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shit i completely forgot about that particular tethered convoy. good times. ring ding allan speaking mr ainstworth with the toyota wagon? yes, whats the deal you've got aids

Got the FJ20 mounted on the stand to clean it up and paint a few things. Tracked down a set of FJ into S12 mounts to borrow and copy, extremely rare it seems but should be easy enough to make. Also found a guy who has some powersteer and aircon brackets, hopefully get them soon!

I've been doing a few things to get the car running again. the wiring loom is hilarious in its fuckedness. Nick came over the other night and went through it and fixed a whole bunch of shit. there is still a bit to do to get the wiring sorted but its getting there, and its become apparent why it was difficult to get the starter to engage among other things. I'm going to hide most of the loom except for a small bit that goes under the radiator so its needs work anyway. so it now has brakes and a clutch again. I've attached a few bits and I've been cleaning and prepping other bits to go back on. oh, and Greg came over earlier tonight and fixed a couple of runs and polished them out. 2016-01-14_08-38-00 by sheepers, on Flickr

So the other night Gal and I built this. We both found it to be hilarious. But I needed one of my own... Luckily this cropped up on TM with giant 32" wheels. So I brought it, and made this! What a blast! @scooters

No back pay is the best part of classic rego. I buy 3 months rego every 5-6 months.

So we started setting up camp tonight: IMG_3803 by Neal OnTheTree IMG_3811 by Neal OnTheTree It will get better from here...

Oh Boy I got plenty excited seeing the engine bay like this.... Its not nearly as close to going as first appearances suggest though. The banananana extractors and 48 Delortos are just sitting there. Spot the gaps. And a few minor details like the gearbox mount is now 25mm too far back behind the pinto perhaps making the driveshaft too long. It still looks the business though!

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I had been looking for a 4wd or a ute as I need something for moving my dogs and mountain bikes and general trailer pulling. I came across an XE ute on facebook for sale and commented on it, a mate saw my comment and gave me the number of a mate of his who had an XH XR6 that he wanted rid of. He had a work ute, so the xr6 hasn't seen any use for a couple of years and was too good to rot away in his driveway. So I bought it Its recently had a massive brake system overhaul as he was starting to get it WOF ready but didn't have the time to put into it. So it still needs a bit of work, new battery, wipers don't go, door hinge pins etc. I've got a new battery and hinge pin kit, have got an entire wiper assembly on the way from trademe. It runs really mint, its only done 150k. Hopefully I will be able to get a WOF on it pretty pronto once my wiper assy arrives next week.

Needs roo bars

I've said this before, but keep doing exactly what you're doing! Watching low HP cars battle against the big boys is awesome. One day you'll have 200hp and be able to stick it with the 1000hp boys in D1. You shall be known as Keiranhiro Ueo.

wait a minute, theres also this. 2016-01-07_03-46-33 by sheepers, on Flickr 2016-01-07_03-44-36 by sheepers, on Flickr 2016-01-07_03-44-27 by sheepers, on Flickr 2016-01-07_03-44-14 by sheepers, on Flickr 2016-01-07_03-44-03 by sheepers, on Flickr so yea. pretty happy with that. it needs to come down about 75mm and its currently got 0 camber so i think there will be some coil overs in this cars future. now I'm going to take a well deserved break. and work on my blue car for a few days before i go back to work.

New year's resolution YOLO go bucket racing, so pulled the trigger on this Suzuki NZ250 rolling frame set up for a Honda single. Going to chuck in a GL145 engine. Braap! http://instagram.com/brascoracing

Looks like there is a 50/50% chance of my rustheap coming for a look. Will there be space for it? i'll let you drive it really slowly & stuff.

Huge in Rangiora!

Your pretty much my legend of the bicycle world Pete! !

Left work early to cycle over to BNT to pick up the cylinders, no luck there, they were the wrong ones for manual adjusting brakes so I rushed home and worked some magic to just make it to VTNZ before 5... Pretty stoked to have the wof but still plenty of work to go, even though the brakes work i'll order in from Russia the correct cylinders just for piece of mind!

