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Thanks for the responses. Now you mention it I can never hear the fuel pump priming (even when it did work) will get a mate to help me out and ill stick my head under to listen. Otherwise it looks like new injectors/clean injectors etc. sik_dose: I have a wagon with the 55L donut tank so 1 tank...

Hi all Ok so my VS had a dual fuel setup installed a year or so ago and recently it no longer runs on petrol. I have to manually set it to gas each time and it does start and runs normally on gas once it's going. If I try to switch to petrol while running it coughs a few times then dies...

Should have mentioned of course, 6 speed manual

Picked up my 2003 Serries II Monaro CV8 last week and loving it. While it is completley stock, it is my first V8 so needless to say having lots of fun with the extra go :yeah:. A fair bit of an upgrade from my 97 VS Stationwagon needless to say!

Actually we did have one of those old brown subaru 4wd wagons a few years ago and it was quite good fun (if a bit slow due to its age) Unfortunately I hit a tree with it and it moved the entire front wheels/axel/steering etc to the right about a foot or two. The other thing that made me...

Sold Do you deliver to Perth??? :P One of my concerns is road legal (has to transit on roads for a fair bit) so finding datsuns still licenced is hard. I'll keep an eye on Datsuns but I still like the idea of something with more go like a 6 cyl.

I'm looking at buying an oldish commodore for spare/fun in a newly aquired paddock. Alot of VNs are around for very reasonable prices around $1000. My question is... what problems (other then those listed previously in the sticky) are there to look for in VN that might get hammered a little (as...

Why does this always happen to me. Ok well i pulled the dash out and fixed up the hazard switch so my hazards work fine now but the indicators still dont work and just make a very rapid clicking sound when i go to use them. To save me the trouble can anyone tell me if this is likely to be a...

Oh well looks like its probably dashboard out for me then. Not so bad I suppose while i am in there i can fix the backlights for the instruments half of them dont work any more. Thanks for the help everyone

Actually talk of hazard switch reminds me now. The hazards havent worked for some while now. They stopped functioning when i installed my new deck despite the fact i never went near the hazards panel or fuse. Hrmmmm I hope i dont have to rip the whole dash apart to get at that :S

Thanks for that guys i will look into it when i get home this evening. Is it just a loose connection normaly i take it? And yeah I am in a little rush as its embarassing driving around sticking your hand out the window :P

Hi My 97 VS2 Exec Wagon's indicators have basically died. I started it once and they wouldnt work so i turned it off then back on again, this time when i went to use them there was a repetitive clicking sound like the clicker thing that goes when they are on repeating very very fast for about a...

Hey. Thanks for that mate. Subs are in, I re wired them so they were individual and bridged 2 channels together for each. Running great at the moment.

Hey all, this might seem like a silly question, but... I have a 4 channel amp to power 2 subwoofers in 1 box. At the moment the box has just one input that just splits to both subs. When wiring my amp should I either 1) Simply split the rca input across both bridged channels and just join the...

Thanks for the reply. Yeah I am definately using the crossover that came with the splits. A little fiddling with bass and treble controls on the stocko tape player poc have made a big improvement so it looks like the new deck should solve the problem. Looking foward to that.

Half a VS q, half audio but here will do. I just put a set of splits in the front drivers side door of my VS and they are sounding a little out (basing out at low vol compared to stock speakers on passenger side). They are a decent kicker set so i have 2 suspicions, 1. that the vs stock wiring...

Hey, seemingly silly question. Where have people mounted amps in VS Wagons. Being a wagon putting it in the back is clearly a no goer and under the front seats there doesnt really seem to be enough room (and its on an angle sloping upwards to the centre console). Any ideas anyone?

Its been made clear that the car must be Australian made and we wont see nissans unless they start a plant here (aint gonna happen). So we'll get toyota or mitsubishi ie prob heavilly modified camrys or magnas which to me arnt really rice burners. Besides as stated the engines are American...

Male 18, driving since Jan this year so whats that just under 10 months. Hope I'd pass it again cant think of anything that I've gone bad in except little habbits like one hand on the steering wheel and stuff like that.

Codec Im pretty sure you need the Xvid codec based on the file properties. Ive put up a win32 installer for it here: www.iinet.net.au/~dellar4/dvd/XviD-1.0.1-05.exe If you dont trust me or whatever I'll let you know that the file you download from the Xvid official site is uncompiled so...

