FirstGenFreak

Here are a couple of my other projects (in addition to renovating a late 1800s miners cottage!) Should have updates this time next week

Gidday All, below is copied form my intro thread to get the ball rolling, will have updates next week! My name is Pete and I am from Victoria in Australia Here's My Old truck - 86 with a Z24. I had this thing for 11 trouble free years and I don't know what made me sell it but the second it drove off I regretted it. Fast forward a few years and it just came over me that I had to have another one. A few months of shopping I found this old girl and picked it up for a song. An '86 like my old one. The thing that sold me on this particular car were the condition of the body and the interior. Anyone into these cars will know how hard it is to find nice trim bits. And here is the only rust in the car, being a dry inland car After picking it up I got 50 km before it started overheating. Stopped, cooled it down, topped off the water and put a new radiator cap on, got another 10km and it overheated again. .. And again. Luckily we have roadside assist and they covered the tow (180km). First steps are to address the overheating issue. Will start with new waterpump, radiator and thermostat. If that doesn't fix it I still have a spare engine from my old pathy. Then I'll fit a 32/36 Weber, Extractors, remove the LP Gas Conversion. I know most of you are probably running VGs but I've always been a Z24 fan, and had a great run out of them. Over here the VGs have a rep for being a bit of a fuel guzzler. I'd like to find a set of factory wheelarch flares and do a lift and fit 31s. I'll be sure to update on progress but will be slow as the car is kept on a rural property I own, so I'll only get to work on it a couple of times a month. If you made it this far, thanks for reading! Keep the shiny side up! Peter

Very jealous! We're legally allowed 1" tyre diameter increase, 1" Track increase, max 50mm lift (and there are parts of our state where every 4x4 gets pulled over and measured) and a whole bunch of nanny-state restrictions before we need engineers certification, but there are still limitations. You can get away with a bit if you live away from cities and suburbia. Someone driving your beast would end up on the news over here.... You lucky devil!

I'd pop the drums and check the wheel cylinders, pop the dustcaps back and see in there is any moisture under them. This usually indicates a leaking cylinder. If all good change the brake fluid, make sure your tyres aren't rock hard. Then enjoy that thing!

Mate that is a weapon! Nice work, is that road legal over there? In Australia anything over a 50mm lift we are off the road!

+1 that is a great example!

Love the switch cover!

Different setup, and they use a different length distributor drive. I actually ran a twin spark engine with a single spark dizzy for a decade, just ran the leads to the drivers (RHD) side set of plugs. Had to change the oil pump/distributor drive. Raised plenty of questions when I lifted the hood haha!

I ran the Superlift setup with about 2" of torsion crank and found it worked really well. I sold the car but have another '87 I plan on setting up the same.