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Not many reasons for me to pop up here these days, sorry it’s because I heard this awful news. I also first met Paul on the 2003 10CR reconnaissance. What a legend. Andy and Paul were an amazing sight, and amongst my favourite images of that epic weekend is of the big flight jacket and Paul fast asleep in a yellow TR, fairly bulging over the side screen! I came on here expecting to see a photo of that. He’ll be tickled pink that instead there’s several photos of him sleeping in Triumphs! What a generous sod he was. I remember 13 years ago he let me know he was coming out to Melbourne. We’ll, I’ll let him explain: “Eyup Greeksy, Paul Darbyshire here (AKA Burnerboy). Seeing as though you haven't been able to come and play out with us for a while I thought I might come and see you 🙂 I am travelling to Aus in the first week in Feb and visting a client in Melbourne (ACI Glass).Is there anything I can bring down with me (Triumph related) that you need? I am quite prepared to carry heavy things just so long as I am not liable to get pulled at customs (don't you freeze when you hear the sound of Marigolds being snapped on?)” Next thing he’s only agreed to bring a set of Witor’s finest out! Belgian beers ensued. Then a couple of years later we caught up in Brisbane too. It’s been a decade or so now, but I’ve very fond memories. Rest in peace.
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Aha! I was distracted by the lights. Nice idea.
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Wish I had your scrapyard tenacity ... well I can't leave it too long as the bonnet will fall off pretty soon!
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maybe... i was wondering if a gas strut might be worth a go.
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Cheers Nick. I wondered if it was an issue with the notoriously poor quality steel in the later models.
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Is this normal. Is there a normal fix 🙂
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No problems clashing with mine - I think the bulkhead hole had to be enlarged slightly when the first one was fitted, but I didn't do that so don't know the details - you certainly can't tell from looking.
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I use tralier brake master cylinders. Cheap as chips and when they die just put a new one in. They don't really look much different either. This kind of thing http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/lik.....;lpid=107&chn=ps
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I agree with John. ... See if you can make it to Strasbourg
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Yep, i've heard of quill shaft flames in Australia. Not sure what year yours is, but a common mod here is to weld a couple of supports for the late Mk2 like this - apparently the holes in the centrepiece mounting elongate over years and the shaft bearing takes the strain: Diff nose 1 by Graham Reeks, on Flickr
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No... But I was told there are a gazillion spot welds to drill.
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This is a nifty little resource with diff ratios listed for all sorts of cars: http://www.difflappingqld.com.au/uploads/web/gear-diff-ratios.pdf
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Bloody oath! That WAS reliable... and noisy, and slow, and had crap a/c and
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The others weren't really very good, either. We're not prepared to spend any more time and money now, so someone else can have it cheap.
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... well eventually a compression test was performed. The diesel specialist was conviced this wouldn't be the issue as the engine only had 100,000 miles on it. One of the cylinders took 10 seconds to just about get to 100psi 🙁 We are most certainly not amused.
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Thanks gents ... I guess I won't worry that mine has always taken a fair bit of cranking to start, but not be smug about it either.
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So, perhaps I'm way off here, but I thought a bit of cranking was a good thing in that it allowed the oil pressure to build up before giving any revs. 🤔
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Yeah ... even worse was that when i told the diesel specialist they said they'd already ruled it out by temporarily bypassing the filter as one of the tests. I think they're running out of things to check now. Maybe there's some problem with the ECU.
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... well fuel filters are cheap, but it didn't solve the problem Back to the drawing board.
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Great. Well it's cheap enough to try the filter so I'll be onto that!
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About 20 bhp less than the least powerful variant
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To be honest we're trying to sell the Zuki - too small for our needs - and aiming for a dual cab ute so we can do bigger trips, fit the motorbike in the back, carry big things without needing a tralier etc ...so as soon as this issue's fixed it's for sale. Have been out driving the thing today trying to get the regen. burn to reset the warning light, but it goes away after speed, but then once the speed drops again it comes back on 😲 I'd already tried hooking up an extra battery to add some CCA ... no luck. I looked up fuel filter issues and found a fair bit, apparently there's one in the tank as well which is a pain to access. Good tip Nick, thanks. Any idea if the x-trails needed the tank filter?
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Maybe I'll just fill the whole bloody area with quiksteel instead 🙂
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Yeah, not sure how easy it would be to get to the one on the back of the head with a saloon, though???
