Beaver

That's why I get paid the big bucks /I wish

Will be heading through the park in a few weeks for work, always get max pine when doing do. Definitely not as much fun in a car....

So little bit of lock down tidy up, painted the grill and bumoer black and used some plastic refurb stuff on the lower panel. Came up a treat and looks waaaay tidier. Black ties in nicely with the black tray as well. Also bought some wheels (15s), nothing cray cray but are tidy/refurbed and price was right. Hopefully pick them up next week after level 2

Just a thought, some fuel pumps like to pull, rather than push (i.e. those in engine bays will gen really be pullers not pushers). By moving the pump back to the tank its possible it won't like it. One way to find out tho....so if its running and working as it should then just ignore me

Pretty sure science says that doesnt work (high pressure area or something something). Easy thing to test though, so worth a shot.

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How sure are you of those calcs? I'm just picturing the lever action in my head and I can't make the numbers work (i.e. it doesn't look right that the difference between the wheel path and the spring link is that much). Obviously you have the bike in front of you so I'm not doubting you, just want to make sure that you're sure....hahaha. Is it possible to do move the linkage through it's travel without the spring or whatever? Feel free to tell me to go away haha

Some are 5, most are 10 "Beverage and some welding gases require a periodic test cycle of 5 years while most other gas cylinders, argon etc, require a testing cycle of 10 years."

Mount off the caliper mount/arm thingy?

Looks sharp man! Re: the vibration, what are the UJ's in the driveshaft(s) like? I had something similar (vibration at a certain speed) on an old car that turned out to be buggered UJ's.

Looks sharp man! Re: the vibration, what are the UJ's in the driveshaft(s) like? I had something similar (vibration at a certain speed) on an old car that turned out to be buggered UJ's.

Got the plug out, was a bit worried as thought it was going to be a cunt. Also found some dodgy/damaged wiring for the alternator so pulled that out (need a few bits to repair it). Looks like some suspect oil lines as well (diesel life so vacuum pump on back of alternator) so think I'll replace those. Oil return on turbo is also clearly leaking and making a fucking mess so I'll pull that off as well and will be good to replace a few bits there. Hopefully this will limit the horrid oil leaks this thing has. Obviously can't do much till the world returns to normal, but no drama, will be nice to sort these little things out once and for all.

Throttle cable binding somewhere/sticking? Could disconnect and see it it helps

It's had a hard life on the cooling front, but I have given it a new water pump within the last 2 years. @brocky41

Dang straight haha. It can sit there in the naughty corner for s other month or so, no big deal

I'll save the long story and go straight to the money shot (this is me squeezing on the radiator hose) So yeh, that's pretty obvious whats gone wrong. This is all in behind the cambelt, that's the bottom pulley/gear at the bottom of shot. Would be an easy fix if anything was open.....

There is a big black cover in behind the cambelt, but not super keen to get that deep. Water pump looks OK. Where coolant is pooled in the bottom picture was roughly where it was running from when I first spotted it. There are water lines to the turbo on that side of the block but they look OK. So yeh, will try get it running and building some pressure in the coolant system and see what I can see.

Really.just need to run it and see where it comes from. Will whack crank pully and fan belt back on and see what happens

Could be. Vision/access is pretty limited so need to take the cambelt off to see more which Im unkeen to do.

Pretty sure it's not the hoses. Where the leak was coming from and where there is coolant pooling etc is no where near them but I'll take another look. They are pretty old and shitty anyway so could do with being replaced. Obviously now is not a great time to find replacement's lol

Pulled the front of the car (well some of it anyway) off yesterday (better access), followed by radiator, fan, crank pulley, AC compressor (that's fucked anyway). Found coolant sitting behind crank pulley where I saw it running from, but still no clear leak point. Water pump looks dry. Think Ill try fashion up a radiator bypass hose and run the engine up and see if I can see it squirt.

I pulled the gubbins off the front last night, doesn't seem to be the water pump and to get the covers off to see where I saw the leak coming from means taking the crank pulley off.....fun. think I'll Jack it up and check a few other things like water feed for turbo as it may have been running along the block and dripping from the front even though it wasn't leaking there.

Oh god and how did I forget, I also demuffled it with the help of @Geophys chop shop, so its running full straight pipe. Sounds....wait for it.....GLORIAous (get it?) Not long ago I got to hear what it sounds like driving from outside the car when Geophy drove it home for me after I picked up my new ute. Didn't quite realise how ridiculous/awesome it sounds. Basically a big safari/turbo diesel 4x4 at full chooch, but its actually just a semi slammed wagon driving at a moderate speed.