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Oh sweet. I won't muck about then and will just leave all the belts as they are. Thanks!

My Galaxie is advertised from new as being a 10-seat option and I want to register it as such. Being a 67, it doesn't require rear seat belts, so I'm not fussed about that. But to achieve the 10-seat thing, it has 3 seats across the front bench, but currently only 2 seat belts. I'm assuming I'll need the third lap belt in the front for my VIN check guys to sign it off as 10 seats. Is it OK to bolt in a lap belt that shares the bolt holes with the other two belts? I was just going to take out all of the rear belts and use one of them in the front for the inspection so that they all match.

Windscreen is installed. Thanks to Taranaki Windscreens. Now, FINALLY, I will be able to give it a wash. When it arrived from the states it got pushed straight into the shed, then had no suspension, then no window, now its ready for a bath.

I think mr vitesse is querying the calibration going forwards. You’ve calibrated the numbers on the face, but the odo will still roll over kms fast/slow at Mitsubishi pace won’t it? so your economy calcs will be wrong 😵‍💫

I haven't worked on this for aaaaages since the Galaxie arrived and I've been focusing on that. But I need to start making some progress on it because we would like to go camping at New Years. So today I got out there and cut out the floor. Then I jacked it up high to get ready for replacing the drawbar. I jacked the front up with the jockey wheel and put axle stands under the front of the chassis. I already had some stands under the back, but thought I would jack it up a little higher in the bum. Stuck the Jack under it, and it flexed the whole bloody thing so much that one of the semi-detached front corners let go and the whole fucking then felt like it was going to collapse. This thing is so terrifying to work on, I have to think so hard at every step whether what I'm about to do will make it cave in. In positive news, there is no rust in the chassis.

That looks pretty tidy! What was the process with VTNZ to get the VIN plate assigned without putting it through the whole VIN check vehicle inspection? (or have I misunderstood). I'm thinking it would be a good idea for my to get my Austin 7 an identity before I go taking the ancient number plates off it for the rebuild.

Thats pretty cool. Is there any muffling in that pipe or does it sounds awesome? <3

I’m just going to drop these here for later 🤫

The paint match is not even close 😅 Not a drama though as it will all be covered by the glue and chrome. It was a good test for the rust repair I have to do though. For that I might have to take the fuel door off and get it paint matched by the laser paint matcher thing.

I’ve been spending some time locked in my garage with a heater running and some strong aerosol paint fumes this week. Primed it, smoothed out some pitting, primered again, and sprayed white. Don’t let me forget the clearcoat… I only remembered that as I’m writing this… It’s nearly ready for the windscreen to go back in. I also fitted the roof rack. It’s a proper wagon now.

Nothing too exciting here, just the video to go with the post above.

What are the relevant legalities around making the EGR and DPF go away?

Jeeves says it absolutely will not do a DPF burn while the ETC light is on.

Alrighty. My bluetooth OBDII tool arrived from China the other day, so I've been able to get a bit deeper into things. So it definitely appears that the oil viscosity code is more than likely being caused by the DPF, and that I really need to take it for a big long drive. I have also reset the oil change counter, so we can rule that out now. To complicate matters though... yesterday I got the Electronic Throttle Control light come up on the dash, which comes with a limp mode effect where it won't let me have most of the engine torques. So I'm not sure if it will do the DPF burn while that light is on I can't find a specific code or module related to that on JSCAN, but did find some other interesting codes hiding deep in the tool: It appears that one of the O2 sensors is unplugged or faulty. I asked Jeeves if this could cause the ETC (Electronic Throttle Control) fault, and it said yes it could mess with the calculations and put it into fault mode. So I'm going to start by checking the 02 sensor and see if I can solve that one. Any suggestions are welcome! I have no idea what I am doing.

Wow. Misa shed move will take a few hands and a couple of minutes. Is he leaving Taupo?