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jonovid:
1969 Hk Holden Kingswood  like this one.  straight-six (2,639 cc) 161 red motor manual stick shift, 3 on the tree!
later did a swop for a re-built 186 (3,049 cc) & stick shift mod to a center floor shift adapter- swop the bench seat for bucket seats.

james_s:

--- Quote from: GlennSprigg on November 25, 2019, 11:59:12 am ---
--- Quote from: basinstreetdesign on November 25, 2019, 07:31:45 am ---I bought my first CAR, a 1982 Toyota Tercel, brand new with 4 on the floor.  It was great.  I drove it for about 4 years, enough to pay it off when the company I was working for gave me a "company car" to use  ::).  It was a rusting boat that had weird problems.  The idle was adjusted so high that if you took your foot off the brake it would eventually get itself into 2nd gear rolling forward.  It was a distaster, electrically.  The radio would abruptly and randomly change stations, when signaling a turn the dome light on the roof would flash  :o.  The battery was so weak you couldn't start the car twice in succession without driving enough to recharge the battery.  But enough about it.  I parked my Tercel with a sticker on it that declared "THIS CAR IS NOT ABANDONED!"  In the meantime I met my wife and began driving her car, a Ford.  After about 6 mo the Tercel just disappeared.  I never found out what happened to it.

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The vast majority of times, such weird electrical symptoms in cars are due to Earthing problems!!
Resulting in many strange faults, as the current back-feeds elsewhere to earth...   :phew:

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That's surprising too because Japanese cars of the era tended to have impeccable electrical systems. If it was rusting to pieces though that suggests one of those awful places where they salt the roads, uhg. All bets are off when it comes to rust.

vk6zgo:

--- Quote from: james_s on November 26, 2019, 04:58:59 pm ---
--- Quote from: GlennSprigg on November 25, 2019, 11:59:12 am ---
--- Quote from: basinstreetdesign on November 25, 2019, 07:31:45 am ---I bought my first CAR, a 1982 Toyota Tercel, brand new with 4 on the floor.  It was great.  I drove it for about 4 years, enough to pay it off when the company I was working for gave me a "company car" to use  ::).  It was a rusting boat that had weird problems.  The idle was adjusted so high that if you took your foot off the brake it would eventually get itself into 2nd gear rolling forward.  It was a distaster, electrically.  The radio would abruptly and randomly change stations, when signaling a turn the dome light on the roof would flash  :o.  The battery was so weak you couldn't start the car twice in succession without driving enough to recharge the battery.  But enough about it.  I parked my Tercel with a sticker on it that declared "THIS CAR IS NOT ABANDONED!"  In the meantime I met my wife and began driving her car, a Ford.  After about 6 mo the Tercel just disappeared.  I never found out what happened to it.

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The vast majority of times, such weird electrical symptoms in cars are due to Earthing problems!!
Resulting in many strange faults, as the current back-feeds elsewhere to earth...   :phew:

--- End quote ---

That's surprising too because Japanese cars of the era tended to have impeccable electrical systems. If it was rusting to pieces though that suggests one of those awful places where they salt the roads, uhg. All bets are off when it comes to rust.

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I'm surprised, too, as my sister had a "Turtle" for years, without a hitch.
I borrowed it for while once, & discovered a strange fault----- it was 4WD, & sometimes the rear end could "wind up" (silly term, but that's how it was described to me), on the front drive, locking the transmission.
There was an easy way to "reboot" everything, which wasn't included in the Owner's Manual, so I added a note to my sister's manual.

The salt thing reminds me of living in Southampton UK & seeing cars which would have pretty much been in their "adolescent" years in Australia, pretty much rusted out.
They were believers in salting the roads, as well as adding "chippings"(small pieces of hard rock, similar to those used in roadbase).
A better recipe for underbody rust couldn't be found!

It's not as if the weather was that savage----it only snowed twice in the 10 months or so I was there.

nctnico:
If you live in an area where they salt the roads during the winter then it can be beneficial to have the underside of the car coated with a rust protector. It helps pretty good. However nowadays cars which are sold in these kind of areas have a zinc layer on them to prevent rusting.

BTW: I did have a weird electric problem in my Toyota. If I switched off the rear window wiper at a specific point it would blow the fuse. I ended up with installing a big fat PTC fuse in series with the rear wiper motor to fix that.

GlennSprigg:

--- Quote from: nctnico on November 27, 2019, 11:27:35 am ---BTW: I did have a weird electric problem in my Toyota. If I switched off the rear window wiper at a specific point it would blow the fuse. I ended up with installing a big fat PTC fuse in series with the rear wiper motor to fix that.

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Do you mean the fuse blew 'when' you turned it off, or when turning on again?? Of course the wiper
should return to the bottom first, even when turned off. If not, then the power off micro switch would
have been faulty... Strange...

P.S.   Someone here talked about converting their Auto to Manual....  An interesting problem that I have
seen twice, is the failure to be able to start the car for the 1st time afterwards !!   |O
An 'Automatic' requires a circuit through a switch, to ensure it is in 'Park' before being able to start....
Both times, they had forgotten to trace/bridge-out that part of the circuit, after changing to manual   8)

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