Recent content by Baptist_Ben

Been a while since I’ve popped in to say hi (I’ve been lurking and reading) Had a delivery from Rockauto a couple of weeks ago, Diff rebuild kit and Rear wheel bearings for the explorer 8.8, Engine mounts and a new water pump for the 318, Started with the water pump today, which then let...

Yeah I’m not unhappy as I was expecting a little bit there. I think the LH side will have more rust repair needed though

if I can’t get them local I will just order a set from summit, but I hadn’t thought about moving the wheel back at all,

More small jobs have been done , I’ve cut all the old brackets off the diff housing now so I just need to order some spring perches for it now. Im hoping to be able to find a local supplier here in New Zealand to save me having to source them from the US, I also put my big boy pants on and...

Cheers buddy, yeah it’s not too bad for the smaller stuff, but the big stuff really hits the pocket, yeah am going to keep the off-white/cream colour, I think it will work well with my overall vision for the car!

I did check a few sites, most mentioned 3” so that’s what I did, but I just made sure to measure from the outer shoulder of the centre to the axle tube outer flange of the factory short side which was 444mm, and made sure that I replicated that when I pressed the shortened axle tube back into...

luckily it just fit then I welded it back up, I plug welded it where the factory used plugs to hold the tube in, plus I also welded both tubes to the centre as with it being a press fit it’s not unheard of them seeping. Bloody handy having these tools at my disposal at work. I’ll order...

Took the axle tube to work and cut it down, then when I returned to our Wiri site I used the press to push the axle tube back into the housing

Thread dredge….. aside from scraping more under seal there’s not too much I can do to the body for now, so I’ve been working on the Ford 8.8 I pulled out of an explorer. everything looks good inside, so that’s a plus I wrapped it up to limit the stink, Because there isn’t much that...

Oh hey look, another very intermittent update from NZ, Rear 1/4 panels have arrived, shipping and GST was $950nz which is more than I paid for the panels and more than I expected, to be fair I had nothing to base my expectations on so not a surprise haha. sat one of the panels on the...

Also where is the best place to get a new set of spring perches from. and I’m still looking for a factory K-frame is anyone has one they want to sell.

Man your a wealth of knowledge @moparmat2000, I’ve sent you a pm about the shock plates.

Thanks Matt I’ll look into them and get back to you, on the plus side I managed to sort the PayPal issue and re-ordered the rear 1/4 panels, Goal for the upcoming weekend is to get the diff stripped so I can sort out the shortening of the housing, feels good to be moving forward again.

Cheers Matt, I have a link saved from FABO that has that Info but that makes it easier haha.

Turns out it was a PayPal issue, some how paypal changed my delivery address on the order from my shippers address to my home address and because it was a New Zealand address they cancelled it because they don’t ship to NZ, will sort out my paypal and re-order