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Post by cobber on Jul 14, 2011 19:15:31 GMT 10
As Julia would say .................. it's crap !I'll give you 500 bucks for it  .................. and think your self lucky  . Cobber |
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Post by firefighter on Jul 14, 2011 20:58:14 GMT 10
 G'day Mark As Julia would say .................. it's crap ! Get rid of that pommy CRAP tow car ....and get another CHEV ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D f/f ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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sheppo
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Love my Juke box car.
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Post by sheppo on Jul 15, 2011 8:31:32 GMT 10
 G,day Mark, mate i would check for spark at the coil, i bet you have dirty or closed up points, clean them carefully and get the gap right. If you have done that when you take the coil lead out and crank it over you should get a nice blue spark, if not go back to the points, if you get a weak yellowy spark it will be either the coil or condenser. Hope this helps. If they have fuel compression and spark they will make a noise. ;D Nice Guardsvan, Dad had a couple when i was young.  We walked a lot. check you have power on the + side off the coil in case the old wiring is dodgy.  Just noticed in your pic that you have a resistor in your coil wire CHUCK IT OUT, they are a major source of problems,  Remember LUCAS PRINCE OF DARKNESS made them, they were used to stop static in the radio, you can,t hear a radio in a Guardsvan for all the screaming. Sheppo 
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jodel1050
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A Van called Wanda
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Post by jodel1050 on Jul 15, 2011 11:35:06 GMT 10
Hi Mark,
You need lots of choke with these old Standard motors. My old grey fergie requires full choke, near max hand throttle & starts every time now - was not always this way though as after 6 months of difficult starting I found that someone had installed an inline filter between the fuel bowl & the carbie. Good idea except it was installed backwards. Invested $8 in a new filter installed right way round - big arrow on outlet indicates direction of flow. Worth a look to see if you have such a filter!
Jodel
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2011 18:42:06 GMT 10
Julia is wrong ..........its not crapits a bloody good car, ............just won't go ;D ;D ;D thanks guys for your tips Mark |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2011 20:46:56 GMT 10
All else fails.. Give it a snort of "Start You Bastard".. about $8.00 a can... Two shots for the carb and one up your nostrils... Hey.. it works for me.... ;D ;D ;D Just the shot for hangovers and those mornings when ya feelin a bit sluggish .. I can sympathise with the old roundy vangaurd. Just dont forget the bad experience i had with the .. "secret double naught agent spy Mark V11 Humber supersnipe" i had all those years ago. Didnt like startin easily.. no matter if it was hot or cold.. Near burnt the car and the shed of Invention down.   How would i have explaind that to MI5  Curse you carb diaphrams and sticky dampers. Yuo could try walking in circles chanting ... Ohm.. Ohm .. Ohm "".. to Joe Lucas .. Prince of Darkness. Regards The ever helpfull Reddo.. on the far side.. Ps .. can come over and help push if you pay the airfares both ways and feed me alcohol as required. ;D ;D |
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jeffhead59
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Franklin Korong circa 1963 and Millard Starcraft 1978
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Post by jeffhead59 on Sept 1, 2022 20:05:52 GMT 10
G'day Mark, That old Vanguard is so reminiscent of the scene in the 50's it would have been hard for you to resist buying it...... did you go looking for it or........... did it fall in your lap They might have done OK in the Redex trials but by the 1960's they were being used as paddock bashers and in this photo taken at Burleigh Heads around 1967....... Holdens ..... Holdens..... Holdens everywhere, and one lonely Vanguard, looks like he might have been towed there by the FJ in front  Cobber. Hold-ons everywhere he sez....conveniently ignoring the big guns of the day in center stage....Customline and the '63 Stude...... ;D ;D |
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jeffhead59
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Post by jeffhead59 on Sept 1, 2022 20:17:32 GMT 10
Re all those Holdens and 1pommie Vanguard.......if you look carefully (and with both eyes...not just one eye)...you will see what appears to be Humber Series Super Snipes(or could be Humber Series hawks, both UK vehicles...(oh and I reckon I can see a Volks Kombi there too!
(Go Humbers!)
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Post by cobber on Sept 2, 2022 10:42:08 GMT 10
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.................. and think your self lucky 
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G,day Mark, mate i would check for spark at the coil, i bet you have dirty or closed up points, clean them carefully and get the gap right. If you have done that when you take the coil lead out and crank it over you should get a nice blue spark, if not go back to the points, if you get a weak yellowy spark it will be either the coil or condenser. Hope this helps. If they have fuel compression and spark they will make a noise. ;D Nice Guardsvan, Dad had a couple when i was young. 
We walked a lot.
Remember LUCAS PRINCE OF DARKNESS made them, they were used to stop static in the radio, you can,t hear a radio in a Guardsvan for all the screaming. 
