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Mmm bizzare. You're on the right path with just cleaning/checking parts. Could be unrelated but check the AFM. If you know someone near by with a 30e, grab theirs and see if it helps. Sounds fuel/air related. Could be automatic choke set up? I could be wrong but just my 2c

Props on the twin head light! Looks tough.

\\ These black bits here. I'm just going to get it painted

Hey guys, I've just got off the phone from my powder coaters who is coating my drive shaft. He said that it's got some rubber O-Rings on it and he'll need to whip them off otherwise they'll melt in the oven. Are these replaceable/does anyone know the cost to replace these?? Sorry for the vauge description, I didn't even see them myself so can't think of the ones he's talking about. Cheers! Edit: It's for a ke70. I've asked him if he could send me a picture of said O-Rings. Not sure how he'll take.

Yeah, sounds like great advice! I have checked out the head myself along side the old boy (who is an engineer) We just place a long bit of steel across the head 50 million different ways and ran 0.02mm feeler gauges underneith it. No warping. I didn't think about softness but I dont think it'l be a problem as I could touch the rocker covers with bugger all heat coming off it. I also used an eye dropper and poured petrol down the valves to make sure there were no leaks. I also checked movement in the pistons, made sure there were no nasty noises and then checked the clearance from the top of the piston to the top of the block to confirm consistency. All these check out fine, I highly doubt (touch wood) there will be any major damage. The old man who was playing with some big tanks/trucks/mogs in the Army for 25 years as an automotive engineer said that there is nothing to be worried about. I'm feeling fairly confident. Fingers crossed! Oh and yeah i've got new head bolts also

Hey guys, I'm not sure where the best place is to put this but I figured this would be logical? The lease has expired in our current house, and I can't stand another freezing winter in this house (no insulation what-so-ever!) let alone for a 12 week old baby. We're looking for a place in Kapiti so Paraparaumu, Param beach, Raumati south, Raumati beach.. Could even stretch to Paekokariki or Pukerua bay. It must have decent heating and atleast a single garage! If anyone know of anything, or has a property themselves please get in contact with me! 027 619 2627. I promise we're great tenants! We've never missed a rental payment, always kept the property up to a high standard and most of all we believe in great communication with the landlords! Pleease keep your eyes/ears open! Cheers :)

For those interested.. Fucked head gasket! It could of been worse, so i'm thankful it's "just" a head gasket. So plans are.. New head gasket New tensioners New cambelt New Waterpump New Thermostat New Radiator cap.. Wish me luck..

Love these with the duckbill on the boot! Looking forward to seeing the progression on this bad boy!

I've spoken to a mate who has the compression tester. He said to whip off the spark plugs, crank it over and see if a milky substance comes out the holes.. If it does, he won't bother testing cause it'l be munched!

Right, so following the story of my fucked RB20de motor (post can be found here: //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/36231-rb-motor-series-advice-required-help/) A mate of mine has a 20de sitting in his garage that he stored as he picked it up cheap from a mate who was upgrading to a 25det. Long story short-ish.. I am having a look at it today. He said the car had done 163,000kms when he took the motor out and it ran sweet. He said cambelt was also changed around 120 - which I will do anyways seeing as it'l be out the car so simple as. I know you never know the condition of a motor unless you start taking it apart or get it running and see what happends.. but is there any tips or hints or tricks that I look for when seeing if it's buggered from the outside? Apart from the obvious by looking inside the oil cap to see if any milky damage etc (which can easily be hidden by simply pouring new oil in and not running it?) Any help would be huuugely appreciated! Thanks heaps

Morning lads/ladettes. I bought a new battery, grabbed a trailer and head on down to the car. Slapped the new battery in.. Same situation again. Roothless amounts of steam coming out the rear end. Everything has/is leading to a fucked head gasket - I just hope the damage hasn't fucked the internals. I didn't make it home until 11:30pm after faffing about, so I will do a proper assessment in the next couple of days. Looks like it may even be easier for me to just whip out this motor and replace with a new one.. It's certainly easier than a head gasket! (in my opinion) Thanks for all the advice, I was hoping it'd be something fairly simple.. but no. What boggles my mind is I had no warning signs! The water levels are always good, oil is always good/serviced, I am constantly looking at the temp guage and it didn't move a mm.. Ahh well. Life goes on eh, noones hurt so could've been worse! Thanks again guys

It's not a charging issue cause within the last 12 months i've had both starter motor/alternator rebuilt. I'll go from battery. Doesn't explain the miss fire/smoke tho does it? I didn't know low voltage to ECU's could cause them to majorly spit the dummy. Now this will make me sound like a right derp-tard but I thought that when the cars running, the lack of voltage becomes null and void because the cars running-not relying on the battery?

