Gear Box woes.

[roccodingo]

EEeek... maybe an omen

the brakes on the daily are a bit sad, along with the cv's...

[Peter Jones]

OK now I'm convinced. My red golf has lost the will to live. I've just abandonded it at the local train station 'cos it refuses to start. Spontaneous electrical problem - no spark. Combine that with a battery that goes flat in about 8 hours and the fact that it takes only 6 minutes of running to get the needle right off the temp gauge makes this vehicle a joy to own.

That LPG Falcon with the always on headlights is starting to look better every day. The dark side is calling............

Pete

[Golf Loon]

golf3 has a spare 1995 2L engine in Melbourne if you want to ressurect her. Or push it into Bass Straight. Dont you dare get a Ford.

[gtigrl]

golf3 has a spare 1995 2L engine in Melbourne if you want to ressurect her. Or push it into Bass Straight. Dont you dare get a Ford.

I've got a ford with headlights that turn off if you're looking for a cheap solution ....

[Peter Jones]

Couldn't revive it on the spot. So I've just towed it back to base for a looking at. Starting issue looks like it's just the points. I've cleaned them up and I'll see if it starts ok in 10 mins when the battery's had a chance to recover on the charger.

Jodie learnt how to drive a car being towed tonight. I'm all too experienced in that particular area of VW expertise I'm afraid.


I'll get back yo you in 10 when (If?) it starts.

Pete

[Peter Jones]

It lives!

It's sort of like giving a 110 year old multiple gunshot wound victim CPR now. It will only live if it wants to. If it's truly lost the will to live there's not much medical science can do.

Might have to talk the next of kin into organ donation at this stage.

Pete

[Edison]

than a new LPG Falcon with headlights you can't turn off. (They're hard wired on and you can't turn them off it's a "safety" thing).

It's a petrol thing in the big picture, same with bracks mention of people flashing their lights at you if you had yours on in the daytime. People become stupid when prices are down and then believe any crap and buy any crap and drive any..well you get the picture,.. Sooner or later the high prices force people to be educated or walk. during this process the oil companies gouge and laugh. It's a cycle. get a old paper from the 1920s-1980s and it's all exactly the same arguments as now. PRECISELY the same, you cannot date the letters at all.

Combine that with a battery that goes flat in about 8 hours

Disconnect the battery overnight or use an ammeter to see if there is more current flow than just the clock, also I noticed that when the connector from the alternator comes off, the alternator light won't light up so you will still think things are ok even though the battery is going flat..

It's sort of like giving a 110 year old multiple gunshot wound victim CPR now. It will only live if it wants to.

It just needs a bit of help from a friend or two. when you get to the end of your expertise (mine is electrical) you take it to a friends house and let them have a go at it, they find fixes to obvious problems and also old problems that aren't addressed over the years because they are not that bad. You drive back and I swear to you it is a different car. After all pictures on here show 110 year olds can be stripped back painted and be better than newborn, you don't want that much done, just back to a teenager and that just takes a friend or two and an afternoon or two.

Heater problems, maybe just a good methodical approach, like disconnect the hoses and use a garden hose to see if the engine, heater and whatever is blocked or not. would revving with the radiator cap off show if water is pumping through ? We use intuition to speed up diagnosis, but sometimes it is wrong assumptions, so simple methodical checks might help out.

Or push it into Bass Straight.

Most of the time Loon is helpful, sometimes I need to hunt him down and kill him