MightyJoe

More of the same suspension stuff. I bought the rubber top mounts, they were cheaper from palmside than the other place, and cheaper than the adjustables. these have a replaceable bearing too if needby, so, win. had to drill the bushing out to 12mm new bumpstops courtesy of Mr.Mk1 who I met yesterday. its great to know new people. cleaning and painting stuff, I went with blue in homage to the race teams and works cars of the day that ran bilstein shocks. pointless ultimately, but slightly more interesting than the standard rattle can black. still only have 1 side done though but I'll do the other side tomorrow. Boom. theres nothing like showing off to the Wof guy.

discussion. opinions on the top mount situation appreciated. another bits and pieces update this week. went to fit my shock inserts and found both top mounts are perished. They're kind of functional due to where they've failed but also very much at the end of their life, so I fitted one insert and left the other as theyve both got to come out again anyway. They are made of that famous cortina unobtanium but I can get repro ones. I'm hesitant though as I've fitted aftermarket rubber to the triumph and it lasts a few yrs and is then also fucked. I'm leaning toward the (believe it or not) slightly cheaper adjustable mounts which means a cert for sure but they're fully adjustable and rebuildable with a spherical bearing. I'm gonna talk with palmside tomorrow about how viable they are for a road car. also had a stall with the rear axle. I cant get wheel cylinders at the moment. worst case I can get rebuild kits but the guy is gonna ring me tomorrow if he can get some then I'll get a hard line made. pics... damaged top hat. replacement options it's a shame these get hidden.

Today I fixed a problem that's been stumping me for months. the car would idle like crap, intermittent misfiring on 3 and 4, give it a rev and it's ok, bit lumpy but definitely running on 4. i pulled the plugs, look good, definitely firing. drives ok, i balanced the carbs, tried all kinds of adjustment but couldn'work it out. today I got out the weber book and had another browse, the idle circuit on these is separate to the main jets, I dunno how I didnt put that together with the fact that it idled like crap but drove ok. it was the rear carb that was giving the hassle and I knew it was balanced, so I took the idle jets out, mixture screw and progression hole caps and sprayed brake cleaner through it until I was getting good streams out of them all. there was an instant improvement on idle, I fattened up the mixture a bit and it idles perfectly. fuck yes. must have been some varnish or some shit in there from when the fuel evaporated out of them after months of sitting. took it out for a drive and it's great. crisp and smooth progression. it's still a bit rich though so I'll sort that and I'll time it and do some fine tuning now.

I got the dash top fitted and installed the temp and fuel gauge dont work so I'll need to look into the senders etc and see if the gt ones are different. but still. coupled with a new GT wheel I love it. I got the wideband installed and working, I havent had the car out on the rd yet so havent been able to use it properly yet. but it boots up and I've ran it through calibration. seems fine. also: vacuum gauge for the boomers. these are in the boot until after the wof. prob gonna have to man up and get it a cert after fitting these so I'll try and get the summer out of this wof and go from there. reverse/rally lamp fitted during lockdown. randoms, just cos. that's roughly where it is. its booked in for a wof in 10ish days so I'm getting stuff finished and tidied up for that. it's literally done 0ks since feb this yr so... hopefully no nasty surprises. shit pic of the dash and wheel, some better ones. fuck I love that wheel.

Its been ages since an update again, its been off the road for ages, my own fault cos i cant leave anything alone but i took the head off in may / june as i have never been properly happy with the power, its always felt flat and considering its got an a2 cam and a vernier on it i thought i should try and dial it in. trying to keep up with my mates bgt was too much effort so i went chasing power. i spent months waiting for parts from th uk, and when they came spent another few months trying to get it to idle and i was chasing vacuum leaks all over the show. i tried 3 different gaskets and im pretty sure shes right now. i've got a blackline lsd sitting in the house waiting to go into a GT axle i've half refurbushed, i ordered 2 wheel cylinders, shoes and a spring kit sometime in june and they made it to auckland, sat there for 3 weeks and then got sent back for some reason. the guy emailed me saying they'd been returned. perfect. so i need another plan for that. i;ve got new wheel bearings pressed onto the axles and waiting, so need to re source those parts and get that 3:54 rear end in. during lockfown 2.0 i got out at it and started tnkering. i bought these name tabs off ebay and made a small control panel for the accessories. I'm pretty happy with it, they were supposed to be mounted under the dash but I didnt like the way the keys interfered with them so I moved them, only now you cant see the tabs clearly hence they angle they're on. meh. itll do.

also palmside in chch might be able to help

nah not really. il fuse it, but as said the car doesn't have a fuse box so I worry about heating stuff up. al good though. cheers.

this is prob not a helpful answer, but we've put trucks through multiple times with glad wrap over the lenses covering stone chips. eventually they've been replaced but at the time, the beam pattern was correct and the lens wasnt corroded etc.

not sure. it's a 2 prong sealed beam. I'll check tomorrow and update. they do draw a bit of current though, hence why I was thinking I needed a relay. the switch is also a period correct Lucas style. edit. quick internetting suggests they are 75w. I'll confirm tomorrow. 2nd edit. unsolicited switch pic.

I've got some 15 amp Chinese 1.5mm wire. I have an inline fuse holder yeah, I forgot to say that. the car has no fuse box so whenever I add anything I put one in. edit, I was hoping under the dash would be alright, cos theres feed wires already there.

Gday upper class spam, not sure if i should be posting this in the cad drawing thread but i'll try here first. I have acquired the pinnacle of 60s british engineering, a lucas foglight which i want to wire to a manual switch on the dash for general reversing purposes. i've got a relay but not sure where to put it. if the foglights were at the front the wiring would be short and i wouldnt care but with such a long run to the back of the car i'm not sure. 1, next to the battery. 2, under the dash next to the switch. 3, in the boot next to the spotlight. 4. somewhere obvious i havent thought of cheers.

