this wasn't too bad, not too tricky to get valve keepers and retainers off,

getting the old seal out and inserting the new seal also easy peasy

however,

putting the valve and valve parts together again - not so easy,

took close to 30 minutes per valve on the first cylinder head,

15-20 minutes/valve on the last 16 cylinders

 

very time consuming

 

 

picked up some new knowledge from the UZ forum while embarking on this,

re locking of the zissler gears on the exhaust cam

when first head was set, couldn't get to the position where you lock the gears on the 2nd cam

 

hmm,

in with the first head, redo all the timing stuff, lock the gears on the last head

then rotate mill to the correct timing position

and off with camshafts and the last head.

 

do the last 16 valves, took less time than the first 16, but still, almost a day for 2 people

 

then putting everything together again

 

 

 

trying to start, was curious as to I had managed to do the timing stuff correctly,

 

not a sound from the starter, the starter magnet/solenoid relay did not work either

no degree of persuation and swearing seemed to help.

 

gosh,

off with the starter, no small job on a 1UZ, A LOT of things must be removed before

you get to the starter, A LOT,

the starter is down in the valley, the V, between  the cylinder banks

with all sorts of fuel wiring air stuff above

 

got it out

full of crap and rust and shit.

Took a while to fix that, clean it properly in diesel warm water-soap gasoline

then oil/grease it up, testing the electric parts

seemed to work fine

then finding a day with the neighbour again to put it back in

 

starter back in

 

start? nope, nee way, solenoid and starter working as they should,

but thundering silence from the engine, the odd loud bang now and then

but no ignition to speak off

 

GOSH!

 

timing is off, most likely

 

 

2 minutes ago, melvinmelvin said:

 

having the necessary spare parts,

arranged a day with the neighbour to do the seals on all the valves

 

off with sparkplug cabling and injector stuff and fuel piping and an amount of wiring before

uncovering the cams and valves

 

its a DOHC engine, but still, the idea was to change the seals without flicking off the cylinderhead,

had read a thorough tutorial on how to do that

taking out the sparkplug then fill the combustion chamber with ordinary string in order to

prevent the valves falling down onto the pistons

 

the tutorial and also some guys on UZ forum claimed this was easy peasy and a quick way

to do it

we wasted 3 days trying to hack this, then we had fixed 1-one-1 valve, only 31 to go

 

no way,

off with radiators, radiatorfans and emergency cooling stuff

off with the whole engine front and all the timing stuff

off with the camshafts

and off with the cylinderheads

 

working on the terrace rather than in a boat bobbing up and around

this wasn't too bad, not too tricky to get valve keepers and retainers off,

getting the old seal out and inserting the new seal also easy peasy

however,

putting the valve and valve parts together again - not so easy,

took close to 30 minutes per valve on the first cylinder head,

15-20 minutes/valve on the last 16 cylinders

 

very time consuming

 

 

picked up some new knowledge from the UZ forum while embarking on this,

re locking of the zissler gears on the exhaust cam

when first head was set, couldn't get to the position where you lock the gears on the 2nd cam

 

hmm,

in with the first head, redo all the timing stuff, lock the gears on the last head

then rotate mill to the correct timing position

and off with camshafts and the last head.

 

do the last 16 valves, took less time than the first 16, but still, almost a day for 2 people

 

then putting everything together again

 

 

I used to do valve spring stuff with compressed air...Get an old spark plug, break the top off and knock the insides out. Weld a male Schneider valve connector to the plug top, screw it into the head, now you can clip on the female air line connector. Piston TDC, air on, do the job..

 

finding a new day with the neighbour, yesterday

 

off with the front and uncovering cam shafts

 

the crankshaft OK, aligned

the cam gears OK, aligned

the cam pulleys 180 degree off their alignment marks

(still don't understand how that happened, am quite carefull when I fiddle timing stuff)

 

some thinking and time required re finding a way to sort that one without valve interference

and without removing camshafts

 

got it sorted

 

put everything together again

 

try start: FLYING immediately, all 8 firing

 

started without coolant so switched off when it was ascertained that all 8 fired

 

ok,

off with engine and the like

putting on brackets for radiator the radiator radiator-fans and valves and piping for

emergency cooling

 

dayligh starting to fade

tidy up the boat

escape to terrace for some serious beers and snacks

 

thats where I am now,

 

have some electrical problems I need to sort, must fill up coolant

must connect a bit this and that

and start more serious testing

 

*********************

 

forgot to mention this;

 

the main reason for using so long time putting the valves together again

was lack of the proper tool

the difficulty was handling the valve retainer and the valve keepers

 

I have 3 different valve handling tools, my neighbour brought home from work

a big elaborate kit for valve handling

nothing of this even close

 

I have a big valve compressor that we used - it worked OK,

the challenge was the retainer and the two keepers

we ended up using mini pliers knitting pins and stuff like that in order to hack it

 

I would very much like to see the tools that Toyota mechanics are using for such jobs.

