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Thanks for the help lads. A mate of mine is sending me a pair of hella comet 550 halogen lights to try and if I don't like those I will look for some 6inch led lights

Hi all, I'm sick of spending good money on new tyres and having them scrub out after having a dodgy wheel alignment done. I thought my ute was wearing tyres due to some worn suspension parts but after replacing those and getting another alignment they still wear badly. Had the same issue on my wife's Impreza which is only 3 years old. I'm open to suggestions in Victoria of good alignment shops. Would greatly appreciate any help.

So forgive me for sounding stupid, is a narrower angle number better for showing further down the road?

They wouldn't take long to drain a battery when they are using 300 watts total. That's 25 amps so a smaller crossflow alternator would struggle to keep power up to them after a while of continuous use

I just watched a YouTube video showing how good those aircraft landing lights are, worst part would be trying to mount them neatly as the ones I saw on eBay didn't come with a mounting housing

Cheers mate, yeah I've got narva ones that I think are +100 and they are great.

Thanks for the input lads. Hey Steve, do you have a business that sells lights? I'd prefer to buy from a private business than an overseas owned mob.

My headlights are genuine ones and I had the reflectors re- chromed and they have genuine glass in them so I'm really happy with them. Just hoping to be able to see further up the road to spot kangaroos that are becoming a problem in my area.

I had an eBay job light bar about 12". Maybe a great white light bar would make mine look dull but I was too tight to spend the money at the time. I was very impressed with narva's 9" hid lights on a mates hilux a while ago but twin 9" spotties would look ridiculous on my ute

I don't mind the look of these

Thanks for the help lads, I spoke to a pedders store and they said they can get it right and will do another inspection in 20000kms so I might get it to them asap.

Thanks mate, I should have added that most of the wear is the inside edges of both left and right hand tyres.

Hi all, I've recently had my freshly built crossflow put onto impco straight gas but it's too lean at idle. I put a 225 mixer onto an efi throttle body and manifold which makes pretty good power from 1500rpm onwards but it runs really rough at idle and the local mechanic said its running very lean only at idle. He said the mixtures were great during normal driving but couldn't improve it at idle. I tried putting a balance pipe between the atmosphere breather on the new impco model L converter and the clean air side of the mixer but as soon as I tried to accelerate the engine would stall. Will post some photos tomorrow. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

It has improved but isn't perfect. I had a bad vacuum leak where the egr pipe used to be and it idles happier now but I can't measure fuel mixtures at home.

Cheers mate, I wondered about trying a tyrepower store as my cousin used to work in one in Gippsland and he said he often had to take extra care to get alignments correct after big tyre shops had stuffed up alignments previously. I'm near Shepparton but would travel to get good results

Interesting reading lads, I'm looking for some recommendations for a decent alignment joint, I need new tyres on the Mrs Impreza. I got 75000 out of original Dunlop tyres and will only get about 40000 out of this set as the beaurepairs alignment has taken the inside off all 4 tyres

So I was time poor tonight and all I could do was try to kink off the hose from the throttle body that goes to the inlet manifold and no change, I lifted the pcv valve out of the rocker cover at idle and it had slightly slowed the idle up a bit. No bloody time to get to eliminate all options due to lack of time. Won't do any more now as I don't want to disrupt the neighbours.

Oh right, I saw those hoses and thought they were linked to heater but there was a bracket near the coil for it and it had vacuum lines on it so I guess you're spot on. Cheers

I think the breather hose is going to the idle adjustment screw into the throttle body so hopefully it's ok. Thanks heaps for the help lads, I've got plenty to look at when I finish work this arvo

Yeah, I realised that after I posted the photo, I secured it properly after I took the photo.

Thanks for the tip Banno, I'm not sure what throttle body it is as I bought the engine off a fella second hand. Block is an 83DA I think, not sure if that means much though.

Thanks for the offer Dave

Here's a pic of it, the only one I have on my phone. Note that the oil breather hose near the filler cap isn't really connected, it's just going over a piece of aluminium on the throttle body.

Not sure if it's a free air or feedback mixer, the port on the throttle body has been plugged but I could check it properly. As for the pcv, I wouldn't have a clue, looks like the original efi one going into the top of the rocker cover at the rear. If the dipstick seal isn't sealing could that affect it?

It has been removed altogether because I didn't have the efi wiring loom under the bonnet so hopefully that is not affecting idle.