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JasonK

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  1. How long does it normally take after passing a cert to get the plate? not that I'm in a hurry haha the motor's in bits now.
  2. If this was on a saturday night I'd make the trip down for it
  3. Cheers guys. Figured out the noise was the heat riser flap in the exhaust.
  4. A few weeks back I took the caprice down to levin to get it certed for the bags, only failed on a couple of little things: the nylocs on the shock mounts only had about one thread sticking out and needed to have at least 2. on the top of the shocks I'd used 2 nuts (as it was from factory) but needed to use nylocs instead I needed my air lines clamped every 300mm and they were only clamped where I thought it needed to be to keep it tidy etc So nothing major so was pretty stoked about that and it worked out really well as the cert guy was coming up to the swapmeet this weekend so he did the recheck on friday afternoon, so now I've just gotta wait for the cert plate and will be legal again
  5. I used pvc air brake line for my setup
  6. I've not long ago finished bagging my hearse, I got a lot of my stuff from a mate locally who imports parts to sell. York pumps are definitely the go.
  7. Have changed the flex plate for a brand new one, everythings bolted up tight but still makes the same noise! anyone got any idea's? must be time for a beer
  8. Got it all driving again last weekend and cruised around a bit, was definitely the metering rods stuck down in the carb, also chucked a new set of leads on and seemed to be running real well. finally remembered to take some pics of the whole car: However I noticed a bit of an intermittent noise kinda like a bolt rattling in a tin can, so checked everything was tight etc but it sounded like it was coming from the gear box so I was thinking cracked flex plate, so pulled the gearbox out tonight and found this: pro parts have one listed on trade me so I'll go in and get it tomorrow, Hopefully that"ll be the last of the issues before wagnats!
  9. na pulled it out and still did the same without one
  10. Took it out for a cruise, was going mint (had cut the cat converter out that afternoon) and was noticing a power increase, then went to come home and 80kph was as much as I could get out of it and didnt have the power to make it up the hill, but would rev up resonably well under no load, ended up walking up the hill and getting lee to pick me up. Have cleaned out the carb and I think the metering rods may have been stuck down but havent driven it yet so not sure thats fixed it
  11. Shit good work. must be a week for broken down wagons haha
  12. Finished off the bags a few weeks ago, was a bit slack taking pictures but heres what I did take Front shocks relocated: Tank and compressor mounted: [/url the bag side of things seems to be going all good, have driven it a few times and rides nice with about 100psi front and 40 rear. But took it to the local burger fuel hot rod night on tuesday and cruised around a bit and all was going well untill time to go home when we got on the open road it didnt wanna go faster than about 80 so stopped in at Lee's and checked the basic stuff and carried on, but once we got to the hills it just had no pull at all so ended up walking to get signal and got Lee to give us a lift home. Had a bit more of a look yesterday and have given the carb a good clean out, I think the metering rods may have been stuck down but I'm not sure. it seems to be running a bit better but hard to say until I drive it tommorow as even when it wasn't going well if you gave it a rev up it didnt sound too bad
  13. I'll take some pics next time i'm under there. Havent done the shocks as yet but will mount them to the side of the bottom arm and make a bracket tto go on the chassis and pick up the top bolt. will be part of this weekends mission
  14. its not quite as low as I was hoping but where it is now it'll meet the scrub line rule
  15. so after spending way too long trying to find drop spindles for this I decided to bag it, so right after hawkes boes I put it in the shed and pulled the springs out then made up all the brackets to bolt the bags in with. Front: and rear: So now they're all in and plumbed up, pretty much just got to finish wiring the valves up, mount the compressor (a york air con pump), mount the gauges and some tidying up and it'll be time to think about getting a cert.
  16. So this is all sorted for a vin now, hopefully get it in this week, also spent the day flatting and buffing it, then put on a couple of coats of wax, came up pretty good. Also while we were in the states last month we picked up a set of braided leads for it, looks a lot nicer than the in your face red ones.
  17. There's not really any need to put it on a fancy chassis machine, we only have an old machine at work and measure almost everything with just a tape measure or a manual tram bar. Kk's method is probably the easiest, just take diagonals of everything you can and if they comes up within 2mm then everything should be fine. I wouldn't worry about not having the engine etc in, in fact its probably easier to measure everything with it out. What makes you think you something is out of square? Bad fitting panels etc?
  18. I'm a panel beater and do windscreen rust repairs pretty regularly and have never heard of anyone using a disclaimer. As Sorensin said, do a good job and you won't need one
  19. on a urethaned in screen you do use foam tape around the frit band (the black primer stuff around the edge) to stop the glass pushing all of the urethane out and sitting hard on the frame, i think that's more what rustisize was meaning
  20. I'm quite keen to do it myself even though it would be a whole bunch easier to send it away, just yeah wasn't too sure if that one was going to be all good as i can't seem to find a way of ID-ing it online, also wasn't sure what mods you have to do, if any.
  21. It doesn't seem to have the steel cover on my one. Do you reckon it'd be worth just giving it a clean and jamming it on? or is there something that needs to be done to it?
  22. haha i think this is a universal thing on Q's, I could shift mine pretty quickly without jamming it but ever time it went for a wof the guy would always stuff it up and be stuck in first right round the block
  23. i'll jump in here, is this what you were meaning via pm spence?
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