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  1. Gave this thing a good tune-up today. But before I go into the details, I would like to publicly shame the place that gave this car a WoF last week before I bought it. Nothing against Felixx, it's the WoF shop's job to ensure something is safe. Harewood Vehicle Inspection Centre - 580 Wairakei Road. They should not have given this vehicle a WoF, there were two serious safety problems that they missed. The first was the serious brake imbalance - the car would pull hard to the right under heavy braking. The second was the substantial fuel leak from the carburetor (straight onto the exhaust manifold). After my engine fire, I have no tolerance of any kind for fuel leaks. I've fixed these now, but I am seriously considering reporting the testing shop to NZTA. There were also a few other items that are dubious, but they aren't safety concerns so I'm not really worried about them. Anyway, back to the scheduled programming. This evening's plan involved adjusting the valve clearances and changing the diff oil. In preparation I decided to get a new valve cover gasket, so I figured Butler Automart would probably be the place to go for old stuff like this. The guy behind the counter knew the part number off the top of his head and sold me a gasket for $13. I was pretty happy with that. I adjusted the valves to the following specifications on a reasonably warm/hot engine: IN: 0.009" EX: 0.017" A few of the exhaust valves were slightly tight and one was really loose. That would explain the flutter I could hear while driving. Most of the intake valves were fine, a few needed a little adjustment. I also hammered the valve cover bolt hole areas flat to try and minimize any warpage. I didn't use any sealant on the gasket, I'll see how it goes. I also gave the cover a quick lick of paint. While I was adjusting the valves I thought I should probably look into the rather petrolly smell that follows this thing around. I saw the side of the carburettor was completely soaked in fuel. The fuel hose was so loose it was practically flapping in the breeze. I tightened it up, but it still leaked. So I replaced the section of hose. It still leaked. I tightened it more. It still leaked. At this point I got a little concerned that the carburettor might have a crack or something, but just to be sure I pulled the top off and checked the gasket - it was fine. I then put some soapy water around the inlet pipe and closed the float valve then blew into the inlet. Bubbles were coming out around it - I had found the culprit. Some pliers easily removed the pipe. Not wanting the screw around too much and being on a rather tight schedule (Jane needs the car to drive to band tonight), I decided my most reliable solution would be a complete redesign. I drilled the hole out for an M8 thread and used a taper tap to thread it. I then jumped on the lathe and made a new fitting out of silversteel then applied a little loctite and threaded it into the carburettor top as tight as I could. Note the new fitting has a barb, this should hopefully help hold the fuel hose in place. My 4K carb was giving this thing the death stare the whole time. It looks like it would probably fit on reasonably easily, but the Anglia doesn't use a throttle cable - it has one of @yoeddynz's favourite types of linkage systems. Anyway, I put it all back together and checked for leaks. It seems to be fixed now. After that photo I hit the carb with a little brake cleaner to tidy it up. Hopefully the thread doesn't start to leak. I probably should have peened it in place after threading it in. While I was in the engine bay I decided I would try and get the vacuum gauge connected again. this involved replacing a couple of sections of vacuum hose and fitting the T connector between the distributor and the carburettor. The distributor rotated about 40 degrees while I was pulling the old hose off - it obviously wasn't clamped down. So I reset it back approximately where it was then used the timing light to check the approximate timing and set it to about 10 deg BTDC at idle. It doesn't seem to ping and runs a lot better at the current setting than it did before. I also tightened the clamp. Now onto the diff oil change. It turns out that the British motor industry was way ahead of it's time - using filled for life diffs. There is no drain plug, yet they expect the owners to top the fluid up every 5,000 miles. These things must leak a lot... Also, the fill plug is a male 1/2" square. I ended up just using a syringe to suck as much fluid out of the fill hole as I could. At one point the hose fell off of the syringe, inside the diff. I had to use circlip pliers to fish it out. After that I filled it up with some Penrite GL5 gear oil until it started to flow out of the fill hole. Should be good for another 5,000 miles I guess. The result of all of the above work is an engine that runs smoothly now, doesn't smell like petrol, doesn't tick like a clock, and a working economy gauge. I'm pretty satisfied with the outcome. Next jobs: -driver's door latch -clean all that red RTV off of the random shit in the engine bay -maybe replace the muffler that has heaps of rust holes -clean the inch thick layers of grease off the bottom so I can figure out how bad the transmission and diff leaks actually are -fix the heater system -bodywork? -computerised ignition? -better lights behind the speedo
    12 points
  2. Not terribly interesting but making some progress.. A tube worth of sikaflex to seal up the roof join. Also replacing the rubber donuts for where the safari roof bolts on, hope to get this all in colour soon so I can mount it. Windscreen back in with new seals Going old school glazing with the butyl tape (which I actually like working with) Bought a roll of sound deadening off TM (cheapest option I found) and working through layering all the internal panels. The roll is better than the flat pack as have less wastage.
