What Did You Do On Your Car Today+ - V2.0  

GTS192

Finally sent the rest of the parts off to COME Racing. Time to be built.

GTS192

Also bought the son a 1973 HJ40 soft top.

Edit: His first car.

mark1414

Where did you get that and how much? If you don't mind me asking.

OT: Hooked up boost controller. Interesting on wet roads testing it..

Geoff

Edit: no need for post.

CactusSupreme

I put in my spacers, cleaned it, took some photos and posted it in members rides.

Zimma

Got the speakers fitted, wired up, after much fucking around got the door trims back on... Went to start the car and the battery was flat.

rolla boi

Tuned my stereo properly after fitting my complete system on the weekend. Back to saving for my halfcut again...

HarleyJace

I got it off a mate for $50.

There around on yahoojp.

Rileys

led parkers and number plate lights.....apart from the headlights all the "yellow" lights are now nice white led's

anyone used normal bulbs that are actually white? every light ive ever used claimed to be white is no more white then any other

Luke

What ones have you tried?

I've got Narva Arctic Blues, they look nice and white with a slight blue tinge at night.

Geoff

Settle in with a drink and a cut lunch because its that fucking time again. What time is it? Bush Mechanics time, bro.



It all started when the rear/right axle went walkabout when out mustering cattle a few weeks ago - just shot right out of the diff. Weehoo, that can never be good. Closer inspection revealed that the bolts mounting the axle face to the wheel hub were sheared completely and the hub sustained a little bit of damage and all 6 bolt halves stuck in the threads. I dont have access to a full workshop here in sunny Leonora (although what i do have access to is pretty sweet) so drilling, re-tapping and repairing the face of the hub was in the too hard basket unfortunately (If only i knew what was to come!). So its sat in the yard doing stuff all for a couple of weeks until i got off my arse and did something about yesterday/today.

So on bricks she goes, off comes the wheel and out comes the rag i put in place of the axle to stop the diff getting full of shit while finishing the day chasing moo cows (It kept driving in 3wd like a boss). After a relatively short space of time the hub/brake rotor combo was off:



Keen Toyota fan eyes will note this HJ45 has disc brakes. Thats correct, the 40 series never came with disc brakes. Now, disc brake conversions arent uncommon so im thinking "Oh bonus someones already done it for me. Must be 75 series brakes!". Note that for later.

Ive taken it back to the workshop, bashed out the wheel studs (gently-ish, so as to re-use them) and after a good soaking of Amacal, some heavy applications of Rubber Mallet and a few naughty words later the rotor separated from the hub. Now you'd be forgiven for saying "But Geoff, this is all very civilised so far - wheres the Bush Mechanics?" Just hold tight, im not lying to you.

Heres the damage to the hub:



All of the axle studs were snapped of and sitting in the holes still, though the photo doesnt quite show that. You can see some hefty guoges in the surface of the hub and most of the threaded holes are now ovalised so its just pretty well rooted all round. Not to mention the axle is cactus'd now that the locating pins went AWOL and the holes got the same footy oval treatment. Shame, the splines and shaft are still mint! Alas, i digress.

Now our local scrap metal king Vern has picked me up this sweet rig for parts, hearing I was in need of some diff goodies and dropped it in the yard:



That saved me driving through the scrub trying to find the aforementioned 60 series to raid. Lucky i dont need much more than diff parts

So ive set about ripping that motherfucker apart because the axle face and hub seem to be in good nick, albeit a little bit dirty. The wheel bearing setup was a little different the one on my Top Deck but it all seemed to be the same size and bearing cups so i thought bugger it. Was a little tricky to undo (Thats the first time ive ever needed to use a 55mm socket :| ) but we got the job done:



NB: The damage i did to the sill with the Hi Lift jack. Bitch please, i doesnt afraid. Now this is where it starts to go awry (everything i do with cars goes awry at some point or another). Ive bashed the wheel studs out of my new hub and noticed they are shorter than my old ones:



Lucky i kept the old ones! I assumed this was to compensate for the difference in thickness between the drum brake setup, and the disc rotor. It probably is. Same thread, same mounting shank so whatever. I'll just use the old ones. This should in theory have been a warning sign that things just werent going to happen. And they werent going to.

Old wheel studs in new hub, time to slide it onto the rotor! Weehoo, fuck that was easier than i though. Erp, it doesnt fit. Why the fuck not?!?! All the dimensions are the same - i measured everything i could with the vernier calipers to make sure they were the same. Except for this:



Old one on the left, new (to me) one on the right. You'll see that there is a ~5mm difference between the centre of the wheel stud hole, and the outside of the hub flange. This of course means the rotor won't fit over it as the hub flange is a total of 10mm wider.

Fuck.

I deliberate for a little while - should i go to this 60 series and start work on that? No, because what if it doesnt fit either. I guess its just time to work with what ive got. Told you the Bush Mechanics was coming.

So i did what any self respecting, car dis-respecting ghetto king would do. Measured the correct-ish circumfrence and scribed a line around it:



AWWWWWW YEEAAHHHHHH.

