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dmulally

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  1. I think you should use some 10mm thick angle iron and be done with it. Man up.
  2. Gotcha ta. I made a new list of what needs to be done before LVV and added it to the bottom. I'm going to try and book in over the next few days to give me a deadline. Right after I swap this perfectly serviceable ball joint for an inferior Chinese one which in my experience has a 25% failure rate during install.
  3. I had a look through the spares bin and found half a shaft (you have the front part) and most of a shaft setup. Ill have a bit of a play. I'll still see if I could be bothered though. Anything I do make will be rough enough to make a David Brown owner blush. What does A mean in your CAD drawing above?
  4. Went for a decent blat into town tonight. A few things to note before I forget. Cruises at 2200rpm at 100kph and has buckets of power upwards from that so the gearing is spot on. Maybe because Im used to a shitty old slow chevy but it feels like a rocket. Makes a weird noise for a second on startup. The sump is too low. Either I have to put in stock springs or modify the sump. @cubastreet got any spare sump pans? The oil filler pipe is now hitting the firewall so I have to modify that again. Second is a bitch to find from 3rd but I'll get used to it. It has enough torque to take off in 4th but I'll leave the clutch alone. I might make the aux water pump booster linked to the ignition as I forgot to turn it on. It's criminal me having this car and living 10kms from a decent corner. It wants to corner.
  5. Yeah nah. I'll just have a backwards shift pattern tyvm.
  6. Reminder for myself next time I wonder why it is taking off so slowly.
  7. Hi All, Can anybody recommend a machine shop that can whip up a spacer? With the box swap the engine is a lot further back now and I need a spacer to take up the slack. Washers are doing the job now but I'm sure it'll make the cert man wince.
  8. After nearly three months my half shafts are done. Thankfully they fit really well and no binding with the full suspension travel. How he did it was to make a jig out of angle iron. The Imp end was a few mm smaller so he stepped the jig to compensate. Then notched a V into the ends of both and lots of welding to fill it up. He checked the balance and said they were fine. In the meantime I have installed the slave and bled it with the trusted broomstick method. On the hoist the gears shift fine and no crunching and I can even find reverse which is novel in this thing. I presently have the coolant bleeding itself and have remade the radiator mount. The bolts welded into the side for mounting it were flimsy junk so I had to come up with a new solution which seems ok but may hinder my chances of putting on an electric puller fan. I have a short list of works to finish before going to LVV but mostly bodywork and fine tuning. I'll see how it feels after the test drive which all being well should be this evening. Sadly I have to spend time sorting my C20 for the wof fails. I really need to find a new place. 3rd wof in a row I have failed on a ball joint that was fine the previous wof. The chances of three ball joints that are 60 years old failing one at a time every six months is a little disappointing for me. Especially as the replacement always feels worse to me but passes. Oh well. I have this year to get down to 2.5 wofs and I'm on a mission!
  9. Does anybody know how GVM is dished out by VTNZ when getting a revin for a vintage truck? There is nothing on the truck noting GVM or tare weight and being from 1946 the rego is long since evaporated. Do they go off sales brochures at the time? I really wouldn't mind getting it under 3500kgs to avoid rucs but not too concerned as it will be on farm rego if anything at all.
  10. I'm using mine as a trolley too. Does this work for you?
  11. Ended up getting the floor model which has been superseded for a hefty discount. I gave it a quick whirl and the welds come out very smooth indeed. I have a bit of panel work to do on some thin stuff so I'll see how it likes that. Thanks for the hot tip, gents.
  12. Still need to sort out the belt situation at the front. Needs a full redesign but one of those things where it still works so I keep driving it and I am resisting the urge to make it into a project before I absolutely have to. I should probably pick up a spare long block and take bits off it to swap it all over. Maybe when the Imp is on the road. Anyway this weekend I managed to put 600kms on the clock driving all over the shop to the bush block for mowing and more trips than I would have liked to get gravel for an underground greenhouse I'm building presently. It can fit 1/4 cube of 20mm pebble in the tray so I just took the trailer which can take half a cube. As the fuel gauge is sketchy I took some figures down and it gets 13l/100kms pulling a load. I'm guessing it'll be much better with no load but already it's nearly twice as good as the chev.
  13. I wonder what causes it to be that much heavier. Even accounting for 10kg difference in spool size. Might go for the cheaper one. Cheers gents.
  14. That has to be a typo on the heading surely. A 60kg inverter welder? Is that a thing? Old mate in the shop said it was a transformer and it looks like one.
  15. Finally got into my local welding supply shop today and was about to pull the trigger on an Xcel-Arc but thought I'd ask the brains trust first. My current mig is a transformer one. The two I have narrowed it down to are a 200amp transformer one for $2300 and an 180amp inverter variant for about $1200. The last inverter mig I had shat the bed just after warranty ran out and it was unrepairable. Hence going back to a 30yo transformer mig which has served me well but is getting a little long in the tooth now. Anybody got any opinions on either? I don't need to transport it so I don't care about weight. Just reliability and doing a good job.
  16. My engineer (who might be your one too if initials are JC) said there were no real guidelines on it and I offered to have them fully welded by an engineering shop which he knows and was happy with that. So might be worth tacking it and having an engineer shop weld it up and provide a receipt stating exactly what they did.
  17. dmulally

