Sheepers latest Ms75

[Taistorm]

Saw this thing about a week or so ago parked up outside a shop off target road in wairau. Knew it was yours.

[kiwi808]

Nice work on being all legal beagle! Always a pleasure to watch your builds and your metal magic.

[sheepers]

cheers man! 

im fucking turbo stoked that i can actually do a couple hours work on anything without my back fucking out.

gotta be real careful though.............

[kyteler]

That bumper is quite red. 

[yetchh]

I love it when I see classics used as shelving.. Makes my situation feel a whole lot more normal. 

[Yowzer]

[Nominal]

20 minutes ago, Yowzer said:

Should be worth 20c at the scrap yard.

[sheepers]

37 minutes ago, Yowzer said:

fucking premo!

do you have the adjuster as well?

 

pm me your bank deetz and ill cash you up

[yetchh]

@sheepers Have you ever considered one of the retro sound mp3 players Link so you dont need to have an out of place modern head unit? They're pretty sweet little units.. 

 

*edit.. They make one for a cruiser, should fit a crown.. 

https://www.retromanufacturing.com/products/1972-78-toyota-land-cruiser-fj40-hermosa-radio?rq=yr_1972~mk_toyota~md_land-cruiser-fj40&variant=29743800067

[sheepers]

yea i thought about that style but im happy with the modern head unit being there.

and part of what i wanted to do was leave all the origional radio set up intact and still working, which it does. 

[yetchh]

Fair call.. 

[yetchh]

Is crazy how power steering changes the whole feeling of an old car.. I put power steering in both my 929 and 121 and the difference was phenomenal, just parking blew my mind as they were both heavy recirc ball boxes with a small steering wheel which made parking a cunt, as bad as my fj55 cruiser. 

Power steering for lyfe.. 

[sheepers]

yea man for sure. the other big thing that really made it different was how fucked the old steering box was.

it had a tight spot exactly on straight ahead so to make a tiny correction to direction on the motorway you would turn a tiny bit and nothing would happen, then turn a bit more and nothing would happen, then it would bet over the tight spot and fuck off across the lane. it sucked.

it does not do that now.

next big ticket item is to put the 4 stage auto in.

[JustHarry]

/manual conversion

[sheepers]

yea, na.

im kind of liking the auto. because theres no clutch pedal i can rest my left leg against the fire wall and i fit better. dont have to move the seat back like i usually do.

[Yowzer]

I have plenty of 5MG flexplates, shall drag one out and have a look see.

You changing to a A42/A43?

[sheepers]

Fucking ace.

Yea going from A30 to A43DL.

You around tomorrow? I might come down and grab it if that's cool

[JustHarry]

Do you have a link for the springs and shocks you used?

How's ground clearance?

[sheepers]

front springs are XY falcon i think, they are "tunable" in that they have a couple of coils at the top that are wound touching each other so you can cut a coil off and its dosent effect the spring.

the rears are toyota Previa springs (i think) that i got compressed.

shocks are all custom bilstien but i believe the fronts started life as left overs from the  HQ race series.

Ian at racelign suspension in Mt wellington will be able to sell you the correct springs. he loves toyota crowns. 

[JustHarry]

The springs I think I'll just cut the fronts as they sit way up in their tower so will sit fine 

The rear shocks are the big issue for me as I count find any off the shelf short enough with the correct mounts.

I've got some kyb high pressure gas shocks in the back st the moment as it was all I could get