Valiant

Yeah it gets fucking hot too, I can feel it on my legs driving it. One of the kids just about put his hand on it yesterday, just as well I was the only one that saw it.

Yeah it's quite something. There's a bunch of spares too. It's fucking hilarious to drive.

This isn't mine but I think It's relevant to this thread. I helped my neighbour bring his new Ransomes crawled and implements home today. The crawler is MINT and runs like a clock. I spent a good part of the afternoon taking my kids for rides up the drive, road verge, and foot path. I'll do some more on mine at some stage.

well done Josh. I particularly enjoyed the story of retrieval.

Rural Lyfe!

If it was a 4.0 that would be quite likely. Kirk, is that at French bay? Edit. Is it a LSD rear?

Part Master sell Mount Shop stuff, from memory. Transport wholesale places often have lots of mounts, might be worth a look.

Cool. I <3 e series Falcons.

Yep that's the one.

He worked out of a shed at the van wreckers, there was van parts and bog dust everywhere, the guys who work there were smoking a lot of cigs whilst working on vans, bumpers and such, also when I went to pick up the fuel tank we were getting fixed there was quite a vicious argument going on.

There is a guy in Vagues Road that is pretty good.

Could do.... Pm me.

Rust repairs. Left rear quarter inside and out side. There is a lot of shapes to work out here... Nearly done now.

Leave home earlier. Nobody can sleep due to excitement.

In a nutshell. Yes. That is my plan.

I'll give you a rub down with the same rag afterward Andy.

Thanks, but no. When it's going I'll give it's track frames a clean, grease it, and maybe give the body a wipe with an oily rag.

Another piece in the puzzle. Air intake and filter done. I picked this Donaldson air cleaner up the other weekend, mounted it so the intake in lined up with the hole in the bonnet,and made a duct to the carb. And recycled the can that came with the crawler.

Thanks Kirk. I've got no plans to paint it. It might get water blasted around the tracks but that'llbe it.

Nearly four months. I haven't given up on this or forgotten about it, just been tied up with other stuff. Has a working clutch now. It's Datsun ends crimped onto a new inner and outer cables. It feels like it'll work well. And... an exhaust. It's quite recycled, left overs from the Anglia exhaust, piece of water pipe etc. The muffler and rain cap cape came from a tractor supplies place, it was surprisingly cheap.

Ball joints, wheel bearings, and suspension bushes sorted. Both ball joints have been rebuilt by HBI Engineering. I've re bushed the inner and sway bar mount bushes, and fitted a new set of wheel bearings to both sides. Just some rust to fix. Here's some broken stuff.

You can run a remote booster on your front circuit only alot larger of older cars ran a system like that. I have a VH40 under the dash on one of my Valiants to boost the front brakes, It works well, the car pulls up nicely with unboosted rear discs. I found it was quite alot of plumbing under the dash when I did mine and you can hear the booster working when you are driving. It doesn't make your dual circuit into a single circuit, the booster goes inline in either circuit you decide to use it in. As mentioned above, I have another Val with no booster, it stops fine too just needs a bit more pressure on the pedal. You might find that your brake pedal has two holes for the master cylinder pushrod on the brake pedal. One closer to the piviot for un boosted opperation the other further away for boosted options. I'm not saying what you should do, just that all three options can work.

I could be keen on them. How wide and what offset are they?

What's happening with the old D Windows?

T5s are quite popular in the States I think. http://www.carcraft.com/howto/116_0609_t5_transmission/viewall.html They are quite specific to what they were fitted to, Holden ones have a long input shaft, Camaro ones are leaned over (from memory)etc.