    11 points
  3. Crikey its been a while since I updated this thread. Quite a bit has been built since the last update, in between customers jobs, mucking about buying old Bedfords, playing with bicycle builds and general enjoying summer stuff. Now that its 'late summer' here in the Tasman region and its starting to get a little bit chillier in the evenings we have been cracking into the build so we can hopefully move out of the cabin before spring Autumn arrives. Our bay seems to have a bit of a micro climate and ignores winter here, going straight from autumn to spring and frankly its more nicerer that way I still want to be living in the shed though- its gonna be nicer all round and I might actually then do more work on the Imp 911! So last time I posted we had sort of started the building of some walls upstairs. We got sick of the mess and clutter downstairs and once we had the wall up in the lounge we carted all the boxes of car/bike/workshop related stuff upstairs and stacked them in the lounge. Then we took down the old shelves that all that stuff had been on. Moved the washing machine, folder, guillotine out of the way, put more burly posts up and built the store room. I didn't really take any photos of the process but you can see it in this photo... Its about 1.6m wide and spans half the workshop. Really good amount of space to store lots of boxes on some shelves we built up there. With all the stuff shifted up off the workshop floor we could now make the most of the extra space. We shuffled things around, measured, schemed, planned, deliberated and pondered the layout. Still wanted some shelves but not as big. We ended up with it looking like this... Much better. Really happy with that. Those shelves will soon get cluttered up with a variety of Nissan micra bits as we do that planned swapsies game. Now back to work upstairs. Speaking of stairs...we got sick of clambering up and down from the lounge area using a step stool so we made these... I built them to replicate the main stairway. We picked through the largest bits of pine we had and created some sweet steps. Really stoked with how they came up once varnished. There will be a handrail on the wall side to add in the future. We bought some things. We've never had a new mattress. Time to splash out and get a decent one... (another reason for wanting to shift outta the cabin asap- the cabin only has a double bed and it gets crampped when we have to share it with a big fluffy cat) Also started hunting for chest of drawers etc. Found these slightly art deco styled ones cheap at the recycling centre - $40. Nicely built from solid Rimu. Hannah sanded them and varnished them... We kept plodding away at the build. Annoying when we had to stop to do customers jobs but hey that's life. Walls and ceilings went up. Some free insulation from local friends. Hannah painted some of the walls. Yet to decide on other colours to be used. Bought a nice second hand full HD projector and a new 130" motorised screen. We had deliberated about going the projector route or just get a large telly. Projector won and its amazing! Installed the lovely large 'fill the room with deep smooth base' speakers we had been gifted. Made some burly speaker stands that replicate the posts holding the mezz up. Screwed them to the floor because earthquakes.. but also make sure nothing moves but the speaker cones. Gawddamn its a mighty nice setup to watch movies in now- exactly what I have dreamed about. When I spot a 65" etc TV in the shops now they seem so tiny. Viewing a movie on a projector screen also seems much easier on my eyes than looking at a telly screen. I added more circuits to the breaker box and ran out all the wiring before the walls went up. Always so fun to turn new lights on and have wall sockets to use rather then trailing extension cords. I have a local sparky mate who will be checking/signing it off etc when finished. Get all our bits at trade from him too- LOL at the markup on electrical stuff !!! Pics... Spot the vent added in the top- without windows it was a bit hot up there. Vent works well! Need to make a pretty porthole window to cover it. Some nice carpet will be laid on the lounge floor (oatmeal/Kevin coloured - bloody fluffy cats....) I had posted up some pics in the shed thread of this happening a few days ago... Wow- I wish we had done that earlier on. We've had a window to fit in this spot for ages... My