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Stolen off the internet for your viewing pleasure 

Also tf came in a 185cc as well? Goes hard for what it is.   Pretty hard to find these days. Think they had  orange tank them. 

Just discovered  this gem of a thread.   Being a farmer I have  a selection of old shit  bikes and recently got roped into a farm bike  race .   2 hour enduro style .   Pretty slow going  bit way more fun then I expected.    Dunno where I'm going with this sharn but if you get the chance  to enter one of these I highly recommend  it 

2 hours ago, MS51HT said:

Thankyou muchly!

It would be interesting to know how many MS51’s are in Aus - there couldn’t be more than 25 I reckon. 

I know of 6 in nz with a couple others that have been cut up for parts

Can't wait to see some more progress on this.  Love this model crown!  Any photos of your other coupes and sedan?

Keep up the good work

I've got an Eastwood jobby and welded lengths of box section down the length of it to help stiffen it because as mentioned above they tend to flex alot.   All good for the price 

 16 years ago I had one of these.  Went well. Had head gasket done.i believe they had plastic locating dowels  for the head that would get brittle and break and the head would shift .   Lots of torque steer

Replaced  cvs a couple times.  Rear engine mount and once  the rear sway bar pulled out of the  chassis

All in all  hell of a lot of fun for the price

Thanks for the input guys.  It's just round the corner so might as well just pull it out and then well know for sure.

Can anybody help me with what diff is in a old Hiace van Ive been looking at?

Just picked up a diff out of an old Hilux  G142 code on the tag so G series 4.875 ratio 2 spider non lsd, easy.

Looking at this Hiace and on the Tag under Trans/axle  it says  "UNIT.521."    and 0-12  further across from it.

1980 model with an 18r in it

Any help would be great cheers

Long story short brought a couple of sprockets and a drive chain for one of these engines  off rockauto with plans to adapt to another toyota engine.Relocating oil pump on a 1gzfe using a lay shaft to make it a mid sump layout. Cheep as, no worries if doesnt work bit in looking into it I see that oil pump on these is timed too the crankshaft and I cant for the life of me find out why.  Its a trochoid design pump , Any suggestions, is there something im missing?

Following with interest as have battled trying different places to get this done with not much success.

Did watch a good video n YouTube of a chap restoring some old 50s/60s chrome plastic toys

Some copper coat in a spray can, polish using buffer wheel and chromed using home electro plating kit.  Bit of experimenting needed on how to run cathode/anode wires around parts to get a nice even application of chrome.

Finish was good but lost some of the detail I think from polishing the plastic with the buffing wheel

Recon itd work well on car parts.light surrounds etc as not much detail

Thanks for that.  Still unsure  as to requirements because car has never been on the road in nz.   Might just put them all in and see what comes of it. An easy fix if there no good

Dunno if this is the right place to ask but here we go

Got this old crown almost finished

Jap import well need complying shortly

100% stock, Whats the legalities/requirements for the seatbelts?

Planning on fitting the originals, have  multiple sets and in decent condition for front and rear. Similar to falcon or holden design lap belts of the same era.

Has suspect looking design where you can unclip the front belts and tuck the shoulder part of the strap up onto the hoodlining and it becomes a lap  belt only. I guess for aesthics being a coupe. All belts have toyota markings, date of manufacture and what ever standards they meet on there little tags sewn too them.

Are these acceptable or well they need updating/oviously some sort of modern inertia belts going to be safer but meh

Finally got the car back from the upolsterers.

Looks decent, got the boot done as well. Had a crack at covering the dash in vinyl which came out ok.  Want to get a proper moulded  remanufactured dashpad  but the dashboard place needs the steel frame to make a mould off which is a bit hard because its welded in so have to cut the bulkhead out of a car and take it to them for that to happen.  Otherwise  continue on with putting it back together

Sandblasted the fuel tank and was rusted from the outside in. Ended up brazing up the holes and putting gas tank sealer stuff in it.Was nice and clean inside bit wanted to seal up where id been welding. Seems to have worked a treat.
 

all out of order bit found  more photos of rust repairs to boot floor , inner and outer rear guards, just everywhere really

Anyone had any experience with  refurbishing steel chrome wheels.   Talked to old barry at chromers and they used to do plenty of them . Have to machine the  centre out, chrome  the barrel then reweld.  Not willing to touch now cause of the libility  welding wheels. Elite wheels in chch are happy enough to weld them but cant do the chroming.   Any suggestions welcome