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Hey peeps. A bit of an obscure one that maybe no-one knows, but in the hope... I need to replace the rear shocks on my 76 Bakkie but clearly no motor factors in the UK knows SA cars. Beowolf on here thinks people have used Land Rover in the past but isn't sure from what model or year. I don't suppose anyone has a recommendation on what to get?

Yeah, it's that receiver bit that isn't long enough on my spare mk5 set hence thinking to go for an earlier set with that longer receiver. Will pm you.

As the title says really, looking for a set of front inertia belts to fit to my Bakkie. I reckon these would need to come from a mk3 so they have the longer stem which would be long enough to fit through the bench seat. Later mk5's aren't long enough.

Drop me a PM. I have both types.

Good to see an update bud. I uninstalled FB from my phone some months back. I got fed up with constant b******s adverts, how great someone's life is posts, and pictures of people's food/drink. Still go on once in a while via my laptop but don't miss it at all. Mostly motorbike stuff that I've gone back to doing. Would love to see this at the Yat next year, and shout loudly at you when I've had a beer lol. Hoping to be in my Bakkie but as I've not even started the strip down yet I'm not sure it'll make it, so possibly my Sierra or if I pull my finger out the Silver Fox mk3 might see the light of day for the first time in years. That needs a resto too though so who knows. Keep this thread going on your updates, it's one I check on when I do log in, and much better to re-read than FB.

Cheers for the input. So it's worthwhile trying to find out if a Capri rear leaf spring bush is the same....

This is probably quite a niche question, but anyone replaced bushes on a mk3 Bakkie before? I'm thinking on here it might just be someone like Craig only, but maybe not even Craig. So I'm about to strip down my 2.5 Bakkie and I already know the rear suspension bushes are pretty shot. Not something you seem to be able to get hold of here in the UK so I'm wondering what, if anything, people have done? I think the front end, despite running the 2.5 Essex, will be identical to the facelift mk3 Cortina. Input appreciated.

I should update this peeps to say I sourced one, and at £10 I thought I was being bent over never mind paying £20.

Anyone help with one of the little black glove box catches, the one that screws into the dash and the glove box lid then clips into it? My facelift mk3 dash glove box was stuck sold and it's because it's missing this part - it had then clipped behind a butchered hole and no amount of twisting would release. I'm presuming they're the same from mk3 FL until the end of the mk5. Cheers.

Sent you a PM Craig.

I'd like them please. Presume they're the same as the ones on my silver mk3?

I'll let you know once I've done the swap. I bought them condition unknown so I don't even know myself if either of them work.

Looking for a set of the "clearer" front indicators, ie not full on orange. Like these ones in the pic of my mk3.

Cheers both. In my stash of old bits I had 2 4cyl and 2 6cyl sets of clocks, so swapping out is by far the easiest/quickest.

Yeah, my thoughts too. I only ask as I was chatting to a mate who works at Nissan today and mentioned I'd get round to the clocks. He said on some of their models up to the 90's (R32 Skyline era) they had a physical mechanical conversion box to change the readings on imports, and with the modern electronic era they fit an additional electronic box to do their conversion. He said he's also known some cars to need to change the drive cog in the box to amend the readings. Probably just a niggling doubt over nothing, but always worth asking as I've not had an import before.