Recent content by John0

bit of an update, 95% of running gear all installed and ready to go, still waiting on a couple things like the radiator and intercooler, and of course the cab for paint.

Indeed mate, there will definitely be one 👌🏼 I'll be hanging around here anyway 👌🏼

Cheers @sodafeld1 for all the photos! Awesome work mate! so turns out im a bit of an idiot and labeled the mounts wrong after i cut them off (was in a rush) and had actually welded them ass about, so now with that being fixed and the correct LH engine mount bracket (about 4 degrees difference...

Not over here in WA for FB, nothing really around here, everything is over eastcoast

Well not new, but used I get most of my bits from www.cruiserUte's&restorations.com.au

Looks like I may be 10mm to far back on both mounts, will order the LH engine mount bracket, as far as I can find the RH bracket is used on both hj60 and 75 and the LH has a specific listing for 75! Next break I'll move these mounts forwards and hopefully with the "right" bracket it will sort...

The welded on mounts on the rails I have are now out of a 1986 hj75 that had a 2h so not worried about those mounts. Cheers mate! I'll measure mine up once home again! 👌🏼

Yeah I reckon you're spot on mate

Yeah I completely agree, something is definitely not right, I don't recall that lean and slope in any of my cruisers! Yeah 2h bell housing, fj crossmember, and yeah the engine mounted brackets are 60 so I'm hoping 75 ones are different when I can get hold of some...easy enough to reset the...

So I've tac'd the engine mounts in after installing rear crossmember and letting everything sit where it needs to, I'm not sure if it just me being critical or it's a factory thing but the engine sits about 2.5 degrees from centre rotating anti clockwise and the front of engine slopes downward...

Unfortunately the engine mount situation was an after thought 😅🙄

Yeah mate, ended up pulling the cab so went for it, 4 litre kit covered everything

Yeah too easy mate, heading back to work soon so I think most of the work I'll get done until then will be getting angles etc

So found a bloke with a buggered HJ chassis and cut off the engine mounts, cut the FJ mounts off and roughly mocked up the positions on my chassis, will mock up the running gear over next couple days and tack in

Yeah after a bit of research and measurements etc I've came to this conclusion too, I've got the running gear out of my old 60 which I've spent too much on to just leave now 😅 I have the same idea, cut off the mounts, bolt everything I can up and try find get the mounts as close to the...