C15A Restoration

[John Stokes]

Hi All,Today i rebuilt the carby,fitted up the winch handbrake assy and best of all fitted the gearbox i had rebuilt after work each night during the week.All went together like a dream and best of all i have all 4 gears and 1 reverse.I visited a place in Surrey hills called Power Train Products as most of you have heard of.There Brett the third generation manager helped me no end to find new gears and parts for the gearbox i was to rebuild.Just to give you an idea i asked Brett how many new input shafts he had on the shelf which his answer there were 8 left.Very helpful indeed i wish new old stock parts were that easy to come by.With the shifter being sloppy all i had to do was tap out the locating pins at the top 5/16 x 3/16 turn up some new ones out of 5/16 silver steel and 680 locktite the 3/16 dia back into the housing good as new.Tomorrow i will clean the tx box and prepare it for bearings and seals and what ever else it needs,also i hope to put all the bolt on parts back on the engine ready to fire when the radiator returns from it's makeover next week.Thanks for all the assistance for my rebuild,this forum is very helpful indeed. John Stokes

[maple_leaf_eh]

Originally Posted by John Stokes

...Thanks for all the assistance for my rebuild,this forum is very helpful indeed. John Stokes

We can be grumpier and more surly if you prefer.

BTW, the only Australian car most North Americans recognize is the Mad Max 2-door muscle car. For your sake, is that the one?

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

XY GT? Nice!

[Keith Webb]

Originally Posted by David_Hayward

XY GT? Nice!

CMP = even NICER

[Howard]

Originally Posted by maple_leaf_eh

...the only Australian car most North Americans recognize is the Mad Max 2-door muscle car...

I would give my first born & throw in the Wife for one of these... Problem is the Yanks are buying all of the good ones & shipping them away!
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Ever wanted to 'boof' a car before?

[malcolm erik bogaert]

if your still looking for the correct fairleads..I know a chap in Dalbeatie who has some in the yard..postahe however would be expensive...PM me if any interest for his number regards malcolm

[John Stokes]

Thanks mal,
Euan has lent me a full set of rear fairleads to reproduce i'm in the process of gathering all the steel at the moment.This is an easier job now that China has backed off our steel deposits (maybe crossing the line with that comment).As for the GT attraction all good till you take them out in public then you find a heap of new mates with a heap of questions.A mate has an XB GT hard top yellow as well thats a good site to see the two going down the road.I took mine up to the tank museum at Puckapunial on sunday for a dusting off worth every part of the $60 of premium she drank,Hope the Chev is kinder on the wallet.

[John Stokes]

Hello again to all,
Too long since my last entry into forum but the house reno/extension has got in the way,So today i dedicated a couple of hours after family sunday drive to install the transfer case.I don't know if it is because it is a Ford or a two speed case replacing a single speed but i had to drill new holes on a 92mm centre spacing. Any way it all went in well with a little help from the excavator and a couple of slings.Hope to borrow a few more hours very soon to get her moving again ?

Be in touch John Stokes.

[Keith Webb]

Originally Posted by John Stokes

Hello again to all,
Too long since my last entry into forum but the house reno/extension has got in the way,So today i dedicated a couple of hours after family sunday drive to install the transfer case.I don't know if it is because it is a Ford or a two speed case replacing a single speed but i had to drill new holes on a 92mm centre spacing. Any way it all went in well with a little help from the excavator and a couple of slings.Hope to borrow a few more hours very soon to get her moving again ?

Be in touch John Stokes.

Nice work John. The reason for the different spacing is it's a two speed transfer case. I can see you've done a lot of work on the house too.