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It was starting to get dark...and cold...SO I used the light to keep it warm enough for the undercoat to dry. I am amazed at how much heat these lights but out. Ethan melted on of our welding mask with it once. Now we have to clean up the brackets and pedals. The brake fluid has leaked everywhere. It was even under the rubber pedal. Nothing a little soap and water won't remove...I guess.

While we wait for the bog to dry its time to get started on the brakes master. It has been leaking for ages. When we went looking for a replacement it wasn't that easy. It uses a fairly standard Girling master but is mounted on an angle and this means the reservoir can never been completely filled. It holds so little fluid I don't feel that it is that safe. A small leak would mean that all of the fluid would disappear really fast and cause catastrophic failure. We wanted a way to get a bigger reservoir and we found this. We are not sure how well it will work but it does seem a bolt up fit. OS the next step is to remove the old Master and clean up the firewall.

Finishing off one side of the rust in the roof People seem to avoid showing shots of the welds before they a ground back. I guess to prevent being mocked for the bird crap welds. They always look great after grinding Add some bog... Looks a lot better now

The rust converter foamed up and covered the inside of the roof.....it did leak inside a little Re-check the panel fits Out with the welder It promptly ran out of gas! that put a stop to play.... May have to go back to working on the mechanicals.

More hammering......more bending.....hammer......bend....hammer....bend Lets trim out the the rust and trim up the repair There is a little rust inside that we can take car of before welding Seems to fit OK Time to deal to the rust

Time to start pretending to be panel beaters and see if we can fashion a repair out of these.

So out with the grinder and lets see what it like. I think we need some repair panels. I went online and no-one makes a repair pannel any longer so Ethan went hunting in our stack of part and found a couple of old boot repair panels. They kinda look like they have the right curve.

Next job was to get started on the rust in the form of the roof. Triumph (in their wisdom) put a finishing trim over where the roof panel is spot welded to the windscreen frame and it eventually fills with water and rusts out. They all do it eventually. So we pulled our off and this is what we found.

I agree that the MkIII is the better car and I do like the slot mags The best part though is the straight six sound. I love the sound of triumph six's

Now the clutch has good movement. Ethan and I then started on separate jobs. When we bought the car the guy said the overdrive didn't work so Ethan pulled of the solenoid and stripped it down. After a lot of cleaning it seems to be working well now. We will see once we have it out on the motorway. I got stuck into the engine cover. It was covered in this awfull carpet backing and some black tar like substance. So I attached it with a Solvent (petrol) and cleaned it up Before After

Another weekend and another long day of working on the GT6 We decided to tackle the clutch. It didn't seem to have enough travel and was making it hard to get into gear. As the slave is from a saloon and the master is for a GT6 we wondered if it was moving enough. Sure enough it wasn't. What we really needed was a little more length on the master.......out with the mig and a couple of bolts....

We went on a mission this morning. Last weekend we popped into Pick a Part for a visit. Its what we call a day out for the family.... We happened to notice a a Subaru SVX so Ethan looked underneath and spotted a 3.7 LSD diff in the back. We are looking to replace the non LSD old triumph diff with a Fuji Industries diff found in a whole heap of jap cars like datsuns, nissans and subaru. We can then think about replacing the swing spring and swing axled with CV's and coil overs. So we gathered our tools and prepared to roll around in the mud and grease at pick a part for the morning. Unfortunately the wife had the ute, The warrant on the Fuego had lapsed, the MR2 was trapped behind the Caravan, the Jag is unregistered, so we only had one car to take......the Porsche. Crawling around under a car and trying to undo suspension bolts is never fun but it is even worse when its gravel full of standing water. We finally got it out and then headed to the office to pay for it and the lady said "that looks like a transfer case" We re-assured her that it wasn't...."its a diff". Then then says "it looks like a transfer case". We re-assure her again that it wasn't. She then says "it looks like a transfer case though"..... I was starting to wonder is a transfer case cheaper and just say ......Yep....its transfer case all right!. But eventually she conceded that it was a diff. Here it is back at home.

Found this when we were under the car yesterday. Its the fuel line. Cant be good for it to be bent like that.

It is definitely a saloon gearbox. It was difficult to shift when we took it for a drive so we will be looking at the gear shifter...and the clutch master and slave. It has a weird modification for the over drive unit. This must have been done to make it fit inside the chassis of the GT6 This is how it looks in a TR6 We will bleed the clutch tomorrow and take it for a drive to see if the overdrive is functioning. Tune in tomorrow to see how we get on.........

