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Yes page 4 I think I'm gonna start battery box next and sort fuel pump mounting etc as I'm over the Jerry rigged starting setup being in my way, it has served its purpose.

Matariki meant I actually kind of planned ahead to carve a day out on the camper. First job after rewriting my 4 lists and condensing to 2, thereby remembering where I was actually up to, was to finish the spare wheel holder. Next job was complete shifter mount for the shifter cable. Went oldschool and did not bust out the CNC plasma for this job. Tucked away down inside the rail, made sure I can still pull plug leads. Of course being the Friday of a long weekend I ran out of mig wire. Meh. Mostly done

This took way fucking longer than it should have. No project updates owing to the list of jobs that now need completing within the big black box. Wiring, then concrete. Maybe project time before spring.

Sounds really good, that pull up the hill near the end had definite Porsche vibes.

I once had a mig blob fuse onto my eyeball after a day under a car at work doing a rust job. After my eye involuntarily weeped for a few hours over dinner my flatmates forced me to walk across the road to the hospital and have it seen to. The doctor used a Dremel to grind it off, thankfully no permanent damage..

Nice. Yeah mig is great for burning through rust and old paint remnants without too much fuss. Good to know re epoxy.

Think I recall someone posting about this in the paint thread,but you are having good success with epoxy inside panels /seams instead of copper weld through? And just exposing the steel at the plug weld?

Glad you rescued this. Much love for the round eye. Any tips on setting up a 5k with a 32/36? Mate owns my old kp61 and it's always been a bit flat. He drives like a pussy so I swear it runs worse than ever now. I never got around to having a good tutu before I sold it but I recall that when you cracked the choke it would find another 1000rpm. Normally it falls off a cliff at 5k rpm and it feels generally pretty slow. Certainly not the 81hp of thunder you are wrestling. I need to go through dizzy advance etc I think as well as jetting. Any starting points on jets appreciated, but perhaps we should get an afr gauge for it?

What's your opposition to side exit? Im assuming conformity...

Pretty sure my cousin had a few there. Green vg wags, purple vj/h Ute and his new Yorker. Looked like a great show, mopars really are quite something.

Work/Life/house jobs are kicking my ass. Mostly work though, which is such a fucking boring story. My shed will be erected in the next 2 weeks, which means more distractions, but in a good way for the long term health of the projects. I expect up until about may/june there will be little in the way of project progress while I sort the finer details of wiring, benches and storage.. However with chassis/engine engineering tasks feeling like they are nearing completion, or so I keep telling myself, I have started thinking about the cab. You need to go back in the thread to page 1 so see how bad it is, but its pretty stink how many holes there are. I started fishing around in Oz to see if I could locate a decent cab or some rust cuts. The first vein I explored found me a free dual cab tipper in tidy condition. But 6.5 hours inland from Sydney. It made no financial or logical sense. The second vein netted me a rust free bare dual cab shell with all the rust cuts I needed for $500au (yes the idea of a dual cab has so much appeals, but the scope creep and associated work lengthening the chassis, combined with realistic assessment of my life saw those thoughts quickly dashed.. ) this one was 330km from Melbourne, and just a bare cab. Still $2500AUD ground freight before sea freighting. And then Id be cutting it up (dude wasnt keen on chopping up on my behalf.). Once we both agreed that was a no go, being the GC he was he had a search on FB in Oz on my behalf and found a very mint complete single cab truck. 220km from Melbourne on the right side of the city to the shipping depot. We have been haggling the details but he has agreed to remove the cab and slap on a pellet for me and arrange the drop off to Melbs. I will be somewhere between $4-5k all in on the cab by the time it gets to me but I think for the saving of several hundred hours of metalwork and the expedition of the project (meaning camping missions far sooner than they otherwise would be), it is invaluable. I will likely keep the cab colour as is, give it a little spit and polish and just rustproof for now. But how good?? No amount of repairing what I had compares to the bone dry rust-free desert goodness of this thing.

Been watching some.youtube vids on building a chassis jig. For the 240c. Would prefer to buy most of the hard work though. Anyone got one they are finished with they want to part with, or ideas on where to buy a rigid frame of similar dimensions I can adapt to the task?

Is it a 6 seater??

Peak Datsun

I fortunately I'm in the same boat. Sold big lathe. Instantly regretted. 250 diameter is about my max