Been busting my arse to get the ute in some sort of condition before the cruise. Pushing a whole lot of #OOPS# uphill at the moment!
Got the 'new' engine in, got it sort of running, starter motor shorted internally and caught on fire, literally!!
Replaced that, running pretty #OOPS#. Did a comp test, 100 on cylinder no.1, doh!!! That's the crap thing about buying something sight unseen and condition unknown! Lesson learnt. Might have another A14 lined up anyway that I may plonk in if the current one isn't up to it.

Been slowly working on my front struts as well. I ended up getting a fair bit of machining done on the coilover kit to make it all happen. I'll take a few photos tomorrow when I'm welding them up.
This is the progress so far-

Something along the lines of the end result-




Cut down, welds ground off, ready to prime (weld through primer just to seal under the coilover sleeve a bit-







Primed, ready for welding coil over sleeve on tomorrow (hopefully!)-




Hopefully all done in time for the cruise.