Hey guys,
Recently bought an unknown condition 56a 5 speed with a stripped 4th gear. Both 4th on the main shaft and countershafts are buggered. Anyone got a parts or a box that's stuffed 1st gear?
Thanks
Bede

My friend believes that this car was Wayne Jones old sss, I'm sure you remember him from circuit racing Dave. When he was buying his 2 door wagon off him many years ago he tried to but it but the 5k seems to steep compared to the $750 wagon.

Very reasonable, 30k+ nzd here I'd estimate. It actually came from my little home town with a population of 30,000!

Bloody good watch, thanks for sharing

zigmondo - you might be right regarding the axles. I might have to check on the spare 411 diff i have here.

I'm running a h165 from a 411 bluebird with an alloy head. It's 25mm narrower over all - 12.5mm per side and allowed me to run a 8j wheel on a coupe. They run the same spline as the later ute h165B but the axle tubes and axle diameter is the same as h145 (tiney). I mix matched some bearings, so I could run larger ute axles and turned 6 or 8mm off the end of the axle (because its to long in the housing) and releaved the end of the spline so it could slip in a smidge further to all work. Got pics if anyone is interested

They run both 13" and 15" wheels on escorts.
Here is NZ Hayden Paddon won a national rally outright in a BDA escort only 4 years ago...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqx9cH_r9ig

Cool looking car! Looks like mk2 escort rally flares

Here is a downport head that I have had for a few years and have just passed it onto a friend rebuilding a 1200 coupe race car. A friend of mine, Robbie who is on here flow benched it for me when I purchased it - attached for reference

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Here is the link to the pic bige shared years ago

http://datsun1200.com/modules/newbb/v ... ASC&type=&mode=0&start=10

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