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Hj Ute Resto

Started by _Macca97_ , Oct 09 2012 06:45 PM

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#26 _Macca75_

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Posted 25 October 2012 - 07:07 PM

All standard wheels look good

. gave the motor and chassis a wash with the gurnie, came up really good, next step is to take running gear out and stand the chassis up to wash it right out its easy when youv've got a forklift

dad gave me a few more rules, homework and assignments first :(

Cheers Danny

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#27 _Quagmire_

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Posted 25 October 2012 - 07:13 PM

run the hose full pelt on the inside up and down the rails while you have it up too

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#28 yel327

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Posted 25 October 2012 - 07:23 PM

If chassis is rusty where the body mounts go, go to a nut & bolt merchant and buy some flat washers of the right size and weld them in where the rust is. Cheap and easy way around it.

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#29 _wblje_

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Posted 28 October 2012 - 12:05 PM

mate back in the day i used to stay away from hjs cause of there dash but to be honest now days i look at it and realy appreciate the old school look of it. it has me slightly turned on.

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#30 yel327

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Posted 28 October 2012 - 12:23 PM

HJ dash is basically the same as HX-WB???

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#31 _Quagmire_

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Posted 28 October 2012 - 12:59 PM

nope...hj is a unique animal
it has a horizontal speedo going the length of the cluster
the gts dashes are the same style all the way through

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#32 _Macca75_

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Posted 28 October 2012 - 02:32 PM

Ive always wanted a HJ didnt matter what body style aslong as its HJ, no polution gear and the unique dash. arnt they just a face lifted Hq?

motor and box is out, now to find the rottisery stuff,

still deciding whether to go with the vh 5 speed or keep the 3 speed for a few years until i get my lcence and keep it.

6 months till my L's :/ dont think ill have it finished

Cheers Danny

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#33 RIM-010

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Posted 28 October 2012 - 02:58 PM

Don't panic about having the car going for your licence man... I wanted my LJ going for my P's, that didn't happen... 18 months after I got my full licence, I'm driving it haha

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#34 _Macca75_

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Posted 28 October 2012 - 03:15 PM

I just dont wana be stuck driving mums kia or dads crewman because there both auto's.

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#35 yel327

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Posted 28 October 2012 - 04:09 PM

nope...hj is a unique animal
it has a horizontal speedo going the length of the cluster
the gts dashes are the same style all the way through

The instruments are different, but the dash is the same.

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#36 _ryan350_

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Posted 28 October 2012 - 08:13 PM

Love the hj dash, the speedo always reminds me of the blues brothers when there just about to jump the bridge!!!

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#37 yel327

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Posted 29 October 2012 - 07:18 AM

It is a throwback to a HK dash. Only some HJ got the strip speedo though. Many had the U17 sports dash, and Statesmans didn't have it. Only Belmont/Holden, Kingswood and Premier/LS had the strip speedo as standard. GTS, Deville, Caprice and Sandman didn't.

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#38 _Macca75_

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Posted 31 October 2012 - 03:47 PM

Quick up date. new chassis is completely stripped and on the rotissery. starting to look like ill be able to keep my budget nice and low with all the brand new/good parts that ive got between the 2 utes. picked up a set of genie extractors a really low price, bought a blue motor and vh 5 speed with a tailshaft to suit a salisbury thats been cut, found a torana v8 banjo uni, so hopefully it fits the utes banjo diff.

heres a few pics

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#39 _Macca75_

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Posted 02 November 2012 - 05:25 PM

Chassis got its date with the hose and forklift yesterday, im glad we did it because alot of crap came out.

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also i saved this little beast from spending the rest of its life in a leaking container.

its a 1978/79 mini moke that looks like a 26 dodge 2 ton truck. its will be mine and dads project together
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cheers danny

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#40 _Quagmire_

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Posted 02 November 2012 - 07:07 PM

that moke is cool
i think you might run into trouble with the v8 uni's as they are a different size to the six cly diffs tmk
but it only costs 50 odd bucks for a proper new set anyway...

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#41 _Macca75_

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Posted 02 November 2012 - 07:40 PM

Ive got a torana v8 banjo yoke but im not sure if the spline part is the same as the utes banjo :/

Edited by Macca75, 02 November 2012 - 07:43 PM.

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#42 _Quagmire_

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Posted 02 November 2012 - 08:07 PM

should be good...there is a tread bout em somewhere here ....

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#43 dattoman

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Posted 02 November 2012 - 08:25 PM

I have a chassis just the same laying around here
Almost temped to find a body for it now

Is there a plan to coat the inside of that chassis with something to stop it rusting from the inside out ?

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#44 _Macca75_

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Posted 03 November 2012 - 03:02 PM

there is something out there but i cant think of it, it comes ether in a spray can with a foot long straw on it or just a paint tin.

picked my extractors up today, nice set of genies

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#45 _Bomber Watson_

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Posted 03 November 2012 - 03:14 PM

Tectyl would be the best product.

Cheers.

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#46 _Quagmire_

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Posted 03 November 2012 - 04:58 PM

tectyl is just a short term converter/protectant....and dangerous as all hell don't get it on your paint..
.never comes off and eats it
wear a respirator and gloves etc if you use that
wurth's wax or similar.....or even bitium[tar is the go
or even fish oil...

Edited by Quagmire, 03 November 2012 - 04:59 PM.

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#47 _Macca75_

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Posted 12 November 2012 - 01:15 PM

Havent done alot, chassis ready for the first coat of paint, for the inside we're just going to use fish oil as the stuff we were looking you'd need to take a bank loan out to buy it.

heres a few plans for the motor/trans.

standard 202 3 on the tree for the first year or so

hot red 202, blue rods and flywheel, 173 9 port head with vn commodore valves and springs with a nice port job, a mild cam, EFI off a EA falcon or something similar. VH 5 speed.

cheers Danny

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#48 yel327

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Posted 12 November 2012 - 02:31 PM

Why bother with the 179 head (unless you already have it!). Better off using a blue/black head and EFI hardware off a VK Commodore. There is a someone here who converted one of these manifolds to VN Delco ECU. You'll bust the VH 5spd pretty smartly.

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#49 _Macca75_

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Posted 12 November 2012 - 05:58 PM

Ive already got the 173 head, the motor was down the paddock when we moved here so i had to make use of it some how.
heres a few pics of it. won't be a big power house will only be around 160 170hp, so maybe it might handle it lol
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