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Find out what is holding it open- Could be something external in a linkage, or a mis-aligned/loose throttle plate.. I dunno, find it first and then tackle it.

There are pretty self-explanatory- Blowing up Grumpy's motor doing burnouts with a full tank of 98... can't leave that in there- ...and I sorted Nell's Datsun 1300 ute after they mis-fitted a new carb so it couldn't have the throttle cable fitting AND a stock air cleaner, it had to be one of the other! ..and his little bro & I stole a 4K straight out of a paddock-basher he'd just bought and he never knew until he went to start it. THAT classic is on a phone video I must get my hands on! Happy 21st mate !!! Enjoy the day!

Next time it happens just kill the ignition and brake to a stop without touching the throttle, then take a look at it all to see if one carb is still open and not closed to idle. For the motor to race it needs more air and enough fuel, so if it is sporadically leaking just air through the brake booster line or similar it will lean out. The only way to get fuel and air together is past the throttle plate really.

Well, nothing on the car really, except another couple of thousand Km up to work on the rally car and visit my bro in Coolies. That's 5 full tanks and it went like this. Black dots, Orange- Tamworth on United's 95octane E10 7.5L/100 Red dots Tamworth- Casino on Caltex 95 7.5L/100 Yellow dots Casino-Coolangatta and back on Matilda 95 E10 7.1L/100 Green dots Casino down to Walcha on United's 95E10 8.6L/100 Black dots Walcha- Orange on caltex 98 7.2L/100 So there's not much in it, I reckon the bad run from Casino down was the massive headwind that day and I was going more the 110kph than the 100. They're all about 500km, so a good day's drive. I took the air inlet off and the flap while watching the mixture going up, so a few tanks have gone through without it and it seems to make no difference. The reason for it really lies in hot summer days at low speeds. I'll put a new pinion oil seal in the 4.1 T-series I now have and try that next. I'm only home for two days then back up to Queensland, Kingaroy for some work on a rental house, over to Coolangatta and down to Armidale to drop the girl at UNE, then home again.

Its the POWAAH.... If the pedal goes soft at that time then something is holding the throttles open, but if it doesn't then its quite likely something else entirely. I'm sure you have opened and closed the throttle carefully while watching the carb linkages... There are no sticky points anywhere from idle to wide open and back?? Sometimes wear in the axle/housing will jam a little going one way and not the other. Are the two throttles directly connected to the center quadrant with the cable, or can the cable relax back without the throttles closing?? (hence my three springs) How about sticking a webcam under there with a torch and driving with a laptop on the passenger's seat recording it?? If they have been rebuilt it might be worth disconnecting the linkages and checking that each throttle plate closes completely and easily. If the plate is not centered in the axle it can hold the throttle open, but usually that causes a high idle & engine racing.

Yes, you would have to upgrade the diff and gearbox, and the suspension, and then brakes as well for any of those motors. The car would be heavier in the nose and go much to quick to stop easily. I'd settle for a 1600cc if there was a nice twincam with a good gearbox behind it, the 4AGE with the Aisin Altezza 6speed being the best bet. Maybe some 1800cc 4cyl could do it, a bit more torque for hills. The 1300cc of the 4K is fine for cruising at 100kph in The Girl's KE70, but if the hill is steep enough for 3rd gear it will slow to 80kph. It woudn't take much to overcome that problem.

Make sure your head fits up in the little triangle above you, and you can easily get your legs and bum over the side intrusion bar and past the secondary front vertical one. Personally I'm not a fan of that CAMS cage. The one in the rally car will cause the crash by forcing a poor visibility situaton from a bad seating position, and then may keep you alive long enough to burn to death because you can't get out in a hurry.

..and how many? I run three, one returns the cable and one on each SU carb throttle. They don't have to be strong, just enough to do the job. Clutch/brake pedal return springs are nice

Blown motor I hear... ..and a replacement from a particularly dodgy and humourous source to get it back on the road... ..only to blow a driveshaft to bits being a clown.. There are a lot of updates to do, with videos even! (and just FINISH Grumpy, never mind a thread! Last seen spitting petrol out after trying to siphon Grumpy dry...)

Meh! No chance of finishing it! Today Steve fitted rear suspension and that is all done, axles, brakes, fresh diff oil, new Bilsteins. We assembled the front struts and he fitted those so we have brakes and Terratrip on, while I sorted steering and wiring. Tomorrow it can go on its wheels and we will drop the motor and box in, so I can start testing the electrics, but its hard to rally a car without doors or front panels! Cie la vie, it will be all go for Bateman's Bay, which is in a month.