Legend. Cheers I'll check them out. And thanks.

Dash top is Getting there. I bought a rasp after some YouTubing, it's slow work but it's hard to mess up doing it that way.

Red interior is very nice. A White or black car would be the nuts with that combo tbh. And gold wheels. I've got a thing for gold wheels! Yeah, my dad had a few but the title is because that's what most people say to me about it. My dad had one of those, commence sharns of caravan towing, boating, breaking down etc. Good times.

I was pissed! Haha. Couldn't believe it man. But Yeah it's something I've considered. I bought an ali express led strip but I will probably go for something slightly more retro looking. I don't know if I was the fact it's a red car with low down (dimmer than a new car) brake lights or it's a manual and you use your gears to slow down, and the fact you dont sit in traffic with your foot on the brake or something. You're right though, people seem to need a bright red light in their faces these days

Thanks for that. Great idea tbh. I was looking at people that have used adhesive sprayed on to get texture and then painted but yeah, I'm open to suggestions for sure.

So that's where it is so far. I have some vinyl stuff from spotlight but I doubt it's going to have the stretch/shrinkage I need. Dunno yet. I removed the stuck drums on the GT rear axle I bought forever ago and started making a list of stuff I needed. I decided I'll replace it all but haven't bought anything yet. I also have some brackets for the anti tramp bars that need welding to the body. Nice bit of kit, cheap from the uk. And from a few weeks ago at the mustang day at halswell air museum. It was a cracking day with loads of awesome fords, uk, aus and american stuff. hopefully ill have some other small updates soon. joe.

Haven't updated this in forever. After I got the car back, she was looking awesome. Just about the best she ever has. I picked it up on the saturday and took it to work the following wednesday, first time it was out since collecting it, and I got rear ended. Again. Start stop traffic. Got shunted. Fuck I lost my shit right there in the middle of the rd lol. So back to canterbury auto fab it went. Less damage tha the first time but the rear panel and support brace were dented and the bumper was gouged through the chrome so that didnt survive this time. So yeah. Lol. Gotta laugh? Got it back again before xmas. Been tinkering with it but haven't actually finished anything yet. I bought a GT dash top that needs recovering and my missus bought me the gauges for Christmas, cos shes awesome like that. They are very hard to come by these days. I was saving up to buy them off the guy but she had sorted it. I spent some time tidying them up as they aren't mint but I got them looking pretty sweet. Dash is also less than mint but that's ok. Its 53yrs old and they all need work.

I used usave on roydvale ave. Got the tail lift also which was nice for a few heavy things but generally just nice to have a big step halfway up to the truck. Cant remember rates. Also, I have 1-5 license if you can borrow a big truck but need a driver etc. Would need to be a weekend though.

Can anyone tell me where ouruhia domain is? Or of it has another name? I cant find it on google maps.

Small update. I shut the garage door on this after the bump, i was a bit over it and expected insurance to take months. But It was quoted, accepted and cleared in a few weeks so I took it to Warrick at canterbury auto fabrication. Hes got the tools and know how to do it right. He also found some rust under the rubber seal and sent me pics to ask what to do next. I asked him to fix it as shapes and angles like that are beyond my skills to do nicely. Plus with it getting painted it would be stupid not to repair it now. He sent me some more pics of progress today. Shes looking good! Thanks to @RUNAMUCK bart for the recommendation and to @- i5oogt - karl for the replacement rear light.

Cheers mate. I spoke to the panel guy this afternoon. Canterbury Auto fab. He reckons it's no problem. I just need to locate a light lens. All good. I'll try and find a mint one and just give them the receipt. I was pissed off at the time but the insurance seems to be onto it, panel and paint is being done, so hopefully she'll come out of it that bit tidier. Then theres just the other rust scabs to fix..... hah. Nah. Its patina M9.

Rollercoaster weekend mate hah. I cant get the boot open at all. But yeah it looks like boot, rear panel and drivers side light at this point. The bumper has moved but hopefully its just the mount has bent. No idea if the boot floor is damaged. Yeah hes been in touch, were all insured so hopefully itll all get fixed easy enough.

Faaar out what a weekend. We travelled to Hanmer on Thursday and woke up friday morning to snow. lol. That was good fun though tbh, there werent any scary moments. Kaikoura bound, feeling very underprepared. The Clutch master died on the way over. got lucky with the roadworks and managed to bang gears/ revmatch enough to get all the way into town without stopping once since leaving hanmer. i pulled straight into the caltex and spoke to the mechanic there. he rang round for me and tried to locate a rebuild kit but there wasnt anything anywhere he could find. i decided to try a brake master from a trailer, only as i saw one on the shelf at safe r brakes yrs ago and thought, hmm, that looks similar. turns out theyre identical. fuck yeah. shop across the rd had 2 in stock. the snow hadnt reached KK but the rain had, so i had 40 mins of getting wet and lying on the floor on a sketchy as fuck jack reching in through the wheel well to bleed it. but it worked. the sun came out after i'd finished because of course it did so we cruised the strip a bit until we could check in. Night time at south bay. then the sat cruise. I got hit, fairlane couldnt stop, smacked into a mini which then shunted me. the mini was badly damaged unfortunately. i feel really bad for the guy. i was pretty pissed off but did some stuff still, but mostly waited until the afternoon and parked my arse on the espalande with a box and watched the cars cruise. on the way home... The damage. FU! its been a pretty intense few days tbh.

That colour suits it perfectly. The orange and black will be amazing. It also looks like a sweet finish too. Kudos for those skills.