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Getting closer to dropping the motor and box in the chassis, just need to do rear main seal and fit new clutch kit and the chuck the box on

cheers! only just seen this, will give you a txt

will be following this build 1200 coupes are choice, what motor will you be putting in?

got the head back on, blocks been painted, valves been lapped and stem seals replaced, new head gasket. next up finish cleaning up the timing cover, inlet mani, rocker cover and other alloy bits and start piecing back together. haven't touched the bottom end or gone overboard with it as my plan is to drive it with this engine for a year or two then fit a mx5 motor and deal with cert ect.

awesome build, love the droopsnoot front looks so cool, be cool to see the twin cam in!

cool van! it will be cool all redone original

ssr's look the business mate, the under bonnet art is pretty choice too

removed the head today, gasket sets have arrived and also brought a workshop manual its pretty handy having all the info on how the entire ute comes to pieces, pretty much ready to start cleaning everything up and piecing it back together, also the uni joints and driveshaft hanger bearing arrived too so that can be pulled apart and painted.

dropped the chassis onto its wheels today and rolled it out so i could have a good clean up in the shed ready to move body around so i can start to strip it bare, also have pulled everything off the engine to clean it all up, going to bead blast all the alloy parts and paint engine block black, not too long until i can drop it all back into chassis then cover it up and push it to the side

got my tyres today, have had rims blasted and painted, not long now until chassis will be rolling again, have also cleaned gearbox up and started on drive shaft, have got new hanger bearing and u.j's on the way. also have started pulling down the engine to a short block to clean everything up and replace gaskets ect

small progress, stripped, painted and anti-seized/greased a spare wheel winder mech

Love the van! and that supervan is so sweet, had a quick look on the net and the super van run quad carbs http://www.rebelvanners.co.uk/SUPERVANS.htm My old boy has this sitting in the garage would look pretty choice in there

these arrived today from phils rotaries in brisbane look pretty good going to save some time in the rust fixing department, recommend phils they were really good and easy to deal with be good to get rid of these holes!! got the fuel tank all back in and bolted up and shave pulled to bits/cleaned up the spare wheel winch it was seized up good bit of paint and some grease and it'll be good to go again

its looking good man nice work on the strut towers very cool, 1500 is coming along good mate not far off finishing chassis and starting on the body and yeah still down stoke mech with preston, yeah good things take time don't they!

looks good rolling again Matt love your work good stuff!

Just seen your comment, cheers man not too far off getting stuck into the cab will be getting the floors and sills sorted soon and get rid of the rust.

also fitted the sway bar with new D bushes and link bushes. and the steering is almost back together have put the idler back together with new bushes, replaced all four tie rods, and had the ball joint in the steering arm sent away and re-conditioned, is there any thing in the steering box i should do while its all out? fuel tank all painted up had the steelies sand blasted and primed need to get painted or powder coated soon so i can fit the whitewalls and get it rolling again. after the tanks back in will start getting the motor box and drive shaft all cleaned

made some more progress lately have got all the brakes sorted, brand new cylinders and shoes all round, cleaned up all the hard pipe. bit of a weird set up having two cylinders each corner and a bleed nipple every cylinder. have also cleaned up and painted fuel tank and checked sender unit, 1st tank i started to clean up turned out a bit rusty and when i was wire brushing it holes started appearing where it had got so thin luckily the other tank i had was solid as and cleaned up well. sender unit went from approx 130 ohms at full down to roughly 5 ohms at empty (sound about right?)

have got most of the front suspension back together today, replaced wheel bearings, waiting on wheel cylinders now to finish it off, next job get sway bar and steering back together. Also scored some 14" copper trendsetter whitewalls, need to get rims painted and clean up hubcaps ready to chuck them on and get it rolling again

pressed in the lower control arm bushes and assembled top arms, dummied up the ball joints, bump stop and spindle to work out how much of the the spring i need to stay captive. have trimmed up a pair of springs to suit (have a couple of spare pairs if its too much off). next on the list is some new bolts for ball joints and clean up the bump stops, strip and paint the backing plates/drums and get the wheel bearings sorted then may be able to get it back on some wheels next weekend, have got some wheel dollies to put it on and then will cover it up and push it to one side things are going to get messy stripping back this cab and well side! Few boxes of all the new bits, starting to add up but it will be worth it

Made a good start at cleaning up the front end, painted the control arms also cleaned up a lot more bits ready for paint. wallets taken a hit buying all the new bushes, ball joints, top arm rods, tie rods ect, hopefully its going to drive really nice in the end. finally chewed out the twist knot wire brush cup I've been using to clean everything up with, pretty happy with the life i got out of it

I've used wurth plastic dye in the past if your just wanting it back to black? it worked pretty good

Made some decent progress today, re-assembled most of the rear end back together, pretty happy with how its coming along , waiting on some wheel cylinders to turn up to get the brakes back together. starting to clean up all the front end now. found replacement floor pans in aus and sills here so need to get some of them and start getting the cab rust free

finished painting up diff, leafs ect starting to look good, etch primed, stone guarded then finished with a satin black, painted drums with some engine paint, new bushes for leaf springs have turned up now just waiting on wheel bearing kits and diff pinion seal. need to make some 2" blocks and get some longer U-bolts also. will be good to get something back on the chassis to boost motivation!

hey man don't happen to have a spare boot or know of any around?