brother had spotted it at the Blenheim recycling centre. $50!!! All cedar sashes and lovely Rimu frame, solid brass mechanisms. Couldn't believe our luck. Hannah cleaned it up and painted the outside in dark 'Karaka' green to match the other windows/doors on the shed. Here in primer... We needed flashings. I didn't want to deal with the main Nelson crowd that we'd used and been mucked about with before. We had a load of brand new gutters that had been left in the bush by the previous land owner, still in the plastic wrap and in the exact same Karaka green we needed. So I decided to use them as material to make our own flashings. We needed a folder. So I built one... It folds 2.4 metres. No good for heavy steel but fine for shed steel, car steel. It will be a handy thing to have for future jobs so it made sense to but a little time/money into making one. It fits neatly onto a large mobile steel bench. Made flashings and fitted windows. Then had coffee looking out into the bush... We will be chopping down heaps of the Kanuka trees we now look at- the block the evening sun that comes through the window and there lots of really nice ferns that we'd rather see come up. So that's firewood sorted for another few years In the last few days we've been adding trim, making another bookshelf to mimic the one we'd made earlier on the other side of the lounge. Wanted some nice timber and found a large plank of what we thought to be old pine. Turns out it was Macrocarpa so that was a nice surprise... Finished that book shelf last night and Hannah varnished it this morning... We uncovered the remaining Rimu stacked outside and brought it up to the shed to process... Quite a large amount left. Most of it cleaned up nice... Now we are machining it down to a variety of shapes for trim, skirting boards, corner cappings, railings. We really need to make the bannisters before someone falls 2.4 metres to the concrete floor below. Wow. Wall of text. I'll try to post up more often so its not such a mission to write/read. Really looking forward to fitting the kitchen/bedroom windows soon and then start building the respective rooms. Then we can move in. Then I can tinker with flat sixes till late and know my bed is only a flight of stairs away - not a cold walk up to a cabin. Alex
    8 points
  4. 1500 wet and dry and jiff. Got most of the body cleaned up.
    6 points
  5. Top & sides of the rear window done.
    6 points
  6. Dropped the head off at North Shore engine reconditioners today. getting 0.25mm removed, new valve springs installed, freshen up the valves and some new studs as 3 of the 6 were mostly stripped and require some helicoils. In my quest to find some gasket remover to get the stubborn timing cover gasket off I bought some CRC gasket aerosol it said it can remove carbon build up. Carbon be gone super impressed. One application got it almost all completely off. New cam/lifters are in. Sump is going back on with a a fresh seal. Due to get the head back on Friday. With any luck I may have this back running by Sunday.
    6 points
  7. Did a bit more work on this today. Repaied a rusted coolant line in the throttle body.
    6 points
  8. Cleaned up the engine bay. You wouldn't know it but the engine was fully rebuilt and tickled up a bit 20 years ago and never run. I have started it and it purred like a kitten haha. Will put an exhaust on it before l run it again so l can atempt to run it in. I took the rocker cover off and its like brand new in there. Also has a brand new 32/36 webber, starter and alt. Dizzy has had work too with all new bits.
    5 points
  9. From 8 minutes onwards. Search ‘kiwi rider podcast’ on Spotify or similar.
    5 points
  10. Trucks been doing a fair bit of work over the last year. Taking out a tree for a colleague. Found a tonneau cover that fits very tidily. Found an LSD on yahoo japan, 6" 2-way clutch type 6.666 ratio from a slightly earlier model. Was good that I'd bought it as i discovered the pinion bearing was toast in the original diff while swapping the new one in. Tiny axles on these trucks. Picked up some more windows for the house. And found out that 6m lengths of wood "fit" on it, will be building some front and rear ladder racks shortly. Next mods on the to-do list. -Make the flares out of sheet metal -Fit the new wheels. -Replace the AM radio -Build some limiting straps for the tailgate -Look into importing some lowering springs.
