A Highly Polished Gem - This Is a Car Fit for Royalty
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December 2008 ––––––––––––– Issue No 6 www.tat.net.au A highly polished gem - this is a car fit for Royalty $115 gives you: • 12 months subscription to TaT • Six magazines mailed to your postal address • Access to illustrated solutions on line • Problem solving service APPLY ON PAGE 28 • Here’s a Subaru which is • An interior fan on full speed • Special technical report always feeling a bit flat, in a Mitsubishi Verada - the on OILS and the role of but the ECU was to blame solution will blow you away zinc in engine oil Training nights begin in February - page 9 ith this issue, we in Sydney spend countless 12 months to solve a very time We thank our suppliers, are 12 months hours photographing and consuming repair, you will have our contributors here and old, and our first documenting every problem recovered the cost of your overseas, our artists and our six issues have vehicle they think will interest subscription. great printer. become history. others. 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If you Society for opening our eyes to the laboratory workshops used the TaT problem solving a whole new world. service just once in the next The team Contents Publisher International correspondents •TaT Assist •TaT Chat The well-loved Crossley 4 The Automotive Technician Pty Ltd Julian Hentze - Georgia USA •TaT Train •TaT’s a Fact ABN 27 121 589 802 Andrew Kavanagh - Brussels EU •Tips for TaT Beginning of the end of the 6 PO Box 101 Hayley Windsor - London UK GYMEA NSW 2227 are all registered trade names of internal combustion engine Reader The Automotive Technician Pty Ltd. 1 Cleg Street Tyred of high-pressure 7 Bron Robinson ARTARMON NSW 2064 The Automotive Technician Pty Ltd salesmen Ph 1300 828 000 publishes technical advice and Advertising inquiries Fax 1300 828 100 actual case studies for the Let the training begin 9 [email protected] Barry Browne purpose of educating technicians. 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The evolution of diagnostic 22 trouble codes Bones Print Solutions Nick Murphy 128 Cope Street All material appearing in The Murhphy’s Law - Get wired 24 [email protected] WATERLOO NSW 2017 Automotive Technician is [email protected] copyright. Reproduction in whole Top Tools - iScan II 26 Wayne Broady or in part is illegal without prior www.broadyauto.com.au written consent from the Editor in The Sheriff rides again 28 Affiliated associations chief. Gil Sher VASA Check out the web site 29 [email protected] (The Mobile AC, Electrical All advertisers agree to indemnify The last word - Phil Austin 30 & Cooling Technicians of the publisher for all damages Editorial contributors Australasia) or liabilities arising from their Ashley Teitzel Mark Mitchell [email protected] published or unpublished material. The Automotive Technician 3 A well-loved Crossley rises from the ashes... Gilltrap Auto Museum auction Queensland at least. Geoff Reluctant to trust his Crossley on the Gold Coast more than has not heard of Norm for to any workshop, Arthur asked 15 years ago. years, and TaT was unable around and was recommended to track him down. The to the TaT workshop of Director hen Arthur Geoff had already restored mechanical restoration, Jeff Smit at Crows Nest, McNamara goes a couple of cars and went to although time consuming, Sydney. Arthur first brought in driving, heads W the auction for a ‘sticky-beak’. was relatively straight photos of the car, and asked if turn to marvel at this bright, shiny tourer with its mirror- When the Crossley came up, forward because the engine, Jeff and his team could repair finish aluminum bodywork, Geoff took one look at its still transmission and gearbox were the charging system. immaculate red leather intact mechanics and chassis all intact. upholstery, wide-spoked and decided that if ever there “One look at the pictures and steering wheel and timber was a classic car to restore, it we accepted the challenge,” dashboard. And there’s was this one, because it was recalls Jeff. Arthur, proud as punch at obviously a car of great quality. “The bodywork the wheel of his historic “In came Arthur with the Crossley, his silver grey He doesn’t know how the car was hard to keep original wiring diagrams which beard and jaunty driving got into the shape it was in, but didn’t match the car because cap completing a post-card its body had been burnt off in of modifications made over motoring picture of the mid polished, I had 1920s. a fire. Geoff was told the car the years. The original amp began its life as an army staff to virtually keep meter with built-in regulator The car that was promoted car in India, but how it got to and cut-out, was only partially as the ‘high grade touring Australia is a mystery. it in a cocoon” connected. The cut-out had car of England’ can only be been disconnected together used within 5 kilometres of its Geoff got the original coach- with the original regulator and garage, because it can’t be work drawings from the recalled Geoff, and in what a later model three-bobbin registered, but carries Crossley Register and over five he remembers as a “moment regulator fitted up under the H (Historic) plates. or six years, lovingly of madness” he decided to But when classic restored it. He took sell it, about three years ago. car rallies come it on rallies around His newspaper ad received round, Arthur the country, an immediate response and will be there and it won the before the day was out, Arthur with his pride Concourse McNamara had done the deal of the fleet, a d’Elegance and the Crossley was on its 1925 model on the Gold way to Sydney. and one of only Coast and Car four in Australia of the Year at “I’ve regretted it ever since,” and 15 in the world. a Noosa rally.