Well. we did finally get paint on today! The bonnet looked great scrubbed back to bare metal with all sort of patterns from the paint remover disc. I would've clear-coated it if we had some.. The guards were just wiped with thinners while Steve went over the chassis, as was the silver door- The rolled-on one looked pretty sad, but it will do. The inside went a sort-of dirty white, but I'd had enough of black interiors so anything was better! By mid-afternoon it was all gloss white, and we had picked up an audience who all watched from along the fence. So, now it can dry overnight, being cheap 3-in-one epoxy enamel. Tomorrow I can get inside the car and Steve can assemble the suspension. We started on the new axle seals but got distracted by the semi-locked diff having a binding spot for half a turn, so first thing tomorrow we should swap an axle out and see if its a bent axle or in the spider gears. The axles look fine, but I don't know how much they need to be bent to bind slightly. Steve's dad thought the scrutineers might think the steel post dash frame a bit strange, so I figure we can always cover it in cage rubber if needed. There is just a giant empty space in front of the navigator now. Steve reckons I made the tacho/speedo too high, you can see sweet FA out of a Celica at the best of times, so I'm halfway through a new lower mount for them. A saturday rally looks difficult!

Well! So little achieved..... We mounted up the winch, which went fine- Grabbed an unsuspecting X-trail and hooked it up. We lifted the tray to make sure the wire rope didn't rub on the end of it, and to lower the angle that the ramps sat at. It actually looked very high... The winch hauled it up without a problem, we dropped the tray a bit as the front wheels went onto the deck. ..and we finally decided that this was the easiest way to get a car loaded! They headed off to rescue the Corona and I headed back into the shed to continue the fight with the nav's door and guard. The door is a 'new' one, the body is a bent one with lots of welding and added metal and the guard has been rolled on... Getting the three of them to fit together took the day, We did manage to strip half the bonnet back to bare metal. The spares car is in excellent nick, so I couldn't understand why the paint was crazed through to the metal. It's about 2mm thick, with a second bronze paint under a thick spray-filler layer.. I finally figured it must have been a hail-damaged car, and the repairs were not too hot so they have crazed the original paint underneath as well. Anyway, it will have to be ripped back on all the top surface of the bonnet and one guard. -tomorrow...

you're a brave man..... Still, I've done plenty with old hammers and bits of wood... the wood is just right for pushing but not putting sharp dents in the surface. With a fibreglass car like that you wouldn't want to be around in a crash!

If it was 3weeks away instead of 3days... sure! Steve reckons one day will assemble suspension, fit a motor & box and get it running.... lol! Its all the panelbeating that still needs to be done, and the wiring is nowhere near finished, never mind tested. We will see. Steve's mate Tommy came up to the farm for a visit. He's a keen photographer, so we have some great shots taken around the place. Pete took him up for a ride around in the chopper, so here's the layout- and here's the layabout- Here's the Wizzard and his apprentice... Thanks Tommy!

I drew up a plan on the truck deck, mocked it up into place with a jack and some clamps, and found an old bull-bar in the metal heap. Then it rained overnight! There was enough chalk left to sort it out- The big boy finished at Uni on Friday, so it was straight into welding to finish off from where we were 6weeks back. Meanwhile I'd started assembling a dash, the usual minimalist version.. we cut the dials out of his Dad's Mazda RX3, one that last saw rally action in the mid-80s. I tied it into the steel picket we had holding the pillars in shape. Then I added the ignition switch, a start push button, and a couple of spare switches for spots later on. Today we welded the mount on for the winch, & got that sorted.... because a certain young man was ALSO being typical and blew up his Corona up last week, so we have to drive up to the University in Armidale & winch it onto the truck! ..and here we are. Tomorrow Steve is back onto making the passenger's door fit, I'm stripping the crazed paint off the spare's car bonnet and driver's guard, then we have to make the passenger's guard fit around the door he's hung, AND he has to go and fetch his heap of crap Corona, AND then we have a lot of painting to do.. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and part of friday left.. and we NEVER get time for testing! more photos tomorrow!

