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Shouldn't have continuity I would think.

Cute. My father had one yonks (like 45 years) ago, similar colour and plate BE29xx or something like that.

As far as the leak goes, might be best to resolder it. I've done this with success after one car fell off a jack onto the gas tank (ugh). I also used the POR15 kit approach on a Morrie tank years ago. Seemed to be successful as well.

Good turnout, bit chilly! Only took a small number of pics. I wonder what's on show under there!

There's a recent answer on the LVVTA forum on this In general, for an older vehicle not designed with frontal impact in mind, the modification needs to be structurally sound and present no danger to pedestrians (no sharp edges etc. this applies to the bonnet pins too). For more modern cars with airbags and deformable front ends, you need to be a bit more careful. You cannot remove any structural parts or alter areas intended to crush on impact or close to any frontal impact sensors. If you do alter any other parts you need to retain the same strength as the vehicle had before. http://lvvta.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=279

Tomorrow, right? Weather looks somewhat reasonable. Should be there, probably in the Kingswood.

I'm reasonably sure that the brake pedal needs to be made from 10mm plate. I recall this because I need to fab up a new one for my Morrie sometime too. Grr.

It's not the clutch which is a worry really, it is the ability of the cast iron to hold togther at high RPM. If you want to run it, put a good scattershield in place. Or go shopping for a steel item. http://www.fortyone.co.nz/parts/view/11502.html

Is it a cast flywheel? If so I'd be nervous.

I've got a Morrison real (sic) mower in the garden shed. It only gets used at christmas time for smoothing out the lawn nicely for family party. Grass has to be short, so it has to be pre-mowed. Always seems to fire up OK though, even after year-long holidays.

We'll be there anyway, in luxo accomodation near the motorcamp. Will make an effort to stop by the OS w-house at some stage over the weekend.

Let's see a pic of your manicured lawn!

Having a shed tidy up this weekend and found this inside. Still runs! Needs finishing! I wonder where the drivers door has got to. Better keep tidying!

Hmm? Certainly big enough I'm in Te Horo though, and the old thing is a bit shagged out. Depends if you want high precision work or not.

The spec weight is probably 'dry'as well.

You reckon the housing is still straight after all that welding on it?

Feckin hawks can be scary. I collected one years back in a Chevette. Seemed like it hit the screen right in front of my face. Didn't break though, which was lucky. Now I mostly slow down and give them time to get into the air before I get there. Was that you stopped by the Otaki river this arvo?

It's is fairly commonly done for early ford forged axles. The pics you posted are for leaf springs or something, so might be a bit harder to get done.

Sure, whip up a chassis and suspension, fit 1UZ, fit Morris body. Slam dunk! Here's one with an LS1

It's getting harder and harder to get smaller 4-cyl RWD engines that suit conversions. I liked my factory injected 4AGE Morris, if it fits in a Morrie, then should be easy in a Viva, but as noted above the RWD aspect of the 4AGE is getting more complicated and expensive. How about a Zetec, they seem to more convertible to RWD, and are more current I think.

I've got a set of greenlee (chassis) punches up to 100mm or so, and a hydraulic puller that I could bring down sometime? Did try to make some swaging dies once, but was fail city.

Nice looking Viva. I didn't know that they did high spec models. With stripes even!

Looks like it has to be reverse-switched, or only operate when the headlights are off. See here: http://vehicleinspection.nzta.govt.nz/v ... sing-lamps

The blue one went to the great scrapyard in the sky soon after. The local garage that picks up my hulks for scrap said I hadn't left them much on that one. Well duh! The 186 from it is in the white Kingswood presently though.

This is how I did it. Might have failed the no damage provision though.