El Andrew

Finally got around to sorting this. Pulled the fuel module out, as last time I'd had to reuse some fuel hose and wanted to have both lines using the proper flexi stuff. Drilled out the fuel return thing in the bottom of the cradle to 4mm But I also noticed that the return port in the cradle was blocked. Not sure if there is meant to be something there or not, but either way it wasn't passing any fluid. So drilled that out too. Before and after pics below. I now have positive fuel trims (remembering that I fudged my low slopes to tune around the issue temporarily) so think I have resolved the fuel pressure issue. I'll do a few km to make sure the trims continue like that, then flash the correct low slopes back on.

Wait, what?

As a reference, I have a thermo switch on mine to kick in at 85 degrees, and a light to tell me when it does. In the past year, I reckon it has been on twice. Once on a 40 degree day after a long drive when I was circling the car park. The other was giving it a hard time in low gears through mountains on a warm day. But my car is turbo and modified, and the cooler is inside the bumper in front of the driver's side front wheel. And with the factory heat exchanger imagine you'd be seeing temps over that anyway. NA car with the cooler in front of the radiator - no worries at all with no fan.

Bunch of bald pricks

You can't just clear the sensor code, you need to disable the rear sensor so it doesn't recur after a few hundred KMs. Part of the rear sensors job is to check if the cat is working correctly, which it doesn't when you don't have one

Get it scanned for fault codes so you know what is causing the check engine light. First guess would be that if you had a new cat installed, they didn't switch off the rear O2 sensor - but seems a bit of a simple oversight. When you say the tuner cleared the codes, was it giving codes on the dyno that were then cleared before you took the car? Probably best to go easy on the car until you know what is causing the fault.

Great to meet you and Ev mate! And I agree - top work as always Gaz. By my calculations, given their respective populations, ACT having four people on the cruise is the equivalent of NSW and Vic providing a total of 70 people. Maybe next year...

So I was feeling like the rear wasn't quite right and gradually was hearing a knocking that ended really loud. Was right under me, so was suspicious of the control blade bushes. Just crawled under it - me thinks they are well and truly dead...

Interesting! I think I was 15.6 on Saturday on 98 as a comparison (Tumut to Jindabyne) Barely noticed you refuelling so wasn't too bad doing the trip on E85. You should do the drive a couple of weeks before with a trailer and hide some caches if E85 Jerry cans at all the stop points!

We were saying to the guy at the Banjo Patterson Motel that the car park ramp was a bit touch and go for our cars. He suggested, seriously, that they have an overflow carpark over the road that we could use. Took a pic of it this morning. Ain't no one gonna take their car in there...

Hope you guys all had a good cruise and/or trip home today. Sorry Pookey and YLD that I didn't catch you when I left. Great trip once again. Yep, bulk cyclist groups with support cars on the way home. Actually enjoyed it because rather than being on cruise the whole way, I had about 20 opportunities to accelerate from 10 to 100 [emoji3060]

They were ok - spoke to one of the guys yesterday. My dad has a 1976 Alfetta that I learnt to drive on and has since been restored, and is in the SA Alfa Club, so had a good chat.

ACT Alfa Club was staying at Tumut on the same motel, and saw them again at Scammells lookout

Yeah it sucks you guys couldn't join us. Next year!

Pretty decent. Bit of traffic which was annoying depending on where you reached it, but not too bad. Some ripper corners. Think I destroyed my control blade bushes. Huge clunking under my arse whenever I loaded up the rear suspension turning left hard.

All checked in at Jindabyne

Had to read that twice - thought you were saying that Matt smells fresh this morning...

I'm at Coffee Pedaler in main street if anyone is looking for breakfast

Attempted stowaway. Would probably spew in the corners. Actually, his name is Twistie. Maybe he was born for this.

Yep, see you later guys! We will miss you@k31th and@rab - catch you another time.

We should be good I think - electric BBQs and gas BBQs in parks are ok https://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/fire-information/fdr-and-tobans/total-fire-ban-rules Oh wait, need to have a responsible adult present...

When you say it is at the correct level, but you topped it up via the cooler lines, how did you check the level? The filler plug is the correct way to check the level and if it was low you would fill it there too until fluid trickled out. Too little and too much fluid can both cause issues, so I would be first confirming the fluid level and that the fluid is the correct type. How old is the fluid?

Nope - no need to drop cradle

I put King Springs and KYB shocks in my BA to replace the factory gear and was really happy with the improvement. My FG is light years ahead of that, but is a generation newer chassis-wise, and has Lovells springs, Koni Reds and Whiteline sway bars - so impossible to tell which is making the difference. If you are fitting it yourself, you can do the KYB/Kings for under $800 (or just keep your current springs). New front springs are very difficult to compress with home style spring compressors, so may have to factor in dropping them off somewhere to get them assembled. Other than that, the job is a piece of cake. Rears springs and shocks come out separately and the front assemblies are pretty easy to remove.

Haha was trying to work out what the heck was going on and what "turrets" was. Penny eventually dropped. The Curb Your Enthusiasm episode where the chef has Tourette's is pretty damn funny