64valiant

no need to worry wheels will not be going red at all!!!!!! SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OVER DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! need to sell the ones i have on here to get my others widened. any one after some staggered vw wheels that have been widened as well?

this could be all a yarn he is spinning to get out of working on all my crap and getting away from me..... still really confused which one it is. probably the getting away from me so he doesnt have to fix all my crap :/

also some other crap to add to the oh i should show you guys this stuff

already in there.... have you got one that has been narrowed 2 inches i can have please? its on the list of things to do as well as apply more low in the rear. kinda like this lol

ahhh i did see it at vw nats was later in the day and by the time i went to take a photo you were gone. such a nice car!!!!

so as the wof sheet says play in front right and front left wheels. well yup!!!! heaps of play!!! so after trying bumming around all weekend i started to work on it as flyingbrick arrived at my work shop. and with his guidance/help in no time we had the hole front end apart and it currently looks some what like this and as with flyingbricks post i do try and work on all my cars. but yeah it looks to be the king pin has worn out..... not so round any more. got the left side off and kinda pulled that apart (using a hammer) and proceeded to do the other side to get to the stage where i needed a hammer and the king pin just kinda slid out...... my face was a bit like all apart now and off to get prices on new crap/try find some one who will do it as a cashie for me/any recommendations. old mate Simon was a legend and come on board and fixed my sparkie sides of things again. dudes a legend will be missed heaps now that hes off to jaffa land. you guys got a GC coming your way!!!! but yeah got my headlights working and put new plugs in what not done his magic. cheers heaps for the help in advance guys

only putting this here to follow so i dont need to find it again. btw who else has there cars towing the same car?

huh you found the page again. this means il see you at the next monthly meet.

so been a while..... i went to os nats track day. had heaps of fun but on my 1st outing i had my tyre go flat :/ but i put more air in it and away it went so i done more of this and some of this after doing that i then re packed the valiant with all my camping gear looked kinda like this when we left my shop went threw to thames and brought a air bed and while leaving thames i spotted a few cars on the side off the road screamed at them. HEY ARE YOU GOING TO OS NATS. reply was yup do you know how to get there. reply was YUP FOLLOW ME!!!! so i got haunted all the way to nats camp site thinking i was on top gear episode followed by this proceeded to put my tent up in the rain next day drove to the coro and had a feed. valiants been going strong now. got told from the guys following me the day before i was loosing a bitta gas out the filler.... got to dirt tracks i was loosing HEAPS out the filler put a rag down the tube hoping it would kinda stop gas coming out.... (kinda worked) once everyone had left i done a skid got back just in time for some grub after this last day kinda bummed around took hundreds of photos and then headed home via the gravel road with chris r, shakatom and threeonthetree stopped in at thames so neal could buy some louvers. turns out they had these cool things as well make sure you read bottom line at this stage chris r had just brought a wagon and we were off to the tron to pick it up/look at it. so i took another photo all went well and made it home safe no major brakes or mishaps. a week later and i thought i better check why there was water under my car..... looks like i have a leak.... found it was at the bottom of the over flow so with the pressure building up in the radiator it was letting it out but not into my over flow bottle. so knowing that i kinda just went meh :/ and proceeded not to worry about it. mates asked me to help them out and use the valiant for a wedding car so done that. (cleaned all the mud of it) btw that chev is 500hp and he has owned it for 40 years. paid 800 dollars for it but back to the valiant beach hop was now near. thought i better fix a few things.... went and brought some rubber. and visited simon jaskon to cut me a hole in it (i was running really late and didnt want to go back to my work shop) with this now on i pulled the rag out all the gas has also taken all my paint off :/ after doing this i shot over to matamata to drop a job off and thought id try fix my radiator as well. so stopped in at my mates shop and i had a head pop over the fench saying "your off os right?" turned out this guy is Bigmatt4. he asked what i was doing and then ran around for 2 mins and then appeared with a blow torch and some soldering stuff. we ended up re soldering the over flow part back in and then he was on his way again. LEGEND DUDE I OW YOU A BEER with that done headed to beach hop where i had a good time and got really wet. (no i didnt go for a swim) also flushed the radiator with some flush stuff. man that crap is amazing i should have done it ages ago. today i went to vw nats in the valiant (cause the lemon doesnt go) and this happened. yea screw you too tyre! same tyre that went town at hampton downs and my spear tyre is bigger than my others so i carefully drove down the road to a little pub where i asked a elderly couple in there buss if they had a jack i could borrow so i could put my spare on the front. back on the road again. (thank you aucklanders in your buss) got to taupo and 1st stop was carters tyre shop. where i went it and asked if i could borrow there tyre machine and there little tyre valve screw driver. the dude was allll G about it, said he liked my gangster ride. top dude fully recommend the place. all i did was remove the little screw in valve and put a new one in as the air was coming direct out of the valve. ( dont ask me why it just was :/ ) um so yea changed that spare over and what not and went to turangi dropped some wheel bearings off, went back had a look at some vws at taupo, went to the race track see how miniman went with his racing and had a rum with markku. and the valiant is all locked up in the work shop with air in its tyre.

