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So jealous. Guys on the UK forums are all set,........Lucky sods. http://www.goodwood.co.uk/festival-of-speed/welcome.aspx

There's plenty of potential refrigerant leaks in any car's aircon system. First off would be the shaft seal at the compresor. It's a carbon/carbon seal plus a conventional fla seal but over time it's going to leak. This is why you're asked to run the aircon for a short time every day, to keep the carbon seal lubed and happy. The seal has to hold static gas pressure (approx 75psi) when the syetem is at rest and then down into vacuum when the system is loaded. Next are the flexible hoses at the compressor. They're swaged over a hose barb but any gas will still leak slightly. And finally the gas will permeate through the actual hose material over time. All removable connections are flare metal/metal or "O" ring and are very trouble free. The compressor in your domestic fridge is inside a sealed unit, there's no flex/rubber hose and all pipe connections are silver soldered. The refrigerant in one of those will be there until something mechanical fails.

I'm out of touch with these new gases Terry, but next time I'm dead keen to try Hychill in the 32's older system. Trouble seems to be finding a fridge tech. out in the sticks who's willing to give it a try. However I can remember when R22 and R12 got shafted. Exposed commercial freezer units had their gas stolen and sold black market style. I'm certain these crazy gas prices will start this practice all over again.

Story's been on the news. The Carbox Tax genius' have worked out it takes "X" tons of Co2 to make a Kg of refrigerant gas, so the gas industry has to pay. Guess who picks up that tag.

YES. Where it's sitting it's way advanced which isn't good. Put it central in the slots then grab a timing light and go through the procedure to set the timing correctly.

I never had a problem with the stock sized R33 battery, but if you want to go bigger, this guy can show you what's involved. Looks like bit of a mission to me. http://www.gtr.co.uk/forum/163401-how-install-proper-battery-r33.html

Yellow Stag sitting down in the centre gully of the M1 near the Nundah dump. Hope all on board were OK.

Yes a suggested, 99% for sure it will be the master cylinder, but it always pays to do the slave at the same time. Cold weather, kills batteries and "suspect" hydraulic seals.

Got a vacuum booster on the clutch? Hell of a lot more work to cut and weld the firewall properly for the booster than to hack an intercooler pipe hole.

Never met a 380 owner, but anyone who's hired cars will have at some time driven one. Always the same response. Likes: Great highway cruiser, comfortable, power to spare, economical. Dislikes: Window sill's are a bit high, appearance is a little slab sided, definitely need reversing camera. Don't know how many gears the auto has, lost count, must be 5 or 6. All up not a bad sort of car.

Anyone know shortcuts to get around the roadworks Gin Gin to Gladstone. At least 12-sites and they usually add at least an hour to the trip, Hervey Bay to Gladstone. Tried through Bundy > Rosedale > Agnes > Miriamvale etc but really..............

And your aircon control unit takes 6-T3's.

Been done............ http://raceenginedesign.biz/Manic-Beattie.htm

Big companies won't mind that she's not running, they'll toss it on the prime mover's cab with a fork, but that will only get you to Brisy. Probably need a tilt for the last bit. Might pay to check that the fork won't damage any under body/chassis rails etc. I use Gympie tilit tray transport who does a few Brisy > North trips per week. Nothing is too much trouble for him and far more reasonable price than your local tilters, Claytons. If you can get it to your door for $800 it might be the easiest option.

Redclaw are cherax quadrinatus. Yabbies are cherax destructor. Redclaw don't dig, (unless they're really stressed) but Yabbies will dig holes ruining dams that's just what they do.

They eat everything, nothing left. Tossed a dead chook in and there was nothing, no feathers nothing in a couple of weeks. Left untended the stocking ratio goes way low and inbreeding means there's no real husbandry taking place, weeding out the weak ones and so on. The average consumer wouldn't notice but if you're fair dinkum about it you must have extremely high stocking ratios and sexed ponds. Males are what restaurants want, nice big red claws, look pretty but a female is streets ahead as far as usable meat V's weight goes. So you have to sort your juveniles and grow them out in separate ponds which also eliminates inbreeding. Now North Qld breeders are poised to sell juveniles, guaranteed no viruses or genetic defects. All wild stock has faults, but through a selective breeding programme and some space age incubation they can now breed a super cray. So the old cray farmer becomes a grow out farmer, same as the prawn farmers but with about 10% of the work. But wait there's more. A product called chitin is used industrially and recently in research medicine. Chitin is produced from the shell and skeleton of marine animals, mollusks etc. That source has now been polluted to the extent that science is looking elsewhere and that's where the skeleton/skeleton on the super cray comes in, no pollution. But can we wait until the science arrives and will the Asian farmers beat us to it. Aquaculture in Asia is simply massive but they don't have the quality control, YET. And you have to peel the buggers which is soooo tedious. Don't know what this has to do with petrol prices anymore, got a bit sidetracked ????

Yes Marc is correct. The ponds are expensive to construct and your country has to have the suitable clays or they're going to leak. (I bought my own excavator) There's supply and drainage dams to build, you need lots of water and of course the pumping gear. Ponds need a drainage system and an aeration system. Predator fencing is mandatory, not to keep predators out but to keep the crays in, DPI doesn't want crays getting in their waterways. Surprise dummies, they've been there long before cray farming kicked off, check our Somerset dam. The crays need habitat to live happily in or they'll pack up and go walkabout. Bird netting is super expensive and without it, herons etc will clean you out in nothing flat. It's VERY hard and dirty work as you drain/harvest in the early am, lots of smelly mud. Then sorting, purging and finally packing, transport to the fish market. For me the extra power costs, fuel for pumping and the Bligh blood suckers with hugely increased licencing and associated fees just got too much. That's why there's only about 5-crayfarmers in my region these days, and yes every farm is for sale.

Blokes missed out on a top condition luxury race car transporter. KW with an 8V92TA plus a 13 speed RR. (100kph at 1700 in direct) Truck has sold, check out the massive sleeper. Fully kitted out pan is off to auction. Chopper would be an optional extra.

These guys.

My biggest factor was the inability to pass on the full fuel price increases, I was always behind. A quick check shows me paying 0.86 per litre back in 01. Less GST and excise gives a net fuel cost of $0.40 per litre. I'm now paying 1.52 per litre on a good day, which comes back to $1.00 net per litre. Even though fuel represents only one part of my costs, I'm not selling product at a 250% price increase since 01, in fact sale price has barely altered but fuel cost does impact on my ability to further develop. Farming in Australia hey ????

Try T-Mac, Power Street?

Not an auto is it?

Have a look over on the GTROC forum. Some clever chaps there working on an upgrade, could be what you're after.

Workshop manual test results: upper > 90 + or - 3 lower > 83 + or - 3

Tried Fatz ??