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Hi Bennie, Sorry, I explained it wrong . I Would like to replace the REAR (drum) brakes of my MV with the front ( disc, not ventilated) brakes from the wagon. Do you think this makes sense?

Just Keeping you up to date, Rear now works perfect, then I got to the front end... Another couples of day of fighting frozen bolts and destroyed CV Joints and got all fit now. Now the Mv doesn´t shake like a mixer when I´m going over 100 Kp/h (About 60 mph). The thing is you start to get pickier as the car dirves better.... but I think now It´s a safe car to drive. So Next steps will be: - Transfer the Hidraulic steering from the Wagon to the brat. - Try...to tranfer the front disk pbrakes from the wagon to the Mv. Has anyone done this before? Note: I found an upgrade from 83 (Wagon) to 1991 (Mv), in the Mv the front discs are ventilated, in the wagon they aren´t. Greetings!!

Hi, Are you adapting a SPFI system to an EA 81 Engine? That´s a change I would really like to do on mine. ¿Can you give me more information? Parte needed, major issues, etc Thanks in advance!

Thank you all for the advices. It´s a Pitty, but this weekend I won´t be able to touch My MV due to "family restrictions". Al, for your peace of mind I used anti seize compound on almost everything :). I guess this won´t be last time I have to disassemble. I am doing everything well, making notes of what is still to do and being shure every bolt is OK fir next time. Let you know as it goes on

My MV “new” legs, just before installation. just finished mounting this night. tomorrow... brakes bleeding, exhaust and go driving!!

Hi Guys, Some update... after driving my MV a while I realized that my starting point was going to be other: All the rear drive. Driveshafts, and U joints were severely worn out. The same parts on my donor looked in very good shape. Easy Job... I thought Removal from the donor car was easy, 2-3 hours of work without hurry made it. Then I spent some more time cleaning, checking greasing, oiling and changing rubbers....al good by then The problema started when I tried to loosen the 4 bolts that hold the torsion bar in place in My MV.. the were completely frozen. 2 came out, not without damaging the threads and 2 broke. long story short.... after one and a half week of wrestling a am almost Ready to install my “new” rear drive this afternoon.

Thank You Al and Bennie! Mine has the Little Analog Dashboard (3 Gauges), and I plan to keep it for now (The Wag has a 7 Gauge board, but the dash is completely torn apart). I am starting with cleaning everything and getting everything to work well in a standard condition. Following your advices, I think I will start with the Power steering. I consider Myself a capable, though not professional, mechanic and I also run a Welding machines sales business...so welding is not an issue for me. Time is always mi biggest Issue, but Coronavirus may give me lots of free time. I´ll keep udates up. Sorry...with 7 gauges I meant 6 gauges

Hello, I just bought a 1991 Brat, this was a daily driver, quite neglected, but complete and only with little rust. luckily I also found an 83 wagon which I got almost for free, full of animals and rust, but after some cleaning it showed to be in a decent shape... besides the rust. At a first look, Inwould like to make the following swaps, all from the wagon to the brat: Install the 5 gear gearbox Install power steering install Ac install some minor gadgets like power windows and power mirrors The first two issues look (from my ignorance) just bolt-ons, any advice about the problems I may found would be truly thanked. also a wish list of upgrades: FI Better brakes about 10-20 more horsepower...but keeping reliability.

Hello! The brumpy is the better one. The wagon was bought as a donor.

Hi I am Rafael from Chile. after many years of search and looking for the Availability-Funds-time sincronicity I was able to buy a 1991 MV (Yes! We got this beauties here until that year). Also got a 1983 SW as a donor car. Now having problems because it happened to be in much better conditions than what I thought when buying it (amazingly runs and drives after 15 years in a backayard near the beach). My initial plan is to do a Resto-mod with the MV, not a monster just a driveable and safe car to have fun with some pictures soon.