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Mine did. Very noticeable on deceleration from 60kmh (37mph). Uni joints all ok, greased em up and no difference. Yoinked the tailshaft out today and sussed it out. Rattle eminating from inside the shaft about 1/3rd the way down from gbox end. Internal balance weight snapped its spotweld and flogging around in there is my best guess. Sourced another shaft today and fitted it this arvo... yay no more rattle. Cheers Richo.
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rattling exhaust shields fix tip
Knucklehead Saloon replied to jono's topic in Old Gen.: 80's GL/DL/XT/Loyales...
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Show us your radio console EA81 units
Knucklehead Saloon replied to jono's topic in Old Gen.: 80's GL/DL/XT/Loyales...
Cool. I looked at mine today and I swear putting a speaker is gonna hassle out my clutch leg. Are you running stock bucket seats? -
Hot ignition coils for EA81
Knucklehead Saloon replied to Knucklehead Saloon's topic in Old Gen.: 80's GL/DL/XT/Loyales...
My pants are quite well calibrated these days after 32 yrs of constant dyno runs haha. Everything from turbo'd road bikes, turbo 6 + V8 cars, Harleys etc etc... right down to a suzuki sierra ! They're experienced pants mate. -
Hot ignition coils are the go. I've fitted them to heaps of cars and bikes and never been disappointed. Today I strapped an MSD blaster (45000v) to my Brumby and driving it afterwards made me smile. 88 dollars from ebay well spent. Improved idle quality, better throttle reponse and a tad more torque as well.
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Show us your radio console EA81 units
Knucklehead Saloon replied to jono's topic in Old Gen.: 80's GL/DL/XT/Loyales...
Hey Jono does the one with the speakers in it clip your clutch leg knee when driving? -
Dragging a brake pad on front right ? Semi seized caliper. Only other idea I have is front diff or cv trouble.. ie... only supplying drive to front left wheel. Cheers.
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Demon Exorcism - Brumby
Knucklehead Saloon replied to Knucklehead Saloon's topic in Old Gen.: 80's GL/DL/XT/Loyales...
I was thinking that exhaust wrap stuff could be the go. -
Demon Exorcism - Brumby
Knucklehead Saloon replied to Knucklehead Saloon's topic in Old Gen.: 80's GL/DL/XT/Loyales...
Cos the heatsheild was doing the rattling not the cat my friend. The exhaust system is totally stock and looks to be the original. -
Exorcizamus te, omnis immundus spiritus. Be gone back to the depths of hell, foul blight of rattle demon. I did this under the car. For anyone wanting to get rid of the cat heat shield: I used a 4" angle grinder to cut the heads off the seized bolts, punched out the remains (pin punch). Bottom piece fell away and the top piece finally came out without dropping the exhaust... well after alot of swearing, heaving and "massaging" the top shell with a long flatblade screwdriver. The key was busting off the spotwelded brackets on the top piece and bending what was left a little. Came out into the wheel arch.
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rattling exhaust shields fix tip
Knucklehead Saloon replied to jono's topic in Old Gen.: 80's GL/DL/XT/Loyales...
That's a really good idea!! The retaining bolts on mine are seized solid. What kind of silicon did you use ? -
Jono... I think he was a naughty grandpa.. smelled like cheap hookers and weed.. jk ! Robm... For the price it had better come with a new vac advance or I'll hit the roof haha. Iridiums: 2 things... I use them in everything I own because they last and last as well as giving a good spark. The shop wanted 100 for 4 of them but good old ebay had them for 61. Cheap engine insurance. Its the same reason I use synthetic oils, oiled foam filters, 95 octane and ryco filters as well. My cars and bikes are much happier for it.
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G'day I'm Richo and I come from a small country town called Singleton in Australia. Great board you guys have here ! Today I fixed my craptachi vac secondary that had rigamortis in the closed position. I've only just bought the Brumby (Brat) from an old bloke (just retired) way out west and typically of grandpa cars the throttle cable was as slack as a 2 dollar hooker. Soooo... adjust the cable methinks and all will be well. Wrong. That didn't make a scrap of difference. Damn ! Next I whipped off the air cleaner for a look at the carb. The sight that greeted me made my jaw drop. In decades of messing with cars and bikes I have never EVER seen such a nightmare of hoses and pollution control garbage hanging off a poor old carb. In all honesty It would probably have been a half decent carby before it was covered in super glue and dropped in a snake pit. Yikes !! The 26 year old hoses were all as dry as a bone, cracked and leaking like a sieve. 30 minutes later I cracked a beer, cracked out the spanners and got cracking with 3 yards of new 3/8" vacuum hose. It took me the best part of an hour to cut new hoses and install them all. I also treated the carb body to a good blast of carb cleaner for good measure... so now all will be well right ? Wrong. Didn't make a scrap of difference... GAH ! Finally found the dirty vac leak after another 30 mins of chasing it down. The vacuum advance diaphragm on my distributor was dead and leaking air big time. I pulled the line from the advance unit and plugged it with a bolt (for now). Success !! The vac secondary works like a champ now its actually got vacuum for the first time in a decade haha. I was happy for about 10 minutes and then it dawned on me I had best take a look at the distrubutor as well. I still had a slight surging under acceleration and it didn't want to rev out to redline either. Long story short ... 3mm side play in the dizzy shaft and the rotor button and rotor cap are internally machining themselves to dust. I jury rigged it for now by filing down the metal rotor cap posts and dropping in a new rotor button. To say my ignition timing is erratic is a bit of an understatement. I've got a reman Cardmon one winging its way across the pacific as we speak (no-one sells rebuilt or aftermarket distributors here in Australia). Here's my Brumby Immediate plans: Replacing the muffler tomorrow, new 14" mags and muddies also turn up tomorrow. Arriving soon: 3-1/2" tach, iridium plugs, sports steering wheel + boss, new front CV's, 4 x 5-1/4" speakers for the doors, rocker cover gaskets, 80 channel UHF. Future plans: HD clutch, Weber carb, powdercoat bullbar and rollbar black, LED light bars for the bullbar and rollbar, massively upgrade the stereo. Cheers, Richo.