shavenYak

might leave my car in town as well, that way we have plenty of seats for bums. Manu are you able to pick up my wee bike from lockup please? Grinter what time are you leaving work? I'll be finishing around 4 but can always catch the bus

Maybe rain check for a week or two

Count me in! Where's start point?

Oh yup I'll walk down for a drink

Sweet cheers guys. I feel assured.

Gonna do my handling course early May and have pretty much never ridden a bike apart from the odd scooter. I'm s bit worried about being a complete noob on the day, so was hoping to have a quick go on someone's bike before the test. Something close to a gn250 or whatever they use on the test would be good. Only really just want to get the hang of clutch and gears really.

That lwb vanette is lush!

Yeah I'd never seen one before! It was up in Newlands. I thought of you.

The old Rola passed a minor milestone yesterday, and as it clicked over, I thought it would be a good idea for a thread.

 

Cars, Bikes, Trucks, doesn't matter, post em up.

 

Can be high, low, any mileage…...

 

1990 Corolla 1.6 with a 4A engine.

Serviced every 10 k since new (car was bought new in the family), onto the 5th cam belt, never had an internal engine problem, head never been off, doesn't burn oil, just goes and goes.

 

Another 1990 Corolla wagon here, 4af going strong. No idea of service history though

That would be rad grinta! Will be nice and cool by then too. Fuck working in this sun

Success! i hadn't undone the bell housing bolts, but after I did everything flopped around a lot more. Flywheel looks pretty good, clutch plate not worn to the rivets, so might just flag machining and just scuff it up a bit. Now off to the shops to get a rear seal plus other assorted goodies.

Am seriously doubting that I can get this back in the hole on my own - could anyone spare an hour or so later today to help hiff this thing together?

Got the rear most stud out and got the other one to jiggle, but fucked if I can wrangle this mount out of there. Getting a little late now so will try again with fresh eyes tomorrow.

The mount near the steering rack. It will have two bolts and a nut holding it to the cross member. The nut threads onto a stud. The stud stops you being able to get the mount out and possibly the north/south cross member.

The stud is splined into the mount. You can hit it with a punch and hammer to remove it. You may need the other bolts still in there to hold it when you punch.

Once you get the stud out things are a bit easier.

You may need to jack the gearbox up a bit to make space to remove the mount.

Make sense?

Yeah just got a bit confused when you mentioned punching it out cause mine slid out with no force needed. But yeah I was stuck on actually getting the loose mount out but will see if I can jack up the gbox enough to clear. Cheers

Edit- sorry re read your post, I see what you're saying now. Will try that.

The key there is to bang out the stud with a hammer and punch. Jack the g box up a bit and the mount should be free.

Could you elaborate on this pls? This mount is where I'm stuck on currently.

Seeing as the clutch has been slipping for a while you might want to get the flywheel machined to prevent juddering.

But you probably don't give a hoot.

Will bnt generally do this while you wait?

Cheers guys will crack into it!

Clutch is totally faaaarkd in the Corolla. Need some help putting in the new one. I assume a fwd Corolla is an engine out jobbie so I would require use of a crane/winch as well. Can supply hugs and kisses and beverages. Let's do this, friends!

Did you guys blow away? Was a bit windy here last night

Have fun, kids. I'll be stuck in retail hell.

This is definitely happening after I fix up the Suzuki

BAM! started first pop.  So I assume old man southern was on the money about the ignition module.  My guess is that it was already on it's way out and me messing with the tacho/dash rubbed it the wrong way just enough to kill it.  I will conduct further tests on the old distributor FOR SCIENCE.

Yeah I was thinking that, but all I really messed with was power to the stereo, and the instrument cluster. Ive chucked the old gauges back in, in case the tacho was screwing with things. Shouldn't think it was, since it was working happily when I last took it for a little test drive. I don't know what else to check really, all the fuses are happy, I feel like it has to be something to do with the dizzy.

I'm about to go chuck the new one in so I guess we'll see!

Fuck this I'm buying another distributor from pick a part. Didn't get the cap though. Place you bets naow!!!

Yeah I've tested resistance on both the main coil and the ignition module. Both are only just out of spec, and power is getting to coil when ign is on

I'm in newlands, I have to go into town around 6 for a work meeting, but tomorrow I'm home all day

 

Condenser is a bit different to older cars I've worked on (part 19144 on diagram) I tried disconnecting it today but that made no change.