NickJ

Bosch 4.9 sensor failure....... Mine has been a little erratic recently and now gets up to temperature and reads lean, is that a sure sign its poked?

I'd be keen on a winch, useful toys really, how much?

I stack anvils until I get the diameter I want, zero the dial gauge using a mic and then have at it.

That opens up the options, cheers!

Our Passat has electric handbrake, owners manual says its also an e-brake, not game enough to push it while driving though! If I wanted to return a certified car to standard, would it still be issued a new cert plate saying all is standard, or will the cert plate just be removed and deleted from the system?

Buy paper gasket material and cut some to suit, the goo eventually falls apart. the permatex works well though.

Is that the exhaust right by the steering joint? its not getting too hot is it?

Diagnosing circuit boards is an art, need to have full access to the board and circuit diagrams and then understand what the circuits are trying to achieve, add to that test equipment to generate signals/voltages and read outputs to really do a decent job, thats $100/hr territory, 2-3 hours just to set up and confirm a fault rapidly hacks into kitset price or a new factory ECU. For me I like building circuits, and then troubleshooting is good fun, bugger having to charge for the time though.

They're dishing out home d to their customers now?

Had a generally good run out of the Niva recently, not that it really does much work, spends most of its life in the shed and then gets rolled out for weekends away. Went for a drive down south Canterbury way and found another Niva hiding away in daily use. Also had a look around a few of the high country valleys over winter: After this trip on rough river stones the steering idler once again slogged out, upon measure up I found the shaft is slightly undersize, that explains years of rapidly wearing out bushes! A quick call to a supplier and I had some nylatron through the lathe with much less clearance. And of course something big had to happen, on checking the car over before a trip I found a missing washer and screw in the intake, the screw was caught in the carb throat, the washer no where to be seen..... After trying the obvious, I made the call to strip the head in expectation of a gouged bore, but no, nothing seen but a few divots in the head and piston, it appears the washer made it to freedom via a brief beating in #4, once again, the gods seem to smile on me! Moving forward the Niva will keep hanging out in the shed with occasional weekends out, but come christmas improvements will slow...... This weekend I picked up part A of my legit black plated new project (cheers Greg!) while a few OS'ers know about my excitement, i'll wait till I pick it up to start the build thread, for now here's a teaser: And for those that don't identify as a drivetrain Barry....

This is the constant pain with the Niva, I can get it pretty close by feel setting the brakes on stands at home, then heavy braking on a quiet road to be sure, often one side just needs a tad more to get it right and the wof guys seem to understand. It does suck though and is my main motivation to set up rear discs!

Whats the go with spraying over rattle can, does it need to be stripped back or no worries?

Thats cool, I was wondering what function a reactive metal had as an implant, very nice

One of the top beer drinking locations in the country that ridgeline! Yarning with my brother (heli pilot) he mentioned underslung loads need consent from all the landowners flown over, (technically that includes roads) Shortest run possible, and make sure the loads are all as close to max as possible, no point leaving load capacity spare! They'd send out the ground crew to organise each load, chopper just pops in when its ready to run and game on. He mentioned a number of guys up your way with machines capable of helping out, shouldn't be too hard to get one to swing by on the way home!

Guess I better quantify... I had issues with wilwood gear that came from insufficient tolerance and lack of suitable dust seals, this lead to uneven wear and seizing of pistons. This issue was made worse by soft Al castings that seemed to rely on the anodising to provide a wear surface, the moment that thin layer wore through, it was game over. We switched to a higher spec brand and all the issues were gone, however the environment the components were in was a little more demanding than a road car. I'll also add the importer we dealt with was a GC and worked with us to find the issues, really I guess we were using kit that wasn't suitable for the application, but the marketing hype was such that I was left to chase a bad lead for too long that it soured my opinion.

cheap junk the stuff i've had to work with

Well Karl has first dibs, but i'm happy to barter for datsun bits

I have a pair of those guard mirrors......

Going off 140mm of cut edge, then wirecut would be somewhere between $100-150 for just the serrations, would make a perfect part too

How long is the toothed section? that will give a good idea as to edm cost

Got some momentum going on getting this thing running, well done dude!

Problem with making that is the teeth, would need to grind a tool specifically, or if you're moneybags would be a simple wirecut job.... Very simple part to draw up, the tooth detail is a bit light but could fudge it easy enough.

I have a set of these, freight might kill but when ordered with other junk more than suitable. https://ladapower.com/catalog/tools/lada-coil-springs-remover-type-3-detail

As I understood the sensor went on the bottom hose for fan switching, or is that just another way?

I stumbled out of Alex's shed in the soft light of a golden bay dawn to have my morning piss when I saw that beast for the first time, as first impressions are everything, mine were along the lines of god that car is filth, how did Nissan get from Hakosuka to here? I wish you all the best for your future smoking holiday reds at the kennel club while placing $5 bets on your brother's mate's husband's greyhound