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  1. 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
    11 points
  2. 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!
    7 points
  3. 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
    7 points
  4. 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
    5 points
  5. No back pay is the best part of classic rego. I buy 3 months rego every 5-6 months.
    4 points
  6. So we started setting up camp tonight: IMG_3803 by Neal OnTheTree IMG_3811 by Neal OnTheTree It will get better from here...
    4 points
  7. 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!
    4 points
  8. 2016-01-07_01-15-28 by sheepers, on Flickr 2016-01-07_01-15-19 by sheepers, on Flickr
    4 points
  9. 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.
    3 points
  10. 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.
    3 points
  11. 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.
    3 points
  12. 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
    2 points
  13. 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.
    2 points
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  15. Your pretty much my legend of the bicycle world Pete! !
    2 points
  16. 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!
    2 points
  17. 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!
    2 points
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  19. 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!
    2 points
  20. 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.
    2 points
  21. 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!
    2 points
  22. I was briefly on these forums years ago, when I had a 1977 KE35 SR but since then I have been living carless in London for the last 6 years, lurking about the forums to get my old car fix. I moved back at the start of the year, so it was time for a new old car. I got this Galant Colt GTO at the start of Feb in really good condition. It had a bit of a refresh in the 90s including respray in the original colour and the addition of louvers and a sunroof. It's my daily drive and I think that the sudden increase in usage was a bit of a shock to it's system and lots of bits and pieces that were close to giving up started to go. It was running quite hot and starting to leave a few oil drips on the driveway. So I had to sort a few seals (tailshaft, crankshaft, rocker cover gasket), a heater hose and add an electric fan. But of course fixing one thing leads to others crapping out so I then had to fix a small leak in the radiator and get the water pump reconditioned too. Also needed a new Alternator with external regulator so got that taken care of at the same time. Anyway, pics: Definitely needs more low and a few little bits and pieces like window seals could probably do with replacement but for now I'm just enjoying driving it.
    1 point
  23. So, thought I better get myself a classic Japanese car awhile back, because new german daily driver cars are boring me lately. Was looking at old Toyotas and Datsuns etc but I decided it had to be a 70's or 80's 2 door coupe of some kind in the end. Pop up head lights would be a bonus. Got thinking about my S12 RX Silvia CA18ET notch back I owned back in the early noughties and thought hmm, that was a pretty cool, cheap fun car. Anyway started looking around in Australia and realised these things just are not about. Luckily I got a lead on a car that was not even advertised and found this : Original one lady owner Nissan Gazelle S12 , The main reason I bought this particular one, other than the fact its so clean is because it has a R180 IRS disk brake rear end and they are quite rare here, most of these sold new in Australia came with drum brake live axle rear set ups and I was not too keen on that. It has factory AC that still works, power steer etc. Really original car, factory head unit still fitted and all that stuff! Pretty hard to find in this kind of condition these days, I mean it is 30 years old! When I got it, seat covers and window shades had been fitted its whole life until now, so the interior has survived really well. Only downside to the whole deal is that its a CA20E. Automatic. Yuck I know. But at least it's been cared for and never thrashed. The Automatic can jog on though, I plan a manual conversion very shortly.
    1 point
  24. All sorted thanks for the offer guys beaver has me covered................... Sexually
    1 point
  25. Cars washed havent started it yet let alone driven. Shud be sweet see you all about 8
    1 point
  26. Looks superb!! Excited to see this at Kumeu assuming it's gonna be there. It reminds me of this song:
    1 point
  27. Guys you better save a (mini sized) spot for me Planning on rolling in earlyish to beat some of the traffic
    1 point
  28. If you know the old rego or the chassis number comes up in the system then thats all you need Decleration form works off vin number only as plates change anyway
    1 point
  29. If you're swap-meeting and see 15" wide whites (not crossply) or supremes in a 5x4.5 pattern, hook a nigger up.
    1 point
  30. oh stop it giz a yell if u need a hand man
    1 point
  31. I now have my FR17 x 7 simmons rears widened to 8.5" and by god they look epic
    1 point
  32. Remove the window and wear ski goggles everywhere
    1 point
  33. Outlook is the easiest way of keeping track of WOF's, registration, wife's birthday etc.
    1 point
  34. 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.
