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Took out my gearbox and started making my rose joint shifter, bolted a shifter to the bell housing I pulled out of a Toyota Previa at pick a part. Just have to make the rods for it now then skids on!

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Oh yeh I also have my van tattooed on my leg haha And it's in a music video

shit if someones looking for a mint van (bornloser) get this! http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-cars/other/auction-638268124.htm

Vans sitting on blocks at the mo took the tyres off and spraying my miss match steels 2k gloss black tomorrow morning.

Give up no, broke yes. Caught to much wind on an Oldschool run on the motorway and snapped one of the blue bits I really like it too. Ill try fix it sometime tho

Sure are bro, bf Goodrich silver something's

Out with the old in with the new, New tyres alot larger then the old ones so got one put onto one of my rims to make sure there was clearance before I paint the steels

This afternoons project. Took gas tank out to fix my fuel guage ontop of the tank. Also replaced all the lines with copper and re installed it all back in after a decent degrease and clean.

This weekends achievements. New radiator installed. 99% wired up thanks to team retep Electronic ignition in Driveshaft in but not quite finished just yet. Accelerator cable installed Trans mount painted black to hide from Mr wof man. And a touch of sound deadening

Hey Garry! Yeh mate one of those bolts was a pure bastard to get out but all worked out in the end. You'll have to start a build thread on your Bedford for us all to see! Shouldn't be to long till mines back running then ill have to check out one of your custom van meets

Trans mount 90% complete now, just needs a few bolts which ill get tomorrow.

Bought a new radiator today, Finished side pipe this afternoon, might salami cut the end. Had a small muck up with one of the water hoses on the intake manifold being in the way of the engine cover, Checked my spare intake manifold and it had different placement of the hose outlets so ill swap them out. Still have a few things to do before fire up : bleed brakes : install new radiator : swap out manifold : make trans mount (have everything for it just have to drill holes) : make rose joint transmission extension : finish the small amount of wiring

my original radiator is still in really good condition but the inlet and outlet are the wrong way around can i just flip the heads of the two over?

haha ive had in on my watch list for a while now was hoping the price would drop!

Lowered the body over my new whitewall for a low shot haha Engine in! BOOM

Shit be getting done son! Engine bay finally done what a fuck around, not my best work but its done now and it all unseen stuff so whatever! Bastard of a front cross member put back together fancy nolathane bushes Spat some paint on engine bay so all the welds arnt goin to rust. Put motor back together ready to go in today!!! Ill do another update tonight with motor in place

Small update, so now van is engineless so I can finish the engine tunnel welding much easier And I bought some brand new bf Goodrich whitewall tyres off trademe, scored them super cheap and I got 5 of them so even my spare wheel will look flash as!

Don't know it nah man but if It had a kit I'm glad it crashed!

Nice was hoping I'd say that haha

Ok so I am going to one of these for my vk box but my problem is to put it into reverse I have to push the gear stick down for putting into gear. So that would make the rose joint system invalid. My question is can I make the shifter permanently pushed in so I can slap into reverse because while pushed in I can still go into other gears aswell. Any other ideas? Will that do anything bad to the gearbox?

Pulled motor out today came out super easy. But changing all the stuff onto the new cross member was such a bastard.

ah thats a good one! just want to know what the australian engine bay looked like, try get mine as close as possible

can someone find me a photos of a cf bedford with a stock 202 not one thats been put in

Motor comes out this weekend. Found a spanner hidden away behind headlight