Aerials! Bundaberg stickers! Massive front bars! Truck flaps with chrome naked ladys! one of those cow with the big horn stickers across the back window! Southern cross on the tonneau!

Did someone say princess?

Good luck Mr XXX

so, usually I post up stuff when I thinks it's coming together well, but most of the time I've got no idea what I'm doing, like the last two days. start with this. I have not been looking forward to trying to seperate these. take a not quite as stuffed example. this panel was on the old baja I cut up, seems the short baja fibreglass bonnet needed some clearance. spot the diff this side is rough! started hammering it into shape. than I chopped this out, just past the old welds still trying to suss out the best way to stick it all back together. tried to save the dash side of the lip, but as you see.... so I guess I'll have to make a new one? I also sprayed some primer on the roof, for now, and cut out and patched the holes. trimmed the new panel up and had it blasted by the same crowd on henderson valley road. pulled the dash out, thought about cutting the lip off it as a doner. so now I've just got to make this all fit back together again. oh, and I welded up about 15 holes under the dash from radios and stuff over the years. was hoping to have this finished and back on the spit soon to finish up the sills. ah well!

Been a long time coming but Mags is finally back on the road! Took her for a quick spin round the block. Running with a bit more grunt than before and the new clutch was definitely a good call. The overheating issue is probably the next focus - the gauge shows H pretty early on, although we don't really know how accurate this is. We recently chucked in a new temperature sender - does anyone know the normal resistance range on the temperature sender for these cars (i.e. normal running temp resistance)? Will probably look at getting a new radiator at some stage too as has a bit of wear and there's room for a larger one which will definitely help things. Probably should grab a wof + reg too lel.

Getting closer to the wof, except the rear brakes. After failing I pulled them down and all looked happy, so guessed they still had a small amount of air I bled them and went for a re-check with little improvement. Returning home I had a read of the workshop manual which mentioned automatic adjusters on the shoes, from memory I saw no such thing, so back to pieces again and the auto adjusters were no where to be seen, bugger! Weighing up the options I looked at swapping the backing plates for niva ones with manual adjusters just to get through, while stripping one hub a new problem arose: At some stage in the past the 4 bolts that hold the hub to the axle have been replaced with bunning's specials and were all stripped, so down to edl before work to order some new 10.9s and thankfull I looked that deep (paranoid enough I even used a torque wrench!) After a few calls with gee motors it turns out the wheel cylinders are self adjusting and the end cause is the left rear is seized on one side, but just my luck they are out of stock, BNT may have one so fingers crossed the one they have in stock is auto adjusting and i'll be on back the road this weekend........... maybe!

By my deeds i honour him V8

Holy shit! Such mega awesomeness. Wicked builds and such obvious joy from the riders!

see you lads early for some swapmeeting

pretty sure they are open from 7 onwards ..

What time do the gates open tommrow?

Cars washed havent started it yet let alone driven. Shud be sweet see you all about 8

PS waiting for the phone call is killing me today lol and waiting for cars to turn up so I can rip into some work and take my mind off things

If you're swap-meeting and see 15" wide whites (not crossply) or supremes in a 5x4.5 pattern, hook a nigger up.

My car turned 40 this year so my rego is cheap. I called the transport dudes and they said I wouldn't have to backpay to end of November when my rego ran out. What a score. I love being 40 said no one ever.

Outlook is the easiest way of keeping track of WOF's, registration, wife's birthday etc.

some where around the red dot you wont be able to miss the funny looking bunch

Video of it running appears to be a weird format that won't play on anything. While trying to convert it i appear to have deleted it. Can make new video soon.

Casual update, when I dropped the car off they gave me a statutory declaration form to fill out to say legally that I am the current owner took a whole of 2 mins to fill out and a 1 min trip into the local district court to get it witnessed

way to flash to drive through mud. or put on a shitty hilux.

