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hey mate, little thread dig but I've just bought a 75 series cruiser with a 304 in it and it seems very underpowered and uses a **** load of fuel. i know yours is 355 but what kind of economy are you getting? cheers

Hi everyone, Having trouble with my vu ute, was driving home few days ago, it started kind of dying, but wouldn't stall completely, just like a really bad stumble or a miss. Felt like whole engine momentarily dying though, not just one cylinder. Seemed worse under load. After a couple of k's...

just be careful you don't power the starter solenoid at the same time or the car might jump forward and flatten you.

dizzy orientation doesn't matter at all. what matters is that when the #1 piston reaches TDC on COMPRESSION stroke, the rotor will be pointing at the spot where your #1 spark plug lead will be. as you're turning the motor over to bring it up to TDC, block the spark plug hole with your finger...

Anyone had anything to do with the procomp efi throttle bodies to suit carby style manifold? less than half the price of a edelbrock etc, could they really stuff up a throttle body that badly?

surely the insulation should be sufficient?

the wire from the sender might be cut somewhere and touching metal. grounding the sender wire will cause full deflection on the gauge. either that or the sender itself is shorting straight to ground. how are these gauges installed? i don't know anything about these ones but on aftermarket gauges...

I'd say the reason they got rid of them I newer cars is cos no one needs them. Who really needs to know what voltage your car is running at? If the alternator isn't charging the battery light will come on.

Did you buy it like that? Badly needs cleaning.

Just in case you weren't aware, VR or VS V6 front calipers are the same as vl turbo v8 etc.

actually, a 4 stroke motor takes only two revolutions to complete the 4 stroke cycle, so the links and dots will align every two turns, provided you begin at TDC #1 firing.

faulty oil pressure gauge? broken oil pump drive gear / drive shaft?

so what you wait on the side of the road until they get a rim and tyre that fit your car? or wait an hour for a tow truck and taxi etc? i'd rather just carry a spare and be back on my way in 5 mins.

not worth 12k or even 10k even if it was perfect. its still 10 year old commodore with nearly 100,000 k's. keep looking.

But the light only ever comes on when its on LPG, leading me to think its not really the sensor or wiring at all, because if there was a fault with them, the problem would present itself when running on petrol too.

big thread dig, i have the same problem on a VU with factory gas. runs fine on both systems but after about 10-50km (it varies) on LPG the check engine light comes on. still drives fine with the light on and if i switch it back to petrol the light goes out. any help?

a shifter or pair of multi-grips would have done the job. who cares if you damage the sensor nut, its not going to affect the operation of the sensor at all and chances are you'll never have to touch the thing again anyway.

Tight (small) Lobe separation angle will make it sound lumpy.

205 is fine thats standard commodore size but you don't need anything different just keep the 18s on there. 18s are small anyway just harden up a bit and do it.

next time you'll buy a car with service history

doesn't sound to me like its overheating. just sounds like you've got a leak. at normal operating temp the coolant will be over 90 degrees so of course the top hose will be hot. the steam and smell simply means you've got hot coolant escaping somewhere - not necessarily overheating.

if its solid axle u can just undo the shock bolts and let the diff drop right down, might need a bit of persuasion sometimes but ive done it a few times getting standard springs out. if its irs i dunno cos ive never worked one one but could be similar.

why do you need the helicoils? why not just drill and tap?

fuses are NOT there to protect the amp. like you said, it has its own 20 amp fuse, it doesn't need another one. Fuses are to protect the cable from getting too hot and starting a fire in the event of a short circuit. Just put in a 30 amp fuse and you'll be sweet - the amp is obviously...

Is it your turbo spooling up?

Devooooo....

hi mate would you wrap up the extractors and post them or pickup only?

Just flush the radiator out first and see how it goes, as said above the coolant additive pellets can have that effect as well. Next step would be cylinder compression test, wouldn't go buying new head gaskets just yet.

throttle position sensor?

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larger wheels with smaller tyres often don't meet the required load rating, which makes them illegal.

dont really understand how there was even a debate about this in the first place. significantly more power + significantly less weight = significantly quicker.

my v8 t5 looks the same as the one in the second pic. but yes im pretty sure they only came out on the VN, most v8 t5s look like the one from the first pic. have heard that the wider style boxes are better for some reason but can't remember why and really theyre probably the same internally.

you'd be stupid not to do it.

if your father wants to buy you your own ve ute then you will need a brand new insurance policy for that anyway, AMI might not do it but there would surely be others who will.

try wreckers

yep thats it

way easier doing it my way.

kinda hard to tell what you've got going on, but if the tailshaft is completely out of the car, then you will want to slide it into the back of the box, then swing the back up and bolt it to the diff.