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Bugger mate! I’ve still got lungs full of snot from a virus I picked up in Sydney four weeks ago.


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My prescription would be 8000mg vitamin C, daily.


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Sorry the hear you are down mate I didn’t get a chance to get to the fe fc nats but I had a reason

All I managed to do today was get the rattler on the hoist and mow the lawns

I MIGHT have had a win with the alternator - the charge post was loose and wobbly when I bolted it back in after lending it to a mate , I pulled it out this morning and thought I would have a look at it before ordering a new one.
Removed the back of it and looky here -


The nut on the inside was loose as buggery -

Removed it and the post , cleaned it up and reassembled it with a dollop of Loctite then fought the brushes back into their holders with the aid of a short piece of TIG wire and a scriber


Reassembled it and was going to put it back on but I am too bloody crook - half an hour in the shed and that’s the end of me


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Refitted the alternator today, plus replaced the crook O2 sensor. Took the throttle body off to check out the funky readings and it looks like the switch is dicky- is a second hand one by the look of it , has a Nissan brand in it but when you google it it comes up as a VL Commodore part. New one is $180 but a VN style one is $20 and it just so happens I had one in the shed so will make a bracket tomorrow and use one of them
VL style

VL vs VN

Checking resistance and compatibility

New plug required- can buy new for under $10



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The RB30 TPS’s are notoriously unreliable. When they fail, the car runs, but erratic as hell.

Don’t ask me how I know

Cheers,
Harv

Couldn’t find any aluminium plate thick enough but I have heaps of copper floating around so I cut a new mounting ring using the 2 holesaw method today




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