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Just a quick suggestion to all those struggling getting this one off... if you have a heat gun handy give it a bit of a warm up. Don't make it red hot obviously as you don't want to damage the rubber, but get it nice and warmer and then get a big long breaker bar to put a nice constant force on...

Hi Guys, Got the rear swiped by an uninsured individual, caved in the side of my tub. Looking for something around Tassie preferably to suit my 2004 ST-R, Blue and silver, with silver wheel flares. Doesn't matter if it has a few minor scratches etc, it will only suit the rest of my ute better...

Not that I have ever tried this of course.. but I have heard a whisper from someone who heard it from someone else ;) There happened to be a problem house in a street somewhere around here... whoops.. did I say here? It had issues with some of these inbred mentally ungifted malfeacants in it...

Hey Jim, a 3/8 inch drive one will be needed also, as I dont think you will get a 1/2 drive that will go low enough for all the timing cover etc bolts in to the alloy. Important they are all the same torque, and if you put just that little bit too much on.. you will strip the alloy threads on...

Sorry Rodney, you lost me. Apart from the chain driving the fuel pump being splash lubricated (i.e. the timing chain) I fail to see where the loss of oil affects the fuel pump. On the ZD30 being diesel its only lubricated by the fuel it is pumping. Things like injectors/fuel pump etc should be...

I would still be taking it out and stripping it down anway. You will have to get it out either way. You might as well learn something from it, and you never know, perhaps you did manage to shut it down before too much is damaged. I doubt it, but you might be able to salvage quite a bit, or not...

Good luck mate, I know at the end of the day you will enjoy it. You might not need a new head, so that might save you a fair bit of coin. If that's the case, just the pistons/rings/bore etc, as long as the block can be saved, and a few bits and pieces if you don't decide to do the clutch, you...

Oh, and there was a thread around here that had the link to someone's home server to download the manual for the ZD30, I found it once, but can't find it again. Someone else might know?

Hey Mate, looks like one unlucky incident. I am definitely going to take a bit more care on my filter housing now... From doing work on a lot of other peoples cares, I can definitely say a lot of people over-tighten the oilfilters far more than they need to. Easier, and better, to do them while...

Hi Guys, After doing a full rebuild on my ZD30 Di, I have numerous spare parts that came as duplicates across various kits. All are brand new, and still in packaging mostly. If anyone is interested, make me an offer. I am happy to sort out a postage price with what ever anyone wants be it one or...

Looks like a temperature probe to me with the electrical plug on the back. I don't have a D40, but I assume the ECU must have an ambient air input for it to work out how it wants to run given the outside air temp. Or just for a pretty display on the dash. But being solid like that the...

I am lucky enough to have a full pit in my garage at home, the whole reason I bought the house....I hadn't even looked inside the house when I said I wanted to buy it, it didn't matter if I was going to rebuild the whole place anyway. But the pit has been priceless for quite a few things I have...

So after already spending $4k on a complete rebuild after I took the head off thinking it was just a cracked head, which then turned in to glow plugs shattered and bounced around the cylinders, and a cracked piston, I put it all back together and now it won't start. After going through...

On the transfer case note.... for those of you that have just done the chain replacement, how much was your chain? And did you do it yourself? My chain is stretched, and trying to work out the best way to do it, and what may be involved... budget is severely limited after having to do a full...

Just a quick question, got my block out and stripping it down to get bored out, but having a few issues getting the harmonic balancer out... just wondering does anyone know if tis a LH or RH thread? before I bend or break something trying to go the wrong way.... Thanks in advance...

Weird.. my 2004 D22 comes with switches in all the doors, and no, it was not done after it seems, as when I wired in my remote central locking and immobiliser I traced all the wiring in the door looms, and its not just patched in, its wired in to the actual plug properly, and the wiring loom for...

Thanks 180, I have just been trawling through and found that myself, was just about to post the link up in here too. Thanks for that... and thanks to Hadricus. I had one of the ebay ones, and its ok for most of the car, but didn't have the ZD30. This manual in the link above is perfect. Off to...

Oh, and I forgot to ask... I have an electronic Maint. Manual for the D22, but going through the engine section, which I didn't notice before, this is for the 8 valve TD, not the 16 valve... so it appears its the wrong version, even has the wrong injectors etc. It does have supplements for the...

Arrggh. One of those days you don't really want to have. Or at least your bank balance doesn't. I have been having coolant disappearing, trouble starting and loosing power for a while, and was getting difficult to start and turn over after sitting for a while in the last few months. So I bit the...

You might find its your control arm ball joints. I had a horrendous noise develop on one side, squeaking as well as clunking though, but only noticeable over bumps at low speed, and it turned out to be the lower control arm ball joint was flogged out. Replaced with a Repco version, did another...