My first V8

[6LSSVE]

Hey all,
My 1st V8 was '72 HQ Premier Wagon.
Special order from GMH at Fishermans Bend
I was it's 2nd owner (my brother had it from new).
Factory 5.0L 308, factory M21 4 Speed, factory Salisbury 3.08 LSD.
Daily driver, and it owed me over $40K by the time I was doing the show circuits.
Drove it to Perth and back in the '80s hence the tall diff.

Those were the days:
"Super" petrol was 40c a litre.
WTF were "demerit points?"
Amphometers were the latest in hi-tech Police speed entrapment equipment.
.0-pissed was legal.
Carburettors, distributors & BF Goodrich T/As - remember those?
Bumper bars were made from real steel so you could actually bump without doing $3000 worth of plastic panel damage.
RWCs were done over the phone.
Lonsdale Street Dandenong Saturday night drags (ok, some things will NEVER change) :clap:

Always been a V8 manual Wagon man, always will be.
Cheers. :beer chug:

 

[kangavxss]

Thanks 6LSSVE , but please start your own thread under your own heading as you will get more replies..

 

[kangavxss]

http://forums.justcommodores.com.au...y-ecu-unlock-tuner-locked-ecus-used-100s.html

Josh..see above re your ecu reflashing..don't know if it works or not?
Cheers

 

[JoshlikesCalais]

Thanks Kanga, don't really trust it though. Got the car back last night to find the shifter button is broken so he is getting me a new one.

 

[JoshlikesCalais]

Just put a chrome shifter in today since the mechanic broke the old one and all I can say is I never want to do that again! worst job ever! So difficult and just a pain and I forgot to plug the traction control plug back in lol. Also bought a senator roof spoiler which will go on next week sometime, should look great

 

[JoshlikesCalais]

So this just happened Just started ticking the other day, thinking it was lifters I changed the oil and added some lifter free stuff, didn't work

 

[kangavxss]

Might be your oil pump buggered and not pumping oil around hence the engine light and sudden ticking..better get it checked asap and don't drive it...Any fault codes?..

 

[JoshlikesCalais]

hmm :/ must be that then, what about the oil pressure switch?

 

[kangavxss]

Yeah, that too..

 

[JoshlikesCalais]

Update time: So the light was a vacuum leak and it threw a code, new hose is $85. Easy fix. Took the rocker cover off to see if any of the rockers were loose or obviously worn, nothing obvious, just made sure they were torqued correctly. My dads mate who is a Holden mechanic said I should use a 20w50 oil. So ill change it again and that should do the trick.