Finished assembling the struts and the leave spring tonight. Tomorrow evening we'll go fit the suspension and the car and it'll head home. I still just need to go pick up some small parts from plating, hopefully they are done otherwise I'm screwed again...




Some of the last bits I picked up on Friday from plating. Sommer had the swaybar and it's brackets plated, looks good and no maintenance other than cleaning required.



Front suspension on the ground



Rear suspension on the ground



Rear suspension in



Front suspension in



Front wheel fit in the arch.



Rear wheel fit in the arch. These are still the old 13" wheels, and they look ok'ish, but it needs some width. I like the look of the wheels with the car though, so what I'm going to get is a set of the same wheels but in 14". They are also an inch wider, so should fill the arches nicely, plus I have a crap load of 14" semi's lying at home still, then I have something to do with them. I don't like big wheels on old cars, it't like dating you cousin, by law nothing wrong with it, but you yourself know it's wrong...



Right side view



Full frontal... check us generate hits on that phrase...



Put your left foot out



And that Jackie is an expert at dodging photos, I tried every angle to catch him around the car, but he just disappeared out of the shutter each time.

So this afternoon, after a lekka braai at Killarney, I went and fetched the Boksie.

Hitched to the Tucson, if it wasn't that that green thing chowed so much fuel, it'd be very, very close to if not at the top of my list of favourite car's I've ever owned...



It's not just the camera making the colour change like that, when light hits it, it's light blue, when it's in the shade it's darker blue. Almost asif it has a flip in the paint. I'd come to the decision that I like the car's look with these wheels on. Even though they are supposed to be bakkie wheels... So I'm going to sell these 13" ones, and get a set of 14" in the same model. They are also about an inch wider then the 13's, so they should fill the arches a bit more, will add spacers if not.



And finally back in it's cave, nothing that goes in this cave comes out the same...



I'll take some pics of the underside when I roll him out again.

One last one...


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I went out to buy a set of the old wheels but in 14", unfortunately they didn't have any stock, fortunately the guy mentioned that they just got in a new set of wheels and that it was their only set. So I had a look, and they couldn't have been any better.

So without further ado pichas of the new wheels...



Love the multi spoke design



Fills the arches nicely, but I might consider adding a small spacer, though the disk must still go on and that's another 6mm or so, will see...



And an upskirt picture...

Damn, I just found this thread.
Dotgroen the boksie looks really good, glad to see another person not afraid of some manufacturing, as it became way to common to build cars from direct fit parts.

My brother more or less has the same idea in mind for a trigger wheel, looks good.

What does machining cost on side shafts more or less.

im sorry, im unsure if ive missed something, but what rear diff is that?

iDatto, Alfa LS, here is another pic http://datsun1200.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=18002

Ok so I've done something tonight while the chicken was on the braai. I want to make the plug wire cover smooth so that you don't see the Toyota lettering, not that I mind that, it's just more inconspicuous if Toyota isn't blaring of the top of the motor...

Cover before doing anything, still good condition, so it'll polish right up.



After a bunch of sanding with a rotary disk in the drill and a good old sander.



I was worried about the lettering coming out properly, sometimes when you sand something like this away the letters will just keep popping out. Ask anyone who sprays cars. So I thought I'd spray it black since that always shows any inconsistencies immediately. Look smooth enoug. Only thing that happened, I didn't know the Toyota badge is actually a loose badge that's melted in with four prongs. The one fell out of it's hole, will just plug it up with some filler.



Close up, this is still just a rough finish, used 100 grit in the sander. Letters don't show at all though, so it worked perfectly. Will smooth it out with some 300 and then 1000 or so. Will then go drop this and the other two timing covers off at Jackie's to be sprayed the same blue the car is.

Sooooo, I've been dying to try TIG for very long now. Just never got around to get my hands on a bottle of Argon. Saw one advertised on Gumtree yesterday and after some negotiations the owner dropped it of at my place exactly when I said I'd be home. In a Honda Ballade nogals, he poked the bottle through the ski hatch... Honda driver darem... :|

Anyway, here's my torch and guages, have had them for 4 years now and never been taken out the boxes. Ok once to take a peak but never again...



And the missing link, still full and sealed.



No more flux, flipping noxious fumes and sparks flying everywhere. :mrgreen:

It helps to have a dad with 42 years of experience in modifying and making all kinds of stuff for cars...

He found some part on some engine that looked like it can be a ram tube. So he brought it and we checked, and it's perfect! I have to add I've been scouring the Woolies and other shops with stainless cups and stuff nonstop for stainless egg holders, which when cut correctly also make the perfect ram tube...

Here's an unfinished one in the foreground and a finished one in the background.



He said the parts are stainless, we checked with a magnet too and they don't stick. They measure 43mm on the inside, so they are exactly the same size as the throttles and are about 70mm long. While their lips don't fold all the way around, I had another idea while we were checking if they fit. My dad said we can probably try to fold them further, but I said no leave them as is, their flow will be ok for when I want to drive without a plenum.

Ok on to some pictures.

Here' a better closeup of the finished and unfinished part.



It fit's in the flange I had cut for the front of the throttles perfectly.



Nice radius on the lip.



The other end also flares open in a lip, so it'll transition nicely to the larger throttle.



If I mount these straight on the throttles and I really want to since it will make building a plenum much easier, then I'll have to delete the brake booster, I'm sure of it. Otherwise I'll have to mount them at a 45 angle or so to miss the brake booster. So that booster has less and less luck of ever returning to the engine bay.