MIRAGE-MAN

Mr SHANTI and is V3000.

This would be good to go too.

Yup, burger time. See you fellas tomorrow.

Spotted this old girl the other day. 

I guess you could say this 89 E33 Mitsubishi Galant is oldschool now. It's auto, and there's not many of them floating around now. 

NZ Car of the year for 1990 I think?

Yawn, too tired too come. Just got back from Wellington. Have a good night.

Chilling 

So when are all you fellas arriving? I just cannot wait. 

20 hours ago, The Dude said:

I'll be there again as usual, I'm bringing a Train, which your all going to really love

I'll be camping in the For sale bit this year, and hopefully not working, but I'll definitely cruise on by., Bringing the Transit Pusherman? I might have to bring mine too.

I certainly have no plans on working either.  lol

17 Days away. 

Took her for a good drive last night. Got a few good shots of her shine under the LED lights at Lynmall.

I cleaned every interior part. Shampooed the carpet in the boot. Didn't get around too doing the interior carpet. The carpet is in good condition otherwise. 

Went too Repco and brought some floor mats which complement the interior well.

She's all crisp, clean and clear now.

I took the Stellar home on boxing day. Once everyone had left the house for a week or two.

The past few days has been a bit of a spruce up task with the old girl. Pulling apart the interior, putting parts back in place, cleaning behind everything, including the door cards. Since I've brought it, I haven't actually had a decent look at the rest of the interior. Overall it's in pretty fine condition, with a few cracks here and there in the plastic. As the below pic shows. That was the worst. Where am I going too get that?

10 hours ago, frogwhitt said:

Where did you get the new seal from? I've got a mirage leaking from the same spot.

My mechanic put a universal CV joint seal over it, and that sealed it up properly. As he had too cut it in the middle, he made sure the split was at the top.

14 hours ago, Nominal said:

There was workshop mamual that covered this car at a tip shop I was i today. Do you want it?

Hell yes, I'll pay you for it. And postage.

On 22/12/2017 at 00:27, piazzanoob said:

photo doesn't show shit mayte

supply more zoomed out photo and i may know what your own about

cheers 

Got it done yesterday. But I'll throw up a photo anyway. Yeah, I suck at taking photos sometimes. This is a picture of the seal taken off.

1 hour ago, fuel said:

The Cordia, Tredia and Mk1 Mirage use a beam rear suspension that pivots. The 4WD Cordia/Tredia include a torsion bar spring inside the beam instead of coil springs.

Here's the only pic I could find:

That's it. Where did ya get this from? Thanks @fuel

My mechanic is pulling it out and is fixing the seal tomorrow.

1 hour ago, bigfoot said:

Its basically a pivot point on the rear axle, used on a few mitsi models of the era. From what I have seen on my cordia, it would need to be dismantled to replace the boot

FML, that's not what I really wanted too hear. Ah shit, there's a nice big job. 

I was told by my local mechanic it's a hanger bearing. But hey your right, if I drop the shaft I could slide a universal boot over the shaft into the middle.

Hey guys,

Just taken the old Mirage in for a WOF, and my WOF guy failed it on a torn rubber seal in the middle if the rear axle. I think it's called a hanger bearing? I'm kinda worried now. I've attached a pic which shows the rubber seal is torn on the bottom bit. Is there any way that this can be sealed up? Like a new piece of rubber be put around it, or have something put over it which will cover it up. I've heard the axle will have too be taken out. And I'm not really looking forward too that. My other mirage is doing the same thing. I cannot be bothered with the expense in having the whole axle taken out.

Thanks guys.

Good on ya mate. I'm heading over now.

21 minutes ago, Shakotom said:

Please refer to the rules above or anyone caught driving recklessly etc will be banned from all future Oldschool events.

weve already lost one location because of someone being a dick. 

Don't worry Tom. It was more of a joke than anything. The Stellar cannot do good one wheeler peelers. I know the rules mate. Sweet as.

The Stellar is ready too drop some phat one wheeler Christmas peelers. See you's there. 

I'll be coming along. I'll have a passenger too.  Secret Santa time.

I'll be there.