April 2010 - Home made Aux/Mp3 input for Discovery 2 ES Read the full how to here

October 2009 - More caravan work, hinged shelf, stretcher bunk bed, sink lighting and sink splash back. Continuing on with more updates on the caravan from the last instalment which was where I replaced the lino and installed a sofa bed. Now that the sofa bed was in I wanted to create a table to use when the sofa bed was in the couch position and that could be folded flat when it was in the bed position. I still had ply left over from when we created the shelves for the caravan and it didn't take long to have something whipped up and a coat of clear coat on it. I found there was a stud running across horizontally along the half partition wall to secure the shelf to and just used a piano style hinge along the length of the shelf. Read the Full Story Here

October 2009 - Caravan work, repairing the walls, replacing the lino and installing a sofa bed. The latest installment of caravan works, with a couple more things completed and a couple more projects still left to do before we head off to Marlo after Xmas. Although, the bumper we made back in March this year was a success the bike mounting was a bit of a disaster. The issue is that the suspension on the caravan is taken from the days of horse and carts, with dual live axles connected via leaf springs and no dampers. This might be fine for something travelling at 15km/h but travelling at 110km/h it does tend to lead to everything being shaken to pieces. Read the Full Story Here

July 2009 - TJM Snorkel install on Land Rover Discovery 2.

June 2009 - LPG install into Sally. Disco 2 converted to run on LPG, using an Italian made vapour sequential injection system made by Tartarini and fitted by Range-Rov Automotive in Vermont. There are 2x tanks that replace the original 90 litre fuel tank and give a useable 80 litres of LPG and a smaller 50 litre petrol tank is installed in the RHS wheel arch. With this setup it should provide 350KMs on LPG and 250kms on Petrol

May 2009 - Restoring Scotts old Shogun Katana Restoration of Scott's old bike that he kindly gave to me to pass onto Jamie. A complete restoration with every nut and bolt removed cleaned, polished and then reassembled. It has so far taken 3 full days and in which time it is almost completed with probably another half day to finish everything off. Early 90's Shogun Katana Bicycle Type: Road race & triathlon Weight: 11kg Size: 24" Color: Was Hot Pink now Burnt Orange Frame & Fork Frame Construction: Lugged steel Frame Tubing Material: Double Butted (Guessing Tange?) Components Brakeset: Shimano 105 brakes and levers Shift Levers: Shimano 400ex Exage Front Derailleur: Shimano 400ex Exage Rear Derailleur: Shimano 400ex Exage Crankset: Shimano 400ex Exage Biopace, 42/52 teeth Bottom Bracket: Shimano 400ex Exage Rear Cogs: 7-speed, 13,15,17,19,21,23,26 teeth Chain: Unknown Seatpost: Unknown Saddle: Specialized V-Groove (non original) Handlebar: WinPista (Kusuki) Handlebar Stem: Unknown Headset: Unknown Wheels Hubs: Shimano Rims: Alesa 116 Tyres: Vittoria Rubino (non original)

March 2009 - Making additional shelves for the caravan. Although the caravan has plenty of storage, the majority is located under the seats making it tricky to find a home for everyday items. I decided to make 4 additional shelves for the caravan: 1. A small shelf beside the bed, so that there is somewhere to put a book, drink, clock etc 2. A medium size shelf above the bench top on the other side of the bed 3. A very small shelf in the kitchen to put coffee, sauces or herbs 4. A large shelf above the couches where the girls sleep to put their toys, pillows and blankets. David came through with the ply to make them out of and also edged 2 of the shelves with American Oak veneer which has come up a treat.

