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Cheers Richard for link to Collin with our old 2500S estate. I have sent him a PM. Its good as we had lost his contact details ages ago and wanted to find out how old Hoe was doing!

Now start saving for one of these.... http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motor ... 953389.htm

Ha- you were as excited as a school kid with a new toy yesterday. This car is mint and makes me want another. We went a cruise in it last night to get a gas bottle etc and its sooooo cool! It is the cleanest sharpest trump saloon I have ever seen this side of the RSA carpark. It was good meeting you too and your a very well behaved young man - my parents enjoyed dinner chatting away! Was cool to have Viva lined up with another classic. what surprises me is how much bigger my Viva seemed than it should be next to what I have always considered a big car. Glad you got to Picton safe and sound.

Yeah I have thought about that- but would want something really easy to remove as the adjusting screw for carb mixture is right up near radiator. I had to chop down my stubby screw driver to get in there - its now like 50mm long. I'll do another measure up tomorrow.

I want another Triumph. Today in Blenheim I saw not one but three! And one was a Mk1 in dark olive green...oooohhhffff. So sexy. They are such sweet cars. What thousand dollar supercar wrote above is bang on! These old cars rock! And of old cars to use as dailys I don't think many are as cruisey as Triumph saloons with a straight 6. I think that is why there are still many driven about - throughly modern driving car wrapped up in REAL CAR style! Our last one... http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C32656# I want another one day.

It was a useless listing eh! How do people expect to sell things with no details or photos?!!!

Cheers for ideas.Yeah I looked at getting a mini filter from UK but they all have closed off fronts. I have the feed hole in front panel and fancied making something like this one here to make the most of the cold air feed. I would just buy one of these but almost all seem to either be too long, too big in base diameter,too big in the neck, too expensive. And something that bugs me is half the filters listed on trade me have no dimensions at all- inc the neck size?!! For example check out this idiots listing... http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing ... =376580031 Sure I'd buy a big K&N panel filter but they are bloody expensive too- I'm am on a teeny tiny budget.

Air filter material like that in K & N and similar style filters- where could I get some? I want to make my own pod filter to suit my SU carb. I could buy a cheap pod filter and hack it apart but would rather just start with the material in a sheet. Any ideas?

if you slot both the front engine brace and the engine member 5 mm each so you can move engine forwards 10mm and then slot in similar way the box mount you may be ok. The propshaft sometimes only goes in 1/2 to 3/4 into the box on the splines depending on box and car. Make sure to keep it out just enough to allow for it to slide in when axle moves right up. Check by removing springs and lifting axle up to be sure. You can shorten later series 2/3 box shifter housings and move lever forwards 100mm to suit older rx's or other cars.

I'll pack them out on the hub so when I slide the drum/hub on it wont push grease of bearing into drum. cheers. And bare feet- man I'm loving being back home in Marlborough, the weather is so mild! Its only a month away to the shortest day as well. July will be the coldest month yet to come but for now I love the fact that most days here are sunny and that shorts/teeshirt are all thats needed.

Now we have a very clean brake assembly with lovely dry, clean linings, a new wheel cylinder, the other honed nicely and rebuilt. And happy to say that refitting those hefty springs was so much easier than I thought! Fitted new seals as well. The one on the end of the axle tube was knackered so no wonder hub was filled with oil rather than grease. Question time for the truck mechanics out there.... How much grease should I pack around these bearings?... To some this might be a stupid question but I've never packed out such big bearings on such a heavy weight truck and I don't know how much to use. Do I pack the whole hub full or just smother the bearings themselves and no more? I don't want to risk getting any into drum when I lift the bloody heavy thing back in place over the axle tube. Once this side is finished we will check the other side out. Luckily that side will be in the sunshine and the next few days will be fine.

I think there is a thread somewhere for overseas project threads? But I couldn't find it. Please move this link there if someone knows what thread I'm on about. Anyway- I was linked to this by a friend in blighty. Its another mad creation from Norway. http://passionford.com/forum/restoratio ... e-fun.html Some pretty full on work gone into it. It must be those long winter nights. Apparantly Scandinavia has one of the highest rates of suicide in the world and large drink problems due to the lack of sunshine in winter. But these guys ignore it and just fettle away in the workshops

Hmmmm Datsun Z cars. Yummy.

