Jeffs_Emporium Posted August 21, 2021 Author Share Posted August 21, 2021 Have been giving this a good nudge since Wednesday. Mounted the fuel pump where coil was with a STA parts alloy bracket (overnight delivery thursday). Spent infinite time online looking for ¼npt to barb fittings for 6mm hardline to pump and pump to 8mm fuel union on webers. Ordered 3 different sets from aliexpress as I found better ones (elbow) with shorter lead times on shipping. cut back the factory loom and have enough length to relocate coil and hyperpak to where airbox was. Had a bit of a win on parts scavenging when I realized a cut up loom that came a recent 1gge purchase has lots of the plugs I need (alternator, distributor and fan switch) It's been good to find and order a bunch of stuff I need from internet (I seem to have a real battle finding specific shit) Awaiting carter oil pressure safety switch, ⅛bsp brass tee with ⅛npt allocation for carter switch. Also have electric fan relay kit on order and a couple 250 series male/female 6 pin plugs to hook up hyperpak as well as fuel pump relay which I'll run off the carter safety switch. Need to order a suitable coil and a singular 400mm electric fan to manipulate into the factory plastic shroud (I still need to overcome one outlet on radiator on incorrect end and the lack of filler as it was on 5k thermostat housing) 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffs_Emporium Posted August 21, 2021 Author Share Posted August 21, 2021 Whipped the dash out this morning for a couple of jobs-Swap out cable clutch pedal for the hydraulic one I have along with the 3 outlet reservoir -Remove the leaking heater core to source replacement/repair -Browse dash cluster wiring. None of the nz spec km36 came with a tachometer but the ym30/40g and cm30/40 did. The diesel rev range on the cm one is maximum of 6k rpm and have a turbo light which is no good to me. The ym has a max of 8k rpm (only 5500 redline) but it will do Looking at my existing cluster I have a 10 and 12p plug. This example on Yahoo Auction Japan has 3 plugs (10p,10p,12p) I'm guessing the extra plug is likely the extra warning lights along top for the more luxury optional extras. Here's hoping the board is simple enough to just trace what I have and make it work. In the past year of browsing they have all been ¥15000 but this one above is up for ¥7800 so I may as well give it a punt. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffs_Emporium Posted August 22, 2021 Author Share Posted August 22, 2021 Ordered the clutch hardline and fittings from here https://nz.gsparkplug.com/25ft-x-cupro-copper-nickel-brake-pipe-3-16-10-x-male-female-nut-10mm-x-1mm.html $49 delivered for 25ft of ³/16 tube with 10 male and 10 female m10x1 fittings. Had a break from the tedious jobs and whipped off the cam covers for a refresh and to delete the writing from the top of them have just hit them with a filler primer to try make them a bit smoother and will decide on colour overnight/ see what I have available... 7 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jeffs_Emporium Posted August 23, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 23, 2021 Internet success this morning. My friend John has two km51 trucks both with g52 gearbox and e series diff. He measured his driveshaft on both trucks this morning and they are the correct length I need A quick check on megazip with both chassis codes verified both of his trucks use the same part number (37110-28160) Then plugging km51 into yahoo auctions japan I find a driveshaft listed with the following extensive info attached (nz wreckers could learn a lot) Checking megazip with KM51TGQDS tells me this is the part # 37110-28160 also! It comes in at $480 landed with 2-6 day shipping and from the low mileage of 63,575kms will have decent unis which is cheaper than I can get mine shortened and balanced and the plus of being an oem bolt in part. Also noting the chassis number is only 132 numbers apart from one of John's trucks! How cool 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jeffs_Emporium Posted August 26, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 26, 2021 Lowered the front yesterday Waiting on 2" blocks for the rear to level it out. Found the voltage regulator way up by the wipers yesterday so need to figure out how to make a bypass loom in place of it 31 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jeffs_Emporium Posted September 1, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted September 1, 2021 Put the 2" blocks in, rolled the rear guards and fitted the rear pair of brx Never before seen footage of the crusty tailgate. Looks a lot worse than it is due some usefull person touching the whole tailgate up with paint applied with a brush 39 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jeffs_Emporium Posted September 2, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted September 2, 2021 Driveshaft arrival and confirmation it's the correct length! 