Medicine_Man

coupes aren't "rare" as such these days, Quite a few have been privately imported lately. They are rare due to the fact that we only got the hatch.... I recon you could get at least AU$4000 here as it sits, lol..

contact me if you get stuck, not afraid to help out a fellow rollaclubber..

I think his low beams are like 55w but the high beam is 100w :lolcry: like 310w of lighting, hehehe..

Brand new Hella lights..

Do you want me to come and give you a hand some time during/after christmas?, after Friday i have 3 weeks off..

Looks like saturday it is, Don't forget to pimp your cars with chrismas decorations..

Like to know where you can get one that cheap.. I paid AU$1900 before the takumi boom.. You start at like AU$4000 here now..

Somehow I don't think teddy is going to miss his lights being left on, they are so damn bright. If he parks to close to another car it might catch on fire..

Assuming it is a K motor it is in the thermostat housing at the front of the head.

Sounds like a truck we had a work, Once it loses its battery sense wire then it starts overcharging. The windings in the regulator can't handle the increase in voltage/current and fry the regulator.

Aaah, Nice to see you are one step close!

Of course you test it with a test light first, Check you have a 12v signal and also that there is 12v at the main post on the starter. Once you have done that and they are OK, If it still fails to motor then you can try what I mentioned previously. You could even go to the extent to take the wire off to the field housing and power it up with 12v too (If it still fails to motor then that is another good sign the brushes/armature are causing the fault). I must say that in 12 months of doing auto electrics, I have never seen a solenoid "free" by hitting it with a hammer, Nor bridge loose connections.. It is all about tracing the path of the circuit, I beg to disagree with you still not knowing what is wrong by the time you have hit it with a hammer if it is indeed brushes (mabey even armature) You would know where the fault lies. The solenoid feeds power to the field coils and brings the drive into mesh/holds it in mesh, it doesn't have any other function that would stop the motor spinning. He has found the problem, But we are still on topic discussing how to diagnose the fault.

It's only a Volvo, Whatever you hit will stop it in the end anyway..

Vote people... Most numbers gets that date..

Has to come down to a vote, Whatever gets the most votes by thursday wins..

Looks to be a very neat car :o

I must say I have never seen contacts that don't work start working when you hit them. Generally if the contacts are bad sometimes they stick and weld themselves together and cause the starter to run on when you have come back from crank. If you are not getting enough voltage to the pull-in windings of the solenoid, then the plunger is never going to pull in far enough to bridge the contacts. The way you can see if it is brushes causing the problem, get someone to hold the ignition on crank and hit the back of the starter where the brushes are and if it starts to spin away you know it is brushes. (Worn brushes are not letting power get through to the armature or from the armature to ground). If it is a Bosch starter and it is the contacts that are fautly, you can get a kit to fix them, Provided the pull-in and hold-in windings are OK. I hate seeing people smack the solenoid with a hammer when you should really be hitting the back of the starter where the brushes are.

If you have to hit your starter to get it going it is usually worn brushes..

Due to teddy and travis missing it if we do it on a friday, are we all happy to make it a saturday? The 22nd of December..

Yes that is a 4A-GE they have done the conversion and ditched the boat anchor 4A-C...

f@$king Bogan Desert rebuilders.. I'd be taking them to the RTA, Get your money back..

What drugs are you on, 3 posts and you recon you know everything. Do you actually own an ae86?

Way too much corruption going on over there for them to worry about something as simple as that.. Must just be loaded with money, Makes you wonder how many times he tried before he got it right..

This guy is nuts, I love it :lolcry:

AE86 Sprinter (Trueno) Notchback