    5 points
  11. A few months ago a little rusty nugget was presented to me for sale and I couldn't help but add it to my fleet (I really shouldn't have but sometimes you just can't say no...) 20201122_190825 by phillipbaines, on Flickr 109925324_2747433878821944_9009724047312886256_n by phillipbaines, on Flickr I got it home, parked it up. forgot about it for 4 weeks whilst I waited for a few things to come from Japan. 20210321_143536 by phillipbaines, on Flickr The wiring loom that was in the car was the stock AE85 loom which was hacked and fudged. I thought it would be much easier to start with a clean base so I bought a set of AE86 looms. Now I know where everything is, it has wiring for a fpump, has EFI relays and wiring. I can just put in a stock 4A-GE loom and get it going with ease Cabin loom 20210321_110325 by phillipbaines, on Flickr Engine bay loom for headlights etc 20210321_105132 by phillipbaines, on Flickr Looking tidy enough 20210321_122314 by phillipbaines, on Flickr I've got everything there to get it going except a T series diff... (it has an S series diff so if anyone knows of a full T Series diff for AE86 I am a man in need) Discussion:
    4 points
  12. I first owned this in 1996. I put a 283 chevy in it and had some fun. Pulled the engine after a mate crashed his and sold the rolling body to him. He put his running gear in it (1900 Commy engine and magnum diff etc) but never finished it. I had been on at him to sell it back to me for a while. A few months back he messaged me to come get it as he was never going to finish it. This is how it looked when I picked it up
    4 points
  13. With her cross eyed sister while having a car shuffle the other day
    4 points
  14. SOme more things have been done, including all-new loop pile carpet and a nice alloy sealed battery box in the boot but that's not even important. What is important, is the gearbox, which sucks. Downshifting is impossible without a big ol' rev match and double clutch to get it from 4th to 3rd, then from 3rd to 2nd. As the car makes a little bit of a racket, it's quite obnoxious. So I sat down with Earle McFarlane (he's had many many experience with T50s and rebuilding them) and ordered a whole load of parts from Japan. They came in this box. This struck me as odd. Amayama orders are sent to an NZ warehouse then dispatched from there, so I'm guessing this happened locally. 20210325_180028 by Richard Opie, on Flickr And this is what's in it. 20210325_175701 by Richard Opie, on Flickr We have; Synchros for all gears New selector hub sleeves Gasket/seal set Selector hub shift keys Clippy springy things for above Bearings a go-go (all bearings I could possibly get, we need to get the 2 countershaft bearings locally) Some good low km selector hub centers are en route from South Island. Next, I will rebuild the gearbox - well, Earle will rebuild it and instruct me to do some of the easy bits. Then I can finally aim for some twisties and give it a good drive, assuming it all plays the game. Looking forward to pissing around with brake bias, making all that stuff work etc.
    3 points
  15. The magnum stuff will be pulled from the cross eyed sister. I have other plans for her at a later date For now she sits and waits while l finish collecting parts for her.
    2 points
  16. Found an old set of bonnet hinges l had left over when l sold my hb wagon. Be good to be able to open the bonnet. Will find some bolts and chuck them on tomorrow. Also making my list of things to sort for cert, re-reg and wof. brakes, exhaust, clutch adjustment, tires, sort the battery placement ( boot ) and get tank cleaned out so l can run it properly. Fix the small amount of rust. Its pretty good really.