March 2009 - Caravan rear bumper with bike rack mounting point Making a rear bumper for Dad's Caravan to mount the bike rack onto and to offer some protection has been a plan on the cards since i first used the caravan 2 years ago. After picking up the caravan from storage in Portarlington and on our way home we made a detour to Cath's Dads to have a rummage around his back-yard for some steel. We found a nice looking piece of 100x50 from a pallet packing shelf for the bumper itself, some 75x75 angle and some 50x50 box tube to form the bumper mounts. With the steel in hand i came up with a rough plan which David dropped over to have a look and confirmed that it would be okay. From here i came up with the final design and cut the steel to suit ready for David to weld for me. Taking the caravan over to David's we spent the day welding up the bumper bar and putting the spare wheel carrier on... with David doing all the welding :) . A quick coat of black kill-rust applied with a brush and it looks like its always been there.

March 2009 - Caravan Exterior Clean This is something I have been wanting to do for the last couple of years and have been slowly making progress with the exterior the last few times I have had the caravan at home. The paint is so thin and chalky on the caravan now that if you scrub a little to hard you go back to the aluminum underneath and with the paint so porous it stains with every bit of dirt that comes in contact with it. This time I scrubbed the van clean and gave it a wax, what a difference it made and I never realised that the paint is actually cream and beige, as its always been flat chalky white in colour.

May 2008 - I beefed up the standard Discovery 2 recovery point A block has been welded in place between each side of the hook and the u channel below the bolts has been braced with a horizontal support.

April 2008 - Home-made CDL Lever A quick and dirty home made Centre Diff Lock lever made from what ever i had laying about.

April 2008 - Rewire of the Calibra's Headlights Due to the terrible headlights in the Calibra i rewired them to use relays in an attempt to improve things buy avoiding the small gauge wire running to the lights.

March 2007 - Holden Statesman For Sale Photos of our 97 Statesman as it goes up for sale.

January 2007 - Dad's Caravan The caravan has been sitting for 2 years, so after checking the brakes and 4 new tyres, i dragged it back from storage in Ballarat. As the drain holes in the windows had filled with moss the rain was unable to drain from the windows and had been over flowing into the caravan itself. Having only 3 days for maintenace and packing before it became out home for 10 days in Robe SA we set to work cutting the rot out of the plywood and cleaning everything up before heading off.

October 2006 - Land Rover Discovery Series 2 Well we've just bought our very first Land Rover, its a 2000 Discovery ES Series 2, 4ltr V8, 7 seater, with ACE, 18" wheeels and optioned up Harman Kardon Stereo. She is known by the family as Tonka Sall, the Tonka part is obvious but the Sall part is a little obscure. After filling in the VIN # on the finance paper work, transfer papers etc i started calling her Sall as this is the begining of the VIN number She is a seriously well sorted bit of kit!

1993 Eddy Merckx Corsa Bicycle Type: Road race & triathlon Sugg Retail: $2,095.00US Weight: 11kg Size: 58/59 Color: Red Frame & Fork Frame Construction: Lugged steel Frame Tubing Material: Columbus SL Fork Brand & Model: Eddy Merckx/Columbus SL Components Component Group: Shimano 600 Ultegra STI Brakeset: Shimano 600 Ultegra brakes, levers Shift Levers: Shimano 600 Ultegra STI Front Derailleur: Shimano 600 Ultegra Rear Derailleur: Shimano 600 Ultegra Crankset: Shimano 600 Ultegra, 42/52 teeth Bottom Bracket: Shimano 600 Ultegra Rear Cogs: 7-speed, 13,14,16,17,19,21,23 teeth Chain: Shimano CN-HG90 Seatpost: Strong Saddle: Tioga Selle (non original) Handlebar: Philippe Handlebar Stem: Ajax Headset: Shimano 600 Ultegra Wheels Hubs: Shimano 600 Ultegra Rims: Wolber GTX 2 Tires: Vittoria Action HSD (non original)

January 2004 - Holden Statesman A few photos of the Statesman after a wash and a clean.

Early 2000 - Holden Statesman Photos of the 1997 Statesman Series 2 just after being purchased from Ferntree Gully Holden with 62,000kms on the clock.

Cica 1989-1990 - 1966 Dodge Phoenix My second car: 1966 Dodge Phoenix, 5.9 litre, 625 Carter Carb, 727 auto and 8 3/4 banjo diff.. around the 350HP mark..