19 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jeffs_Emporium Posted September 6, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted September 6, 2021 Did some panelbeating to the second skin on engine cover and managed to get it to fit with a few mm clearance. Pretty confident I can get a bit more with a rubber change 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffs_Emporium Posted September 9, 2021 Author Share Posted September 9, 2021 $1600 for a new tailgate is sounding good. Cursed myself 5 1 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffs_Emporium Posted September 14, 2021 Author Share Posted September 14, 2021 Clutch line and fittings has shown up from England and clutch slave from rockauto arrived also, just need to track down a rubber hose to join the two. Need to pull finger on this before we get out of level 4 lockdown really. I think I have mostly all I need to finalize wiring aside from some heat shrink and heat resistant tapes from China 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jeffs_Emporium Posted September 14, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted September 14, 2021 Pulled the vinyl out yesterday to make sure there isn't any gnarly rust and give it all a good clean out Tempted to pull up the sound deadening to rust proof the lot while I'm here. Would really like to replace vinyl with carpet so it isn't so peasant spec as well. It looks like a pretty basic mold to home spec something up. 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffs_Emporium Posted September 28, 2021 Author Share Posted September 28, 2021 Carb manifold got the slim down from Burr engineering Fitted this, using 3 studs and 4 bolts. Then have to wind in the top studs for carbs swing them up from underneath and wind the bottom studs in once in place. I've given myself about 20mm clearance to the side of engine bay and the fuel pump fits in nicely next to the rear carb But the front carb is hitting the seat 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jeffs_Emporium Posted September 28, 2021 Author Share Posted September 28, 2021 Linkage clears all good its just the lid on front carb hitting second skin under seat belt mount. Not too sure where to go from here aside from using a dry sump 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffs_Emporium Posted September 29, 2021 Author Share Posted September 29, 2021 Floor shifter engine cover looks like it has more clearance but probably going to have seatbelt in same place so have the same issue? I almost bought another entire liteace that was floorshift just to try this but came to my senses... 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffs_Emporium Posted October 15, 2021 Author Share Posted October 15, 2021 3 photos of the hydraulic clutch conversion because it's that big of a procedure with 8 or so line clips to run through. I ran a peice of string through all the clips then measured it, rolled it out of my tubing then took to ebc for them to flare. You'll see the different reservoir swapped in with the 3rd line fitting for clutch. I did have a nice round on tube coming off the master cylinder but it was running higher than reservoir outlet and making it hard to bleed. nicely clipped up in the allocated spare tube holder 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffs_Emporium Posted October 15, 2021 Author Share Posted October 15, 2021 Lastly the slave fitted Located an old brake hose with correct fittings to get me from the hard line to slave. Had an issue with the threads in the bellhousing being drilled on slightly different angles which I have overcome by drilling one hole on the slave to 10mm instead of the 8mm it was. With the slave on drivers side under my ass I was able to one man bleed Only think I will need to look at is a way to fit the soft to hardline connection with a solid mount to body. Decided to hook up the starter and try do a compression test. Recieved 100, 150, 150, 100. This engine has been sitting for God knows how long but has evidence of receiving an entire pull down and clean up. Are there any preventative measures I should be taking before trying to start it for real? I'm just waiting for a 3ohm lucas coil that's specd for the hyperpak to show up before giving it a go 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jeffs_Emporium Posted October 31, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 31, 2021 Have spent the morning stripping the hatch with tergostrip to see if there's anything else hiding before sending off to panelbeater. 3 spots of rust where the window rubber holds water in and just the shit load of dents on the bottom 3rd. All the rest looks alright. Will ask for wiper and squirter delete while it's being worked on. 12 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jeffs_Emporium Posted November 21, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 21, 2021 Have been a bit slack on working on this but have word the tailgate is almost done. As much of the bottom straightened as possible and then some filler to sort the rest. Purchased an old fiberglass fixed back to run in this as a bit of a tester to see how bad the shipping prices from Japan are for them. Who is Alex? I'm not sure but I have a vague memory of flicking through catalogue pages and seeing the name so went for a sift this afternoon. Listed in 1989 CARBOY sports tuning guide from Japan is the 'Mr Alex' fixed seat for ¥28000 Also found my old Bride reclineable which I didn't think was an original upholstery at the time 19 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jeffs_Emporium Posted December 10, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 10, 2021 Fresh lick of 045 glacial white Fingers crossed installing it brings some renewed enthusiasm to get this over the line 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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