Its pretty faint so you might not be able to see my line. Anyway, safety first kids:



Evidence of my dogy works:



Things were really coming along nicely! Some toiling with the 5" grinder later i arrive at a good-enough-for-the-bush result of this:



Its anywhere between bang on, and 1.5mm smaller than the old one. Bit wonky there Geoffrey! Oh well, she be right.

There arent many pictures of the following process because i got covered in grease repacking the bearings and what not to be taking pictures with my phone. However, here is the end result:



Like a fucking bought one cus!

Now i only have one predicament and thats that I have no fucken idea what model of toyota disc brakes they are. They are not 75 or 80 series as we had some in the shed to compare to and i dont believe the 60 came with factory rear disc brakes at all after som googling. Theres no discernable part number on them anymore which sucks, but if anyone recognises these, let me know:



Geoff, Boosts king of dodgy fixes........over and out.

truffles

Adjusted camber and resprayed the drivers side door jam.

S2krazie

One long / dodgy way to it...

Go into a Supercheap / Autobarn / Repco and see the Ferodo brake pad booklet.

Go to Toyota section and see what fits snug in the back 'drawn to scale' pictures.
Unfortunately for you Toyotas often have 8 different brake pads for one model car (fucking Camry and Corollas are the worst culprits), however "back in the day" like your cruiser, you should be able to narrow it down some by guestimating the year.

Geoff

Theyre commodore brakes, VK through VR. The caliper is a front caliper, DB1085 pads.

Ive done some research and its an american disc brake conversion kit, that most GM calipers bolt up to. So someones bought the kit and just got the cheapest GM caliper they could at a wreckers i presume.

Got some pads at the one mechanic in town (Nearest auto parts store is ~240km away brad haha).

Silver Surfer

just finished washing the colorado

Akshunhiro

Stripped a thread on an adjustable tie rod end. Happened at low speed coming out of a roundabout which is good. Thought the wheel was about to fall off until I had a closer look. Luckily it happened close to a friend's place and he had a spare pair so replaced both on the side of the road. Got a heap of toe in now though so need an alignment

W1NT3R

Finally got the POS running/driveable...

Twat In The Hat

Roof lining was coming down so I ripped the roof off, peeled the lining, cleaned up the moulded cardboard and relined it with navy blue fleece. Fucking win. I can't stop touching my roof while driving.

TyD

Started stripping my dads car down..


Motor and interior are getting done tomorrow.

AGI78-VP

installed new springs

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kawasaki18

took off tray on my new tonner rewired up gts dash coz last guy was too dipshit to do it right

HarleyJace

Gearbox, clutch, tailshaft in, thinking the slave is fucked but because it has little movement so need another one.

Wiring getting done tomorrow and hopefully fire it for the first time.

Protius

Painted and fitted dmax roof wing ooh yeah

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Sharpy

mark1414

Roof wing looks awesome. Your car is gonna look so tough one day but ^^

truffles

That picture expresses exactly what I was thinking.

I put all the pieces back on the R32 and took it for a quit run to make sure it didn't fall apart.

S2krazie

This.
There's enough S14's with mismatched bumpers and horror shit as it is.

JDM_R32

Fitted my home made 2.5-inch stainless steel "drift pipes" But didn't realise until i had fitted the exhaust back up that i welded the pipes on a slight angle, now i have to cut them off and re-weld them.

Also now my car is super duper loud and i have to take my foot off the gas when ever i go past a cop.

EDIT: Also i think i need to make up an exhaust shield for the bumper as it has started to melt where the pipe sits against the bumper.

Protius

Like this?





I was hesitant to give it a go because I've never been shown how to spray paint or ever had a go at it, but after doing the wing yesterday I decided to do the bumper today. Replacement front guards and drivers door are going to be under way tomorrow.

When I can eventually afford to get it resprayed professionally I will as my painting skills aren't the greatest by far, bit orange peely by hey, doesn't look too bad.

Oh and it's not a 'kit' its a factory front bar with optional factory lip, all nissan original plastic from Japan.

Sharpy

^5 dude! looks good for first go!

Protius

Its not THAT great in person, as I didn't worry about filling some of the small scrapes and gouges on it and there is noticeable orange peel here and there. But it was hard to not have it seeing as I only had a cheap little compressor that I'd only get about 3 sprays out of before the motor would kick back in, so the air pressure was varying. But at the end of the day I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, at least its not white anymore. And as I said, will pay for a good job when I can afford it.

VenomRC

Put on the new radiator cap.....Put better coolant in it.

E U R E K A M A D 9 4

Looks good protius, info on neighbors impala?

Protius

Stock as, owned by the father of said neighbour. Driven rarely.

truffles

Looks good. Good cut/buff and polish and you probably wouldn't notice. Painting bumpers/kits aren't too bad, because you can paint the whole piece and not worry about blending it.

I just realised the bracket holding my rearbar on is rusted as fuck and some dodgey idiot just sprayed it over in black.