When the N12 pulsar was new, lots of them came from the factory with badly adjusted throttle cables. Only had enough to fully open the primary throat. Most got picked up in the 1000K service & then we did them in PD.

So this guy about 70 comes in and asks for the SM (me).
Says he Just had his 1000K on the Pulsar & decieded that he would take it for a fang.
Really pissed off (in a nice way) that his Pulsar would not go over 110K.

Ok, lets go for a drive & check it out.
Its out front of the dealership on the road.
I hop in behind the wheel & notice his wife in the back.
Good morning Mrs?????, how are you today.
Fine says she but the cars gutless.
Before I start the car I put my foot on the throttle.
Sh#T. some one stuffed up & forgot to adjust the throttle cable!
Now the pedal material is pretty soft on the N12, so I stick my foot under the pedal & bend the pedal up, ahh, can feel it hit the stop.
So now we have full throttle & I fire it up.
Best we drive out to the new Lonsdale freeway & give it a burst.
Feeling in a stirring mood & his wifes ,gutless comment bought out the devil in me.
So as we are driving to the freeway, I find out that they traded in a 120y.
Used to go like the clappers his wife said from the back seat. We went every where & It didnt miss a beat. Not like this one.
We reach the freeway & there is no traffic.
So we are off , ring its neck thro the gears & soon hit 160K.
How did you do that! he crys out.
So I back off & cruise back to the shop.
I explain that Dattos like to be reved & that I had just blown all the crap
that had built up during running in.
So its not a bad idea to give them a work out now & then.
They go away happy.
So a few months later I catch up to them on their 10,000K service.
Hows the car going? Like a Rocket he says.
I take it out every Sunday morning and wind it flt out in second till it wont go any faster, great advise, best car Ive ever had.

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LOL nice cheap performance mod!

Owned a 1968 Renault 10 (actually one of the two cars I ever regret selling)
Anyway being young and stupid -- 360s, reverse 180s and general abuse the car held together until one day I went to drive off and the rears just locked up, reverse ok , drive forward get about a foot and they lock up again?? "geeze gearbox must be stuffed from crunching gears all those times?".
My mate borrows a car trailer the next day and takes the car to his place.
Comments how much trouble he had getting it on the trailer.
After a couple of weeks searching I pick up a gearbox for $150.
Well we unbolt the crossmember, engine mounts etc lift the back of the car up with a block and tackle and wheel the whole lot out.
What a bastard of a job! took a good two straight days to get the gearbox in!
Anyway get it all back together and running and after a couple of weeks the same thing happens! I look under the car and the right hand rear wheel is sitting on top of the handbrake cable! effectively jamming it up.
Then I remember noticing the handbrake hanging down when I was removing the engine/gearbox, at the time it didn't occur to me that IT was locking the back wheels. I had just hooked it back up! then it had fallen out again. All that work and money just to replace a perfectly good gearbox!

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1973 Datsun 610SSS long term resto-mod project
1983 SII Datsun/Nissan 910 short term daily driver/fun resto-mod project

Hahahaha, good stuff guys...

This is very strange...
I've had any major problems working on any of my cars...

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I had a renault 10 once too!!! I remember the gear linkage rubber breaking - so I tied it together with a coat hanger. The shifter was a bit floppy but it still chose gears!

One day I was attempting to put a water temp gauge in the car. First things first was to take the old water temp sensor out.
Unscrewed the threaqded sheath easy enough, however the actual sensor was stuck in the thermostat housing rock solit.
I tried various methods and then decided to try and hit it out with a hammer.
(this is with the housing still on the car)
As i did so, it gradually came out, however as it fell into my hands I noticed an extra piece.
It was a piece off the threaded hole where the sensor screws into: I had cracked and taken a chip off the thermostat housing meaning I couldn't screw in another sensor, and for that day couldn't drive the car.

Somehow in that process I had managed to earth something and blown one of the wire fuses off the starter motor without knowing it.