    1 point
  35. The height adjust screw for one of the headlights was bung so while I had the grille and everything off I took the opportunity to make it all nice and clean and black. Before: After: Much better. the headlights have always been a tiny bit on the piss — the lines are not quite vertical/horizontal. They can't be rotated though because there are little tabs on the back of the bulbs which correspond to slots in the headlight cups. Am I missing something? Discuss here if you have any ideas. Cheers
    1 point
  36. my brake bits have been dribbling in from around the world, and i can now assemble the front brake calipers. Calipers are cast with FIAT/Girling and are also used on Dinos and Panteras and some other super expensive and rare cars, but also including (thankfully) old volvos (amazons and P1800s), which have a large aftermarket suppy, so are also avalaible new, all from Skandix.de (reccomended) Gulp. pads are fairly easy to come by, as used on only the finest british tat, these were only $9 on rock auto New cylinders in - fitting the rubbers is a bit of a trick! Read to bolt back on with new soft lines Just waiting on an ebay purchase for the rear cylinders, and some handbrake hardware and the rears will get the same treatment (will see about the rear pads being reshoed at a later date) and once installed i can drive it out and turn it around to get at the drivers side rust - untill then ive kinda run out of things to do.
    1 point
  37. i did a few more bits and pieces on the car today. i lengthened the lower control arms on the diff to get a bit more clearance between the driveshaft and the floor and a few other little things. then i lowered the car off the jack and realized that the car was sitting lower on one side than the other. a quick measure confirmed it was 20mm lower on the right rear. i jacked it up and took the rear wheels off and found that the right rear spring perch had unwound itself and was 20mm lower that the left side. all of a sudden all of the weird things the car had been doing made sense. when i moved the tunnel up at the back to clear the bigger diff i left lots of room so the driveshaft/diff nose would never hit the floor. but somehow a couple of months ago it did. that was really strange at the time. i couldn't understand how it had done that given how much room id made for everything. there was other stuff too, like I've been adjusting the panhard bar to stop the outside wheel from rubbing but i seemed to be moving it backwards and forwards and not getting a consistent result. it always touched on the outside. i don't know how long its been like this but given the amount of crap in the threads id say a long time, perhaps over a year. its been hitting the bump on the right side almost constantly which explains its weird feeling turning left. i also wonder if the weird experiences i had with the T1Rs weren't exasperated by this? who knows. i can't believe I've never noticed it before. once i measured it it was obviously on the piss. i guess I've been fairly focused on getting the red car done and not really paying much attention to fuck all else. anywho, its fixed now and feels like a completely different car. a better one for sure.
    1 point
  38. Massive shed day today, repaired a few bits, stripped heaps more parts and got the first layer of paint on while the weather was good. You make good progress without the wife and kids interrupting you every hour or so, the only break was when fat Jim (Southern Scoot) came round with beer... Worked on my brazing skills on the brake cable cover. And got the stripping down to a fine art now - hit parts with Tergo strip, scrape first layer off when it starts to bubble and repeat, wire brushing off what is left. Then a selection of brass wire brushes in the drill on the rust, and get what is left in the blast cabinet. Only problem is that stripper is pretty violent, it eats nitrile gloves and I lost most of my fingertips as the skin came off in great chunks after being exposed. At least I assume it was the chemicals, not my soft office worker hands rebelling at doing real work... should get a couple more coats on tomorrow if the weather behaves...
    1 point
  39. 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
    1 point
  40. things went well and now its beer o'clock. 2015-12-29_03-58-30 by sheepers, on Flickr 2015-12-29_03-58-40 by sheepers, on Flickr 2015-12-29_03-58-52 by sheepers, on Flickr 2015-12-29_04-13-24 by sheepers, on Flickr 2015-12-29_04-13-39 by sheepers, on Flickr
    1 point
  41. so today i finished the prep work and all the little things that needed doing and painted the engine bay. and the hinges and assorted other bits that need colour. came out alright. its a tiny bit orange peely but i dont actually think you'll see it when its back together. 2015-12-27_05-11-30 by sheepers, on Flickr 2015-12-27_05-12-01 by sheepers, on Flickr 2015-12-27_05-17-35 by sheepers, on Flickr
    1 point
  42. just bought another engine for SV2. Very similar to the one already fitted, but has an extra pulley on top
    1 point
  43. 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.
    1 point
  44. Not much been going on with this lately, just lots of little bits and pieces. Installed an alarm/remote central locking, new stereo. I think the stereo looks pretty good (better than the silver Kenwood tape player that was in there anyway), suits the style of the car well. You can see where I put the LED for the alarm at the bottom of the second pic Managed to get a new indicator lens to replace a cracked one. Apparently near impossible to find, after months I eventually got one by fluke — PartsWorld in Timaru had one that the label had fallen off, so they didn't know what model it was for but the part number on the lens matched the old catalogue number and it's a perfect fit. Not flawless condition, has a couple of scratches but no cracks and it polished up nicely. Before: After: I've had a few more bits and pieces arrive lately. Top rubbers and brush seal strips for the side windows and then this little NOS item from the States: My rubber steering wheel is a bit rooted, the rubber is soft and collapsing, so I was pretty pleased to find this proper leather replacement for less than the cost of getting my one re-wrapped. Also, while the car was clean I took it out for some night photos.
    1 point
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