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Is to put the battery in backwards!
alternator packed it in which drained the battery on its way out. Brand new battery!
So i replaced the alternator, removed the battery and charged it on the charger then chucked it back in, same as always.... Which, on the new battery, is the wrong way around Yayyyyyy!
Stereo's stuffed. Hopefully just a fuse in the amp.
CB's stuffed. Again, hopefully a fuse.
Gas is stuffed.
god knows what else....

Managed to get it runnen on fuel by bypassing the gas switch and running a temperary fuse on the accesories... Drove it around for a week till i could get my other car runnen (an audi 80) which unfourtanatly had blown a radiator earlier in the week... Got the radiator replaced for the a ripe price of 700 smackers! (bloody europian cars )

Then...
Took the patrol to the auto elecs to get things checked and fixed... forgot to leave the keys after i got all my tools out the back, so... Back i went in the moring to slide the key under the roller door, got there and theres all these holes in the wall, like a feature wall where every 3rd brick or so has been left out. Decided to leave the key on one of these, only right on the ledge so that a blind man could see it if he stood there and looked at the wall. I was trying to be carful so the key wouldnt have a chance of falling back into the wall where it would lost forever... Ring them a later on and they cant find it!!
''birds fly in and out of those holes all time'' sais the elec... Damn stupid bird knocked it in.
No spare key, so now i have to go to nissan and get a new one plus the code and go to the locksmiths to have a new one cut all the while my cars sitten at the elecs doin nothen but getting in the way!

So i have a question for you people... (When your all finished laughing)...
Would the gas have a fuse in it? Its an 89 pat with the impco system in it... and if so does anybody have any idea where it might be? What it looks like even?

Cheers
Aaron

Most stuff should be OK once you've changed a few fuses.

But yeah, All that and it isn't even Monday....

Ya may as well stick this thread in the chatter box if ya can... started out with the idea of asken tecky questions. Got carried away with the story, hey...

tanz-e wrote:Ya may as well stick this thread in the chatter box if ya can... started out with the idea of asken tecky questions. Got carried away with the story, hey...

Mate if i was you i'd ask for it to be removed

Tanz-e, have you fathered any children?

Head straight to the bottle-o and get a bottle of something worth over $100 and drink it, stat!!

RAY185 wrote:Tanz-e, have you fathered any children?

And for the tech, surely a coathanger could fix the lost keys and the fatherhood issues?

RAY185 wrote:Tanz-e, have you fathered any children?

Probably, he's f***ed everything else so far

There is usually a fuse between the gas changeover switch and its positive feed or in between the Gas lock off's and the changeover switch.

sudso wrote:

RAY185 wrote:Tanz-e, have you fathered any children?

Probably, he's f***ed everything else so far

lol

Sorry to hear your story Tanz-e.

funny.
when i got to the elecs to sort out a new key, they already had one and it was finished and ready to go. (except Gas, cos there not licenced )
They managed to talk nissan into giving them the key code with simply a vin and engine number.
Nissan said they needed proof of ownership until they- talked em into it... Little concerning really....

thanks for the support chimps
And thanks rusty. Now that ive got it back ill have a good look on saterday.

my gas system which is impco and emmegas crapped out when i changed heater hoses turned out i'd knocked a wire off. and not all gas systems are fused as such. Mine for instance runs through the AM1 main fusible link for the car so if my fuse goes nothing works.

howsie wrote:my gas system which is impco and emmegas crapped out when i changed heater hoses turned out i'd knocked a wire off. and not all gas systems are fused as such. Mine for instance runs through the AM1 main fusible link for the car so if my fuse goes nothing works.

Interesting...
Ive replaced all the fuses i could find, and the electritrition gave it the once over... everythings working except my intermittant winsdcreen wiper. (i discovered today.)
The main fuse was the first thing to be replaced, so im guessing mines different. But probably still worth checking the terminal the fuse plugged into for anything else comen off it, as i upgraded to a slow burn fuse istead of the link which now bypasses the terminal...
Im 99.9% certain that nothing been left out. but still worth triple checking...

Thanks for the idea howsie.
(Id laugh if its coupled to the winscreen wiper... Possible )