Hrmm i spose it would mean the ford fans can say that they at least beat someone. Im pretty sure another requirement is that the car must be rear wheel drive (not that i can imagine a big v8 in east/west but ive seen north/south front wheel drives before) so that rules out a quick convert of a...

Not really, if they are going to do it they will do it, untrained or not. If they are taught safer ways to go about it then that surely cant hurt. Yes i never said that young people dont die, they do and its a tradgedy but most of the accidents you refer to involve illegal street racing...

Come on they mentioned that kangaroos have been wondering out for years you think you could see it coming. Sure thats one of the best things bout the supercars is it aint 2 predicable (ie F1 the most boring race ever nothing happens). I didnt mean a fence around the track i mean i would have...

The kangaroo thing was like wtf hey. Wat i found wierd was they spent how many million dollars on the place and it still doesnt have a fence around it???

Yeah people are dying. Call me cold but people have been dying in car accidents since cars were introduced. Driving is inherently dangerous. Its just as easy to wrap a chirade around a tree as it is in a ferrari. Lumping it all on P platers because they are easy targets is to me despicable...

Quite often. Over in WA during holidays its non stop on the news "the elderly driver lost control of his 4wd and hit a tree" People keep saying limit to 4 cyl. WHY? There are some serrious problems with that idea because my 86kW 6 pulls a 1.3t car around but there are plenty of 4s with ALOT...

Yeah the VT1 was a body change i dont know if there was much done mechanically coz theyd pretty much perfected the ecotech on the VS it was just minor mechanical changes i would have thought with the brand new body keeping them busy for the change.

Its probably just getting affected by power spikes from starting your car. The best way I'd recomend to fix it would be to set up a relay connected to the original audio circuit (ie audio on = relay on) and have that control the power supply to the amp. That way in the cranking position the amp...

I think a big reason for a statesman would be so they can fit all them shields n stuff coz ive been in standard taxis with em and u have about 15cm leg room in the back (and yes sometimes cop cars do transport normal ppl in em, hell ive been in the bak once when i was reportin a thingo). Also...

Dumber then you thought?? I think your missing something here. Come on what cop is gonna say 'oh we shouldnt have that because we dont need it' to a statesman. I mean do you serriously expect any cop is gonna complain about gettin to cruise round in one of them all day. And hey if its a new one...

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Good! If holden were stingy can u imagine all the things they'd stuff up or be slack on etc. Frankly a lot can go wrong in cars and I'd much prefer holden keep their workers happy so the cars come out as good as can be expected.

Well i stand corrected if that is the method (as i said i cant check) but i still think my idea is valid. Anyone in perth got a VT/VX n wants me 2 try it out gimme yell or even in otha states pm me or wateva n ill explain it in detail.

Heh heh 178838 on a 19 yo VK heh heh how new does that sound. Wish it were true tho the odometer stoped workin prob 10 years ago. My mums VS is catchin up to me in km now ;)

Still no luck Good idea actually but unfortunately didnt turn out to be the prob :( . Pulled the assembly off and there was no wear on either the bolts or the water pump (and it did a 200+km trip yesterday) so i would expect if it was that it would have shown up. :b: :b: :b:

If its digital (Which it sounds like) my only advice is to reset it (d/c) batt for 20 min usually does it. With regards to an analouge trip comp (this prob aint u) but mine in the vk stopped years ago (only done 177000!!! :D, nah nah driven to church and back once a week honest)

Oh and I'm going to add for those that might not understand what I/We are talking about. This 'police mode' can be accessed manually by holding down the Up and Down arrows on the trip computer while you turn you car on. (At least im 99% that was it but dad changed the VT for a VX and now a VY so...

Hrmmm if u cant program it im sure you can overide it. How about a relay that simulates both switches down when no power is supplied and run off an aux circuit. When you turn the car on the switches are in the off position (relay has power) but during crank the relay loses power and the switches...

85 Commodore :D My first car still is my car :p parents handed down the long since retired familly car. 1985 carbed VK wagon. Its actually runnin nice still mostly due to a rebuild just under a decade ago :D

Yeah i thought belt too. The old belt must have stretched a fair bit because the alternator easilly reached the end of the bracket so i figured it was loose and got a new one. With the new one the alternator is only a little bit past half way up the bracket so im stumped. The belt has maybee...