    2 points
  17. galaxie may be there tomorrow if the correct parts can be obtained. then put back together and hopefully go otherwise will take daily
    2 points
  18. Ground level up to something closer to normal. Plumbing is in, waiting on the pour
    2 points
  19. 2 points
  20. got the bumpers back from chroming. these pictures do absolutely no justice to how good it looks IRL. 2021-03-23_06-53-44 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-03-23_06-53-54 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-03-23_06-54-02 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-03-23_06-54-10 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-03-23_06-54-17 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-03-23_06-54-24 by sheepers, on Flickr
    2 points
  21. Spent a couple hours sorting the front brakes. Yeah the pistons are siezed solid, as in i had to bash the caliper off with a mini sledge. tried to free them LOLOLOLOL NOPE. so now the front has no brake pads, PROBLEM SOLVED. so its just a clean and should be GTG PRetty happy tbh . CHeers @Spencer for lending me some tools and space at your pad. will have to get something for AMy as a thank you haha. Oh and the shower, was getting pretty cold after the rain and stopping moving wow so much water. So stoked the rims and tyres fit , and even better I got +6 positive, which actually works out bang on , still inside the gaurd and give more room for wheels vs chassis. but holy moly , the amount of room under those gaurds is insane. even the rears have like 100mm+ on top of the tyre. so im really happy. Might move the front tyres on and get some in a 60 profile as its sitting up at the front now. but thats miles down the track. MUST GET ROAD LEGAL
    2 points
  22. Hey, still got this Honda. I put it in the Ellerslie Classic Car show with the Japanese Nostalgic Car group. Pretty cool to be asked to take it along, I guess it makes all the minting up worth it. Pulled the front off, polished and re-cleared the headlights and generally spruced it up a bit more. Loads more OEM fastners and brackets have made it into the mix under the bonnet. But that's not important. I have a wheel addiction issue, and got these old TE37s off George. I needed to get one fixed, as it has a pretty gnarly bend in both sides (one thing I have learned from fixing bent wheels, is that if one side is visibly bent, then the other side will also be bent, regardless of if you can see it). Here they are, after being made round again. 20210312_074441 by Richard Opie, on Flickr Next, I take these to Creosote Charlie for a spot of acid dipping, and we always have a yarn about some aspect of his XR8 ute, every time I shoot down there to get the paint stripped off wheels. He always under promises and over delivers on the service, usually it's a "they'll be ready in a week" which turns into a phone call the same afternoon I dropped them off or the morning following. 20210315_154335 by Richard Opie, on Flickr And yeah they look nice all raw and aluminium and all that, but I chose to get GT Refinishers to slam a coat of jam on them. This is a close close match to an OEM Rays colour, it's called Magnesium Blue. Cool, in the know kids call it 'Mag Blue.' Haters like Tank will say it's black. 20210323_175153-01 by Richard Opie, on Flickr 20210323_175213-01 by Richard Opie, on Flickr 20210323_175236-01 by Richard Opie, on Flickr It's got a pearl in it that goes pretty flippin' hard (see what I did there?) in the sun. Now awaiting gen-you-wine deckils from Japan, and some proper Rays blue valve stems to finish off the resto. Looks beaut I think. Expect photos some day. I might stop buying wheels.
    1 point
  23. Maybe the auditor was there that day. But yeah, lathe is an absolute must have tool in any garage. The problem is that it requires a shit load of tooling to make it useful enough to not need other machines alongside it. I was hoping to start on @Bling's job this evening but the anglia ended up taking longer than I expected
    1 point
  24. Man it must be great being able to whip things up on the lathe like that! Also interesting re the testing station. My brother took his Surf there a few months back (32s, 2" lift, spotlights etc, nothing out of the ordinary) and they went to town on it. Wanted proof from Toyota that the lift wasn't more than 2", made him take all the stickers off the side windows, also wanted him to remove the lower half of the dash to prove there wasn't an odometer switch in there etc. Won't be going there ever again.
    1 point
  25. Looks rusted through to me. Cut it out. In fact cut it out way bigger than you need so you can get something in there to clean back as much of the surfaces as you can. I'm a fan of a bicycle cable through a pice Of rod in a drill. Then paint and load it up with fishoil or wax
    1 point
  26. I got a 6v sla battery from jaycar for the tc125. Replaced the dash bulbs with LED. Today I done the valve shims on the 550. I somehow managed to mix up all my measurements when I pulled it down for sandblasting so I’ve still got one that’s out. Not by much tho. I’ll start the master cylinder rebuild when I get a day or so coming up and order the braided lines. Apart from trying to find a 4-1 or taking my bike to Cycleworks in Welly to get pipes made it’s pretty much done.
