For those who are interested I've ordered a o2 sensor from Repco (the $29 clearance ones). They still have a couple out there. Mine's coming in from Broken Hill but apparently there are 2 in Whyalla and 1 somewhere in Darwin. That was coming from the mumblings of the Rep at Blair Athol. But regardless he was very helpful and ordered it in for me. So all up it's $29 plus freight.
My fuel usage woes
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naughtika
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you might as well buy all of it then sell it here 
Mortz
Leaving Skid Marks
Yeah if you grab one for me i'll pay you a bit more than what it costs, and postage as well of course.
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Kat, from the pic above, I see you've disconnected the throttle body. Did you need to drain any coolant first and how much? Is that the coolant pathway I can see on the top left of the throttle body mating surface?
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Thought I should post a follow up to all of this - after doing basically everything I could (except spark plugs, although I know the previous owner changed them - he gave me decent proof) I am averaging between 13.5 and 14.5l/100
this is on my normal commute, which is basically templstowe down the eastern freeway then across the cbd to port melbourne nailling it at most lights - I think all in all it's an OK result, I was hoping for better, but I probably can't complain.
I have also done a long freeway trip (wangarratta to bright and around the countryside there with minimal town driving) and got 10.2L/100
so I think that although there probably were things wrong now they must be OK and most of the remainder of my fuel usage is probably my foot and the cbd lights.
this is on my normal commute, which is basically templstowe down the eastern freeway then across the cbd to port melbourne nailling it at most lights - I think all in all it's an OK result, I was hoping for better, but I probably can't complain.
I have also done a long freeway trip (wangarratta to bright and around the countryside there with minimal town driving) and got 10.2L/100
so I think that although there probably were things wrong now they must be OK and most of the remainder of my fuel usage is probably my foot and the cbd lights.
mookers
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If you're nailing it at the lights every time, you're basically just paying for fun with fuel...
Your economy sounds about right. Drive like a granny for a tank and you should get 12ish in the city.
From memory, no coolant involved at all.
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If you're nailing it at the lights every time, you're basically just paying for fun with fuel...
Your economy sounds about right. Drive like a granny for a tank and you should get 12ish in the city.
the best granny driving I did when running in my gearbox was 13l/100 but like I said, the cbd is crappy for fuel as you have lights every 50 metres or so and also lost of waiting
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Yeah Stuart your fuel consumption doesn't sound like anything out of the ordinary now. Your servicing work seems to have done the trick.
no need to drain coolant. from memory i didnt even remove the throttle body, just had a mate peel the plenum back with the throttle body and maybe even the intake piping attatched just enough to get under there and swap them over
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I did that the first time around. This time the rocker covers are coming off too.
wosbwm
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I would be interested in one, I don't know heaps about these cars but I am learning fast I rang a few Repco stores thinking that they would know what I was talking about and they said there listing only goes up to the 96 Galant the 6a12 engine. Does the series 1 and facelift Legnum & Galant models use the same type of sensor as the 6a12 engines ?. Also they asked me if it was a 4 wire one, I understand what four wires mean but what would they have meant by this. And the prices ranged from $132 - $600 +
I rang a few Repco stores thinking that they would know what I was talking about and they said there listing only goes up to the 96 Galant the 6a12 engine. Does the series 1 and facelift Legnum & Galant models use the same type of sensor as the 6a12 engines ?. Also they asked me if it was a 4 wire one, I understand what four wires mean but what would they have meant by this. And the prices ranged from $132 - $600 +
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