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Have just finished reading part 1, which I had missed entirely. There’s some good stuff in there, with a younger Steve. Hopefully it will sort itself out. As I’ve got older, I have become more intolerant, and would probably just say f#%* it. But clearly you have had some good times together. Hope you are doing ok

Latest new arrival in the parrot shed, are gloves. I've resisted these for many years, I mean, how stupid are they. Can't feel anything, tools will slip, it's just a bit of oil with potentially dangerous contaminants etc. Well of course they are none of those things. Good feel, no cuts and nicks, and toasty warm. And when I had finished removing the front end, I was able to go in and cook dinner for the family without even washing my hands. I did wash my hands, but I did think twice about whether or not to bother. I'm a convert, but not going for those disposable rubber ones. Feedback on the cheapo Daytona jacks. One is a bit niggly with a touchy bleed valve that doesn't like to stay tight, so may have to take that back for a replacement.

I’m literally pulling one out right now snd swapping the TE27 one in. Other than coming in for a cuppa. It would be hellishly expensive to post. Sure yours can’t just be welded? Damage can’t be too bad, they are usually covered in oil.

it's been discussed at length. You will just have to search for it

Your out of my range now. Nothing bolt in is going to handle that. Whatever you choose is going to be custom

Not mine and old but presumbly accurate. http://members.iinet.com.au/~stepho/diff.htm#axlesize If you plan to put it in a KE25 it will require substantial cutting down and modification for leaf springs My TE27 doesn't have drums fitted currently so can't accurately measure for you, but someone I trust has posted up that a KE25 is 1320mm and from memory they are the same. I believe he then went to the substantial effort of getting a T series cut down properly and engineered here in Australia and it had to be specially offset for some technical reason I didn't understand. I sourced a couple of TE27 housings from Japan before prices went stupid, but may still be a sensible option if you can find one on yahoo japan. Will save you a lot if trouble, and probably easier to convert that to discs, than fitting a disc brake housing into KE25

Note I’ve measured to the centre of the factory hole in the centre of the tunnel reinforcement

I answered this a while back when I had both models, but the KE25 is gone now I’ve attached photos from a TE27 that should enable you to check definitively

I was going to see if I could get by with just the pair, but why make it hard for myself. I happened to buy the first two on a ‘trade day’, so got $50 of next purchase. So another pair for $179! Next thing is to sort out some long span shelving. I’d hoped to go with a two post hoist, but just not enough room unfortunately.

Got these hydraulic wheel jacks from Sydney tools and they are brilliant for moving the cars around in the shed. I was going to try and get away with a pair but will go back and get two more I think. $229 a pair. They actually work by squeezing the tyre up like a pimple. Pretty good, as long as they don’t break, but Corolla’s don’t weigh much.

Wow bargain! And a very nice wheel

Just tried downloading some of these and got an error message? Any one know why??

Is it worth it? It depends on what you plan on using the car for. If it’s a street car I would say no it isn’t. You will probably turn it into a poor handling pig that you hate. if you plan on it being a competition car and spend some time sorting it properly, maybe. Assuming it’s a daily driver street car, leave the strut tops alone and put some uprated, lowered variable rate springs and improved dampers in it and it will be great

It’s fine to use aftermarket, but you are going to need to measure accurately to decide which oversize bearing you need, and also consider whether your crankshaft needs resizing. And they are bearings, not bearing caps

AE82 and AE86 are different

Probably the rotor also. Was the motor previously running in this configuration, or did you stick some random distributor or cap onto it. You may quickly rack up the spending potentially unnecessarily.

Confident it's out of an AE92 bigport TVIS engine when you are buying parts for the distributor in future. That's not going to affect what your starter is doing though. If the starter is smoking there is a problem with how it's wired, and it it's happened on a couple of starters including one you know is good, it's going to be a loom issue.

Well you don’t have an AE86 distributor if that’s the right cap. Doesn’t mean anything though as could of been changed at anytime. What part number is on the distributor

I notice the Motorsport Australia office has relocated to around the corner from our place in Canterbury. Only high end real estate for CAMS who previously were in Camberwell

It was shared from the original face book post. Go to that starlet page

There was a guy in the Netherlands selling a used U code LSD centre a couple of weeks ago. BUT he was asking €750 for it if it wasn’t so expensive I probably would have bought it myself

New house is great, but have had to be pretty brutal with part stores. Sold a few things, thrown out a few things, and Peter Robinson came past with Ute and took a few other things away. Now crating up various spares and a huge amount of NOS stuff accumulated over the years for all three cars. I’ve always known what I had, problem was knowing where it was. Popped over to a mates today who has an amazing and varied collection including a fantastic AE86 Trueno, and near on 50 Honda cub bikes, and mini bikes. He is also cleaning out, so came home with another spare guard, another T50 and another fuel tank, having just thrown out 2. They will all get stored away somewhere.....

Holden isn’t a surprise. They have been attempting to sell off the business quietly for some time. Perhaps they can return to Group A rather than the ‘supercar’ nonsense. Otherwise the Fords can race against each othe