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    Night Rider Vombil's Avatar
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    great stuff again. I looked at a van that had that had the sound stuff all through it. it was so weird. makes the panels sound like wood when you knock them!
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    Quote Originally Posted by hainzy View Post
    No wonder youre doing so well and making it look so easy. Cos 'Bobs your uncle..'

    thank you thank you... here all night....

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    Uh oh. Hainzy got into the ambo oxygen supply again.

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    Quote Originally Posted by playwme View Post
    Uh oh. Hainzy got into the ambo oxygen supply again.

    gettin high on my own supply.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vombil View Post
    great stuff again. I looked at a van that had that had the sound stuff all through it. it was so weird. makes the panels sound like wood when you knock them!

    I agree you can go over board with the sound deadning, Im only doing the floor, keep the noise and the heat down
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    Quote Originally Posted by hainzy View Post
    No wonder youre doing so well and making it look so easy. Cos 'Bobs your uncle..'

    thank you thank you... here all night....

    ..............Yep Bobs my uncle
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    Quote Originally Posted by bobh View Post
    Hi Grant (Grunt)
    Uncle Bob from the US here, Your mum sent me the link to your sandman restoration.
    You have done an amazing job so far and the results look great.
    I am sure you will be very proud of the finished product and have a fine sense of achievement once it is completed.
    Keep up the good work.
    Bob

    Thanks for the comments, wont be long before im finished, another big week end on it just gone
    Last edited by Grunt; 12-05-2013 at 08:37 PM.
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    The HZ bell housing , clutch fork and pedal arrived so I got the drive line hooked up








    The exhaust is only a set up system. Its to keep the neighbors happy while im mucking around tuning it.
    Last edited by Grunt; 06-05-2017 at 11:11 PM.
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    So then it came time to set up the pedal. When I bought the HZ bell housing clutch fork and pedal the guy told me they aere out of his factory spec HZ. After checking out the pedal I saw it was a 6 cylinder version, guess his car was from 2 different factories. Anyway what this means is the pull hook on the top is shorter and at a different angle and the length of the pedal is physically longer.



    Thanks to the interweb some helpful guy on Old Holden posted this pic which shows the difference, thanks for his pic







    So I chopped up the HX, and HZ pedal and made a Frankenpedal.... nothing is ever straight forward


    The clutch pedal height will come up when the cable connected to the gear box

    Happy to get the steering column back in

    Oh on another note there is a lot of mystery trying to get the correct thrust bearing - release bearing / carrier to suit this setup mainly because its a discontinued part. I have found out that the same part is also used in late HZ, WB, VB, VC, VH. VL, VN, VR and some VS holdens on the T5 v8 box as well as the Aussie 4 speed M21. Go to your local Repco and tell them you are after a release bearing part number GSB396 should cost about $60.00
    Last edited by Grunt; 06-05-2017 at 11:17 PM.
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    Grant, you are doing an awsome job! I think i need to come to your place with the inner guards and rear sway bar real soon! Like real soon!! I thought the van was a 7/76 not an 8/76?
    Last edited by L31 Sandman; 13-05-2013 at 08:45 PM.
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