Stage 1 V8

Cheers Alan I wire brushed my other wheels with a grinder attachment as you recommended. Sandblasted the bits I couldn't get to with the brush (in the sandblaster at work). Etching primered, and then top coated with an eye matched single pot Enamel (matte). Came out quite well. Also, to potential bu...

I have 4 Ex New Zealand Army Stage Ones in Varying states of repair/disrepair that are up for sale. They are currently listed on www.trademe.co.nz They can be viewed by hitting the links to the respective adds on the "trademe" website. http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=293393...

I just recently put new universals in my ex-army stage one (front shaft, double joint only - the single joint was fine). Sometimes it can be a bit of a trick to feel for slack rollers in the universals of the double joint as it is spring loaded by the ball joint. One of my universals was rooted big ...

My NZ ex-army landy is running a 12V ignition system with all other aspects still 24V. It uses one of the Lucas 35D distributers mentioned above along with a 7V coil and has been all good - until recently that is. One of the batteries has just died (dropped a cell or two) and it just so happens to b...

Nice truck,

Whats the offset on those wheels with the mongrels on them?

I too have an ex- nz army landy, and want to put some bigger tires on it...

I'm also considering the same conversion. Any info would be much appreciated. I'm most interested in knowing if converting back to breaker points is easy enough in the case that the electronic stuff craps out.