The transmission tunnel looks customised and has two well positioned inspection hatches Ad the wiring looks an absolute mess....sometimes it pays not to look We finally got the transmission tunnel out.....after 20mins of juggling

So out with the grinder and mig. Fixed....just like a bought one We fitted a spare cable I had from our spitifre and used plenty of grease. It is now working well. The next ting we need to get started on is the gearbox. It is obviously a 2500 sedan box with overdrive. These are way bigger than the standard GT6 box so it must have been tricky to fit. We decided to take the transmission tunnel out to get a look at the customisation work.

We decided to check the back brakes......... It appeared that the left side brake was dragging so we started to investigate. There has been a broken axle at some time.. And it appears to have bashed the crap out of the guide for the hand brake cable.... It should look like this And it has munted the handbrake cable and that is why it is jamming on Well is is not going to be easy to fix. First job is to find something to fix it with......quick trip to bunnings That will work

Thanks. Its my daily. Ironic that it sits out in the weather while a beat up triumph gets the garage

The Gamma was cool...but we want something we can thrash like we stole it without panicing at every sound coming from the engine. Say what you will about British engines they can take more abuse than Italian ones. Do you have the Injection still on the engine? We are thinking of putting back to mechanical injection....

Discussion Thread //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/48880-vidars-1974-gt6/ More photo's of bleeding the front brakes. And plugs and rust above windscreen

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Our new Gt6 It came up for sale in specialist cars on TradeMe for a reasonable price. We already have a project (or two) car so why not another The Lancia Gamma was sold so we have some money and space in the driveway. The universe doesn't like a vacuum. I put an autobid on it up to $5005 and decided if it went higher than that, then I would miss out. Its reserve was $5K and I won it. I was surprised there weren’t more bids but it was listed in specialist cars and not the cars for sale so maybe not many people saw it. I organised getting it shipped to Auckland from Napier which turned out to be a hassle because it wasn't running. It would have much more fun to go down there and do a road trip with a trailer…..or even maybe getting it mobile and drive it home. I just didn't have the time to spare and the buyer wanted it gone. It arrived during the week while I was in OZ so today my son turned up and we decided to get into it and have a look. It turned out to be better than we expected. No brakes Paint is all cracked and faded Rust at the top of the windscreen. Rust in the B pillar Engine didn't start Clutch pedal went to the floor and didn't come back up Hood lining was ripped and had pieces missing Seats were just sitting loose Windscreen wiper was missing (in fact the whole mechanism was gone) Engine numbers didn't match (original engine long gone and who knows what put in its place) More parts in the back hatch than on the car No original wheels So….to sum it up……. it was perfect. So Perfect that Ethan named it Vyvyan from the young ones. First Job… Get engine running. It had a good battery so that went on charge. It had no gas so we went up the road to get some fuel (no 91 for this baby) Dropped in the battery and filled her up Cranked it over and it started after 30 seconds of cranking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPzWs1kgZog Little worried……its only running on three. Give it a rev…….now its running on 4.5 Rev really hard…..running on some weird combination of cylinders but not all at once. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkwQRi80b1k We decided to investigate the misfire. It seemed to be coming from only two or three cylinders at the back of the engine so we tried swapping the leads and still it was there. We were beginning to worry that it may be low compression so …out with the compression tester….they checked OK….phew. So the next idea was it must be the plugs. They are BP5ES so we went to one of our other engines and checked what was in that. Turns out it had a whole mix of them but we found 4 BP6ES and chucked them in. That fixed the problem and it now runs semi OK so I will get a new set of 6 BP6ES for it and fit them tomorrow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USYK_lOpssA Time for a tea break and to look up the engine and head numbers. Turns out it has a high compression PI 2.5 saloon motor in it……..nice! 132hp stock….150 with PI and a tr6 cam. Next I jumped in and tested the clutch again. First I pulled it off the floor and pumped and push it down and lifted back. After a couple of these I managed to get it working. The only problem is that when I started it up I could hear a noisy thrust bearing….when I pressed the clutch it went away…damn. Looks like the engine will be out over the next couple of weeks. Next job….The brakes go straight to the floor. When we opened the reservoir it had that nice black oxidised fluid that a car siting for 5 years get. The best thing about a tilt front car is that we could bleed the front brakes without taking off the wheel or lying on the ground (as it had started to rain) . We bleed out all the brown/black fluid and air in the front. We couldn't be bothered doing the back as that would mean taking the wheels off and getting on the ground in the rain. Ethan said the pedal felt average but OK so we decided it was good enough to take to a drive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmRYXpeCHlw Fun…. Enough work for today…..tomorrow we will bleed the brakes better and bolt the seats in and look at the rust a little closer.

Put a 2.5 in it and turn it into a Vitesse wagon

It was fun. I was impressed with how fast the escorts were up the hill.