Lemon or not

[ckh]

The tyrepower guy is also saying a 50mm lift kit will help fix the problem... I'm going to chase him up tomorrow as he said if he regarding the orif=gional job he did if it did'nt fix the problem there would be no charge, so will see if I can get him to apply that to the offset caster bushes, on a different note, if the problem does get fixed by fixing the offset caster bushes, if I later decide to put a 50mm spring lift kit in it will it undo things he has done to date? or cause different problems?

[ckh]

Got the 50 mil lift kit in, drives like a different car, replaced the points with a Pertronix Ignitor lobe sensing kit, runs a lot better, still a bit of a shake to her, tyrepower guy said everything in the front and rear end was perfect, he did notice the monor was leaning to the left a little so he even bough me a new set of engine mounts, a mate is helping me put them in this week end.... took it up to rainbow beach for long week end, was getting 17l/100Ks going up, near 30 l/100 on the beach, but coming home last night got 14.3 l/100Ks so cant complain about that...


this is a picture of what she looks like now after all the suspension work..

[Winnie]

What engine have you got mate? With those fuel figures you certainly have NOT got yourself a lemon!

[ckh]

4.2L carby, on a 4 speed automatic transmission....

[Winnie]

That is phenomenal then! Petrol or LPG? Please don't say LPG or I will be very jealous.

[ckh]

petrol. not set up for dual fuel....

[taslucas]

See, everything is working out just fine and i bet you've got a smile from ear to ear

Heres something to make you smile more: My fuel consumption on a TB42 auto is around 26-28lt per 100 kms so it would seem that your "lemon" is way out performing my "awesome patrol" hahahaha.

Good to hear your on the track to years of great patrolling

[ckh]

Mine has the same noise. Squeaky, rattley. Coming from inside the guard, behind the dash, top door hinge kind of area.
I just turn the music up:-)

Tap, crackle, pop

Sort of fixed the squeak/rattle noise coming from near dash/door area, dump a shit load of armourall in there and now quite as a mouse....

[ckh]

Really starting to think I bought a lemon.
One guy has suggested
"If you have the old points put them back in my guess is the pertronix ingition is on the way out i had one in my wagon at random it would miss or not start went over every thing no better then i put the points back in and fixed the problem. give it a go it doesn't take very long to swap over."

But I contacted the guy in the USA I bought the ignighter from he said it will either work or wont work, said it wont have intermittent problems like I'm describing, sent me info on how to test it with a volt meter and waving a screw driver infront of it to see if there is any change in volt readings, he said if there are changes its working, if no changes it not working...

On my 89 GQ TB42 carby model, with an auto transmission Had an annoying miss, when I drove around and was pulled over there would be a slight miss, so put it into park or neutral and would be even less noticable. Got sick of the loud tappet noise my truck was making so about a week ago adjusted the tappets, miss got worse, noticed at idle if I pulled off #6 spark plug lead no change to motor idle, but could tell it was only running on 5 when I gave it a rev... with the plug lead back on revs fine. I replaced the dist cap and leads, now at idle taking the same #6 lead off can hear a difference in the motor, but it still has a miss, have checked for vacuum leaks, can find any.
Loosened tappets off a bit idles a little better but the miss is still there, it doesnt have point have the pentrix ignighter and flam thrower coil.

Have searched the forums, some people saying miss is fluel related, so ran the tank to near empty, fill with BP ultimate, put several different fuel clearnwers and additived etc to clean system out, replaced fuel filter.


Its more noticable when I have it in drive and or the aircon turned on...
Am still getting same ecconomy as before but this rough idle and miss is driving me crasy.

Other sections on forums say my head or head gasket is stuffed..

So far have changed leads
changed plugs and dist cap
changed fuel filter.
readjusted tappets
readjusted timing. have tried to fiddle with fuel mixture.

have checked for vacuum leaks

What else can anyone suggest I hope and pray its not the head, as i only got this back in Aug and have emptyed my wallet already with doing a 2 inch lift and other things to her...

[taslucas]

Who did you buy the ignitor from? I got one (with the flamethrower coil) from the US. It turned out to be faultyfrom the factory and a replacement is on the way. Mine would start fine and idle fine but as it started warming up, it would start to miss worse and worse. They sent me the test instructions and it turned out that the module was faulty. It still ran but missed badly as it warmed up (really badly!) , not as the guy you quoted above: "it will only work or not work".
I will be getting the module back in a week or so.

Tap, crackle, pop