When I finally got a spare thermostat housing and managed to hook it up without leaking coolant I attempted to start the car. Nothing.
No power at all.

After checking wiring, attempted clutch starts, attempted jump starts, attempted everything, i called it quits.
It would be another 2 days until i was told about the fusible links between the starter motor and the wiring loom.

TADA!!

Another one, I had recently purchased an electronic distributor and coil from pick'n'payless. I did all the stuff and took the old dizzy off.
When i put the new dizzy on, i put it on and felt what i thought was the sheath going over the timing gear thingo. It felt alright, if a bit far off the mounting bracket. SO i tightened it up hoping the gap would close. After tightening it up most of the way it still wasn't close to the bracket. So i kept going and then snap.
I had snapped one of the mounts off the distributor.
I managed to figure out how to put it on properly and used a dodgy hioem made washer to secure the dizzy until i could get back to pick'n'payless and swap it under warranty
Didn't make that mistake again.

- Nath

I know its my first post, but hey, why not start with what i've f**ked up.

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'71 1600, L20B, 45 Weber, Extractors, Elec' Ignition, 200B struts/sumitomo 2 spot brakes, 240k 5 speed, R180.

nothing wrong with renaults dudes!!!

wheels car of the year 1972 (renault 12).

they corner on their door handles, but they won't let go of the road!

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The Republic of Western Australia -
Propping up the Nation's Economy since 1901.

Ahh, this has been a great read, and while I don't have anything quite as humourous, I did commit a slight offence a month or so back.

Driving the trusty 120Y-O-Y to work, I noticed a distinct "clang" coming from the front end upon rebound. At work I got out and bounced it and at first thought it was a top out clunk from a blown shock. A little more inspection revealed that it was actually the anti-roll bar clanging on the control arm. The bushings had died and fallen off and there was a lot of free play in the rod that fastens the whole lot together.

Not having a chance to go and get a set of replacement bushings I was after a quick fix to get me home, and lo and behold, the bushins just happen to be roughly the same dimensions as the top truck bushing on a skateboard! So I raided a couple of sets of Shorty's Doh-Doh cushions and bolted the whole thing back together.

I guess the embarrassing thing is that 2 months later she's still running fine, just like that.

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Vintage Guitar Amplifiers
Australian Mountain Biking

Haha. Thought I woulda got bagged for the old renault.
Would LOVE to get hold of another one, R8 freferably

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1973 Datsun 610SSS long term resto-mod project
1983 SII Datsun/Nissan 910 short term daily driver/fun resto-mod project

Did you ever drive your 10 in the wet? Apart from the generator not being able to keep wipers, heater and lights all going at the same time (you had to compromise), the skinny little tyres and rear weight bias was seriously dangerous!!

Started the car with it in gear.. jumper forward and into a fence knocking it over and the car sitting about 3 foot in the air. fence was a Steel pool fence. car stopped a few feet away from going into the pool....

did clutch... put it the wrong way. aftre 4 times redoing it i fixed it...
2 days later it stuffed up......
also snapped clutch pressure plate bolt in. was doing it to 80fp not 12
Ezy out saved the day.....
snapped long water pump bolt....*wasnt me*

head gasket. took me 3 times to get it right and still counting....
dropped cam bolt.. dropped cam bolt washer in side the sump. got it out with a magnet
ran 45deg timming onthe car due to the oil pump/dizzy on the wrong tooth

first time bleeding my brakes, i undo the nipple look inside of the nipple to see how it all works and so on. Band mate presses the brake. eyes mouth and face full oil brake fuild.......

did clutch and head gasket in one day. took the car for a drive. was goign 120 or so was wondering what the banging noise was...
come home the next day look under the car, look at tail shaft 3 bolts in there.... only 1 had a nut left on it which wasnt even finger tight...

