Popular Post 64valiant Posted April 8, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted April 8, 2014 so i managed to find myself two weeks ago checking my messages from a mate to find him sending me a trade me link of an ap5 safari in wanaka.about 3 phone calls later and yup it was mine. he got it running for me so i wouldnt have to pay moon beams in freight so a week goes buy and on the transporter it goes.few more days and WABAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! its now in my garage. along side of my sedan!!!1st things 1st here are some pictures of itso i think the foot brake doesnt work but the hand brake is very goodunder the hood is a bit of a mess there is also a bit of bog in the tail gatethe spear wheel well had a bit of rust as welland some rust else whereand yeah my mum and partner didnt think i would fit them both in the garage. it was a tight fit but they are in there and i cant get to my room or up stairs any more haha my badthats it for now im sure il find more and il see you on the chit chat side of this latter 24 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted April 13, 2014 Author Share Posted April 13, 2014 nothing has happened on this just taken some more photos and been searching the net for parts like a tail gate and window. along with few other random peaces.oh also im the 3rd owner of this ap5 valiant along with my sedan ap5. this one was brought in Australia and imported with them when they came to NZ. It was then sold 18 years ago to the guy i brought it off who then started to pull it apart about 12 months ago thought it was to much work for him and he brought another valiant and then he needed to sell it. TO ME if any one on here knows of ap5/6/vc safari parts be helpful to know as some hard parts to find. thanks heaps 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 64valiant Posted June 7, 2014 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 7, 2014 so yea..... my mum has gone to the uk for 5 weeks and said while she was away not to buy any cars, boats or bikes while she is away....so yea like been a little child and not listening to mum as per usual and doing the total opposite i kind of brought myself another valiant..... so me and miniman76 with a couple of mates went for a drive to auckland to pick up a min shell miniman76 had brought and the valiant i had brought. my 1st intentions where to grab the good parts for the wagon and cut the rest up for they day some decides to crash into my sedan and what not but on inspection it looks a bit to good for this.it came in a million and one peaces, meaning 3 cars worth of parts spreed out under this guys house and one de regd sell on a rotisserie. some of the doors will be cut up and used on my wagon doors or just swapped over just wait and see what the go is.here are some pictures of the car and what not notice the doors stacked in the engine bay, all seats in the front, two boots in the back seat and more doors and guards in the boot.....we made all this fit in the van as well as the ute. (note there are already 3 gear boxes under the mini in the tray of the ute)and this is how the van looked i have to go back up later this month so i will pick the two front and two rear windows up then.if you know of any one looking for ap5/6/vc parts i might have a few spear laying around i may be willing to sell cover my silly purchase.thats it for now i think. ohhh so yea my mum doesnt know about it still as im hiding it in my work shop for the next 5months or so, so she doesnt kill me. haha 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted June 29, 2014 Author Share Posted June 29, 2014 so today i did a bit of re arranging in my garage and thought id do some work on this wagon try get the ball rolling.the goal is to have it on the road by Christmas. christmas this year that is!!!!so 1st things 1st there was this ugly looking frost plug rotting away.this is the lovely looking frost plug so smashed that out to find we couldnt get the measuring tool (cant spell what they are called) in there so went and smacked one out of a engine i have out the back.getting a mate to sus 3 of them out for me.then decided to go have a look at the goods i had brought with my 3rd valiant and see what i can use on this beautiful wagon.IT WAS LIKE CHRISTMAS!!!!! had all these things nicely wrapped up like a pot luck or something didnt know what was going to be in there. but we did find all this.so some things i have to paint but the most of things i wanted for the wagon are painted already so a few extra things i will need to make my car stop and look good.will start the shopping list on hemiperformance this week see what things are going to cost in aus and compare them to nz.also will need to steel some things of my green sedan which isnt a big issue as its getting the new engine.so intake manifold, carburetor and the exhaust will get pinched of that so it will run as i know those parts already work on the sedan.also this is my garage situation now think thats it for now. