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"the large one is jammed " How did you try to make it open? Govt emissions regulations of the 1980s meant that manufacturers moved away from manual twin-choke carbs to vacuum operated secondaries or delay diaphrams or other systems that mean they won't open if you just open the throttle wide open. Even revving the engine with no load will not always open them. If you had all the linkages disconnected and it was jammed you could expect corrosion and dirt in the axle bush and around the plate edge, usually from sitting on a bench for a decade. The other thing that jams them is being bent or twisted. Start a new topic for it and give us some photos.

Ah, I didn't know you knew Parrot- "I don't suppose this source is Philip Colina aka pfncolina / dhee / dhee77 / Budi / etc. based in Manila?" Page 2 of this thread.

I'll swap you a Commodore V8 & a fish tank.. Just imagine how worn-out a motor is when its 50years old, and then you find there are no pistons available, or bearings or seals.. You'd be better selling us Filfrederick's one, at least its current.

Hmmm... what did you learn from that knock sensor Banjo?? It has crossed my mind occasionally, but knocking in a non-turbo car is not so serious so I hope I can hear it before its too bad. I think we just get the fast-flame-front knocking from the spark being too early rather than the explosion before the spark plug fires that a turbo can get.

You can build the whole car with a handful of timber shapes and a light hammer, that's how coachbuilders worked. We do similar work building race cars, customising panels in the simplest method. It will be a work of art when the car is finished!

Ah, I see.. The country that's way to the West of Australia.. It may be a case of finding what is at the local wreckers and fitting that. It would be lovely if you found a 4AGE, but all you can do is keep searching the grey imports over there.

Probably at the local wreckers.. How far do you want to travel? Central West NSW? Bathurst.. Dubbo.

Where's the KE55 tank? Behind the back seat? Deep short tank? Quite the opposite of the KE70's one under the boot floor which is large in area but shallow. I'd expect different sender units. The new KE70 one I bought off Ebay only gives half a tank reading, so you can have the top half and run out at halfway, or have a full tank showing half and run out at empty. I don't know where you'd get a specific KE55 one from.

I'm not sure how similar these systems are, they must be about the same age. This is on my early 4AGE motor- Here's the theory- Here's the diagram- Here's what it looks like- and here are the colours on mine. One wire was cut off when I got it. As you can see, the colours don't agree with the diagram, Toyota were busy making a lot of different ignition/ECU systems doing the same work around the early 1980s I think, its always very confusing. I took my tacho off the coil negative. I've never seen electronic ignition on a KE70 so I'm not much help for you I'm afraid.

Looking at those figures I'd be chasing a 20A 250V one! Not enough redundancy built in to their design or component manufacturing, the curse of computer design.

Did your KE30 have aircon to start with?? The plastic vents under the dash are quite different between having it or not, and there's quite a bit of work to do if you have to find those parts and pull out the dash to fit them.

..and the problem was- Chinese relay.. I removed the wire and sealed it. Still, now I know how a cooktop is put together and we don't need more than 3 elements I'm sure! The other talking point flying around for a month has been satellite-linked data-gathering in cars. The public are slowly catching up with the manufacturers who can store everything about your new car as you drive.. speed, location, direction, gear used, rpm, how many people in the car.. Of course the Govts are making this compulsory in some countries, along with a Police-controlled kill switch that will disable your car. The manufacturers will sell the data to the insurance companies and the Govt, so instant speeding fines and change of insurance costs. I'm glad I lived in the 60s-70s, the future will be nothing like then!

Yeah, you're right- I came home last night to find the cooktop wouldn't turn off on one element.. Turn the power on at the wall and it lights up immediately, one of those glass panels that you touch with your fingers to make it work. So I expect I'll disconnect that element and when the next one goes it means new cooktop, its all electronics under there and no-one will want to fix it.. I've always hated those touch controls, and looking up Bunnings last night I see they now option the same cooktop with knobs for control, only an extra $100...

haha! The ABC always holds the telescope up to their blind eye and tells a story of what they want to see! So, currently wind and solar will never make enough electricity to pay for themselves, never mind the increase our electrical usage from electric vehicles, AI computers, and Bitcoin mining. Then again, they stop at sunset most of the days and the batteries to carry us through the night are unaffordable. So, coal will still be king, even as we shift all our manufacturing and our coal off to China so they can send finished goods back. Unless we employ the Chinese to build nuclear stations we won't have them for thirty or forty years, by which time we will be using candles again. As for the actual vehicles, it was just recently shown that driving an electric car to Melb from Sydney and back took way longer and cost way more... no advantage in being electric at all. If they don't catch fire first, they will be boat anchors within a decade as the non-replaceable battery dies, never mind that the insurance is wildly costly, as are the repairs. The second-hand market will be non-existent unless the Govt does ban petrol & diesel, and the next time I see someone driving a Tesla in any way except slow and boring, will be the first! I think the public is slowly waking up, even if the politicians from local Councils to Federal Govt deny it. But the ABC is interested in Musk being the richest person on the planet, believe that new technology will solve all the above problems and somehow reducing our CO2 emissions will change the weather.

Sounds good! They don't have to be 'in' the disc at all, but it would take a mill to make a hole so that they stuck out proud of the edge a mm or so.