Red Targa Brumby

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I honestly don't know how I missed your Subinats write up until last week Another epic trip for the books and a stellar trip report Looked like a lot of fun, and a lot of km's for an old EA81! I'll have to go next year, make the trip over in the blue wagon. If you can get your ute EJ'd by then we could go in convoy

under load no issues. Hit that light throttle at cruise and on it comes

Could this be back-lash related? As in, worn out dizzy gear or shaft bushings kind of backlash. When under load the shaft pushes one way then light cruising it relaxes back the other way creating an intermittent miss...Maybe a wiggle by hand of the dizzy shaft would show it.
Whenever I had ignition related problems I just replaced everything I could which usually fixed it Then EDIS fixed everything permanently

[El_Freddo]

Hmmm… I hadn’t thought about backlash on the worm gear which would mean a retune would be needed I’d say. No play in the shaft beyond about half a mm going by my finger dial gauge.

It’s a putting like loss of power when cruising. Glad it didn’t do that on the road trip! I was already paranoid about the gearbox as it’s begun to sing a light whining noise in 4th and currently seems to be giving a fair crack at dropping its oil all over the exhaust directly under it. Fun times.

Cruising up to Subinats next year would be awesome. The date I’ve heard being thrown around for next year isn’t really convenient as it’s “mid term” for me but I’ll see what I can do.

As for the EJ conversion I’m yet to sort out the following things:
- misfire on #1 cylinder. Looks like it’s valves not sealing or possibly a dead spark plug even though I’ve tried two. If it’s not either of those it could be a piston issue. I digress
- gearbox crossmember for the AWD
- shortening the gear selector rods
- locating the ECU in its final resting place
- wrapping the wiring loom for final install
- radiator fans - although this seems covered in your and many other EJ conversion
- finalise air box location and fitment for a factory look in a small engine bay
- other miscellaneous stuff like throttle cable, clutch cable mod, tail shaft, brake MC which will be solved as I reckon there’s a 5 stud conversion in Redback’s future with this EJ conversion.

There’s loads of other things to do yet - get the heads serviced, all new gaskets and cam belt kit etc. All of this will take time and money to complete; time will be the challenging factor I’d say.

But it’s happening and that’s the main thing.

And then there’s Ruby Scoo to bring back into operation too…

Cheers

Bennie

[Bumpty]

Cruising up to Subinats next year would be awesome. The date I’ve heard being thrown around for next year isn’t really convenient as it’s “mid term” for me but I’ll see what I can do.

Class excursion...!?

- other miscellaneous stuff like throttle cable, clutch cable mod, tail shaft, brake MC which will be solved as I reckon there’s a 5 stud conversion in Redback’s future with this EJ conversion.

that new Subarino 5 stud kit

And then there’s Ruby Scoo to bring back into operation too…

Reading this gave me the biggest smile

[El_Freddo]

Thanks Bumpty, I’m glad a mention of Ruby Scoo put a smile on your dial! This might too:

Redback brumby made a “cameo appearance” at the 26min 28s mark in the latest MCM video below! Surely this is a sign that Marty loves the brumby now too

https://youtube.com/watch?v=XqWC5w0y4rM

The misfire issue at cruise is believed to be a carby issue that I don’t really want to deal with but will probably end up playing around with the voodoo carb magic stuff and hope to come out on top. I miss driving it!

Cheers

Bennie

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Saw that cameo on this weeks vid, was wondering if you'd be in it

That's quite a list for sure, nothing that's outside of your abilites though Would be an awesome cruise up, compare the same journey between the current donk and EJ AWD. Surely we could get a few MYs to turn up at the same time and make a proper line-up.

With the carb, original Hitachi? If you can still get a kit for them the rebuild is easy enough for an afternoon. Last one I did for my ute (yonks ago) ran like a swiss watch afterward.

And what's this about Ruby scoo? Haven't seen nor heard much about her for a while