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that lever thing should be on the top of that shouldnt it? looks to me like its some sort of choke thingo

New shocks in Tidied up the bumpstops that i chopped New clutch arrived and is now in Cleaned up the gearbox a bit and that's now in and the driveshaft bolted in. It's awesome how everything goes together just how it is supposed to! Inside is almost back together Now to put it back on the ground and take it for a fresh new warrent! Also someone buy these to fund me a new exhaust

I think x60 and x61 are the same. If not im sure they would be close enough to fit. Putting the x71 struts in mine i just had to swap the brakes around a bit as they bolt onto the opposite side of the hub and have a different bolt spacing. So if you get x71 struts make sure ya get the brakes too

yeah i have x71 struts in my x61. they are a little different but it all bolts together one way or another

Manual conversion is underway! 14x9 fits on the front easy! Tidyed up my engine bay Nah not really. hope and dreams! Found the source of the leaking coolant though. Swollen and split where i done the hose clamp up too tight. Also thought i had better replace the crank seal while I'm in here, and this other gasket too The seal has apparently been superseded a couple times and is now a bit narrower than the original?? whatever, it still works. Well itbetter work so clutch kit should be here in the next week or there abouts so it should be driveable again in no time! according to back to the future it will be back on the road next year

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$630 bucks for two or 3 universals fitted and yoke swapped over seems pretty ridiculous to me! Unis are like 30-40 bucks a pop plus about an hour to fit if you know what your doing. or am i missing something? does the yoke need to be modified to suit?

I'm loving this build man! Wish I had the patience to do things so thoroughly and mint like this! Can't wait to see the final product!

and here's the ecu. Pay little attention to the messy wiring!

Got this out for its first road test this weekend! be it a very small noisy and dodgy road test! Everything seems to be working fine, except the cover on the back of the gbox rubs on the driveshaft making a horrible horrible noise. Also sussed out the speedo cable problem i had. The gbox end of the galant one originally had a square drive and the new box has this which uses a keyway type thingo. As luck would have it an EX Lancer has a cable with that end and the speedo end is identical to the galant. It was also slightly longer which made fitting it that much easier! it even seems to be reading pretty much correctly - 5-10km low. Since i probably won't be painting this for some time i've been toying with the idea of putting on some old racing livery on it. Started with this but it came out a little average some thing like this tickles me

So once i got the oil and filter on it was time to push this out of the shed, fill it with water and fire it up! So shortly after filling with water i proceeded to try start it up. It done about 2 cranks and then would not crank anymore. hmmm whats going on here? FUCK this is not good!! so it turns out i might have put a water line to a port in the inlet mani which wasn't supposed to have water go in it. This subsequently filled the bores with water nearly hydraulicing the engine! luckily it didn't fire! Had to take the whole intake apart which sucked. Anyway after all that it started and run! woooo hooo! After all that i finished up wiring for the most part. Shit i hate wiring. Replaced all the shitty 30+ year old mitsi plugs with deutsch plugs. I still need to make a new cable from the battery to starter to tidy it up a bit and extend the air flow meter wiring. Also got the ecu mounted all mint but didn't take any pics of that so you'll just have to take my word for it. Video of running (no trans fluid though oops) http://instagram.com/p/umbo13qZaw/?modal=true Got the drive shaft all installed and the car actually moves under its own power now!! had a small panic when i backed it up and remembered it had no brakes. Would not have been such a successful day had i ended up backing into the mark 2!

Thanks for all the help guys! I drained all the oil out, turns out there was a fair amount of water in it. Luckily the new oil hadn't made it to the new filter yet! Was pretty gutting going back to rapeco today to buy more oil at full price that was 45% off the day before! Anyway I got it running today and the engine isn't fucked. WOOOO!!

My one is 675mm end of the yoke to the middke flange

Just put new oil and filter it about 5 mins before hand too

It was supposed to be the first start! I dont even know if it was gonna run or not. Iy did about 2 cranks before the starter couldnt turn the engine anymore

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Ok so I had a pretty good fuck up and I put attached a vacuum line to a water line, filled my engine with water and proceded to try and start it. It didnt start. So hoping that I havent cracked the head or anything what can I do to get the water out of the bores? I took the intake mani off and emptyed that haha and removed plugs and cranked the shit out of it. But I feel there is still probably a bit of water in there? Will I need to replace the oil now too or should that be ok? I cant see water on the dipstick.

So where are the rebuild kits available from? Had a quick look on trademe but didn't find any. What are they worth?