Came back from summer break to find this in the lounge: Inside is all thats needed before I can head for a wof, seatbelts, ball joints, indicator lenses and a few other cosmetic bits and pieces, wasting no time I began to fit and cross items off the list, first of all, the drive donut: Amazed at how mangled these things can get and offer no sign of damage! all was going well til this In my order frenzy I forgot that Ukraine is LHD, so my new fancy wiper arms are upside down, any Ideas on how to fix these? pulling them apart doesn't look possible from the crimping, possibly heat and bend but then will I be able to patch up the powdercoat to look as pretty as they are now? And the reason for the odd shaped package: for 20usd I couldn't resist some aero, it fits terribly, the finish is horrible, but I have some chop strand in the shed and pretty sure the bogan points can be saved! And on the positive side I went for a wof today, even with 4 inspectors crawling over the car the to do list was very minor, rear brake imbalance, high beam warning lamp bulb blown, sway bar not fitted (opps! my bad forgetting to put that back on!) and what would appear to be a typo in the vin number, looks like somewhere in the system a 7 got confused with a 2 and so I need to call ltsa to sort that out, unless someone has done an epic job of converting a Lada Discussion for tips on wipers : //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/49397-nickjs-1989-lada-2105/?hl=2105

Overdue update Fuel system mostly done, went a bit overboard here. 3/8'' stainless tube, made the surge tank out of a used cal gas cylinder from work, bosch 044 pump etc Drive shaft made. 900mm of tube Really needed a hoist to make a proper job of these lines. Had to slide out from under car to make every bend. Managed to do each line in one piece which i'm stoked with even though there a bit kooked. Going over the diff was most painful Need some flexible lines to go here to the fuel rail Gearbox cross member mk2 And I've been working on the intercooler and piping Wanting to mount these coils on the cam cover so i can run short leads. Made up a bracket out of 3mm flat bar, its a bit flimsy under the weight of these coils so might have to beef it up a bit

im not sure how much longer i can keep this up. 2015-12-30_03-19-36 by sheepers, on Flickr 2015-12-30_03-18-51 by sheepers, on Flickr 2015-12-30_03-18-37 by sheepers, on Flickr

Bled the clutch up, took a day to gravity feed the lines full again. Also faffed around for aaaaaaaaages getting the gear linakges connected including cutting and bending them so the dont bind on themselves (both sets i have, have witness marks so it cant just be me!). Parts car comes through with the goods again, with a radiator. Its not perfect but at least the bottom tank is whole. Polished the top which is so shiny its blown out this piccy Also got a lace up steering wheel cover for christmas Started swapping over the column switches, they are a weak design and the levers break out at the base - 65Fiat kindly let me have one of his spares. - the eboxy glue doesnt stick very well and it catches on the wheel, so may try fibreglass (PE) or making a metal ring of sorts like the later model ones have to spread the load better around the switch im gonna need to replicate that somehow - Anyway, set the timing, filled the carbs with some go juice and put the exhaust back on (well just to the 2 into 1 section by the gbox ): Pretty close to driving this out of the garage under its own steam! Wont be going far till i get the break calipers re-sealed tho.

today i took the motor out and in traditional OS tradition here is a picture of me playing actual guitar in the hole. you probably can't tell but I'm playing a fine rendition of the sound of silence. 2015-12-24_04-25-34 by sheepers, on Flickr 2015-12-24_04-08-58 by sheepers, on Flickr so, onward. whats wrongs with this picture?? 2015-12-24_02-54-59 by sheepers, on Flickr thats right keen eyed reader! the pipey bits should line up with the slots in the fire wall, but they don't. id been intrigued by this oddity for some time and today after i got the motor out i decided it was time to investigate. i have no fucking clue how this was assembled in this way, i could not get it out without breaking the housing. its the wrong heater core but i suppose that much was obvious. there just was no way of getting it out without breaking it. so i broke it. 2015-12-24_03-02-46 by sheepers, on Flickr whatchaaaa gonna do now? well, tomorrow is Christmas day so ill probably take tomorrow off. boxing day however is prep engine bay day.

