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    Locked and loaded. Ready to blow!
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    Good Meet indeed, and thanks all for the positive feedback! Great photos too everyone. Ok to steal (with credit) photos for threads? Cops were pretty GCs, i think they just wanted to see what was up with reports of a 'car enthusiasts' meeting. They may have just been hanging out when people started showing up and decided to hang around, dunno? A good attitude* goes a long way Anyway, they left laughing, and pretty sure without issuing any tickets, tho im sure they could have if they wanted to (self included) They were poking at the camber/tridents combo on Richies trump for a while but i think ol Snoozin barry-sharned them senseless (i overheard talk of certain camber degrees stock and trailing arms when i glazed over...) . Anyway, A+ sharns! (*as in, getting a bunch of 'howzit, sweet bike mang', instead of 'fuck off pigs' probably made a difference)
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    Sexellent. Synchronizing watches...
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    Lucky gas Is cheap over there! With the low roof/big stove I reckon kitchen at the back then so you can stand at the stove, instead of kneel. You could still have bed at the back (I like being able to jump into the side door and get changed and hang out and stuff in the lounge in car parks, its abit less obvious and requires less room) just make the kitchen 'slide' out from under the bed, and/or make a section at the end fold up as a splash back/stop crap going in the bedding - you wont be frying and driving or cooking and sleeping atht same time! You may be able to rig something to hand the bikes above the bed? Just don't sit up in the middle of the night! You might need to get the sketchup going. Also do this:
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    Can you get swiveling captains chairs for these? If so bed at the back for sure!
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    Sweet van, sweet base vehicle. RE the bed location, i reckon it depends on how you intend to use the space, and how much room gets taken by the mattress. In my preferred van layout (LWB Nissan Caravan) the (queen) bed takes the rear length (*snarf) to the sliding door, with the space in front of the bed/behind the seats for getting changed etc, with a side awning/tarp as the main outside. Your van looks a bit shorter and the barn doors suggest to me that the 'lounge/kitchen' space at the rear would be better. Setting up a tarp that accordions out when you opened the doors might make it more usable (stand outside when cooking)? Are you planning on making the bed convertible to seats? (this wastes a lot of space imo, and compromises the comfort of the bed, and i prefer sitting/cooking outside. With your temps this might not be ideal! RE storage, i reckon you want to make as much use of the roof as you can, big racks (doubles as a roof deck?) and all the wet/muddy toy storage up there (bike box?)? If you are super worried about it make the bed a bit higher so it can slip underneath (make the bed height to suit your chosen storage box), but the roof looks pretty low so IDK? 8 months in a van means i would want to prioritise making the interior space as comfortable as possible.
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    Cheers duders, I have a model of it already, blue with white roof, red interior, and black wheels Pretty keen on the 124, but ill see what the boss says about it first! If i do get it I wont be getting onto it for a while - the 125 needs some loving first. I generally like to apply 'if fitted then must work rule' to parts on my cars, and i thought they needed to work along with wipers - might be a vehicle age thing? They didnt check them in the end, but i like to have them and they are now electric.
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    Booked this in for a WoF today. Didnt quite make it all the way. (run out of gas) Lucky i had someone who thought it was flippin hilarious driving the support vehicle Looks pretty cool even busted on the side of the road, but "get the fuel sender working" is now at the top of the list! Ive put about 30l of gas in it since i put the tank back in, and ive driven it maybe 3km, so not sure where it all went! Cruising in traffic. Goes pretty good, but i think i will get the radiator swapped out for a newer one that doesnt leak and maybe a couple of pusher fans. Dash guage reads near the top of normal when its sitting, but the mechanical one reads normal (~90degC), but thats in the lower hose. Up on the hoist. Nice to see the underside from more than a foot away! Guys were pretty happy with it. !!!WOF AQUIRED!!! After that popped around to Mr and Mrs Grants to show off, and went to Burger Fuel for lunch in it, gets lots of looks and thumbs up, and 'what is its?' Swung by the beach for a surf check on the way home No surf, so then made a start on the post-WoF list of things to sort! - Fuel sender - wheel alignment - radiator + fans - door & boot locks (no key for any of them) - more driving!
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    Keen on early start to convoy and many stops along the way. What is the preferred route? (Id like to swing via palmy and pop over pahiatua track but thats for my own selfish reasons and that way other than the track is a bit boring) Safety in numbers. Between all of us there will be sufficient tools, knowledge and parts to strip and rebuild a diff to correct lash, or diagnose and refresh all electrical parts on at least 3 points ignition systems, but no 5mm allen keys. Cant wait.
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    Will hopefully be there in something exciting and new* If not, I will be there anyway in something not very exciting and newer (as in not attended before, its achully quite old)
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    me three! will sort washers this week, for WoF on weekend, and shakedown run to BFmeat, then AKL convoy to Nats (safety a, parts and tools in numbers) thats the plan anyway. Already have AA plus - such a bargain! (i may have already used up the free tows TBH!)
