cheers, will look into that...

yeah well I never had any problem driving around in the city, but apparently there is a police college out this way somewhere and they often put up road-blocks for 'training purposes'. haven't encountered one yet but don't want to push my luck. as such just putting something on for the wof won't cut ...

...in reasonable / decent nick so I can get them widened 50mm to cover front tires. Have recently moved from AKL out to Helensville and the local garage won't give me a WOF (was never a problem in the smoke) and tells me the police out here will ping me $200 each time they stop me. Willing to do a ...

anyone got a driver side fglass guard kicking around in reasonable nick, preferably up auckland way? of a steel pair I guess if okay condition? collected a small hatchback under the drivers door / kick flap area at the weekend and it has rooted the guard. fortunately my insurance covers their (more ...

lol, its easy with a couple pairs of pliers, shoulda said you needed one when you were down and i could have made one while you waited done that powersteering yet? nah - bought a house - has put things on hold. mind you didn't realise i was missing the damn thing until i had the engine recond ...

what it's supposed to look like, with the link thing about the 5oclock position...

cheers

just bend one up outa NO8

ta ben. already tried that with some wire coat-hanger but couldn't get it to fit properly...!

cheers!

having just lashed out coin that could have far more sensibly been spent on te mortgage to get the engine recon'ed, we find that i am missing a whajamacallit - thingy that attaches to the secondary butterfly valve on my carb. have to get the engine re-tuned anyway as last time i did there was f-all ...

well i have a ute roof now now after doors the twist handle doors keen to swap for some fibraglass half doors or buy outright thanks allmud pretty sure i have a pair of twist type handle doors i don't need, think the glass broke in one though. will check it out for you, might be a week or so until ...

pedro, thanks, am braking accordingly but more worried about emergency braking - she just locks up into a skid and i don't want to be in an uncontrolled situation if i can help it.

skid, thanks, i think that's what i'm after, i guess any brakes place can sort me out?

have swapped over the front axle and now have discs on the front ('81 FJ40). sweet - brakes in a straight line, and pulls up hard - too hard. a little inattention and it's easy to lock them up, even at low speeds stepping on the brake hard will induce a skid. brakes coming on too hard?? is ok in ...

you wouldnt happen to live on sandringham road directly opposite that once lunch bar outside eden park would you? i normally see a FJ40 under wraps under the car port[/quote] i might!! not so much under wraps these days now that it is running and has the soft top on it, but i try and keep it under ...

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=207303273 there you go guys Taken from my house in the auckland mt eden/kingsland region (close to eden park) I must be just round the corner from ya. B*stards. didn't see anything i'm afraid. think i need to get the insurance on the truck upgraded ...

That's a nice looking 40 Zebedee. Reckon it would be a shame to rough it up aye - as i learned on that excursion, not every track in woodhill is meant for 4 wheels. and with no lid on i ended up with an awful lot of tree parts in the truck. oh, and it's embarrassing to have to come out backwards ...

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_vRf_onSZLnI/SZJ6FfVrMVI/AAAAAAAABIc/DCZP1JqZsz8/s720/DSC_1258.JPG http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vRf_onSZLnI/SZJ6CWUyUbI/AAAAAAAABIY/wWQxOUMYg0c/s720/DSC_1254.JPG http://lh3.ggpht.com/_vRf_onSZLnI/SZJ6H7bhYcI/AAAAAAAABIg/cBBNKOI-6QM/s720/DSC_1261.JPG yeah, bit of a show pony but i love ...

i had some old retensioned springs on my FJ40 which gave it a nice 3" lift - until i went offroad over christmas and the front ones went completely flat - and stuffed the shocks. guy at the garage said he'd never see any go so flat without broken leaves!! have put in OME dakar springs on the front ...

ta for the input. have some already so i'll have a look and see how they line up at least - custom sounds, umm, well expensive. not that running a 40 with a 6.6L engine was ever gonna be cheap, but THE LIST keeps growing. you know how it is....sort the caster due to recent spring lift, organise roll ...

anyone have any experience with putting block huggers on a SB Chev 400? I bought some huggers, but an engine reconditioning guy I spoke to said he did it once (in a cortina, mind!!) and it reduced the torque he was getting. took 'em off and put the standard extractors back on. well before i put them ...

Your'e lucky he finished the other sausage roll. Otherwise it would have been a 1/2 sachet and 1 1/2 sausage rolls Have always been more partial to a pie, meself.... deal! ha!! no take backs... right, whens delivery? not all pies are equal, nibs. can't even begin to think of signing her over until ...

rokhound wrote:Your'e lucky he finished the other sausage roll. Otherwise it would have been a 1/2 sachet and 1 1/2 sausage rolls

Have always been more partial to a pie, meself....

niblik wrote:well, that cruiser looks like an absolute hunk of shit and wont pass the next wof.. what a bad purchase. tell ya what, i'm a nice bloke, i'll take it off ya hands for a sausage roll and half a sachet of mcd's sauce... cant get fairer than that.

only half a sachet??

so in summary you have traveled a bit, bought a fair bit and ended with 1 all legal 40 and a coup1e of "doners"!!! MINT! great read zedebee yer right. but not the end of the story. was back in jafaland, flatting with friends and looking for a job, and sherman (the red truck, bit of tank) wasn't ...

i guess a 40 by the bids on stuff on trade me and the thread/story of 40 ownership etc.... nibs, you'd be right - SWB FJ40. I missed out on one on trademe a few weeks ago, went for $260 - kicking myself for not clicking buy now at the time. cheers fr the suggestions will check those 2 places out ...

Spent my time in Northern Burma where I had a WW2 era dodge M37 to rattle around in. Rattle being the operative word. 6 months later, headed back to NZ and an old friend from the UK (who lives in Africa) was in NZ and wanted to do a road trip round the south island. I was WELL up for that, had been ...

Window shopping on TdMe and I came across a guy (Gary) with a registered (on hold) '40 project with chassis and axles all done, certed Chev V8 conversion, front DB but rooted body. Oh, and his mum wanted her garage back and he;d kind of given up on it. But he did like my wheels and tyres. Did a ...

Wanted a cruiser again, saw a few on TdMe, then saw this one and couldn't resist. Sure it was deRegistered, but it looked like a hell of a lot of fun and I was a "bit" naive about what would be required to get her back on the road... http://lh4.ggpht.com/tallnobby/SNNIb6PJzjI/AAAAAAAAAws/Z0JXG8QGfJQ ...

In the beginning....was working in Trinidad and Tobago, and saw a poor, neglected '40 sitting in a lot on the side of the road. I'd been shopping for a vehicle a bit more solid than the ever-present Suzuki tin can rentals, and thought it would do the job. Bought it, had it sent to a shop for a tidy ...

anyone know of one in striking distance of auckland?? or alternatively a good fabricator who can work one up for me without costing the earth?? cheers