Valiant

This is bigger than you want but It's pretty cool. Has a water tank, hiab crane, and fire stuff is usually pretty heavy duty. Look at those low Kays! http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/trucks/other/auction-1388803877.htm

@scooters that is a Cletrack I'm not sure what model. They also owned Oliver. Cheers Manu!

Play your cards right and you can admire my undercarriage. The car I'm bringing to Hanmer. won't tow it. I don't have time to track it there and back. Call into Chch for a look?

Wow that is cool, it's wider than mine. Thanks Manu, I did beam most of dirt masters 16. Where's the film? I'd like to see it.

Mint truck. I want to see something being crushed with that PTO winch, they're awesomely powerful. Before you Newtech fill the rust holes with the mesh from a fly screen door and/or pop rivet some roof flashing over the holes. That's the approved method as far as I can tell.

Get one anyway.

I know that too. Mitsubishi trucks are OK they don't have SOHC 4G63s in them etc. Any truck 6000kg GVM and under can be driven on a class 1 license but will require a COF if it's over 3500kg GVM. Buy a proper truck, lengthen the chassis and make a four link for the axles? Then you'll get the good commercial diffs, hubs, motor and gearbox. You'll get the option of an easy to fit PTO for a tipper or cane etc. My 2c.

The Power Board had these with a double cab, You might be able to find one of their old cabs to swap. These trucks are pretty good/simple from memory. http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/trucks/other/auction-1388698858.htm Look at the price!

Going out on a limb here. http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/trucks/flat-deck/auction-1387723939.htm

I'll get some T Shirts printed!

Would love to mate. Borrow the transporter and come pick it up. Yeah mate opens it up heaps. One less garden to worry about too.

Long time, no update. I haven't done a thing to this, but I do use it when ever I can. Fixed some potholes and graded the drive today. Been getting ready to do some paving which means lots of base to build up. Why shovel when you can Bulldozer? Hid in the garden. I'll add a choke cable in the future but beyond that all is well.

Oh No! did you put those bearings in Josh?

Burn't out ballast resistor?

Thanks mate. No that's the best part. I love hearing shit yarns about someone who had one back in the day "it was exactly the same, same wheels and everything" You know it can't have been but it's still great to hear the stories.

Yep.

Thanks Alex. I enjoyed that. Good result on the Quad too.

Nice work. Chainsaw pics/details please.

Yeah you're not wrong there, maybe we could drop the instigator off out the back of Hanmer next time.

Hopefully it won't say guard rub anymore, then we can skip straight to the argument about 190e Cosworths.

Wow, this will drive so much better when it's put back together. Have a look at the spring eye and shackle bushes too, I bet they are in a poor state too.

Yeah mate it only took 5 years but I've done it. @yetchh, lowered your Zephyr yet?

Woah 5 years no update. But... I have done some things to this over the last year or so. Converting to LPG wasn't one of them as it turns out, but anyway. I took this to Hanmer last year and in the run up to that I took the opportunity to make a couple of upgrades. First and most important was to fit an LSD for increased hektikness. The car has a Ford 9 inch so finding a center wasn't a problem I wasn't sure about the True Track centers like this one. But I took the plunge and brought one, had it set up with my 3/1 Crown Wheel and Pinion and popped it in. In all honesty it's awesome, it reduced hektikness in all situations except for when required. The car is much nicer to drive in all situations, especially when it's raining. No more inside wheel spinning and twitching about, nice to park and do tight turns etc. Cost a bit to do but well worth it. Next up was to swap the little bucket seats out, it was time for them to move on. When you need new seats, there is no option other than tatty Recaros is there? Ultimately I'll get them recovered in maroon vinyl to match the rear seats etc but for now they are a huge comfort and ease of in/egress upgrade. I also got the sill trims vapour blasted, put the radio delete plate back in the dash, fixed the demister and connected the tubes etc etc. I think most importantly the SS Cragars are a thing of the past. It's now sporting a set of 15/7 steel rims from TWL with AU Falcon centers, I made a jig and welded some threaded lugs onto the centers to hold AP5 hub caps. Anyway pics. I'm very pleased with them to be honest. I'll clean the hub caps up and repaint the Valiant emblems on them. I have plenty to do yet before I'm happy with it. The exhaust needs to be raised, I want to paint the roof maroon to match the wheels, and a bunch of other things. Look forward to another update around 2022ad. Spin some sharns about it here.

There's some classy rust repairs being done here, nice work keep it up. It looks like there are some other interesting projects in the shed with your wagon? This makes me happy TBH, one of my first cars was an Escort wagon. I had the guards and front panel off, made a new radiator support etc too.

Front end rebuild will be the *perfect* opportunity to back those torsion bars off a bit.