Well, I finally spent some time and got it sorted. Conan had got it back to Q/town so I packed up the car, grabbed a trailer and went and got it. Left Chch at 2pm and straight to Q/town. Conan's mate seemed to think snow was on the way so loaded up and hit the road back to Chch. 4am and we got back, dumped the car at my bro's (Ta bro) and headed back to Beaver town. A couple weeks later and I got some time off so headed back down with the Lux on a trailer to do the swap (thanks to Supralux and his amazing shed!)
What fun to get the 5m out
Thanks Ric for the panelbeating highlift!
One whole day to get the engine ready to come out!
one hour to have the 16r ready to come out of the Lux! Damm cars rolling down hills
With engine out we thought, Why not Power steering? Yeeha!!
Ok done....
Now put engine in
and re power the Supra for it's trip to sims (Sorry ric but the seats had to go!)
Steve had one of those ideas and told me to chop the back off my ute? Yeah ok, but only if you tack it back on? Yep one shortened deck later
a whole lot of plumbing, a body lift so we can close the bonnet, put a whole lot of other stuff back on and she was ready to go back on the trailer and we headed home.
Chch - Kaikoura, sweet.
Just north of KK
and a quick call to one of my customers down there and they sent me up a trolley jack to get me a new tyre on (Big thanks to Dicko and guys from Caltex Kaikoura, They Rock
). Woops i think i picked up a bit of metal from sims and a slow leak, Damm single axle trailer, oh well a slab of speights and a new trye still cheaper than a tandem hire for a week!
Home
and I have to do some other stuff, Drive shaft off to the father inlaw so he can take some length out of it and I spent weekend tryin my hand at welding (badly 
) oh well, ugly as heak but seems strong and makes less noise now
Now whats left on the to do list?
*Get drive shaft back and send the front one away for lengthening
*wire cooling fan up
*shift trans mount (will need to get someone with big welder for that)
*finish welding deck back on
*put sounds in
*Get dirty
*Get muddy
*Get slippery
*oh yeah, then take the truck out!
Nearly there Whew!
