To get a good look at the exhaust manifold. The metal strap for the hidden bolt snapped.
I ground out a channel in the strap to the bolt hole, to make re fitting easier.
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To get a good look at the exhaust manifold. The metal strap for the hidden bolt snapped.
I ground out a channel in the strap to the bolt hole, to make re fitting easier.
Just a hint.
I drilled out the rivets and connected the strap to the rear bolt on the manifold.
Then drilled the strap and put rivnuts in so that I can use 2x6mmx1.25x20mm bolts. It is much easier to align it all and replace the bolts as you can align the shield by poking a short screwdriver into the holes.( in contrast to having a bloody mirror and trying to see where the rear bolt is. Ask me how I know)
Regards Philip A
Regarding the ongoing saga of my gauges.
After shifting the input of the constant voltage to my gauges to the clock memory fuse , the bloody gauges still would drop out just after I turned the first corner from home .AAAARGH!
I had the switched voltage on fuse F26 which says auxiliary circuit. Hmm.
So I changed the switched power to F29 which is ACE/IDM/BCU.
Went for a drive and now looks OK.
So I had a look in RAVE as to what auxiliary circuits covers. It turns out to be the seat heaters and they have a thermo switch in the console. I bet the thermo switches are still there even though my model has no heated seats and they switch off after about 1Km from home as they have no resistor in the seats which tells the switch to turn the heat on and off between 88 and 98C or suchlike.
Geeeez.
Regards Philip A
Removed the twin LPG tanks; easier than I thought. Tomorrow, I'm going to have a think about how I might be able to continue using the aux petrol tank in the rear wing; then I'll have about 125 litres!
Thanks to Fast Freddie who cam over to help. The sqeak is still there, no sign of any soot. I'll keep an eye on it.
Bonus, the sqeak on turning the engine off, though to be the harmonic balancer, has gone!!
Cheers
Julian
Tried and failed (after days of burping it) to get all the air out of the bloody heater matrix. I think after this time I know all the sneaky ways to do it. Gives me the pip cause I know it's not as efficient at cooling with air. ! Cheers
Drove from Mildura to Grafton via Dubbo o'nite. And nothing happened! Even a pleasure to drive thru the hills. Very happy. Haven't calculated the fuel yet but guessing mid 10's to the 100. :)
Replaced bent track rod with one from a wreck. Wheels now look right and steering wheel centred! https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...016/11/455.jpg
Fitted some parts recently harvested from the wrecker: rear tail light, interior mid row light, electric wing mirror.
Then set out to fit a light bar, took off the old spotties and the winch. This last nearly did me in. I forgot I had to take the bull bar off. Needless to say dodging showers meant I didn't finish today. Always later in the week.
yup! - a harmonic balancer is the next job on the list for you. Had mine done 12 months ago (squeak now gone) and in the 3 months before that had the idler pulley bearing fail followed by the viscous fan bearing, i replaced the whole fan assembly though just to sure ;).Quote:
Originally Posted by Bohica