1800 axle will take plenty. well enough for older engines of the day. Droop snoot group in england have a forum and they'll know more as fair few of them race/rally the cars. Fella on vauxhallviva.com forum has fitted a electric power steering system like many escort owners have done. Fits easy as fair bit of room under dash.

Its great to see a stock Anglia! It looks great. If I were you I would tidy any rust etc and blow some paint over it trying to keep it the same aged look as the rest. Ie; try to keep it looking like it hasn't ever been touched since new. That would be cool.

I'd be pretty bloody happy if my Dad drove that. My Dad used to have a morris minor traveller... not so cool at the time....although looking back..

Kiwi thunder- the bigfoot 4wd? wow. Your dad drove that? fuck man you would have been the coolest kid at school!!!!

cheers bart! It was bloody good to meet you guys eh! Nice to put faces to names. And show off the marlborough weather! Was hot that day. and no worries and no rush cam. We are lucky to be able to get parts from you. Yet again the value of oldschool shines Both yourself and kk are more than welcome to come and stay for a sat night bbq at the truck. We could just pick you up from picton so ya only need to get on the ferry as foot passengers.

Oh ok- well there are two up at this farm in Waihopai. Pretty solid. I'll try and get some more details for ya but its my cousin who lives up there and we have fallen out big style.

The other day when I was running wires underneath the truck I noticed a waterfall of fluid that had been running down the N/S inside tyre. The taste test confirmed it was brake fluid. Bugger I thought-- I bet this wont be plain sailing and I bet the linings are rooted. I think it has been weeping over the past year whilst sitting. Dave (avenger tiger) came over for sat night and on sun morning we started taking the wheels off. I knew it to be left hand threads on the n/s but didn't realise that after removing the outside wheel thta the stud was then holding the inside wheel in place. So dave and I were under the truck trying to kick the inside wheel off and after a couple of minutes I thought 'hang on....' Yep- so the studs hold the wheel on, all new to me, but which way is the thread on these? We tried it as a LH thread but boy it was tight so rather than stuff something we left it to ask someone else. Fortunately the mad hatters from CHCH one their way back through from the nats popped in for tea and banter. And one of them (forgot name- please remind me...) is a truck spanner twister. He confirmed my orientation for me. This afternoon Hannah and I took remaining wheel off, studs were fucking tight, and stripped it all down. All new to me- quite simple but every thing is bigger. The half shaft has to come out first.. Now this is a halfshaft... Big nut holds hub on... big bearing... Dirty... I cant imagine what the stuff on big trucks must be like but given MR Truck mechanic above told us all on monday about a mack he worked on with a gearbox that weighs 1100 kg I shudder at how heavy the drums must be . Came apart well enough and yep, one cylinder is leaking and the linings are soaked. I have honed out both and one cylinder is fine to rebuild but other (...the leaky one..) has some pitting. I have just been reading up about new linings not being good for immediate COF tests as they take time to bed in? In the past I have resurrected contaminated linings by burning the fluid off and it works fine. Hmmmmm. What to do? I don't know if there is a place in Blenheim that can rivet new linings on for me. Plus would I have to get drums machined? There is no lip on them and surfaces seem fine. And new linings would have to be matched to the drums to make sure the radius is the same? Bloody tempted to try burning the fluid off these and see how they look but any advice welcome. I actually read that some newer truck brake linings are capable of being cleaned as such due the fact that the lining will often outlast axle seals and wheels cylinders and they will work worth little difference... http://www.roadranger.com/ecm/groups/pu ... b-0109.pdf

Was this up the Waihopai valley? At Bernies? Big posh house surrounded by fields with a little old cottage next to it? If so did ya see the cool line up of old Bedford K series trucks?

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cool- thanks for that I'm really glad I'm at this point now with Viva- just some little things to do. Tinker away. Its fun when I can read other peoples builds knowing I have my own little project almost ready.

Just found this thread- read it fully. At start of build when you started to add the body kit I thought 'oooooohhhhhh nooooooooo... another one wrecked'. Really glad you got it all going! I fucking love FDs- I would have to say the only modern car I would own (of the cars I could possibly afford ie excluding supercars, lotus etc) I think FD's look best as you have it now- with NO KIT! looks great. That silver one in last photo with its skirts just looks barry boy. Looks like a hoover/roadsweeper. Vids please!

They are 185/60. Spot on as the sides are almost straight. I'm not one for stretched rubber that these young folk are all into... (its getting chilly- where's my cardigan?) Not long now but seriously run out of money. So just little things. Cert etc may have to wait.