I started in on the wiring with The Girl, seeing she had just finished the Uni semester and had a couple of days on the farm. We stripped the plastic off, unwound all the tape and took out whatever wires I didn't think were needed. Sadly, the wiring diagrams in the manual were NOT exactly what was there, so I'll be soldering a couple back up again! Seeing the weather was great we did some of it on the front stoop in the sun, and it was hot so I took my pullover off... 15minutes later I looked out and there were farm cats all over it! It just took days and days to get the wiring sorted, and there were many interruptions... The little bro's KE55 had died so I spent a day and a half sorting that with him. I'll post THAT story up next week, but I did too good a job and he snapped the rear UJ and dropped the driveshaft while being a typical young man the night before last! Then Nell said her little blue 1960s Datsun ute was playing up so I said bring it over to the woolshed and that was another day and a half gone.. I'll fill those details in next week too. She's most impressed now, reckons its never gone so fast.. but if you're a little ol' lady of 88 and mainly blind,,, well, that's not hard! Anotehr distraction was from Steve's Mum, something we had talked about for ages... A winch!

OK! We're back into it! Its Monday 19th at 11pm and we have a rally this coming Saturday, which we have to be at on friday night... I've been here a week now- When I arrived the car still looked like this. I took a look around the farm.... Steve had obviously been buying shit as usual! A wagon, just 'cos it has a 4AGE A little ol' lady's white KE70, just 'cos it has low KM ...and his little bro's barge is still awaiting the 1J.

See if you can buy a plastic 1/2" angle fitting that goes into the air filter top and takes that front hose. The metal PCV valve in the rear hose closes at idle so any oil fumes then come out of the front hose with its little filter. When you drive, the PCV opens & the fumes get sucked into the manifold to be replaced by fresh air in through your small fitler via the other hose. http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=231017930038

Neither of those should be affected by changing the gearbox. The only wiring involved is bridging out the auto lockout, and if your starter solenoid is clicking then you have done that corrrectly, and the other is getting the reverse light circuit working. Have you done anything else to the car at the same time? Was it all working fine as an auto?

Yeah, true as anything! Luckily most say you should lead a good honest life to get to heaven, but they have been behind some giant wars in history. Same as politics, believe anything you like but please don't interfere with my life!

That is to be expected- The legislation and demonising of racism comes from Govt after all... Before a lot of readers here were born I hitchhiked around a fair bit of the Western world, starting by flying to Aussie, hitching up to Darwin, back down to Tassie and out through Perth in the 70s. I met ordinary people who were happy to pick me up and chat, all sorts of people. As a Kiwi who grew up with 1950s Maoris (certainly different to today!) I ended up thinking "Jeez these Aussies are racist!" Then I lived in South Africa for 8years... The people were racist in a completely different way, everyone accepted that a racist viewpoint was normal, and I'm damm sure that giving everyone the vote has not changed the fact that races are different in their cultures. Then after a bit of Europe I hitched around the UK and thought "Jeez these Poms are racist.." So after more than 60years watching this, I'm quite happy for people to be racist or not. For myself, I believe cultures are not equal, even if races are. I'm a "culturist", so as long as you behave like a white man I don't care what colour you are! ..and seeing religions are part of culture, some religions are much better than others. Either way, there is no reason at all for Govts to try and limit your freedom of speech, or force you to think in a certain way. Their ultimate goal is always to have their subjects unable to even conceive of a world without Govt, so they are safely in power... With an election on now, its a great time to think of the incentives behind what the parasites talk about. You can rest assured that anything they do is a false front to making sure they are in the seat of power and you are working as slave for them! Would you voluntarily donate money to Holden so General Motors in America can keep their profits up?

...and you don't get other people running into your precious as they use you for braking, or spinning right in front of you so you can't miss them, or pushing you off the track as make a slight misjudgement...

Google PCV and learn... Positive crankcase ventilation, what the guy got defected for on here this evening. The jetting will run it as is, but may not be the best you can run, either from fuel economy or power.

Have you had it running at all? Have you turned the motor over with a spanner? Might be that the motor is siezed solid... If you've got power to the coil just tow-start it in 2nd gear.

I assume they all are, unless it used to vent to air when it left the factory, like my 1949 Armstrong Siddeley. By the 1960s the car makers were hooking the tappet covers up to the air cleaners to burn the fumes, and then they started actively scavenging the crankcase with PCV systems that sucked the fumes out. I suppose it only ever matters if you try to register the car in another State and someone looks at the engine venting more carefully.