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posted on September 28th, 2012 at 06:30 PM
Pull the fuel tank out and have a gander...
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posted on September 29th, 2012 at 11:55 AM
glad the engine thing was an easy fix.
sorry no idea's about the steering.
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posted on September 29th, 2012 at 05:31 PM
Hi
I think your tyre pressures are little high but that besides the point.
Adjusting the steering box has some traps, the axial play is not something you want to touch unless you know what your doing.
Take the tank out as Damo said and leave the car on the ground and get someone to turn the steering wheel where the play is.
A common problem is the steering box not being centred when your going straight, to check this remove the two inner tire rods and turn the steering
left to right and count the turns, 1/2 way is straight ahead.
Look where your steering wheel is now, it should be in the straight ahead position.
If its not remove the steering wheel and centre it and then get your wheel alignment guy to adjust the tie rods so that the road wheels point straight
ahead in that steering wheel position.
Now that you steering is pointing straight you can check your adjustment, I find the best way is to grab pitman arm and see if you can push it up
& down, you should aim for a very slight movement at this point.
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posted on October 12th, 2012 at 12:37 PM
I think I've got the steering sorted to the point where it is solid enough on the road. Took the tank out and had a gander and there isn't play
through any joints or the pitman arm so I re-read the procedure and re-adjusted the box.
So with that said I took it for a run up to Woodford today via the Mt Mee Rd and came back down the motorway; good run never got lower than 3rd gear
on the hills, only real problem was the frigging gusts of wind we've got today I'd come into an opening and bam, the highway was worse!!!
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posted on October 12th, 2012 at 02:07 PM
Windy day out there today for Volksies
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posted on October 25th, 2012 at 07:29 PM
Just bought a new extractor and muffler off 'Lauboy' on the forum here.
Installed it on the car today and fired it up and the motor loved having less restriction! Getting rid of the twin tip was a great idea; best thing is
the new muffler is 10x quieter!!
Pics and video to follow; pretty happy I've only lost about 1/2 of ground clearance at the back but the bottom of the flange is about even with the
Pobjoy sump.
In reality I would of loved a new vintage speed setup (thanks for you help Matt) but on a 1300 its hard to justify anything more than a 1 3/8 header!
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posted on October 25th, 2012 at 10:12 PM
Bob did a tricky thing on my oval. He cut the twin tubes off and welded on 4 straight pipes like an Abarth exhaust. Have to say though, it's pretty
loud.
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posted on October 26th, 2012 at 07:46 AM
I thought of cutting the tips off and lengthening them to be just past the bumper, at the same time opening up the I.D of the pipes to 44mm instead of
30mm but packing more muffler packing into the tips like HUGE oversized stock tips.
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posted on October 26th, 2012 at 07:30 PM
Nice one mate,
Cheers Col
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posted on November 14th, 2012 at 07:15 PM
Looking forward to this weekend cruising with other dubs.
I've adjusted the valves
Adjusted the exhaust and now the pipe from the collector to muffler sits parallel to the body, some grinding of the bracket and it's all good.
Next on the list is new oil and heat riser block offs'
I've got some Penrite Classic Light oil coming from Rarespares; it's a 20W60 oil but it's got a whole lot more Zn & P than Castrol Edge or
Penrite HPR and the same $$ as the castrol
I've also got a breather box too; it's an EMPI one but I figure an Al box is an Al box; so I may or may not hook that up this week but it's not
urgent as a 1300 doesn't really suffer from excessive case pressure!
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posted on November 14th, 2012 at 08:41 PM
That sounds sweet
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posted on November 15th, 2012 at 06:11 AM
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Looking forward to this weekend cruising with other dubs.
Hi
Sounds sweet but the other dubs wont be happy when your exhaust sprays dust all over them because its pointing at the ground.
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posted on November 16th, 2012 at 08:28 AM
Painted up the new breather before I fit it; IMHO I don't think an EMPI part has looked better!
The blue I tried to match to the blue of my Bosch 019 "Screamer" I think its pretty close but without the patina.
I kept the rubber o-rings on the inside of the box but added some copper washers on the outside so If any oil does get up there it shouldn't leak;
with the valve covers I might add copper washers on both sides; what do others think?
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posted on November 16th, 2012 at 11:56 AM
Breather looks great - now just to age it a little...
I sent you a PM - was wondering if you got a chance if there were any tips / mod ideas you could give me for a stock 1300...Any help would be greatly
appreciated. Love this car!
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posted on November 16th, 2012 at 01:17 PM
Just make sure you remove the foam from inside the breather box.
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posted on November 16th, 2012 at 05:56 PM
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Breather looks great - now just to age it a little...
I sent you a PM - was wondering if you got a chance if there were any tips / mod ideas you could give me for a stock 1300...Any help would be greatly
appreciated. Love this car!
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posted on November 20th, 2012 at 02:08 PM
I installed the new breather box today; not going to vent the valve covers with the bungs supplied; I just don't trust them not to leak on the valve
covers.
The box is just hooked up to the stock breather tower outlet and the other 2 inlets are just joined with a loop of 1/2" pipe to prevent anything
getting out if it were to get oily.
Inside the box I replaced the foam with something called Eager Beaver Cleaning pad; they are made by Oates and are $3.00 at Bunnings they come in any
coarseness and colour and allow ALOT more air through than the stock foam that comes with the breather.
Only problem is I've got a bit of a leak somewhere either on the motor & definately the gearbox. Believe it or not the 17mm hex plugs that are in
the transaxle are mangled because someone hasn't used a proper sized hex, the box is slowly weeping out and around these plugs and I can't get them
out to replace! In regards to the motors leak it doesn't appear to be under the tinware it looks like under the fanshroud; I've degreased and am in
progress with this leak as it could be the breather pipe that was just routed to the fan inlet at the back of the shroud, I took the car for a run and
am letting it cool so I'll see where its coming from.
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posted on November 20th, 2012 at 04:03 PM
FML - just jacked the car up after a GOOD clean and once the car was at operating temp (i.e. Oil started going to the cooler) the leak started.
Looks like I'll need to check out the oil cooler seals!!!! Not hard just a pain in the proverbial!!
Just so you know what I saw oil was ooozing out from in-between cylinders 3&4; looking at the trans those leaks aren't so bad but will need
addressing.
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posted on November 20th, 2012 at 09:55 PM
Looking at the paperwork its the same seals and cooler that i had, these were changed in 2009. The cooler is a good 2nd hand one from VVDS. I havnt
checked the seals so i don't know if they are new or not.
This cooler was installed by Stan on the longblock
..............all ready to put a stinger
on now !!!
