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What flavoured water was it and is there any evidence of it washing through your filter and into your intake pipework and manifold?

You're right, a coolant leak can give a sweet smell to the exhaust, is it loosing coolant and if so, how quickly?
Do you still get it if you leave the radiator cap just on loose?
Do you see bubbles in the coolant if you leave the cap off and the engine is hot?
Damo.

Or just go to your local bolt shop, they'll either have them in stock or get them in for you. You won't need many so cost won't be too much of an issue, just ask for how ever many M6 or M8 or whatever rivnuts for sheetmetal. Don't worry about the gun just use the bolt trick to do them up, and when ...

Excellent, thanks for that mate.
Let me know how you go with the wreckers and pm me the prices.

When I pull the box apart again I'll put up a photo of what's left of my shift forks for comparison.

Thanks mate, Damian.

If diff "A" goes into diff "B" then the whole lot should really be reshimed if longevity is what your after in your diff, as there's no guaruntee either set of shims will be just right. Seeing as it's for the front however and only gets used occasionally when offroad, not everyday, then you'll ...

Pretty certain you'll have little chance of getting a diff out with one shaft still in. Diffs despite looking like big solid gears have very exact tolerances, when you pull your diff out, make sure you mark which bearing cap goes on which side and do the same with all your shims. Also don't be ...

Here's a picture from the manual: http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa130/hunglonger/transmissioncasecover.jpg I need pretty much everything in that photo, when you pull the top off the gearbox it all comes off in one piece, and that's what I'm after... Haven't tried Daiauto or toyhatsu for ages ...

Hello, I pulled my dearbox apart recently because it was making strange noises, and among other things I found that the pads on all the shift forks had warn all the way down, basically instead of being 6mm pads, they were now 3mm and using the entire shift fork face to shift the gears. Not good ...

Have a look at http://www.biofuelsforum.com/ There's a QLD subforum on there. Just tell them what you want and that you're willing to pay, you should be able to find someone to help you. The clubs can be a bit secretive sometimes, they tend to think that the government is out to get them, but if you ...

If smell is a real issue, you could use biodiesel. It does feel a bit thicker than normal diesel, so perhaps get a litre and try it out for yourself and see if you like it first. If you can find your local biodiesel club you could maybe even talk them into making it for you tax free, fuel is so ...

Here's a F55 ute I'm working on at the moment. http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa130/hunglonger/hatsu3.jpg http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa130/hunglonger/hatsu1.jpg http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa130/hunglonger/hatsu2.jpg Plenty of rust and the motor's rather rooted after being run out ...

Yeah there's a solenoid that controls the fuel when you start the motor, when it runs, and when you turn it off. It's connected to the fuel pump by a little connecting rod which you would have had to remove when you took the diaphragm out. When you turn the key should see it move around. There's ...

This one?
http://www.biofuelsforum.com/

What did you do when you bled the pump? Undo the bleed screw, pump the manual pump until fuel came out of the bleed screw and did it back up again? If you did all that, you should be able to crank the motor over and get some fuel coming out of the injectors, enough to start maybe and then crack each ...

Is the ballast resistor still wired up or have you taken it out?
Also, the tacho can give you some kind of idea of what your ignition system is doing.
What's the needle on the tacho doing when it goes crazy, dropping more to zero, jumping up more to red line?

Which coil is on it now, the new crane one or the old original one?

What do I think?
I think the guy bailing out in the third video is pretty funny!
What are they driving?

There's this guy called 'Wing' in indonesia who can make up a locker for you, pictures here: http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2421770/1 and his website here, for those who speak indonesian: http://www.taftdieselindonesia.com/new/ And this is what he had to say when I emailed him asking about his work ...

Parts can be rare, but they're out there, you just need to know where to look.
What parts does he/she need?

Slightly different ratio I believe, gonzo's page at http://www.gonzo4x4.be/the%20Taft/gears.htm should be able to tell you all about that, also I have a feeling that they went from 29 splines to 30 at some stage too, or maybe it was 28 to 29, but I'm not sure about that. I've got my cv's of my f50 ...

Sounds nasty.
Don't know much about zukis, but maybe get a mate to gently rock the car back and forth while you try and shift the gearbox back into neutral?
Hopefully whatever it is won't end up costing too many $$$!

We all know you want to fix it!
C'mon mate put it back together for just one more winter season, life without a hatsu just won't be the same!

Bad news about the hatsu, always sad to see them go down...

Don't know if you got my pm, Chris, but if you or anyone else want to put that thing back together, I've still got this thing sitting in the shed.
It's being used for parts, has no motor or driveline etc, but it has got a chassis!

Really don't know if you can buy the bearings, but this may help you out a bit.
I can scan the rest if you want it.
Mmm, upside down.

The 4 and 5 speed boxes are essentially the same, the 5th gear on the 5 speed box is really just an overdrive hanging off the end off a standard daihatsu 4 speed box. You will need the 5 speed drive shafts though, because the 5 speeds output is about 100 mm further back than the 4 speeds. Search ...

You hit another car at 100kmh in a hatsu with a chassis mounted bullbar and lived??? Damn right that's a scary experience! :shock: I'm guessing it's not worth repairing your chassis? As it happens I've got a spare f20 hatsu sitting in the shed at the moment that's being used for parts, perhaps you'd ...

You can get these things on ebay quite cheaply too - just search for "12 volt impact". They work a little differently to your normal rattle gun, so much so that I thought mine was rooted before when I first used it. It's more of a spool up a dirty big flywheel then dump the clutch kind of action ...

Still, by the time you blow out a fusible link, you know you're really cooking, it suggests that you're pulling large amounts of current, and I'd be guessing a wire has come loose somewhere and is grounding out back to the body. I haven't seen the electrical diagrams for your car, but sugest maybe ...

I don't know if the rocky's are different, but on my F50, the tacho signal comes off some wiring for the altenator or voltage regulator.
If you need more info let me know and I'll go out and figure it out for you.

Yep, that's a F10, same 4 speed box (or maybe slightly different ratios), a little motor and totally different diff ratios. Check out http://www.gonzo4x4.be/the%20Taft/gears.htm This guy knows F50s! :D These things are pretty rare now, and if wreckers have them, they want too much for them. I got ...