Lang

Thanks again, took about two hours all up, one thing, if the hub is a little tight, I found to put the wheel back on with a couple of nuts and give it a good shakeing, that fixed that, with the car secure on stands ,of course..:)The disc bolts were some tight, some not, I put them all back on at 45 ft, lbs., and all's well. Lang

Checked in this manual I have and have no torque figure for the disc bolts, any ideas,(untill the elbow cracks!)and do you put a drop of lock-tite on them there bolts?..

Good advise as usual from the ones who know, many thanks, will attend to on Saturday.....

G'day, am putting new discs on my EA82 L wagon in a couple of days time, looks straight foreward, any hints before I start, am going by what manual says but have been caught before.. Thanks Lang

Ground a socket as per Bratwurst, then use a short extension and my Makita variable speed drill, run 'em in slowly , sometimes need a sharp tap to start, and save wrist for beer lifting...

Only under slow brakeing, well, under 50klmph, it really shudders, have been told, well everything checks out OK, so they don't know! Thanks for response, I will track this down, feel it may be something that I will have to rectify myself, the vehicle suffers from continous suffering a week over OK to bad gravel roads( oxymoron, roads) and at 660,000 klm's I certainly can't complain, I have kept the poor buggar on the road day in day out and will be sad to see when I have to replace it. Previous vehicles have lasted between three and five years subject to the same conditions, the EA82 will have been doing the job for fifteen when it retires... As an addition, when I give it to a workshop to get a repair because of time restraint or where equipment I don't have is involved I always have to do a check over the vehicle to retify a bit here and there , however this has been only on a few occasions, the other times the EA is done by myself, and by that I feel the vehicle contributes a lot more than I do..........

Well, I didnt want to go through the lot, suffice to say,rims and tyres, hubs, bearings , full struts includeing bearings, knuckles, discs, pads, rack and pinion, steering uni's, shaft's, sway bar bushes, various torsion rubbers, lower ball joints, checked mounts and etc, etc.. Thats why I'm at a loss....

Sorry, it's an EA82 Wagon, manual steer 5 speed...

Need some help, this is sending me around the bend, get brake shudder below 30 mph (say 50kph) through steering wheel, it's fine above that, now I have replaced everything in the front end, and I mean everything, from hub to hub, however I suspect that one DOJ may be suspect(new unit), had the experts look for cause, they can't find, rotated wheels and swapped tyres, I have new and others to test, but as now all the front has been renewed , suggestions where to look thats not obvious would be a great help. I still don't like the L/H side DOJ, has some movement, but not a great deal. This is ongoing problem for a while now and each time I renew an item, it helps a little then back to it's self within a couple of thousand kilometers or so, and I do a lot of KLms. Seems ther is something we are not looking at, something not so obvious.. Any hints?...

mc, the thing is, as you have spent so much time and money trying to fix so far without avail, a s/h pump may point out the cure, then spend the money on a new one... and keep whatever as a spare, I keep one in vehicle at all times. Let us know how things work out, for all our benifits.

Next time it plays up,stop motor (if it hasn't allready) lift the top of your air cleaner and depress the throttle and you will probably see that no fuel is being put in by the accelerator pump. Sun Spares in Qld. are the place to go for your bits.. I think, but dont quote me, s/h pumps were , are about $30-00 or less and they are honourable to deal with... Do a Google for their web.. As I said , has happened twice to me in the winter and that was the cause...lang

mcs, twice this has happened to mine (EA82 Carb.) in the last fourteen years, first time nealy drove me nuts untill I replaced the fuel pump, s/h, cheap, then only last week started again as soon as the cooler mornings arrived so as a test I swaped carbys, no fix, then swaped fuel pumps again, problem fixed. The problem is is that it starts fine then runs out of fuel within a few minutes or less, then picks up and goes OK from there on in. I would definately get a s/h fuel pump and give it a whirl.. Lang

If they are like my EA82, the first time I replaced them those top bolts had some sort of LocTite on them, from factory and were TIGHT. Also the lower bolts undo from the diff side, the wheel side is welded onto the mount..Lang

I guess that if it can it wiil happened, after I took the air con condenser and assorted bits out , reassembled the whole thing, ran the fan as part of the test to make sure all the electricals were ok, a bit of debri, a small stick like object lodged in the hot/cold flap and jammed it on cold only. Any how, the long job yesterday, about six hours, was done today in less than three, cant beat experience, all is now well, even fitted new radio in that time, so I'm happy. Small tip, when you pull the dash back, hang it with a bit of wire or such from the hinge on the passenger side sun visor, hope thats what you call them, and you can play away very happy, well sort off. Also the seat bolts that go in twords the transmission tunnel are difficult, I snapped one due to dirt on the thread, however such is life. Again , thanks for you scroll on the job. Not as daunting as appears.. Take care Lang

My thanks to Paul for his guide, appears daunting however once you get into it , it's still a pain job but can be done. My problem is haveing replaced the heater core I still have no heat.. I have hot fluid (radiator water) in and out of the heater core, I took out the air con, condenser and replaced the box, sealed to duct fan flow, all appears to be working ok, vacuum hoses etc;, the two flaps in the heater box operating ok, but for the life of me I cant work out why the heat is not being directed , or maybe flow from fan , through heater core. Well, as it took about six hours today , start to finish, Ill do it all again tomorrow, will have it down to about three I think, if anyone can point me as to what I may be missing or have bungled , much thanks, I just cant see why no heat..