Austarion

Yes its still complete.

I was still driving it on occasions up until Thursday when the insurance ran out.

No not stainless just mildsteel

Well it's now in the back shed and available for parts.

Anybody interested in anything drop me a mail.

82 JA for sale with 315,000km on the dial. Werribee area As the km's imply this is a very used car. Everything seems to work but the car is generally tired. Engine starts and runs well, still makes over 0.5Kg of boost but leaks lots of oil Gearbox OK except for a slow synchro into 3rd Rear end fine ...

I use a Ryco Z142A as listed in their catalogue.

Alan.

The Pitstop bookshop are now stocking a service manual for the Starion.
See the link below for details.

I have no idea how good or bad these manuals are.

http://www.pitstop.net.au/pitstop/prog/ ... &PLU=17579

Alan.

The gear on the starter motor shaft is attached with a one way clutch. When first starting the engine the starter motor shaft turns and the clutch drives the starter motor gear. When the engine fires and is running, it is then trying to drive the stater motor faster than it is designed to run. The c...

Most modern cars (including the Starion) use a pre-engaged starter. When the ignition switch is turned to Start, this provides an electric current to the Starter Solenoid, the Soleniod moves the Starter motor drive gear into mesh with the Flywheel ring gear. Once these gears are physically in positi...

Thanks, That fixed it.
Alan.

Can someone please tell me what the top right dash warning light is for in a JA.
It is an Amber light, which displays a squareish figure.
It's only flashing on for a short time, so I haven't been able to make out what it is meant to be!

Many thax, Alan.

There were quite a few of these around at one stage. Two ran in the 1988 Rally Australia. One driven by Ross Dunkerton & Steve McKimmie finished fifth, another driven by David Officer & Kate Officer finished seventh. Also a UK magazine called Retro Cars (Jan 05) had a reature on Pentti Airik...

281,xxx 1982 JA.

Alan

My JA with central locking, alarm, and single CD player draws 25mAmp.

Alan.

Hi the brakes on the JA have gone really heavy. The pedal feels solid with very little movement. I've checked and have vacuum at the booster so according to the manual it would appear that the booster is dead. Before I replace it anybody else had this problem and fixed it any other way? Thanks, Alan.

If the inverter wont start without the engine running even thoght the batteries are fully charged it sounds more like the input voltage that the inverter needs to start rather than the capacity of the battery. A good battery should give a reading of something a little over 12Volts. With the engine r...