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  1. 11 minutes ago, CUL8R said:

    I was going to suggest a 430 Cedric etc?

    My gloria had factory ones on it, but one had a chip out of the surround, nigh on impossible to find replacements..

     

    they look way better splayed out for sure. I did look at yahoo japan for a good long while for the real deal. But price was prohibitive even for rinsed ones.

    I'm stuck with the dick/mirrors i'v got for the next little while. Function wise they are fine.

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  2. I think the being Black on mine doesn't help. But i'm fairly low on the giving fucks. It rather laugh at them than pull them off. 

    It's bothering me less and less with every hour. + I can see behind me now. 

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  3. @kyteler yep as far as I know they are a common one to stick on the 330's 

    here is the base of mine... that will be the give away as to what they are off I guess. I have had to doctor them a lot to get this fit you get the general idea. (plastic) 

     

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  4. 1 hour ago, kyteler said:

    The stalks seem too tall and upright and the mirror itself too large.  

    What are they from? 

    No idea. Karl found them for me at a swap meet ages ago. They are Nissan but. But I'd also like to know what they came off. No doubt off a smaller datsun.

     

     

     

  5. been umming and arreeing about fitting up fender mirrors. It's a real fuck trying to look behind you with 1 rear view mirror in a bigger vehicle. 

    I had been doctoring up the mounts for the mirrors I have. Today I bit the bullet and drilled some holes. right or wrong they are on there now.

    They do change the look of the car a lot and they look massive to me. I wonder what they are actually off ?

    Anyway they work as good as fender mounted mirrors can.

    Not sure can always pull them off I guess.

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  6. 1 minute ago, cletus said:

    Looks good! 

    What size wheels and tyres did you end up with?

    195/65/14 I drove the tyre men up the wall. Tried to fit the 205's and they looked like balloons. Rubbed to the max. swapped them over to 195's. found the threw bolts on the rims gently clipped the caliper as the bolts were upgraded due to chowdering out from M6 from M8. Had to sort that. Adding to tyre fitter stress. The extra long wheel studs were what really broke his Camel on his straw back. I nowhave a little bit of rub with kids and a load of fuel on the back right on the big bumps. Not sure if I should try to unbolt and push things over a tad or just give up clearance the inner lip a few mm. 

    A bit of a question in my head about how longs the diff will go with the chip missing. But it's just a cruiser as you well know. 

     

     

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  7. I have returned with a updates. 

    I got a diff for a manual 3.7's the new wheel tyre combo messed with the gearing so bad. Oh yeah it's back running. I split it to bits ( said diff) and decided it was time to re bearing it. It was all going well till I found the chip in the pinion. Looks old/historic. Set it up to favor a bit more heel or toe.. Can't remember and put it in. Goes fine I'm going to forget about it and call it job done. Car makes not enough HP to ever be a issue. 

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  8. Stumbling my way thew Lift kits for the coil spring independent front end modern day 4x4. Think ranger, Prado etc... 

    I can see spring spacers and ball joint spacers are just terrible. Not the way to go. 

    A lot of vehicles in AU solve the issue with replacement upper control arms a better way to go (imo) To regain the geometry lost in the lifting. 

    Do we have any brands of upper control arms that are passed into out system here in NZ that have ticked the box's and are ok to use ? 

     

     

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