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Thanks corollaart, I should've remembered I had a Datsun 1600SSS dash sitting in the garage with a guage in it! Fitted just the oil pressure guage and the sender unit, but it is too damped to be useful. It slooowly climbs to halfway between 45 and 90psi, and slooowly drop to idle about 1/4 way to 45psi. So no use in the first 30seconds. On a good note however, it didn't rattle when I started it, several times, and when I refitted the light sender unit the light went out in 2 seconds. Maybe the 1300km to Benalla and back last week has cleaned some shit out. Time for an oil change just in case!

Sure, PM me your email address Goldberg & I'll send a copy over.

"The Driver" Watch him neatly destroy Merc piece by piece... I love the reverse flick that takes a mirror off...

Its a 4K... '83 KE70 with low Km really. I'm surprised it does it. Sounds more like bearings than the chain, although I know they rattle the chain easily.

When the 'rolla starts it rattles in the bearings until the oil light goes out. Luckily it is tuned to start and idle with no accelerator... The oil filter is covered in Japanese writing, so its not a cheap repco copy and I assume it is OK. Now, does anyone know if the rattle would be main bearings or bigends? I might go to the hassle of dropping the sump and changing them if the crank is still OK. I'd like to slip a washer under the oil pump spring while I'm under there. In the 1970/80s when I was rallying Datsuns the Toyotas had a reputation for a weak bottom end but I don't know if that was mains or rodends. Its only done 110,000km, and the compressions are all at 150psi.

We're in Orange... My daughter is already a member & I thought I'd join... The BLCC looks interesting, we might get into that when she has her 'P's

I have a copy I d'loaded from somewhere- PM me your email address & I'll send it over.