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Keeps us posted on your sale and potential new 4 banger Chops. The pumpkin has had a road worthy check, it requires: Rear brake shoes Rear brake cylinders Front brake pads Caster rod bushes Front sway bar bushes AND 1 exhaust hanger. Some of which I am doing now. It would have been last night but I wwas given parts for a KE70, seems not many people actually know what T18 is.

For sure buddy. Been keeping my eyes out for such a car and nothing has come up. How did you go with your Falcon? Cheers for the link. Yep, sticking with the 3Tc. For now its just going to be simple mods. Carby, head work, extractors... Another pic...

Did a test drive today and I could hear water slushing around near me. Turns out one of the drain holes was blocked. Its a good thing I went crazy with rust proofing. The Pumpkin is mostly together and is getting booked in for a roady on Monday. Then its time to lower her and start work on some performance. :lol:

Cheers for the advise. it appears that a 32/36 is going to be the way to go. :D

Good old 32/36. Economical primary, guttsy secondary. The Cortina/Escorts ones seems to be a bit more abundant too. I was hoping someone would say twin 32 or twin 34 as I already have a 32 DAGV (already on a 3Tc manifold but i'm guessing too small) and a 34 ADFA (off a Fiat spider)

Given the inherent ploblem with the stock Aisan carby's running rich due to the floats, I have decided to go down draft Weber. The question is, which Weber (and jetting) best suits a stock 1.8 3Tc engine. Be mindfull, the aim is maintain factory econmy or better. Sadly performance takes second place... at the moment. :blinks:

Lights $59.90 postage $75 :happy:

if KE55 offset is the same as the KE70 then you should have 15mm clearance from rim to strut.

KE70's will fit. :P

I have owned quite a few T-18's, both series 1 and 2, none of which had a left hand mirror. Thats not to say that it wasn't an option, I just haven't seen it. It would be good to get a left hand mirror. ;)

For sure.. quads or go home. :P

Worn into? There is a wear groove in the fingers. I reckon you're right with this one.... as Its the line of thought I was going with :) I certanly hope it doesn;t take forwards load, if it did the thrust bearing would be the least of my worries :lol: Although I reckon its the thrust bearing, I haven't rues ethis one out as it doe sound feasible

Thrust bearing and spigot bearings were my first 2 thoughts. In my experience thrust bearings and spigot bearings usually make noise when the clutch is pushed not when its released. Pushing the pedal pushes the thrust bearing into the pressure plate, releasing the the clutch disc therefore making the spigot bearing take load of the gearbox shaft. However cars are crazy things and sometime logic does not enter into the equation. :wink:

Engine running: Clutch pedal in, no noise. Clutch pedal fully out, noise. It only makes the noise when the clutch has fully egauged. Partially egauged, no noise. Does it in gear and out of gear. The noise seems to increase in pitch as the engine speed increases. The noise kind of sound simular to dry bearing spinng fast. The engine in front of it has only just been put there, but I believe it was making the noise with the old engine. The trans has plenty of oil. Any ideas as to what could be making this noise? Oh yeah... its a T18 with a 3TC and T50.

If the car started fine one minute then not so good the next (with the previous battery) you need to ask why. Either the old battery is shagged, the terminals weren't thoroughly connected or our alt is not charging the battery. :wink:

The Pumpkin is just about together and ready for the road. Funny thing... Got all the parts for her so I no-longer need the doner car, the guy picked it up last tues. I went to put the wiper arms on... FAIL! The doner car had a nice set on it too :wink: Anyways, rolled out the Pumpkin so the rain would was it a little for me...

Buy it Chops :wink: Here's a rolla I saw the other day while driving home from work on South Gippy near Pound rd round about....

Although drums don't cool as well and discs and are not as practical, they actually beat discs for braking power. Our Dodge weighs near on 2 tons, has drums all round and will stop on a dime and give you 9 cents change. :wink:

Correct me if I am wrong but I believe the For Sale rules forbid any price bitching. As Felix said, if it happens report it. :wink:

My hat is off to you for doing to your car what you wants to do and more so for doing something different to every other JDm look-a-like drift pig wannabe Rolla. Who cares what they think. :wink: Your bang on. Drag cars run a shorter diff to compensate for the larger rear tyres circumference. :wink:

While trying to put some wiper arms onto the TE72, I realised They were'nt the right ones and wouldn't fit. I can't find the originals and I just got rid of my doner car, which had a set. Will KE70 arms fit? Are there after market arms available?

The series 2also had 2 door handles per door, One for the front seat and one for the rear seated passengers. And they had the "Mercedes" tails lights, a different bonot, black "B" pills covers and the mirrors are at the corner of the the door glass. As for ugly, I must be looking at the wrong cars coz when they are done right the old TE72's looks pretty dam good to me.

My vote goes to flat. Slants look like try hard commonwhores and thats 10 kinds of wrong. :wink:

Yes, derived from latin. binomial nomenclatures (aka botanical names) are all derived from Latin... not Greek. :laff:

Cheers for that. I used a hotmail.com account so it has probably been bloked by a spam filter.... which means none of my emeils are getting through either.