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Boom bit of a casual update.

have changed the trans out, SO I now have over drive

I have to say, it was the best mod I have done to that car. My god. cruises at 100km nicely!

And then, over christmas, was passing through Masterton on the track, so I caught up with Von Mako, and got some sweet pin stripping done!

So, ........... I may have decided that maybe the pin stripping is in fact the best thing I have done to it haha

So thanks Heaps man, You are a ledgend! And fucken well priced!

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Jeah tramp stamp!

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oooooooooooooooooooooooh Right

So this weekend Is the Weekend Of the 4 and rotary Jamboree at Manfeild, and I have been asked to enter this in the show under the oldschool name, So I am!

So figured better change it up again. So i got the 14x8's stripped and powder coated Jet black. They look freaken amazing, although I did equally like just rusty steels as they suited the rat look of the wagon.

ANywyza

In prep for runnign the wheels, i had to do some mods. Last time I tried to run these wheels the selector on the auto was the lowest part of the car, and over mild bumps it would smash into first. not good! So I had a play and have managed to get it nice and high, and still working sweeeeeeeeeeet as!

I also made a smash plate for the sump, as it has some pretty sweet scrap marks on it, and I'm worried if it gets more its going to start leaking haha. So glad one devision of my work is engineering, Made cutting and bending 3 mm steel real real easy!

So with those mods, took it for a drive today (bought some fancy wheel nuts too, THEY ARE RED!) and its really good. The exhaust is now the lowest part, and only scrapes on the odd bump. So have figured out how that could be fixed, but not before the weekend.

And I also have a collection of Old toristy flag things (two thanks to Kelvin, you great man you), but they didnt fit over my CB ariel. SO thanks to the use of my lovely mother she unstiched and re sewd them for me, and cleaned up the edges so the dont fall apart!

And on top of that she made a custom one for wellington haha. I love mums. (IRL)

Also spent a few hours polishing the chrome. Fuck its easy to forget just how much difference it can make. Should do it more often, but I hate doing it haha

Anyway. pics.

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And yeah. Boss hog

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Oh Right. So today is offically 6 months since I got the old girl back on the road and legal.

And in that time I have had the most fucken fun out of a car (well maybe, what i should say is the most use)

Its been so trouble free and epic,

have done 4200 miles in those 6 months, not to bad i think for an old bus.

Events Covered

Hawkes Boes

New years

Wag nats

Kumeu

4 and Rotor Jamboree

OS Nats

plus other cruisers etc

Would like to thanks Spencer really for telling me I should buy it and giving me a sweet price. He did all the hard work, I just did what needed to be done for legal driving.

So Anyway, hats off to you Mr Crown, you have been serving me well over the last few months. Where to from here only time will tell, but there are plans, and they should be good. However depending on the plans this maybe coming off the road for a bit, un sure as of yet.

Also Won 'How is that so slammed' at oldschool.co.nz Nats, so pretty happy about that!

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6 months to the Day!

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How is that so slammed

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Jeah!

Watch this space

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yeah mother fuckers

Just pulled this out of storage the other day to get ready for its new owner.

On the trip back to work i got pulled over by a cop who was very much, how is this so slammed, and why do you not have a wof or reg since April

But whatever, I told him the situation of how I was taking it to work out of starge, so he gave me 14 days complaince on getting both wof and reg sorted.

today, I did this, with very fuck all work

Just stands to show how fucken sweet this ride actually is

VTNZ WOF, failed on brake balance, took about 30min to fix and bomb, done.

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think i should finally own up to being the proud new owner of such a fine vehicle,

unfortunately within a couple of weeks of ownership the cops stopped me outside the whangarei drifting round on my way home and gifted me a pretty pink sticker......

so off to vtnz again, this time they must have had a bad day and failed on allsorts

main issue being cert for lowered suspension, cert for not having swaybar in front, left lower balljoint and left inner tie rod end.

after much searching turns out can nolonger buy replacment balljoints or tierods for this as there is no stock left in nz. so time to try australia i geuss...

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update time, progess is happening on this....

so after going on a trip to napier and getting all spare parts for crown off mr seedy al i searched through parts and found, brand new inner tie rod ends and good condition balljoints. also theres all origanil bumpstops and springs shocks etc.

so today replaced lh inner tie rod and lh lower balljoint, next thing to do is put standard bumpstops and sway bar in for wof spec. cert can wait i just want pink sticker gone for now and it legal for nats

watch this space......

chur

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Guest ruff kunt automotive

so i now own this fine automobile done the deal with cholo got it with a suspected run bearing

i got stuck into it on saturday and got the engine ready for removal on saturday with the help of the bros

early sunday morning i removed the engine and nip into town to get bolts for the engine stand cheers bradybro for letting me use his bmw

monday night the old man and my self got stuck into stripping the engine to try find the source of the knock!

we cam up stumped with only finding a a few scoured bearings

today old hulse12 came round can help me fully strip the engine all the sump bolts were loose as and cleaned her up cheers bro then tonight after work hulse came round with mike who was / is a engine recondtioner had him lend a hand.

the verdict isnt good

the bad:

big ends show signs of knocking for sometime

mains will need replacing

oil pump is poked

number one cylinder has same markings that are quite bad! this will need to be re sleeved or have bigger pistons throughout / block hadit.... rest of the block is in mint condition measures up with no taper ect! very low ks

valve springs are soft

chain tentioner fucked / chain

the good

the crank measures to be at the lowest book reading

pistons and rings in good condition

i have found parts ex usa for these

$140nzd landed for oil pump

$210nzd for rings bearings and gaskets

overall prity gutted! but now have to decide weather to bite the bullet and fork out or try find a second hand engine or do a engine swap! i love this car i do believe its well worth it but im working with a tight budget and i need this going asap as will be the daily driver (curently borrowing cars)

if anyone knos were any 4m engines are or parts pm , decus me ect

or any good deals on new engine parts

cheers josh!

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Guest ruff kunt automotive

so while i wait for the news from the engine reconditioneers i decided to slap the other 14x8 falcon rims on has this was half the reason she died from reving her brains out!

i think i looks lush!

excuse the mud ride height

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cheers boes!

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OH OK boes! we have a update!

 

just got back from the oldschool rib night fucking good lol!

 

well been waiting a long arse time from my parts to arrive from the states and today the FINAL one showed up! we have a happy padgett on our hands!

 

should get my block back thursday or friday, then roll on the weekend we might have the girl back on the road mint!! 

 

P.S can some one change the thread title from rb drifter? same with the sedan thread? cheers Padgett

 

the box ive been waiting on!

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brand spanking new oil pump!

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also i got this meu of abel for spare parts cheers bro

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and ill leave you with a cheeky crown pic!

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well update brothers!

 

this old girl is alive again re born 2/6/2013 wooo

 

done heap of work in last few weeks to get this on the road but news of a school mate passing drew the final straw and got stuck in to drive the close bros to his funeral in the wagon. so rather stoaked only ran into minor problems like no brake lights, no headlights and no wipers but got all of those issues sorted

 

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head cleaned in parts washer with new valve seals in place

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lapped in all the valves

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cleaned  valve springs

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head all reasembled

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got my block back from being sleeved and hit it with gloss black

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this little bastard cost $236 from toyota mannaged to score it for $100 gotta love old stock

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just been dailying driving her and loving it whooo!

 

cheers bros

 

 

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