oh i got a wide angle lens on that crap il have a sort threw mine and sieve out the better ones

oh wow why i have only now just come across this! love your work and dig the style man! the leaning tower of power will never let you down! those steelies are what i want for my wagon. keep the work up!.

must say huge thanks to gnarlydude for been our sober driver sat night. it was a ball!!!!!! i must say thursday was by far the best day with the best weather and we didnt have a over load of young drunk idiots but this was me and denham on thursday just chilling out in the rain and i will load some more photos later

just having a burger watching old cars roll passed in the 100s

it had a little pop top kinda thing that one could only stand in.... be good to stand up and change pants in..... dam that would be a good swap over! good luck finding the mx5 your after!!! definitely going to keep my eyes pealed on this thread

im staying tuned and looking forward to the things your going to do. i do hope its a gilmer drive kit. please pleas please say it is LOL

dam this is soooooo lush i wish i had kept mine. mine was a austin j4 pretty much same car haha

yea itl be allright. just didnt need a list like that 6 days out from beach hop

dam you silly vw beetle i want to use you next week at beach hop!!!!

meh screw the weather il still have a good time. all them show ponies will be away and the real true hot roders will be out even if its thunder and lightning. so yea probably me in my crappy vw LOL

ive told simon a few of my mates will be heading over on friday if he wanted to scab a ride off them.

ima rocking van style this coming week. gotta drop customers stuff on ready for beach hop...... it may even be wednesday if i get threw the job interview thing fast

oh man that is soooo lame about the vw. i think il be up in auckland on thursday so i might pop in and chech out the damage ohhhh thats a good idea. i just have super old tyres that have been laying in my back lawn for the last two years...... so i think they have a few slow leaks in them any way and same again i might be up thursday

ima sorry. i can trade you broken horn ring for a good bonnet handle how badly damaged is your vw from the other night? also need to adjust my clutch cable if any one would like to give me a word for word description how to do it before i go drilling more holes in my vw? i went shopping like two mins ago and brought some wire brush things for my drill so i can clean all the fluffy crap off inside as well so i can do more upholstery on it. when i say "i can" i mean i will get the dude who comes in after school to do it so he can earn some money. and its a shit job

oh i am so great full for the great people of oldschool.co.nz i have been lucky enough for 10speed to hand his spear steering wheel over to me. and with him been such a good chap i have just swapped my not so good one over with his soooooo much better one. old one (note i had already taken my center off) new one with my old center back on i was also lucky enough to ask miniman if he would come wire up my horn for me before a bbq lat night. got that going mean!!!!! so all i need to do for a wof is fix/figure out why my front left indicator isnt working and mount my battery down. but i need to buy some new tyres, back left has a major leak in it and yea re trim in before wednesday next week

il be there. like to invite people to bbq at mine if you want whos going what days? im leaving wed morning with the vw and valiant