 

 

17 minutes ago, transam said:

I used to do valve spring stuff with compressed air...Get an old spark plug, break the top off and knock the insides out. Weld a male Schneider valve connector to the plug top, screw it into the head, now you can clip on the female air line connector. Piston TDC, air on, do the job..

 

yes, I saw that described in one of the UZ tutorials

but don't have compressed and can't weld (neighbour can weld though and has equipment at home)

 

opted for flicking the heads instead

been lazy with this thread, scuso

 

following advice from the lextreme.com forum I bought two complete cylinder heads from a scrapyard,

not costly, 7000,

transferred good stuff to new head

arranged some new gaskets from my gasket shop in Bangers

 

assembled the stuff

 

started, running not smooth

 

onto testing the injectors on by one - ok

 

then down to electrics

 

concluded closure of my old tabien ruua before xmas

also got my renewed first class skipper ticket and my upgraded engineers ticket

 

the chap that was dealing with my tickets had moved from nonthaburi to samut sakhon

he was willing to haul my papers there

 

went to samut sakhon, took whole bloody day,

they made up an exam for me re engines and an exam re boats-navigation  all in english

having passed those tickets were issued.

 

so tickets ok, still missing the actual registration though

will address that when engine ok

 

sorry for the missing caps, have messed up my left arm, am using just 1 hand and its cumbersome to use the caps lock

 

now electrics;

 

have new plugs

have new coil leads

have new spark plug leads

 

got some stuff from new zealand,

 

changed both ignitors

changed both coils

changed both distributor caps

 

running not bad

 

some general electric fiddling, improving grounding and insulation

 

the mill running smooth as silk

 

we are in end of january -18 now

 

 

was looking forward to do the tabien ruua now

 

then humble self getting sick-ill

in-out hospital for misc checks

 

then collapsing, lass calls hospital that picks me up in ambulance

5 weeks in hospital - resulting in an impressive bill - good one has insurance

 

then end of march my normal 3-4 week trip back to my home country

took long time to get through the medical stuff I felt was necessary

our NHS is good and totally free but slow - took months to do what I wanted

 

back in LoS on 13 july

 

although the mill was running smooth as silk before I got sick I am pretty sure it will not do that now

should be used more frequently, at least weekly

 

been quite busy with other things - haven't tried to start - yet

 

now left arm and hand is messed up - in the process of sorting it now

 

so- will see after arm is sorted

 

Hmm,

there have been so many times since I came back to LoS mid July

that I have said, now next week I'll whip the mill into action again.

It was running smooth as silk before I went into hospital last year.

Now some injectors might be a bit stiff, needing some knocking or mouth-to-mouth (blow/suck).

 

Anyway that next week never came, health problems were waiting for me in queues.

So my sojourn in LoS might become permanent history.

 

Anyway if anyone should be interested the project is up for grabs, I have no power left.

The way I look at it, it consists of 3 parts

 

part 1 the boat a 10m+ speed boat type song dtoon, among the fastest on the river

         built in proper hardwood, very well equipped  all in 304/316, plenty extras/spare parts

part 2 the engine, Toyota 1UZ, lots, lots, of spares, two spare cylinder heads

          new oil pump, starter, water pump, timing belt

          the longtail with some 2 blade and some 3 blade props

part 3 a whole room filled with pretty good DIY tools

          for wood work, steel work, engine work, electrical work

          heaps of ropes, cables from AWG2 down to AWG18 lots

          real lots of screws (304) + nuts/bolts/washers from M12 down to M4

 

if any interest I'll detail/talk further in PMs.

 

 

(I apologise to mods if this is considered misuse of threads/forum.)

 

Interested in the tools, what do you have and where are you?

14 hours ago, mogandave said:

Interested in the tools, what do you have and where are you?

right,

I'll have an overview ready sometime tomorrow - will send it by PM

 

as to where, by Klong Oom, (Northern part of Klong Bangkok Noi)

easiest where-reference would be about 1000 meters from the new

Purple line MRT skytrain station Bang Rak Yai

 

(the station is on Rattanathibet road, very close to the intersection with Ratchapruek road)

 

Great, I’m in Lat Krabang