nickrock

The owner of a panel shop I do work for has MANY minis including a genuine Ute ,so he often gets other peoples minis in for repairs ,he gets the panels from England they are here in a week also very reasonably priced ,cheaper than paying me to cut the bits out and make up patch panels

Tandem drive bonus probably was originally a 4 wheeler and some enterprising kiwi beefed it up to make all Mr fords flathead horses really work

Stan Williamson (swt) at te puke had a huge fleet of crusaders all with detroits  I recall being told it was the biggest fleet in the southern hemisphere , but that was over 30 years ago

What are they like to find bits , I know where there is a two door convertible I have had my eye on it for a few years its got the rego on hold but the running gear is missing

For me as long as it has a good radio and good heater I don't care what its age is , last couple of weeks been doing 5pm to 4am shifts on a roading crew ( fing cold over night here in wgtn )with 30 minutes each way to home then on the truck at 730am on my usual job I could take the Calais but why spend 3x as much in fuel with just me in the car

I have a mid 90s corolla paid 300 needed new radiator ( second hand one from pick a part ) had it 3 years used every day never failed a warrent all iv spent on it in that time was the radiator and have just thrown on two new tyres  just got offered a 09 Camry for 3k 300kms but I think I will stick with the cheap to run corolla

I need the services of a auto Sparky to sort out my wiring harness in my wb it gives me a headache just looking at it

He can do it here or take the harness home with all the bits and do it at his place

Want to put a better fuse box in relocated on the inner guard and a few relays and sort out what wires go where on the steering coloum

1 hour ago, flyingbrick said:

I want your welding table!

And all the other engineering toys he obviously has access to

15 minutes ago, Mr.Mk1 said:

I saw some horrific rust still being driven in the states last year

Yes its amazing what they allow on the road over there

5 minutes ago, sheepers said:

he offered me the keys.

which would have resulted in no house walls and probably no shed left either.

would have been fun though.......

It is its pure therapy I often " borrow " mates digger and wreck stuff like cars

There is always way more work than you anticipate its the finishing bits that take for ever

1 hour ago, chris r said:

What did he do for the gearbox? They usually spin anti clockwise. 

Honda box I think he took out the l s d it was torque steering all over the place

Or go the whole hog and be like a guy I know well in Wellington  he's got a 1800 cc Honda vtec in his I think its putting out over 150 kw on the dyno

They are all connected the w o f tells them where last fail was

2 hours ago, anglia4 said:

Worst case just wait till the 28 days for the failed WOF to expire and take it somewhere else once you've made the proper repairs

Won't work once its failed it goes on record not specifics but rust or suspension etc

I would rather have the sound of a 903 working hard ,had a 3070 just loved it replaced it with a t line with 350 better truck but just didn't sound the same as a v8

9 minutes ago, Hemi said:

That goes for anything with those POS straight through Donaldson mufflers. I'm happy that dpf's and adblue catalyst's are a good muffler that can be removed.

 

This was pre all that fancy stuff

Had a d series with a 671t in it  drove a inter 210 with a Detroit in it coming out of tauranga at about 10 pm it broke a exhaust manifold my Mrs reckoned she could hear me at matata on my way to onepu

1 hour ago, Firetruck said:

Damn, Detroit's sound lush

Yes for the first 5 minutes wait till you spend 8 hours holding the loud pedal down and your head is ringing and a couple of hours later your still yelling to hear a conversation

Most small shops don't do it any more , basically if its bent and its more than a few years old its a write of and new cars with that sort of damage the insurance co sent it to one of their preferred shops with inverter welders and manufacturer approved tradesman

The co I do part time work for has one in the corner  may be uses it once a year ,hes said he wants it gone ,no real money in the big jobs basically a few 100 and you get the lot frame clamps rams chains power pack has all the measuring gear but never used

Last real job I did on it was a half finished triumph 2000 that hit a power pole and the owner supplied a whole front cut

If you decide to recover rotary motor trimmers does a lot of resto work he personally has a real nice escort he's in home St behind gazley Nissan

You must have been reading my mind re hinge bushes was going to drop you a message on how tight were the pins to get out did you get pins as well as bushes

Organise a wgtn shed / garage tour

7 hours ago, flyingbrick said:

Yeah I put my head into a vessel that had been filled with (I think) c02. It was like when you get fizzy drink in ya nose kinda..But x100000. Felt like the blood in my nose bad just carbonated hahha

The things you young fellas do to discover a new high

Wasn't really a car but a combine harvester at darfield out of Christchurch on uncles farm I was about 13 after one pass he took over as it looked like a side winder snake had mowed the paddock