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Moorang 4340

Joined: 21-Sep 2018

"G'day beetwenty, apparently if the H165 diff is out of a van with the 1200 engine it will fit in the 1000 housing, the H150 will fit with the spacer but they don't have the right ratio's, mine is a stock 1000 diff so it will be a 4.111, I've also read..."

Post #363 | Wednesday, 24-Jun 2020 @ 1:27pm

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Gold Coast, Australia

Joined: 05-Feb 2011

"So my understanding is that if you want a H165 diff in your car you will need to swap the entire diff over. Leaf mounts, shock mounts,u bolts and driveshaft (maybe custom length). And obviously overall widths need to be appropriate as well."

Post #364 | Wednesday, 24-Jun 2020 @ 7:58am

Edited by beetwenty
Wednesday, 24-Jun 2020 @ 10:11am

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Gold Coast, Australia

Joined: 05-Feb 2011

"My understanding is that if all you are swapping over is the centre on your 1000 diff then you either need a 1000 or 1200 diff centre (H145). If you swap to the larger 120y centre (H150) you will need to either buy or make up a 2mm spacer to fit between..."

Post #365 | Wednesday, 24-Jun 2020 @ 7:58am

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Moorang 4340

Joined: 21-Sep 2018

"Just fitted some 15" wheels on the old girl and now find the gearing too tall, from what i have been told and researched a H165 diff centre out of a Nissan vanette with a 4.625 ratio will fit the 1000 diff., does anyone know of any other options or a..."

Post #366 | Wednesday, 24-Jun 2020 @ 7:11am

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Moorang 4340

Joined: 21-Sep 2018

"Just fitted some 15" wheels on the old girl and now find the gearing too tall, have been told a H165 diff centre out of a Nissan vanette with a 4.625 ratio is the one i need and will fit the 1000 diff. so if anyone has one for sale i would be..."

Post #367 | Wednesday, 24-Jun 2020 @ 7:02am

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Gold Coast, Australia

Joined: 10-Feb 2011

"Ok, emails should be working now. I'll test a few things, but if anyone has any issues, reply on here (or use the contact form if you can't log in)."

Post #368 | Saturday, 20-Jun 2020 @ 10:09am

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Gold Coast, Australia

Joined: 10-Feb 2011

"So the host got back to me. They're not going to renew the licenses for the third party software that used to exist on the old host. Currently, the following doesn't work: file uploads, image resizing or image captions, sending emails (including the..."

Post #369 | Saturday, 20-Jun 2020 @ 9:21am

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Saturday, 20-Jun 2020 @ 9:26am

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Neil

Perth Western Australia

Joined: 03-Mar 2011

492 posts

Post #370 | Thursday, 18-Jun 2020 @ 9:06pm

"Nice of them to let you know"

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Gold Coast, Australia

Joined: 10-Feb 2011

"UPDATE: Gallery images can be viewed, but not uploaded yet "

Post #371 | Thursday, 18-Jun 2020 @ 6:10pm

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Gold Coast, Australia

Joined: 10-Feb 2011

"I've contact the new host to see what's up. I can't access the FTP for the site at the moment, so while I wait for a reply I can't upload fixes to the code. Viewing/uploading gallery images and email notifications will be broken until then. I'll keep..."

Post #372 | Thursday, 18-Jun 2020 @ 5:31pm

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Thursday, 18-Jun 2020 @ 5:33pm

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Gold Coast, Australia

Joined: 10-Feb 2011

"It looks like the host for this site has changed owners, and the new owners have been changing some things around. One of those things is the licensing for plugins we were using for: Uploading files, Resizing images, and Sending emails I'm looking..."

Post #373 | Thursday, 18-Jun 2020 @ 4:40pm

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Thursday, 18-Jun 2020 @ 4:54pm

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Gold Coast, Australia

Joined: 05-Feb 2011

"Thans for the link, good to see the mighty 1k seeing some love. Copied and pasted another review of the same car from our vintage press section. "

Post #374 | Wednesday, 10-Jun 2020 @ 7:10pm

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Wednesday, 10-Jun 2020 @ 7:10pm

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Bee010

Central Coast

Joined: 14-Aug 2018

55 posts

Post #375 | Tuesday, 09-Jun 2020 @ 4:20pm

"https://www.autocar.jp/firstdrives/2020/05/23/514854/ Interesting recognition for the B10...and its a 4-door!"

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Gold Coast, Australia

Joined: 05-Feb 2011

"I hear you with cars and working taking alot of time. My brother bought himself a toyota chinook. (campervan hilux 1980) to replace his hilux 1981. And over the past 2-3 weeks we have swapped every part from one car to the other. not all of it was..."

Post #376 | Friday, 29-May 2020 @ 7:05am

Edited by beetwenty
Friday, 29-May 2020 @ 7:08am

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Moorang 4340

Joined: 21-Sep 2018

"Thanks i have ordered the front spring eye bushes and i did the rears when i first put the old girl together plus i've got the control arm bushes, fitting the 1500 and five speed at the moment so with work as well i'm flat out. "

Post #377 | Thursday, 28-May 2020 @ 7:02am

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Gold Coast, Australia

Joined: 05-Feb 2011

"just jumped on the nolathane page...so nolathane numbers are... 47155 Rear Spring - eye front bushing 47156 Rear Spring - eye rear bushing 47157 Rear Spring - shackle bushing "

Post #378 | Monday, 25-May 2020 @ 6:59am

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Monday, 25-May 2020 @ 7:01am

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Moorang 4340

Joined: 21-Sep 2018

"Thanks mate that's what i needed to know , I contacted Nolathane and they couldn't give me any info on whether they would fit or not and the Datto 1000 specs didn't give sizes. Pedro"

Post #379 | Sunday, 24-May 2020 @ 2:20pm

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Gold Coast, Australia

Joined: 05-Feb 2011