Geez Spandex ... comprehensive set of confessions I thought I was gung-ho! Have always thought the prop shaft coming off at the gearbox at speed would be one of, if not the, most dangerous thing that could happen to someone in a car.....
Like the washer in the sump, that ain't no small washer, either

I have a recent confession to make .... its not related to cars let alone Datsuns (unless resting some of the components ON the shell of my 1600 counts?) but anyway. They have an auction every Friday down the road from where I work, .... there was this old lathe/drill/saw thingy that I was interested in and a 1960s Yamaha 100cc 2 stroke twin, didn't buy either of them but did buy .... wait for it ...... A SAFE. (what the !! ... bad attack of 'Auction Madness' , once afflicted you are never cured, take it from me. I think its related to Tourettes syndrome only it involves your arm jerking involuntarily into the air....). Anyway, said safe was 'only' $22
which is unsurprising since the tumbler didn't work and nor did the key and it weighed about 300lbs.

I figured maybe I could get the key to work (turns out the key is for the draw inside the safe, not for the safe door itself... so not much chance of that) ... so stuffed the thing in the back of the staion wagon and hid it in the garage, hoping my wife wouldn't notice! (didn't hide it well enough, one of my sons spotted it straight away and goes 'whats that dad?' ... right in front of Cath )

Best case scenario I can get a new key and put all our 'valuables' (you know, wads of cash, gold bullion, diamonds in little leather pouches -oh , ok porn collection then) in there, so that the burglars can just take everything away in one handy unisured 300lb package rather than trashing the joint looking for stuff that doesn't exist.

I take the door off the safe, the cover off the inside of the door and check out the mechanism, .... interesting ..... and surprisingly simple! I take the cylinder lock out without any trouble. Take that brutally to bits using one of my favourite tools - the vice, then I put all the bits in a tray and put the tray in the safe , put the door back on and close it. The bolts shoot home with a satisfying clunk, as per the movies. I try to turn the handle and - you may have seen this coming - it won't budge..... what the!! oh yes, nice one Neil, right up to standard - just forgot to put anything I really needed in there, like my birth certificate/passport etc, otherwise it would have been a really classic stuff-up, rather than a bit of a surprise for the guys on the forthcoming hard-rubbish collection (would they take it, I wonder?)

In an effort to prevent my biggest humiliation since dismantling a Rubiks cube and reassembling it in sorted order (audience impressed!!) then twisting it around a couple of times to a point where I couldn't get it back (audience rolling on floor in stitches ), I tried to recall which bits restrained the bolts from being withdrawn and I spent half an hour trying to release them with the tried and trusted bent coat hangar through the lock hole. After a while I realised access to half the mechanism was being prevented by the tray inside the safe, which just sits on 4 little perches. No problem , I'll invert the safe (cue a lot of grunting, clattering of dissasembled safe mechanisms, and a house-shaking thunk, unsurprisingly not dissimilar to someone hitting a concrete slab with a 300lb steel cabinet ). Thats cleared the impediment of the tray, anway, and wait .... furthermore (would-be safe crackers, please note), the handle now turns and the door opens!!!!!

Of course, after opening, the door now falls off its hing pins (not on my foot ), as the safe is upside down, and various latches, bolts, springs and washers roll out and drop through the immovable steel grill of the long drain that fronts the garage .............

Cheers, Neil.

Geez that double posting thing Sh%^s me!!! I cancelled it because it was taking forever, and now look whats happened .... Lurch, Lurch, Helix, Lurch !!!! do everyone a favour will you??

Thanks, Neil

Im sure there is an option on these boards to set posting to once every 30 secs maximum. That should solve the problem. But I guess its in Admin panel

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Its currently set to 20 seconds.

Dave

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USA Daily: 2014 Nissan GT-R, very minor modifications for the track
USA Project: 1978 280Z, minor suspension upgrades, VK56DE conversion in progress. SOLD
AUS Race Car: 1973 240Z, L28ET, Autronic, GT35R. SOLD
AUS Project: 1972 1600, 3200km old S15 SR20DET, ground up rebuild. SOLD

.... which is slightly longer than your response time .... thanks Helix!