jono1986

Other than a Vac line, there should be electrical wires coming from it, there should be a little contraption to hold the sheath down at the gearbox. I'll take some photo's of what i mean, cause i aint that great at explaining things.

Does your dizzy have 1 or more wire coming out of it? All a coil needs is an ignition feed and a earth signal either from your dizzy or from an ignitor. And contrary to what people are saying, some dizzy's do come with external ignitor's. And my clutch cable was loose when i put it in at first, at the bulkhead in the engine back you have to undo that rubber thing and pull the cable throughto tension it up. Unless your talking about the spring on the either the pedal or down at the gearbox, do you remember fitting 2 springs to the system?

That's about as bad as the welsh plug blowing out a rebuilt head on my 3k, i feel the pain man

Ah... i thought maybe the sender would have had an inbuilt W/L output for older type dashboards

Maybe G = Gauge, W = Warning light. Check the resistance between the two wires and earth with the engine off and then when it's running; the W one might go straight to earth e.g. for the warning light and the G one will be variable resistance..........MAYBE

Just some things that i can think of, something's happened to your float in your carby to mess that up, with the front end the steering rod thingy would of jump a couple of teeth in the steering box thingo. Also jack the car up and see if the wheel wobbles, could of bent it so when you turn its on a bit of an angle which might cause this 'tripping over it's own foot'. And also i don't know how other people might feel but it might be easier if you spoke in a more technical fashion when it comes to mechanical problems. Just my two cents....

There's a couple of ways of doing it, i found this not so long ago http://www.rollaclub.com/board/index.php?s...638#entry431420 which tells you a far bit. Another way of doing it is getting a hall effect type sensor of another car and retro fitting to your speedo cable much like that link. Or you can put magnets on the prop shaft and get a speedo calibration system to get the correct speed...all of these are a bit complicated. The easiest way is taking it to a guage specialist and have them look at it.

They sell them from time to time in the for sale section, the cheapest upgrades are like elec dizzy's which aren't a huge upgrade. ummmm you know what your going to be paying more than 300 of any decent upgrade, but i don't know much this is just from what i've seen. although you can get 5k motors from 250 so......

32/36 downdraft weber

Look in the SA recommended list, there's a guy that sell welsch plugs cheap.....

the globe in the middle?? Its the glass thing with little silver caps on each side, it just pops out. Take it to an auto place and they will you give a replacement

I might be able to help, if you take a picture of it

Hey guys, I got a really stupid question. Basically i got my car (a 3k) tuned a little while ago and it was running pretty good, after a couple of weeks it started to run dodgey....like it stalls everytime i stop after a bit of racey driving, would have big flat spots under heavy throttle use, and kinda misfires. So earlier today the oil light had taken a little bit longer to turn off after starting the car, so i put about 200ml's of oil in and all of a sudden it's running fairly decent again. Does the oil affect engine performance that much? I know that the head (even after being rebuilt) has worn valve guides, so that's why my oil dissappears everytime i start the car, but is it the low oil that's causing power loss or other things like maybe compression loss or other reasons? Oh it's been fully rebuilt from the bottom end up to the carby, apparently the bearings were gone in the carby so the butterflies were worn. So the guy replaced all that and for some reason drilled out the jet.

Spotted a yellowy ke35/55 parked at mitsubishi early today, looked clean

If it's not the battery, get someone to knock the starter motor with a 2 by 4 (plank of wood), that will tell you if the started motor is gone. it could actually be a 50 50 with the starter or the battery, depends on the age of both.

I've heard guage works could help you with that, or you could get a speedo corrector from jaycar for about 55 bucks, just needs assembly

Another option is the Jaycar programmable ignition system, which allows you to program the advance curve in and can be used to limit rpm aswell (i think). The whole system is about $200, with optional knock sensing.

I guess from my point of view i can't have an opinion as i haven't been on a rolla club cruise yet, but when i went on a tribute to brock cruise a couple of years ago the organisers were very assertive on the rules of the cruise.

How long will it take for them to start targeting all car clubs though, like this Barnes guy said "nights were about "showing what your car is made of"". Which kinda makes it seem like all car cruises are about is showing off and acting like hoons, it will take this one scenario to stuff everyone around.

What colour are the wires coming out of the distributor?

I was thinking the same thing, but someone on here told me the 5k would be the better option, i mean i would be coming from a 3k though. I was thinking the 7k but heard they were a bit pricey, everything bolts up except the sump on the 7k is deeper so i think you have to mod the front cross member to fit it in. Oh and i think the exhaust manifolds are slightly diffferent, not how they bolt up but the actuall design of the flow, but if you have extractors you don't have to worry about that stuff.

I'm actually getting a similar sound coming from around the distributor area aswell, the only thing i can think of is when i had the engine apart we lightly wet sanded the oil pump end plate thing as it had grooves from wear. So i'm thinking that it could be no tolerance there anymore or something like that

If you have power at the back of the unit, it means everything is working fine, how do the terminals look in the plug, melted/corroded?? If someone has put to higher wattage lights in the plug can melt or damage the terminals

Mate if the dash isn't cracked, armour all it or put a cover on it, i can't think of anything worse in the interior to a cracked dash

Is that blackwood dyno a good place to get a carby looked at and tuned, I recently got mine done somewhere and for some reason their work was undone after about a week. And are they good with pricing and things? Just to let you know I live just south of the CBD.