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Ah ok, thanks Evan. I'll tell him about that. The cable seems to be completely broken, so will I need just an inner cable? Yeah, I was thinking that I'd be better off getting a new battery. The truth is that I have no idea how old that battery is. It might have been sitting in the car for ten years ...

I have a Iranian friend called Ali that has an Iranian mechanic friend by the name of Ali. This evening he came down to look at the car. My little red monster started easily. The battery and the alternator worked fine. Everything worked. Datsun reliability was making a mockery of me!!! However the b...

I've had such a time of it in the past couple of days. I've been taking my Red Queen out more often and we had a bit of a tiff. I drove out to the Royal National Park with a friend and it was late at night when we got around to heading back. It was pouring down with rain and the road was windy. I ha...

Ha ha! I am NOT doing drag racing! I'm just grandma driving around in a non-turbo N12 (which is scary enough for me). I don't need heavy duty, hardcore anything.

What do you mean "doing a pass on the strip?" I'm not the type to do burnouts. I'm just looking to go from A to B in one piece. I'm pretty clueless about this stuff. I would not know where to start when it comes to replacing the clutch.

Yeah, I noticed that a healthy N12 or N13 engine sounds a bit like a small truck. If they sound like anything else, something is probably astray. When I first sat behind the wheel of my N12 I was quite shocked about how noisy and rattly the thing was, but I figured that was the nature of the beast. ...

Oh so that arm moving around is normal. I don't think the nose of the glass is out of alignment with the track. The track itself looks fairly straight. I'm also kinda certain that I was able to get the plastic clips clean before I glued them back together. The window seems to hang down towards the n...

You can't even change the light bulbs yourself here. The university housing office has an electrician that you have to call when some light goes bung and someone HAS to be home or we get charged the call out fee.

But that's what I got here in the uni apartments. There is no tame garden hose here. We aren't allowed to do any gardening here. They have a gardener for that purpose. Actually be decree of the tenancy agreement I am not allowed to wash my car on the premises. I'm not allowed to repair the car here ...

Well I went down to the parking lot to check the window and it seems to work pretty well. The window is now not interfering with the door lock, so it seems nothing is bent out of shape. However it does appear that the regulator itself is a bit worn. I think that the horizontal arm that the window is...

Yeah well I was looking at the prices of those things today and I don't have that spare cash. This rattle will have to keep me company for a while. I'll get a new muffler when this one drops off or rusts out by the looks of things.

Yep, thanks for the advice Evans. I did all that and why would you think I'd try to make things all neat and pretty in this circumstance? This situation calls for drowning everything in silicon. The dudes at Super Auto Cheap didn't have that Sikaflex stuff. I told them that the adhesive was this bla...

Oh yeah, when I think about it, it is plastic. Pardon me. They don't look like they are wanting to fly off the top of the car at high speed yet....

I'll have to glue the glass and the window regulator back together again, then I'll be able to see if something is bent out of shape. I'm not so sure getting a new door is the best thing for it. Everything looks pretty pristine in there. Can't find a spot of rust anywhere on the door and its compone...

A sports muffler? Won't that be loud? I mean the car is already noisy. I'm not sure what would be better, the rattling or having that thing.....How much do they cost?