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Thanks Pinelli, thanks Dion. I'll get onto the oil change ASAP. I was having a listen tonight at idle and it sounds like it could be either the dizzy, or a part on top of the air intake (out past carburettor, past filter, past filter housing, on the pipe between the housing and the intake...

Hi everyone, I took my '91 4x2 Z20 to the mechanic the other day; confirmed that my alternator was dead, said that my fuel pump was on the way out. I wanted a lookover cause I had a tinny rattle on deceleration and high revs. Just finished the alternator swap today and tightened the new belt...

Harry's Auto Care in Belconnen were really great today - very friendly. Peter took a look at the Navara and even compression tested it for me, I asked how much and he wouldn't take my money. He was even cool with encouraging me to do my alternator swap myself, and hooked me up with a local...

Aright... So, I spent the day fixing things and evicting arachnids... I'll be doing an oil change in Cooma this week because we have ramps down there... It badly needs it (the Nara is brand new for me). And all the problem with the speedo was, was that the plastic was bent. In bending it back...

I have 336,000 on my sexy Zed, four-on-the-column... Oil is as black as Keanu's soul... Must change that one shortly. Edit: Oh yeah and she's a '91 Nara.

Thanks Pinelli, I'll give it a look! And yes, it got the RWC!~ (awesome) But... It possibly shouldn't have... Tells you a lot about the ACT's idea of 'roadworthy'. I have to fix a radiator leak somewhere, and... There's this peculiar high-pitch metal ringing sound that I get at speed...

Yep... Sorry to resurrect an old post (hi everyone!) but it looks like I'm about to have the same problem. I've found a D21 that I'm pretty keen on, but the Speedo doesn't work. I'm pretty nervously hoping that it will pass ACT roadworthy on Monday so that I can change the rego over. So my...