    1 point
  27. Cpp stuff is usually ok, the main concern with aftermarket spindles is what they are made of and what the spindle pin is made of, the fact that kit uses a bolt on wheel bearing kit gets rid of the spindle pin issue
    1 point
  28. So @Spencer whispered in my ear. Hnnng
    1 point
  29. That's good then, I remember the rust in the bonnet wasn't too bad then but definitely gotten worse. 4 years outside will do that though aye! I did a road worthy on it way back then (might have looked past a few things wrong to be honest, Camel just wanted club reg plates haha) but was surprised to find the AC still had R12 gas in it. Wouldn't take much to get that going again I reckon. Its a good truck overall, just looks a bit crusty and won't take much to tidy up. TH700 will be the best mod you can do, I'm putting one in the 68 impala (was in my 64 chevelle and it got great economy for a warm 350)
    1 point
  30. Radiator mounted, dummy fitting oil cooler.. Oil cooler is wider than the radiator so is a bit of a pig, not alot of options to mount this
    1 point
  31. I started on cleaning it up a bit...
    1 point
  32. Repair cert= for unregistered vehicles or ones that have been written off If the vehicle is registered, then it wont need a repair cert to pass wof
    1 point
  33. I own this car now. It's now a 2L zetec turbo.
    1 point
  34. Reassembled and ... off to the paint shop just over 3 years in the shed!!!
    1 point
  35. Tidied up the front end over the weekend. Painted up the corner bezels with new insert bits. Still on the hunt for a coupe or later ke20 lower grill trim piece though. Trying to get it on the road for a Jap day in April, here in brisbane. Also have a front lip on the way.
    1 point
  36. There was some real farm spec shenanigans going on with the rear brake cable. looking at the front forks I could prob squeeze a 3.50 chonky golden boy in there.
    1 point
  37. I swapped tyres, tubes and brake shoes on the farm bike. cleaned carb again and reinstalled the standard pilot jet size. Still needs a few bits but she’s pretty much ready for the vin process. 3.50 - 18 Golden Boy on the rear 70/100 - 19 Kenda K760 front Whites tubes. Surprised at how clean the front wheel was inside. Brake shoes looked like the original ones from the 70’s. Quick vid of it running.
    1 point
  38. did a front main seal Refitted the timing belt and all the timing covers
    1 point
  39. Next thjng was to pull the heads off and strip them for cleaning Valve guids were mint with little to no play. Dropped them off at cylinder head specialists in town for them to tank them clean and run a skim over them ended up taking 12thou off them to clean them up as they were pretty rotten from having water in it. Also got the intake manifold vapour blasted and then i repainted the black and it looks ace Put the heads back together with new stem seals tonight. And bolted them back on the block And thats where im upto now
    1 point
  40. Gave the march a thorough clean yesterday. One thing I can't stand is a grubby interior. How do people let their cars get so bad? I'm talking that sticky muck stage, cigarette butts everywhere (including inside the rip in the interior of the driver's seat), dust so thick on the dashboard that you could barely see the speedo, half eaten biscuits and child socks under the seats. I had to unscrew and pull out the centre console cupholder to clean it, it was so bad that I couldn't even find the screws, I had to jam the screw driver around in the muck scraping it away until I found them. Car has had no love for a very long time but looking SO much better now. A good clean always improves the feel of the car IMO, when we got it I was like "this is a pile of garbage" but now I am excited to get it on the road and start zooming around. Today I pulled all the seats out and water blasted them, all apart from the drivers should look pretty decent now. Also found $8 in change so it only cost us $592!
    1 point
  41. Did a little clear out of the garage during lockdown and found my wheel collection so decided to test fit them and see what size flares i need to make. Need at least 60mm for the 6 black wheels and 90mm for the formula mesh. Fitted a Momo Prototipo i forgot i had bought. Picked up a wood lathe and did a couple of near 500kg dump runs. And worked out how to get a stock looking tachometer into it. Discovered on a Japanese forum that the Mitsubishi Townbox dash cluster has identical wiring, just need to run 1 wire from the ecu to the cluster for the tach signal. Works perfect, has a dual trip meter and now know that the limiter is at 7500rpm.
    1 point
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