I've owned the car for nearly 3 years and haven't replaced the battery yet, it does looks fairly average and sometimes if it's left for a few days it's a little slow to tick over. I'll get a new battery on the way home and give it a go when I pick the car up.. (on the back of a trailer.. ). If it's the battery... Oh man, i'd be extatic!

Yeah, trial and error I think would be the key. Atleast I have a starting point. I really hope it's not a blown head gasket. Thats a big job, i've done once before on a 4k motor.. not an RB20de

Nah cause I checked water levels last week, when I checked the oil. It was sitting about a centre metre below the "Max" - and opened radiator cap and was sitting about a cm below the top of the radiator. So you think water has gotten into the head, and is blowing the steam out the rear? Steam generally dissapears after coming out the exhaust, it definately lingers around for a good few seconds. So unexpected.. It's a very well maintained car! Grr.

Really tho? No overheating, no milky shit, only white smoke not blue? The two issues with the Radiator and the smoke could be unrealted. Could be a 20+ year old thermostat that caved in the same time as an injector? I will get it compression tested tho

Advice needed! Right guys, i'm completely stumpted and am in desperate need of some advice. Apologies in advanced for the novel ahead! Randomly my daily drivers (HR32 Skyline, rb20de automatic) battery decided the die. Simple, rung up a friend who lived in the area and he came out and jump started it. It started pretty rough, almost sounding like it was running on 5. Gave it a tickle on the ole' rev pedal and it appeared to sound fine after that. So we cruised on down the road and I had noticed the exhaust was a little bit smokey.. Blue smoke, ah shit. Pulled over had a look, checked under the hood, no obvious leaks or anything from the engine bay all appeared to be good, temperature guage was fine (I religiously check this ever 30 seconds since i've had a car overheat on me) Cruising down the road (50 kms, no hills so no struggling) I felt it drop a cylinder. Fuck. Looked in my mirror.. Massive clouds of white smoke bellowing out of the exhaust. Luckily I was littereally around the corner from a friends so coasted there. When I got there, I let the car cool down and proceeded to have a look under the hood. There was no water (that I could see) under the radiator cap, but the overflow bottle was sitting right at the very top of the bottle (which obviously is a lot more full than the "max" line!). Parked it up in a secure garage last night, got a ride home and slept on it. I've done my best to think what it could be but i'm completely stumpted. It's not deisel in the petrol tank, cause I haven't filled up in a week and that was definitely petrol.. The missus hasn't needed to put gas in so couldn't be that. What could it be?! Has one of the coil packs buggered out so it's over fueling so burning the non-burnt fuel hense the thick white smoke? I've checked oil levels, they were a little low (just under the line) but was black (not milky). Radiator fluid was a nice green still (not milky).. When the motor was warm, I did notice a very ever so slight blue smoke riding from underneith the heat shield covering the exhaust manifold. Bugger all tho. could it be an exhaust gasket, and oils leaking/burning? All help/tips on diagnostics would be much appreciated.

^ What price for taking off tyres and putting back on? Also, do you do wheel alignments?

Yeah it was rather sunny. Next time.. more sun screen/water! Yup, I hope to come out to an OS meet but i've always wanted to attend in my own car not someone else' Does my daily HR32 Skyline count, cuase it's on TSW VX1's which are like 1855 mk 1 wheels

I've got plenty of space down a long driveway off the road however, it's in Kapiti. So if worse comes to worse, you know where to find me

Thanks to everyone who managed to come down! Pictures are up and available. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.487504261300051.119305.423982494318895&type=1

^ Nah this was me

Please don't get of those chrome gutters! NOM

Not fun! Fingers crossed it clears up, and we'll see you out there!

If you're coming from Wellington/Petone way, head up towards upper hutt but make a left turn up the Haywards hill, it'l be sign posted "Porirua" and something else. There will be a little car park just up from there. I'm sure u'll see the other cars Cheers