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    Fingers crossed for Nat-sing! Pretty sure all it needs for WoF is to get the windowwashers going, but the foot operated water pump thing is bung (still makes the wipers wipe 3x tho ). I have a Uno colostomy bag with an electric pump built in and a momentarty switch ill put on/in the same place Other things are - I don't have any door lock keys - radiator is a bit leaky - I have driven in total about 3km, this is also the total distance it has been driven in the last 25 years - its a 50 yo Italian car, with (for the time) fancy electrical doo dads, that im not 100% sure on ! - I have personally undid and done up almost every bolt (this is the worst worry TBH) what could go wrong
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    I picked up this a bout a month ago from Penrose (not Wanganui!) Ended up getting it sent from Ralph Moore Autoglass in Sydney who had one in stock, and they shipped it with an MG one for some other bloke to halve our shipping. This week i finally got it installed. Cracking the parts cats screen has not only been a very expensive fuckup but also meant ive pretty much missed cruising this summer. I reused the old rubbers, i cleaned them pretty good but they are a bit cracked and stretched in the corners so i hope they dont leak Sorting out the best surrounds, and had just enough unbroken clips, less 2 And on Pretty happy about the close fit to the opening given all the work i did around the screen top and bottom (not so much about the runs, but thats what accessories to hide them are for!) And paint run hider back on Too much or? Nothing like a pending >1200km road trip to procrastinate on sorting the list of wee jobs to sort and a few miles to put on, before hopefully a WoF Next weekend! If not then id better get the brakes on the 125 sorted! Here is a pic to remind me why I aught to pull finger:
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    Finished off the sink unit, nice teak super yacht ply from my buddy who used to work there. lower shelf is a bit frufru compared with the rest, but meh. Sink drains through the ash tray and out a grommet underneath. i have also added a hand pump tap to a 20L water container that lives under the bed Used up the last of the checkered vinyl to cover the grotty brown panels Went for a surf mission to Port Waikato, had a meet with another high roof caravaneer, a slightly later facelift one. Surf was a bit shite so drove the coast road to Raglan. 2 hours of windy gravel though some lovely country, Raglan was better but still shit, Van went great tho, and looked cool doing it Ive bought some awnings (2xfor $20 each!) so apart from adding something to connect them too above the door, finishing the curtains, a bit of underlay/foam for the bed a nd some minor electrics shes already for missions
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    i wish you were my real dad
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    What stud pattern? If 4x108 boy do i have a deal for you
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    Sooooo, when are you starting on the drum spacers then?
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    Also walked pickapart for awhile to find some more rostyles for the front which should help the looks a lot.
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    Had some Trademe Success! Sold the trailer and scored some bargains. Picked up some good tyres and steel rims (base model 4wd Hilux) for $150, looks slightly less like a special outing bus now Buy my old rims and tyres! http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=1256763818 Scored a near new Best Bars towbar off the tard, and jammed it on. Still need to wire in the plug Grabbed a couple of other random bits and pieces off the dude too Poverty spec To maximum lux-ry mayte Put in the rear speakers (and a shelf) Jammed some carpet in the front for warm feeties So clean, much cams, such valve Made a start on the sink. Same layout as my old van (these E25s are not very different at all form the e24!) This stuff has to fit and ill be getting a seat so its tight Remains of the sink (cheap SS bowl and a holesaw and a plug fitting), need a new hand pump tap/pump and a new bowl/sink and run the waste through the panel out the handy grommet underneath. To a tank eventually, but a bucket for now. This is just storage and hand washing, we do all the cooking and dishes outside, under an awning which i still need to obtain. I only have this pic of it finished, sorry, but you can sort of see the bench top, shelf, mirror and 2x lights, one fluro on the bottom of the shelf, the other on the speaker mount. Still need to get a pump and sink and fit it, as well as Still to do: - finish curtains - awning - roofies? or interior storage for boards - some sort of roof vent, sliding windows or sunroof, because fuck me does it get hot and stuffy in there
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    PM sent
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    Anyhooo, got it home on wednesday, and on Friday after work ripped everything out and gave all the carpets, interior and engine a waterblast, used a whole liter can of cavity wax and put 20mm XPS behind the interior panels. Also some old carpet as underlay under the 'lounge' part. Tidied up the one rusty area (under the drivers feet) Euuugh Stripper wheel and some Phosphoric acid Paint (wooo appliance white!) Today I installed the bed. The side 'pods' are now permanently attached to the van, but the centre part of the bed (a 1200 x 2000 bit of ply) can be easily slid out to convert to a van. Gets the bitches seal of approval. Mrs like it too. Still got black out curtains to make and install, a sink/shelf (Mrs runs contact lenses so running water is a prerequisite), new (from the Caldina) head unit overhead storage? retractable awning for over the sliding door etc. Stoked.
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    So, I sold this about a year ago, i was getting sick of fixing rust every six months and diesel rego was nearly $600 a year. I thought a cool camper trailer would be a suitable substitute. Ahh, nope. After a 4000km roady, the family consensus was - we miss the van I also missed the van and have a watchlist full of stuff, but then this popped up about $3k under the usual asking price and close to work so went and had a look and now its mine ours 2003 Nissan E25 Caravan, LWB. High Roof, KA24DE (petrol 2.4l 16v DOHC) + 4AT , 220km ex-rental goods van (no seats no sliding windows) Its got a few dents and scratches, but engine runs like a top and ITS NOT RUSTY much
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    Trailers now up on Trade me: http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=1250048764 @HighLUX this shape only came out with automagic (even the GT4) aparrently you can use the earlier shape box and pedals as the GT4 uses the 3SGTE engine but its a mission as there is no factory pressings for the clutch pedal etc. This bad boy is AWD with 2l 1AZ-FSE (also used in camry, Rav4, avensis) , 20Xkm, all new fluids new brake pads etc in the last 6 months, bought from my neighbour who had it from about 100km.
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    such a happy widdle face at the end. vw brap gilleez and trappp all too low to steer - perfect combo good shit man! (and everyone that helped!)
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    No Hondaz, no Austinz or Morrissez
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