Opening that part of it the next few days. I think most of it’s welded together at the back end so will see how we go Keen to get it going is what is motivation to fix rust
Going to have a good crack at it this year so decided to take windscreen panel off, has anyone repaired it this bad before. I have a 76’ tub that I could use to put in place of the 82 dash
i have seen a few and was just curious to hopefully one day make them up at the sign shop, my 47 has an outline of a sticker being there though 30+ years anything could happen
what did you do with the tunnel cover or what did fab shop say? i was thinking of measuring a rectangle that includes the stick hole and flipping it 180 to suit
small note, the date you got the 12/83 was from a compliance plate for the aus market, most (if not all) aus market delivered/shipped/sold to or in aus had to have that plate so they wern't always the correct build date for the vehicles (though from previous bought cars from aus dealers it is...
you are going to have to shorten + lengthen driveshafts regardless if they fit from a shorty model 5 spd. much less mucking around and plus they balance them aswell
should of asked them to take photos of the top cover to see if its been modified, or atleast saves you asking the 100 questions or...
engine hoist through cabin is a luxury procedure when your out bush and have to use a bottle jack and whatever blocks of wood or bricks you could find to raise take pressure off and lower all doing with 4 wheels on ground
when doing 5 spd on a hj47 take measurements from flange to flange on your own hj47 as couple people ive asked they were different, you can gather all parts like backing plates and such its just the fitment you need the box to be in to measure shafts for the shop to work on, though does look...