just bought another engine for SV2. Very similar to the one already fitted, but has an extra pulley on top

Sunday after Drag Day I set the tappets, installed the clutch and swung the engine back in the hole Hellloooww Strill have to get teh gear box in - Do you even lift Bro? Friends? -+-+-+- Just hefted the gear box in, went pretty well with a jack and two small furniture trolleys, and all my socket extensions, just the fiddly bits like linkages and stuff to hook up now. So thats the front 2/3rds of the running gear sorted, and half the rust. Just brakes, diff, and the rest of the rust to go, but that means chopping up the parts wagon, which means having a running van to store and move the bits which means rust repairs on the van, which ill do over the christmas break ahhhg bloody cars.

Aaand today, a bit more progress on the rust, BEGONE! BAM! I actually did cut and weld that but forget to take any more picks till I'd finished So thats the whole passenger side done as far as rust/metal work goes. *** Thought i would pull the clutch master from the spares car to see if i could cannibalise any bits from it to take to the brake shop with the calipers - it wasnt looking good in the car all oxidised and rustly looking but once i got it off : KAPOW! Oh yeah! It has previously/recently been resleeved with a nice brass sleeve and was not even seized at all The parts car has just paid for itself twice over, and after a clean and reassesmble, the pedal box is all completed. Car is also on the ground and awaiting some more weight in the front. Im just waiting on some o-rings (or valve stem 'seals') to reassemble the head and put it on the block before i lift it back in.

I may or may not have had a massive sulk at the car for 6 months, I couldn't figure out why it was running lean and I'd had enough of it. Plus I was busy with house stuff, so it basically didn't get touched until a couple of months ago. I started by sorting out the ugly patch on the drivers B pillar (no pictures of that), it's now all painted up and looking good. I was talking to a mate (Pete at Mullins Tyres in Avondale, awesome guy to deal with), and he really made me face palm. When the last owner plumbed up the fuel lines he never installed a breather, so the tank has been vacuuming up. I was pretty embarrassed that I'd never thought to check it, but at least it was easy to sort out. Drilled a hole in the fuel cap and away we go. Pulled the car out of the garage for the first time since January on Sunday, sprayed it with the hose and put it away. Next up is getting the driveshaft checked out, then another wheel alignment (5th in 100kms.....), then cert again.

So now that I've given the old girl a nice treat and the insides are pretty much all mint it's about time for something to break as a way of saying thanks, of course. Started to present symptoms which suggested a blown head gasket. Took the cylinder head off with the help of a friend who knows what he's doing (I mostly don't) and took it away to an engine reconditioners to get it planed and the various bits tarted up, replaced etc as needed. Naturally it was not that simple and today it turns out the head is cracked between the valve seats. Bugger. So I'll be needing to do something about sorting a replacement sharpish. I have a 4G51 from a Colt 1850 sitting in the shed, so I need to see if that will fit, fingers crossed they are the same. Some pointless pics: Also decided to give the rocker cover a bit of a polish while it was off (and I was still feeling some love for the car, before I found out I was rooted). Not perfect by any stretch but looking better than it did before.

Lots of little bits and pieces lately, been collecting parts: some spare chrome trims, a couple of interior pieces and some badges – a rechromed boot badge and a NOS rear quarter badge. Also got some nice new black carpet. The carpets aren't moulded, they're all just shaped flat panels, like lots of mats, so it was easy to cut new pieces and get them all edged. I'll get some pics when the new carpet is in. More excitingly, I decided on a fairly extreme fix for the little tears that were starting on the base panel of my driver's seat. The metallic green colour was going to be pretty impossible to match, so I got a set of slightly tatty seats from a Colt GSR, sporting several shades of green and got them recovered by Greg (64valiant) at Midnight Upholstery. Super recommended, they came out great, can't wait to get them into the car. Before: And after: Decided to try something a little different with the back panels, I think they came out pretty cool. Greg was super easy to work with, real nice guy and the quality of the job done is excellent, definitely check him out for any upholstery stuff you need.