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Looking good. I had to do something very similar for shock mounts. 

Make sure you have locking washers on everything (including air tank mounts etc) to keep the cert man happy. I had to put a lot on, which was a pain.

@KustomKreeps I checked the ride height and it's ~95mm clearance in the normal setting. I think its about 40mm at the low setting, it's on the lift right now and the chassis bottoms out on the deck.

Hmm wonder where I copied that from. 

It is on this Sunday though.

Al is running a mile!

OK, so this is coming up again soon. There was some chat about it at Wagnats, so I'm assuming there are some extra attendees this year.

We'll be there in the Mercury, had to arrange new accommodation again (due to flood damage) so will be hanging out down towards the surf club.

Arriving Wednesday sometime.

I set mine up with to work with the stock bump stops, so it won't go lower than that. When fully down there is only about 10mm of clearance for the chassis though. For normal ride height I used the accuair system to auto-set which I think is mid-height. I think the front is tweaked down slightly. I'm not sure what the ground clearance is like, but probably about 100mm. 

I can run it on the lower automatic setting (15% IIRC) which is OK on smooth roads, even at 100kph. It will hit the road on sudden dips though. I tacked some 5mm plate onto the lowest parts of the chassis rails to cope with this.

You can get it certed with lower than 100mm, in theory anyway.

I went with 1K for safety reasons. RALI wouldn't sell me 2K.

Come to Wagnats!

Oh yes. They are practically the same design as a Ferrari 250 GT Pininfarina you know.

http://www.australiaforeveryone.com.au/afe/motoring-peugeot-404.htm

I've been looking back through your rust repairs - quite a lot of similarity to the Farina BMC cars in the structural design of these wagons.

I know Seedy Al will be keen to soak up some sweet british machinery.

From the flyer:

  DATE:                    12 February 2017
 PLACE:                  Trentham Memorial Park
  TIME:                     10am to 3pm (or earlier to set up)
 ENTRY:                  $5 per display vehicle
  ENTRANCE:           Use Barton Road, off Fergusson   Drive, Upper Hutt

There will be plenty of BMC products, pommy fords, and other spiffy motoring oddities

Will a CB radio work in a positive earth setup - it has separate wires in the power feed, so I guess so? On side of the aerial is earthed too.

I suppose I could test it out with Seedy Al's loan radio first

Pretty special Z-car that can hoon inverted.

I'm pleased for you that the rust is minimal.

10 hours ago, AllTorque said:

I past that today in Te Horo. 

Sure is chocka fulla stuff. 

It was on Rod Clifton's truck the day before. I'm guessing it's a project sale or relocation/

Off a transporter today. 

On 25/01/2017 at 20:04, Nick Ritchie said:

where abouts Jonny? looks interesting...

Cromwell?

WOF man picked up the car on Wednesday, and had a few issues with the column change. I haven't driven it much yet but the plane change between 1-2 and 3-4 seems problematic, and seems to hang up somewhere.

Anyway, failed on the following:

- Windscreen washers non-op
- Exhaust leak at manifold/exhaust pipe join (I knew about this but ran out of time to fix it)
- Upper tailgate loose (needs washers under the bolts)
- Leaf spring shackle bushing shagged
- Fuel tank leaking
- Full set of tires.

Also it ran out of gas on the way home so the mechanic had to walk back to our house to get his car - oopsy.

I had a look at the windscreen washers and I can't really see how they were set up originally. I though it would be a manual pump (that's what the owner manual suggests) but I can't see that there was ever one fitted. I have a pump tank hanging around, or I might remove the whole setup as they are not required on pre-1992.

I had only noticed the tank leak when I put it back together this week, so pulled it out again. There must have been water sitting between the tank bottom and the inner floor as there were a few pinholes to address.

Broke out the soldering gear. Haven't refilled it for a test yet, but should be OK.

Also pulled the shackle from one side. Hopefully I can get some bushes from BNT today.

The driver's side sill and underfloor structure wasn't as bad as the passenger side, despite the holes in the floor.

Patch panel bent up. It was much easier to fit this side with the floor section removed.

The outer panels were 'good enough' to weld back in (saved time too)

Sprayed etch primer in all the repaired areas.

So, all the welding was done by Monday night about 11:30 pm.

I had to pick up some wheels from Island Bay on Tuesday and didn't get home until later. Had to reassemble the front (bumper and grille), rear (gas tank, fuel pump, bumper, upper and lower tailgate, and number plate light) and finish the brake lines before a WOF check on Thursday.

Managed to get through all this by late Wednesday (got my son out of bed to help with the bumper bolts even).  Bleeding the brakes was a pain as usual - I'd missed tightening one line fitting so ended up with a mess on the floor.

Quick test run at about 11pm, then gave it a quick hose to allow testing the wipers and stuck it in the garage for the local mechanic to pick up on Thursday.

Filled the hole at the back of the guard. The shape is a little off but I was in a hurry and it is mostly behind the bumper.

Before

After (1/2 way anyway)

Next up was the drivers side floor which had a few holes.

New floor bit. Had to do this twice as I got the swage orientation all wrong the first time. Swage made on the Nibbler with some home-made dies.

Went away camping for a couple of weeks after the last update. Came back the day before anniversary weekend with the objective of finished the rust repair by the end of the weekend.

Just before we went away I'd noticed some rust at the back of the roof where the tail hatch hinges are. Not really sure why this area was rust, I guess a bit of water gets in around the hinge screws. Had to fix both sides.

Got the channels welded around the lower edge of the tailgate, and filled the remaining gaps in the bottom.

Painted inside the frame and the repaired outer skin.

On the final test fit I realised the shape was a bit screwed up so had to cut and re-weld the frame somewhat, then re-prime it before plug-welding the two parts together.

Took farking ages!

We were camping up the Coromandel in January, but not much spotting occurred - probably everything old is rusted and gone.

Flash Rover

Towie, but hasn't been legal for a few years.

This is us on the way home. No problems with the Holden, apart from getting it flooded while starting a couple of times. Odd, as it has never really been a problem before.

Yeah, IKR.

My swish MG Rostyle wheels don't quite play nice with the front drums. Will see what tyre availability is like tomorrow.

If I wanted to get wheel spacers only certed, would it be cheap-ish?