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nz side, means New Zealand, which is on one side of the Tasman Sea. Australia is on the other side.

Quote from: Bedfordcrazy on November 18, 2012, 08:48:24 AM

This is to all the kiwis, i have just received an email about a new dvd release. Its a New Zealand Underbelly release. For those that have seen the aussie underbelly's and the kiwi one, is the kiwi production as good as the oz ones.

george

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Nah Skippy......Just Aussie rugby players.

jeff ... what did it drive like ? would the diff need moving over ?

The van drove smooth and normal on a std 9 inch diff.
The angle of the drive shaft was no worse than the angle of the normal up and down movement you get with an empty or heavily loaded van, or on a bumpy road. Except this deflection was horizontal instead of vertical.
Universal joints require some misalignment for the rollers to move and so the wear is not taken on only one spot.

I put a 253 into my last van. It took up quite a lot of space and I took more so I could get my hands around the motor for easier maintenance.
To overcome this problem and to leave room for my left foot I only cut floor and bulkhead from the passenger side and mounted the donk left of center and on a slight angle.
Other than moving the engine and gearbox mounts this created no problems at all.
The sound was awesome, ( at low revs it used to set off car alarms )but I did find I like the smoothness of a six better, but at least I can now say "I have owned a V8"

Thanks Skippy and Rogue. I never thought of using a piano type hinge. Perfect!