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted July 15, 2014 Author Share Posted July 15, 2014 so yea got motivated over the last week and a bit and got some work done on my wagon.after looking closer at the engine the frost plugs where looking a bit on the sad side so smashed them out and replaced them today.here are some pictures this is the back one middle oneand the front one wasnt far from buggered as wellafter pulling them out and putting my finger in the moist hole........i came across these goods floating around in side so i gave the engine a good flush out and hopefully i got rid of most of the crap that was floating around the engine.and now the new frost plugs are in.think i need to put some grease on them, they are to clean.also sent a snap chat to some of my mates for a joke, looked like this (sorry older people who dont know what a snap chat is)found out a guy in nelson slapped a snail on his so il have to ask some more questions about it other than that now time to start steeling parts of my green sedan and order all my brake parts 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted October 29, 2014 Author Share Posted October 29, 2014 so i have finally found some time to work on my wagon. self employment is looking pretty good atm :/knuckled down over the weekend and fixed a few thingspulled my intake and exhaust off this engine i got with the 2nd sedan. my last exhaust was out on last cylinder and was about 10mm to high.... tried to separate the two of them with a gas torch and this happened to the bolts....so yea drilled them out pain in the back side!!!thought id make some exhaust gaskets as well hahaha, jack of all trades master of just oneso at this stage i was like yeah i can go steel the good carby and manifold off my green sedan and just bolt it on and be driving!! then i remembered i ground down the flats where the washers get pushed up to suit my extractors so that was a no go so back with the shitty carb it was then. so thought id better put it all back on the car and realised my last stud was also snapped in there so out with the drill againgot that fixed and bolted it together. turns out i have an exhaust leak between my carb and exhaust for the hot box thing or what not........ il just make a 2nd one and jam that in there make it thicker.went to clean it at a mates shop cause i got about 20 mins in cleaning one drum and this is the pile of dirt i cam up with.enough to plant some flowers......so yea went and got it steam cleaned at minimans work, such a good dude!! i even had a turn hahahamy bad.............also found out my starter motor is stuffed so il go pull that off so i can get that fixedfound a 1/4 window hinge out in the back shed as well so put that in the window that was missing one pays to have to many ap5 valiant parts some days also found the perfect spot to read an owners manual 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted October 29, 2014 Author Share Posted October 29, 2014 ahh i also got this photo before heading to minimans workof course i had tow my wagon with a sedan. this photo makes me so happy 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted November 21, 2014 Author Share Posted November 21, 2014 my mate done some photo shopping and came up with this so i have now found my goal to go as low or lower than this picture....... lets see how long itl take to get there....providing i just opened my own business so give and take a year :'( 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted December 14, 2014 Author Share Posted December 14, 2014 done some work on the wagon over the weekend!!!! tried pulling the starter motor apart to see what was wrong with it..... yeah broke that more so i went to my work and had a look in the parts selection i have and found 2 starter motors. one looked to be rebuilt already. mini man was over so he jammed that in. fixed a couple of exhaust leaks while we were working on it. thats that problem solved for now replaced the radiator cap then played with the carburetor for a little bit. ripped the lpg thingy off it cause the top wasn't fastened and mini man said it was shaking like a belly dancer. now thats that sorted as well. so now it goes!!! and goes easy!!! oh i also replaced the spark plugs the other day. then i bleed the brakes today and yea that kinda worked i think well other than the left hand side locking up..... i also had a problem getting one of the bleed lose so i jammed a 6 mm socket on it/then couldnt get it out so i went to the back garage to find some spear drums and ripped that out as well while i was under the back i thought i spotted some dirt coming out of the rear quarter so started hitting the rear guard and now it looks like this?here is some of the crap that fell out of itso yup il be buying a welder over this xmas brake.to do list is go over the brakes again and do something about the rust.... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted January 2, 2015 Author Share Posted January 2, 2015 so yea took the valiant for another drive and done a skid. brakes are still dumb so i pulled them apart to find not much of the shoes left on the front so il wait till the local shop is open again go price up so new shoes. also got a website for drop spindles from a fellow member so waiting till those shops are open as well so i can find out prices/order some. i dont see the point of pulling this apart to put new shoes to buy the spindles 2-3 months down the track to pull them apart again. so i SOAKED!!! everything in WD40 and will continue to do that later today to make sure everything is well and truly soaked and easy to pull apart when i get into it. also done some weight reduction and cleaned some dirt out while i was at it.left sideright side the wheel bearings looked good so il just jam some new grease in with them when everything gets assembled again.think thats that for now. