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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.

If you are using the "bow and arrow" type bender, these are meant for pipe, not tube, and have pipe sized dies. I doubt you will get a good results, especially with thinwall tube. I got the rollbar bent (for my paddock basher) in the local garage's exhaust pipe bender, which does a decent job, but crushes the tube somewhat. The rollbar (same size) for my Morris project was bent by the shop that built it, and is nicely done, with no crush. I didn't see what type of bender they used though.

Do you have the rest of the wiring diagrams? It might be that it is used for other ignition-switched power feeds. I went and looked at my crazy conversion using an early VN, and I didn't see an Ignition relay up by the original battery location. There are some unlabelled ones near the ignition switch though.

OK, looked in the book instead of guessing - unmodifed ball joint ends from a production vehicle of similar weight are OK. - custom spherical bearing rods ends may be ok if: - 11 conditions follow that I don't want to type out. Section 7.28 of the HCTM So, you may be OK, if they are super-spiffy top quality rod ends with pull-out prevention washers, kevlar lining etc.

Highly not likely.

That sucks big. After 3 1/2 years and all the other problems I can't imagine how pissed off you must be. Good idea to put it away for a while. Try to find some dry storage so you don't get too much corrosion. I've read that fire extinguisher chemicals can cause problems if left on steel/alloy for too long.

How about something like this, easier to fit likely. Got one under the bench myself for possible future project. http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-par ... 584250.htm

Heh, tractor grips for style win! I think I'll just stay out of the mud holes until it dries up a bit. Have 'test driven' some more. Now has mud and grass all over. Picked up steel selection today. Need to bend up main rollbar when I get back from travels.

It's plenty slippery down in the grass right now