    PAINT THREAD

    I'd scrub it with a nail brush first and paint it with a couple of light dustings with no primer.
  18. Put her to work again. Hardly noticed it were there.
  19. Pretty sure I have left over bits for a beetle shifter invention if you want em. I was going to go VW on top of the tunnel but went Imp shifter and up at the back like Alex.
  20. Good move on the rear subframe mounts. I always get nervous about mine. When I put the 340s on the hoist I have a wood post jig/stand that I wedge under the rear suspension as I'm worried something will fall out. I'm not sure if it's even possible for it to fall out but it always bothered me just hanging there off the rubber mounts.
  21. Passed the wof no worries. But rather annoyingly I took it for a decent spin today to get some light fencing supplies and by the time I got home the replacement power steering pump was making the same noises as the one I shitcanned. Which is pretty frustrating as it is apparent that something is causing it to eat pumps and I have no idea what. It seemed to be a little slack so I tightened it up and although it fixed it at low speeds it was still there when turning. Gah. Might have to look for a manual box as this sounds like a project!
  22. https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/car-parts-accessories/austin-rover/listing/4565439509
  23. Got her down for a wof and it went reasonably well. There was some bubbling in the sill and around the wheel arch he wasn't happy with so I went home and sorted it out. Wasn't anything major. There were only 3 patches needing welding and the rest were just rust treated and painted over. I'll see how it looks at next wof if I have to take it more serious or not.
  24. The WOF booked in for this morning had to get shit canned due to a faulty power steering pump. It always was a little noisy but after a blat yesterday afternoon to the lake it got worse and worse until I had to nurse it home making an awful screech. Determined to make it to the WOF I slackened off the belt and tried to limp into town. It made it about 2 mins before the belt let go. Lucky I wasn't far from home as without it I had no water pump or alternator. Looking online I couldn't find a similar one as they all had serpentine belt pulleys. The only one that looked similar was a 1986 Pajero and that was from some dodgy overseas site. So at lunch I went to take in the power steering pump to get mailed off to be rebuilt and thought I'd pop into the wreckers to see if they had any mitsi's. They happened to have an L200 diesel all the way up the back which by a stroke of good luck had the same pump. A quick trip to get a new belt at Repco and pick up some fluid. Installed the pump and it took a while to bleed but is now full with no noises or bubbles. Hoping I can retake the WOF tomorrow but will need to ring first thing. Until the pump shat itself it was quite a fun ride. The fuel gauge is a little all over the shop but reasonably accurate. I'll have to set the trip meter though I imagine. The gearing in it is perfect and it is quite zippy compared to the Chev which is a slug.
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