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted January 8, 2015 Author Share Posted January 8, 2015 so um yeah..... had a closer look at the brake situation tonightso im currently shopping on ebay for some front and rear cylinders Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted January 15, 2015 Author Share Posted January 15, 2015 with the last post i realized all my brake stuff was crap so started hunting around and all that jaz and ended up messaging a mate who works for bnt and he said yup we got your front cylinders here and your back ones will be about 40 mins away for the small price of 50 odd bucks for the lot. so yea that was tuesday. and earlier i stumbled across a thread on wagon nats, to find out it is 22 days away. so yeah best do some work on the old girl.ripped the rest of the front brakes off and yea slapped all new parts on and bleed them up. new cylinders onnew shoes on.then drove her out side and took a photoquickly spun her around up the road and drove her back straight into the shed so i can now do the rear brakes tomorrow night.will put her up off all 4 wheels and adjust the brakes a bit better and give them a good bleed as well.while doing all this my cap for the brake reservoir decided to drop the guts out of it and fall apart so i went out to the trusty back shed and found another one.the rubber inside was still soft and looked brand new. the things i keep hahahahahalist of things to do is kinda huge atm and coming across more every time i work on it so i may make one tomorrow and go from there 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted January 16, 2015 Author Share Posted January 16, 2015 so i did my bake brakes tonight and yea FARK!!!!!!!!! she is so soft!!!!! think i need to adjust the shoes quite a lot more and have a better fiddle with them on sunday.here are some photos of the new stuff in the backalso got flash and screwed this onbefore handafterso i think the other photos have been lost so here is one of when it last had a wof and a little bit of a rust hole againthat is my rear guard.....i have had a mate say i can use his hoist and he will go over my car see what we can get done so he can pass me a wof/his boss is away for a month.so need to get all my lights sorted and all that other crap make this thing legit!!!!! better fix these brakes on sunday or im going to be one un happy camper. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted May 13, 2015 Author Share Posted May 13, 2015 ah snap!just brought these of Mr.Mk1 (Josh)my container gets moved tomorrow. (garage) and the wagon will arrive at the shop this weekend so work will continue on this!!Flyingbrick has lent me his welder so let the games begin! ps any mods on here able to help/point me in editing my earlier post and loading better url photos up for the viewers or nup? no problem if not. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted June 1, 2015 Author Share Posted June 1, 2015 so i finally gave in and gave my mums shed back to her. mainly so i could start working on my wagon. last time i started it i was driving it around the block no problems.this time it was farting around missing and been a right prick!!!! (i think someone played with my spark plug leads!)but yeah proceeded to drive it towards my work shop which is only 2 kms up the road max and had nothing but huge back fires and all the rest. mum ended up towing me the rest of the way. i also went to horopito motors a few weeks back and done some valiant shopping. came back with a rear window!!! pretty sure i was paying per moss patch.and this is what the shop looks like nowwhile im here. yeah vw doesnt go either since wheel bearing sounds like its shat the bed and the green sedan likes to jump out of 3rd gear i have no old cars going bloody cars!!!! 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted December 6, 2015 Author Share Posted December 6, 2015 nothing new here just a photo of a valiant in a container i have got myself a welder now so i may start playing around with this turd and try get a wof on it now that the vw is going. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted January 15, 2017 Author Share Posted January 15, 2017 Thats it. The valiant is up on trademe now. Time to sell. http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=1242563815&ed=true Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyteler Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 Rare piece.... FYI 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 64valiant Posted February 28, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 28, 2017 Oh so I gave up on selling the wagon. Mate has offered swap jobs on upholstery for rust work and getting my wagon to wof stage. So with out further notice I chucked it on a trailer and sent took it to his place to work on. So the next day he sent me a snap chat of it running quite nice. The plan was to sell it to help out the future me and Beth. But I mentioned to Beth I didn't want to sell it (she knew this already and didn't want me to sell it either and wanted to see it used) this is why I got down on one knee. Any way back on track I said that maybe we could sell her golf and her use my Subaru and she's ment to be getting a work car so hopefully all falls into plan and we get a Wof on it over the next 6 months. She agreed. 31 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted March 2, 2017 Author Share Posted March 2, 2017 ah yeah chit chat and that other sweet yarn kinda stuff goes over here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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