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  1. Hi @ajg193it looks like this has gone to a great home. What are your plans for it? It was shaping up to be an awesome little car
  2. Hi @Mr.Mk1. I think if anyone can rehabilitate this its you. Keep up the good work. Can I have a pic of the balljoint socket? Thanks.
  3. Thanks @63Ragtop. Glad you like the project. I got more reassembled and jigged up tonight.
  4. Use an 8mm spherical rod end from the bearing shop. You will need to trim the old end off and weld some threaded rod or a tube nut etc on to replace it. I've fixed quite a few wiper linkages this way.
  5. Rush of enthusiasm this week. Lots of cleaning, dismantling rims, Started cutting and notching tubes with my lathe tube notching attachment. Works really well. Laid everything out to get an idea of how it'll look. I'm very pleased. This weekends job is to rehabilitate the seat post lug.
  6. If we are talking top ball joints then yes I do have a home made one that works well. @Mr.Mk1 you are welcome to borrow it. In my experience leaving the arms on the car is the only way to get them loose.
  7. Time to make this into more than a wall hanger. Condensed. Further condensed. I found some secrets from the past. One of the lugs has been cracked in a couple of places. It pre dates the crash as both cracks have braze in them. I've ground the cracks out but I cant decide whether to tig weld them now or to leave them as is and fill them with braze when the tubes get brazed in. Anyway I have this .8mm wall chromoly tube from another project I decided not to continue with. So with a rebuilt frame, wheels, and all the old components cleaned up it should work out nicely,
  8. No they aren't there are different input shaft lengths etc. They were fitted to both Holden and Chevrolet V8s though so you could find one with a factory bellhousing etc.
  9. @SOHC I think there is distributor interchangeably between Aussie Cleveland and Ford 429/460BB. If that helps in searching for a replacement. /ling.
  10. Just don't do that to your ones and it'll be fine.
  11. Have you considered getting them re-arched? It's a valid repair. Bellamy and East in ChCh re arch them, I'm not sure about Nelson
  12. It sounds like it the IAC might not be getting a signal from the ecu as it did previously. Can you find the manual bypass screw on the valve (if it has one) and adjust it from there?
  13. Bushes replaced and the Valiant drives nicely again. One of my boys finished year 8 schooling, they have a formal and parents etc are invited to drop their kids off at in front of the school hall pre formal. The valiant beached quite loudly as I was turning onto the field which my son thought was fantastic. Good boy! He was very keen on some school field paddock work. I exercised the utmost restraint and no circles were done. Here's a pic of some previous grass silliness. I put the Superlites on for the school run. Then decided I didn't like them and took them off the next day. I'd quite like a set of these modernized Cheviot Quattro's but the budget won't stretch that far at the moment. anyway that's enough sharnes. I have done some productive stuff too. I got my big fuel tank re tested, blasted and painted. It's slightly larger in diameter and considerably longer than the old one. My calculations suggest it will hold about 20 Liters more fuel than previous which equates to about %30 more. Luckily I managed to fit it into the old tank straps which was a bonus and saved much fucking about. Old. New. I Need to sort out some new ducting as the tank has is designed for 60mm as opposed to 2 inch as before and I'll be ready to run. This tank has a little magnetic gauge sender unit that is miles different resistances to what the factory sender had. It looks fairly simple and I'd like to see about getting it changed so I can use my factory gauge. Has any one in ChCh delt with E Parrot and Sons since it has changed hands? Are Robinson instruments still around? Suggestions please.
  14. That's a cool little cart! Have you considered a remote controlled kill switch? Could could use an Ali Express RC with one servo to trip a micro switch and earth the coil if things were getting a bit hektik.
  15. Sounds and looks like 1/2unf with a damaged lead in to the thread. Mk1 was imperial threaded. Have you got die nut you can tidy that thread up with?
  16. Does it overheat or are you worried by how much the fan cycles?
  17. It won't fry a capacitor in the ecu. That would be very unmitsubishi. Converting to a link would be a good solution especially if you can't find the correct distributor.
  18. I can't see them either which is a pity because it sounds interesting.
  19. I pulled the lower arms out of this today and what a crumbly mess I found. Luckily last time I had it in bits I cleaned all the threads and greased the torsion bar hexes so it came to bits nicely today. after a little grinding and a nudge in the press, good as new, Thanks to Valiant Precision Driving Team captain @cletus for supplying some new rubber bushes. The old bus should regain its razor sharp handling characteristics.
  20. Wow! It's a grower, not a shower.
  21. Low level stuff here but worthy of sharing? The car is still going great, I have taken the computer back a couple of times as the car was prone to kicking back on cold starts and to raise the rev limit slightly. No problems though and no charge so A++ to PAD Racing again. I've been driving the car quite a lot since the last update and noticed that the steering was getting nastier and nastier. The front wheels were squealing on roundabouts etc. I jacked it up and found that the front lower arm, inner bushes have died on both sides, disappointing really, they were only 15 years old! While it's up in the air I have a couple of other things to do, the rear brakes are iffy, I think the wheel cylinders are getting a bit tight, I'll sort that out. The LPG tank is a bit on the small side (about 57l I think) which gives me range anxiety, I also had to mount it back to front when I fitted it which means I can't see the manual level gauge. I have a much larger 80l tank that I will fit to the boot while I'm working on the car. I have a couple of other odds and ends to do, I'll keep you posted.
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