Beaver

Something we briefly talked about at some stage, is a trip out to the Mangahao Dams in Shannon. If we get a half decent number of people I may be able to get us access to the power station for a walk around and they have a museum of sorts there as well. Either way the three dams are all public access (can drive to them all, not slam friendly though) and I can teach you all about being a beaver/spin some yarns

Fucking bang! Amazing how smooth the process can be when the person doing the work in the first place isnt a complete idiot. 2JZ skids on then?

Have you done the "put drum on backwards, wind the wheel nuts on a few threads and push/pull the drum back and forwards like a slide hammer" trick?

Away for the weekend otherwise would have been keen just call me ling

haha in that case, you definitely don't want to got back to accounting!

you're an animal on rust repairs! (In a good way haha)

Dam straight we do

I don't think you're ready for wagon ownership with that type of attitude mayte.

fatty.

wot

lol yeh I suspect we will be somewhat late

I'm going to turn up just to spite you all

Its OK, ill show myself the door.

Good stuff man, loved my mk2 wagon (the white one Conner started his build thread with). Such an odd ball shape, all the barrys be swooning.

Ban.

May have to bail tonight, will see how my day pans out....wetaher looks bloody mint though so I'm sure you wont miss me too much

Yeh what he said. On paper it might no require a cert to simply change the box and put in a clutch, but I doubt you would get away with leaving in the original brake pedal (massive) in anyway/who does that. But if it helps you sleep at night, then yes, you are "correct" Yowzer.

Lol. i only need it to bolt up a starter motor

Oh mean, keen to grab it from you and see if it will bolt up.

I have no idea what a 71C gearbox is but keen to see if it fits.

Small update. Massive thanks to old man KY for sending up a camshaft (thats not in two bits). Whacked that in and chucked the belt back on, engine turns over by hand with no odd noises or oddities (such as sudden loss in compression) which is a good start. I was hoping to compression test it but turns out its not really practical to do out of the car (cant bolt up starter etc without bell housing). Although might see if I can find a rb bellhousing for a loan as it will likely bolt up. Recent trip to Japan sourced a few goodies (crystal shifter, lace seat covers, stickers etc), and got my pine back on for some nice wheels so spent last night browsing yahoo japan. Also found a mooneyes visor haha https://wing-auctions.c.yimg.jp/sim?furl=auctions.c.yimg.jp/images.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/image/dr000/auc0212/users/7/0/8/5/mackys_1-img383x263-14818565326td6al22809.jpg&dc=1&sr.fs=20000 Need wof for nats so thats the primary goal (booked in for next weekend). Have done some work already that needed sorting so shoudl be straight forward.

Everyone bring me presents. Its my birthday (two days later)

it was so trippy, started getting dark, and then all of a sudden got super bright for about 15 minutes.

Yeh that was so dreamy. Almost as dreamy as Kickers L series flybys on the way home. Overrun sounded soooo good.

I'm pretty sure the engine cross member is different (as the mounts for the sway bar bolt to that), and then from memory there is a bracket one og the arms/legs/limbs which the sway bar links bolt through. Its been a few years since I looked at one though