by clivebawden » Tue Sep 14, 2004 12:24 pm
Thanks to Stephen and Peter for their help. I now have everything working on my car (well almost everything!) and have been happlily blasting around in my GTA for a few weeks. What fun! The handling is amazing, and although I generally try to stay within speed limits, there's no law against not slowing down for corners!
And what a lot of interest they create. My car has no decals on the rear, and if I'm cruising in the middle lane of the motorway, people going past frequently slow down and drive alongside to have a look before driving on. The first time I filled up with petrol the pretty girl on the till said "cool car"! (I'd have asked her out but she was young enough to be my daughter!)
Anyway, I reset my flashing fuel display as instructed by Stephen, but later I noticed it was flashing again. Then the car wouldn't start. I traced the problem to the earth lead having come detached from the battery. It's got some stupid overcentre clamp arrangement, are they all like that? On mine the pivot pin can slip out. I'm thinking of replacing the overcentre clamp with a normal bolted connection. The other thing I noticed was that there was nothing holding the battery into the car except gravity - not a good idea considering the speed I've been going round corners! Should there be some sort of strap holding the battery down?