Thanks, Twiss..Yeah..don't like the sound of 'death wobble' too much..getting them checked tomorrow!!

Hello all, hope things are good :D ..my latest '82 SJ gets a wobbly frond end when going over a bump..seems to be on the left, but is really inconsistent (not every time) in a 5km drive today it did it 4-5 times..doesn't do it on the flat and most of the time I consider the steering to be fairly swe...

Well she's out of the garage with new head gasket and a few other bits, holding water and keeping reasonably cool, still sputtering a bit but haven't taken it far enough to really see..one of the belts (timing or fan) is squeaking a bit but I'm guessing they just reinstalled it a bit tighter than be...

Hi! just popped in to the shop to check on the progress of my SJ and saw this really nice lwb !!

Yeah guy's said the valve stem seals as well at least I think that's what they were..4 or 8 of 'em? Was indeed smokin a bit before it went in..anyway should be out and about by wednesday..job's costing about 55 quid in Indonesian which is pretty reasonable!
Cheers again!

Hi..thought y'all might want to seen what a Jimny specialist workshop (actually it's mainly open air) in Indonesia looks like!!

Cheers guys..he definitely said head gasket and I think that's probably what he was saying was 'valve stem seals'..he's said 3 days or so in the shop so I'm guessing there's quite a lot to dismantle..thanks so much for the advice!!

Well it took about 2 weeks to find something wrong with my new SJ..I guess I was kind of ready for it though..Would appreciate some ideas as I am in Indonesia and the language barrier is tough especially for car mechanics!! 8-) During one of my initial drives (but not during the test drive of course...

Cheers guys..I'm sure I will have a ton of questions for the forums..I'm lucky as there's a Suzuki garage 100m down my street here but I find I need to understand stuff in English before I'll let an Indonesian mechanic loose on it!! Get some pics from the garage too, while I'm there..they've usually...

Tried out the members map but I seem to be showing up near the Pyrenees, Northern Spain..lovely part of the world but not quite Sumatra..tried to update my location but didn't work..any ideas please? [/color] Doh! I've now done it! Looks like I wasn't the only one..you need to do Edit Phoogle Map P...