Valiant

I think the truck has a Hilux style diff and a Hiace type gearbox. Should last for ever. Name a more iconic duo.

I've wanted one of these for ages. A little petrol motorthat I could convert to gas. This one came up on Market place, I lowballed the guy and ended up selling it to me for not much. I knew it had an overheating issue and no wof. Borrowed a trailer, drove to Oamaru and picked it up. It's pretty tidy, came with a spare 2y new front indicators, new water pump, new thermostat, and new alternator so that was nice. It was overheating due to a blocked radiator, got that to the radiator shop for a clear out. The drag link off to HBI engineering for a rebuild. I gave it a good wash, fixed lots of niggly little things got a WOF, drove it round, got sick of putting petrol in it so I pulled it to bits again to convert to gas. Pretty basic LPG stuff, Impco 125 gas carb and throttle plate adapted to the factory manifold and a reverse engineered carb hood to attach to the factory air intake. I pulled the carb to bits and gave it a good clean up, added the factory toyota cable guide to the throttle, reworked the cable bracket and that was all very nice. it has an Impco regulator and electric lock off mounted on drivers side whichcame to bits for a good clean too. I mounted an 80L tank on the chassis rail where the petrol tank was. All looking good, time to start it, which took some thinking because I had a dual fuel carb that wasn't getting a vacuum signal to the right place, sorted that out and away it went. Apart from a knocking noise. When I welded up the air injection pipes a ball of mig splatter fell into the exhaust port and made its self known. So off came the head. Now it has shot peened pistons and combustion chambers which is nice. The blob didn't do much damage. I put it back together as is, its all good! Anyway. That sucked but it wasn't the end of the world. So now it runs really happily on gas. Goes nicely. Really smooth. Great light throttle response. Way simpler than it was on petrol. I replaced all this. With this. Future plans may include a tipping deck but for now I'm pretty stoked to have it running and uses usable as it is.

Brother! I heard cams with Punisher skulls on them were best.

@JR Did I see your Capri parked in Lyttelton yesterday? Regardless. I saw a black Mk2 Capri in Lyttelton and it looked great! If it was yours, give us an update.

Is Hannah putting resthome pee in it?

Wow, cool! What's the back story? How did it come to be parked up for a decade? Well done.

Fugg. It's been ages. I got a WOF on this for the first time in 4 years.it still had the LPG in it from when I swapped to the big tank. I ran out of enthusiasm for the rust repairs so it sat for ages. I paid someone to fix the remaining rust, paint it etc. Then ran out of enthusiasm again. Finally got my ass into gear, pulled all the grille lights bumper etc to bits. Gave them all a good clean, repaint and polish then put it all back together. Big thanks to Bart @RUNAMUCK for donating a replacement eyebrow trim. It's made all the difference. I also made up a new stainless crankcase breather setup. It seals with o rings and seems to have stopped the breathing problem. In saying that I really given it the curry since I fitted it. Anyway. I've owned this car for 19 years and it's finally the way I envisioned it to be. It'll probably blow up now and I'll be back at the start. We'll see. Here's some pics. I need to stay away from crappy straight six Australian cars.

I made a Killdozer body for a Tonka Bulldozer.

Spotted on my Instagram feed recently.

80s Mitsubishi. Smokey. Who knew?

Hi Alex. Have you considered a balance or X pipe between the banks before the muffler? I'm not %100 on the science, it does help smooth the sound and quieten things down though. The J pipes are interesting. I wonder how they work? Increasing the muffler volume? IDK. What is the shift pattern? is it conventional 5 speed?

Clint. I'm worried about you.

Well done Alex. I'm delighted the gearbox concept works!

This weekend.