Thread: Operation Ralph!

Originally Posted by ezyrama

Hi All

I managed to pick up a 77 series 3 swb (nicknamed Smeg) with everything factory original and was thinking of pulling the factory diesel and seats out and putting them into Ralph the 2a so I can take it back to original and put the cortina seats and TD27 nissan motor out of Ralph into Smeg. As far as I know changing the motors over should be straight forward other than swapping the adapter plate over on the nissan motor. Is Smeg's gearbox the same as Ralph or is there a difference between the S3 (Smeg) and S2 (Ralph).

Cheers Ian

Hi i was wondering if you knew who made the addapter for the nissan engine.I'm interested in looking into that if you know.Thanks.

Originally Posted by banjo

Hi i was wondering if you knew who made the addapter for the nissan engine.I'm interested in looking into that if you know.Thanks.

No I don't sorry Jason, I bought the truck with the engine in it. If I can find the previous owners phone no. I will call him and ask him for you.

Cheers Ian

Originally Posted by series3

Hey Ian I can't link them onto here at the moment I'm using a phone but in my thread in the 2/2a section there are pictures of my 2.25 with duck egg blue colour.

Cheers,

Sam

Hey Sam
Try multimedia to send the photo to your email account and then save the pic's to your desktop. That's what I had to do until I find the lead for the camera.

Cheers Ian

Finally found the camera lead (I had a man's look) Here are some more photo's of the project.
001 shows the rust repair to the bulkhead, my sheetmetal guy made two separate pieces, tacked them together,welded them in and used a die grinder to tidy it up. he did the same to both door frames and in front of the steering wheel. 2&3 are the nissan motor on it's way out of Ralph and 4 is the 2.25 being lifted out of Smeg.

and a couple more.Smile for the camera Macca (Sorry mate, I forgot you were wanted in 3 states and 1 territory)I had to gerni the chassis and around the gearbox for the 5th time after the floor and engine came out of Smeg. It's amazing how much krudd can hide up, under the seat box! O'h and BTW I seem to have lost all the brakes in Ralph as well, No fluid anywhere, but no pedal pressure either! BUGGER!

We can get the TD27 over here for small change (around AUD$1500 for a low-kilo Jap unit), and I will be considering this as a Series upgrade option.

Can you take some shots of the bell housing adapter plate please?

(PM to me if you don't want to pollute the thread....)

Originally Posted by jakeslouw

We can get the TD27 over here for small change (around AUD$1500 for a low-kilo Jap unit), and I will be considering this as a Series upgrade option.

Can you take some shots of the bell housing adapter plate please?

(PM to me if you don't want to pollute the thread....)

Pic's as requested, not the best as it is in a bugger of a spot in the garage. I will pull it out if I get time over the weekend.

Cheers Ian

Thanks, mate, those are great.