Gas 1600

[garvice]

Well I feel like i've squandered my time in the shed this weekend, didn't get done what i would of liked.

Installed new longer wheel studs in the rear, but now they are too long for my watanabe wheel nuts, so will need to shorten them.

Went to torque up the stub axles and worked out that my wrench only goes to 150ftlbs, workshop manual calls for 180 to 240ftlbs. If I cant find one to borrow I might have to buy one.

Ran the final brake hard line, connected the brake soft lines.

Also tried to mount the 180b steering column, but i'm not convinced its going to work, plus i lost the key so it stuck/locked.

• Jobs left to do before it can drive out of the shed under it's own power.
  Torque Rear Axle nuts (might put longer wheel studs in first, but that would mean pulling control arms out again)
  Bolt and torque half shafts to axles
  Get some intake fuel line and o-ring/retainer for the fuel sender so that I can mount up the tank
  Run some wiring for the fuel pump
  Mount battery and run some power feeds
  Mount the steering column (wouldn't mind replacing the rubber connection with a unijoint, but that will come later)
  Run one more short length of hard line for rear passenger brake
  Make the brake line fixings more permanent
  Mount the soft brake lines
  Fluids
  • Transmission
    Differential
    Brakes
    Clutch
  
  Make a handbrake mount
  Make a temporary mount for the gauges
  Neaten up some of the wiring
  Make an air intake/filter

[Rube]

Pretty sure my torqe wrench is up around 250ftlbs. PM me if you have troule getting hold of one.

[Mr Ed]

Just read the whole thread. Great work!

[garvice]

Cheers guys

[rolin7]

Any work done over the long weekend?

[garvice]

Bugger all. Was hoping that my next post would be driving out of the shed. I'll do a little update this week crossing some things off.

[garvice]

Well I wanted my next post to be one with me driving the car out of the shed under it's own power at least, alas 3 months have passed and I feel I have been walking backwards.

I got the axle nuts torqued. Did a few calcs and used my torque wrench on a lever, then gave it a little more. Had to make up a holder to keep the axles stationary.

I have tightened all the halfshaft bolts (no issues there).

I got fluids in the diff and trans.

Went to do brake and clutch lines and chased my tail for ages. For some reason, hydraulic lines never agree with me. It took many bottles of fluid and plenty of goes trying to bleed the brakes before getting a mate over and doing it with two people properly. Had to refit the remote connection to the clutch master as it leaked, had to replace a 3way T as i had used a bubble flare T instead of a double flared T and got copious amounts of brake fluid all over my suspension components, so they will need a repaint. Eventually I got it sorted and I believe I now have working brakes (can't really test them yet).

Went to seal up my fuel tank and couldn't find my oring seal or the retainer for my fuel sender. Spent 2hours ripping the shed apart trying to find in only to decide I must have thrown them. Ordered a new seal (genuine) and a new retainer (had to get something from a holden). They arrived and the day I went to the shed with the new items I found my original ones. The same thing happened when I thought I had lost my rear springs. I have also lost my handbrake lever section that sits at the rear of the car. I am expecting that I will find it as soon as I have fabricated a replacement.

I installed my fuel pump in the tank and sealed it up and realised i hadn't down a hydro test on the tank before painting. Luckily I had only put a litre of fuel in the car when I discovered a few pinholes leaking through my soldered in pickup and a missed weld on my sump. Tried multiple times to resolder the pickup but found that each time the tank cooled the solder connection to the tank would crack. Chased my tail on this for a while before finally succumbing this weekend and buying an epoxy kit to seal the pickup and a tank resealing kit to paint the inside of the tank. Will hopefully be fully cured in time to test next weekend (how I convince the wife that I need to be in the shed on mother's day might be a bit tricky).
I'll also need to repaint the tank again and remount the fuel pump/re-seal the top.

I mounted my battery in the boot and bought some cables (this is probably the only thing that deserves some pictures, but will take them later). I discovered that battery boxes are rubbish items with no way to hold down the battery. So I had to make a battery tray inside in the box and mount the tray through the bottom of the box. Kind of negates the purpose of the box now. I might go to a VRLA battery with a vent tube through the floor yet. I mounted a fuse to the top of the box, welded earth connections to the boot and the firewall and put bulkhead mounting studs for both earth and power in the firewall. Cleaned up the wiring in the engine bay for the main power and earth connections. I was sent the wrong colour lug insulators so might go back and replace them now that i have the right colour.

I've bought a spal 14" fan, but since i have my radiator offset, the top radiator connection fouls the radiator sitting in the centre. I will need to offset the fan to the bottom drivers side to make it fit. Started on this this afternoon but wasn't liking how it was sitting, so moved onto another job. Thought about properly mounting the fuel/brake lines but realised i couldn't get in to the tunnel area properly with my transmission/exhaust/driveshaft to drill proper holes. So will have to leave this job till i can get in there. (Read, no work accomplished this afternoon).

Jobs left to do before it can drive out of the shed under it's own power (underlined is struck out).
Torque Rear Axle nuts
Bolt and torque half shafts to axles
Get some intake fuel line and o-ring/retainer for the fuel sender so that I can mount up the tank
Run some wiring for the fuel pump
Mount battery and run some power feeds
Mount the steering column (wouldn't mind replacing the rubber connection with a unijoint, but that will come later)
Run one more short length of hard line for rear passenger brake
Make the brake line fixings more permanent
Mount the soft brake lines
Fluids
Transmission
Differential
Brakes
Clutch
Make a handbrake mount
Make a temporary mount for the gauges
Neaten up some of the wiring
Make an air intake/filter

[garvice]

I'll just leave this here for now. Edit: Now embedded.

[26ODET]

Made me smile. Top work.

[rolin7]

Sounds so good. Put on passenger door and rego?

[garvice]

Thanks guys. I wish italics were not required hey rolin.

[tim510]

Very awesome mate

[Lurch]

Smile says it all Brad

[garvice]

Thanks guys.

Jobs left to do before it can drive out of the shed under it's own power (underlined is struck out). I thought some of the jobs may not get done before it got driven out of the shed
Torque Rear Axle nuts
Bolt and torque half shafts to axles
Get some intake fuel line and o-ring/retainer for the fuel sender so that I can mount up the tank
Run some wiring for the fuel pump
Mount battery and run some power feeds
Mount the steering column (wouldn't mind replacing the rubber connection with a unijoint, but that will come later)
Run one more short length of hard line for rear passenger brake
Make the brake line fixings more permanent
Mount the soft brake lines
Fluids
Transmission
Differential
Brakes
Clutch
Make a handbrake mount
Make a temporary mount for the gauges Does zip ties count?
Neaten up some of the wiring
Make an air intake/filter

Finding my time in the shed unproductive, so need to refocus with a new hit list I think.

[Sketchy]

Awesome news mate, good to see if moving under its own power.

Are you going to repaint it or leave it roadkill Rotsun spec? I like it how it is.