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My poor little K10 is making all sorts of whirring and clacking noises these days, prime suspects are CV joints and wheel bearings. Has anyone changed theirs and can give any tips on the job? Looks fairly straight forward for CV joints, just a bunch of undoing and re-doing bolts. Do the...

Hi, I'm not sure if this will help, but, I mashed a CD player into my K10 recently. The car's harness is not ISO connector compatible (too old!) so I went freestyle and worked it out with a multimeter. The picture shows my 'testing it works' wiring, I chopped and joined everything properly...

LMAO! Haynes says warm engine up and...

Sweet, I'll check that out too :) - thanks for the info dude

Cheers, I'm pretty certain it's an auto-choke issue now so I'll have a fiddle with it when I get a moment. It looks similar to the Justy carb - a little 'tub' on the back with a bi-metallic spring and a cam inside. I'll grab a Haynes/workshop manual and see about setting it up. The fuel mix...

Well, I don't have one of those fancy rev gauges, but I'd guess *around* 2K RPM, I can pull away without using the accelerator.

Hello MSC, new guy here :) I just picked up a pretty clean K10, it runs beautifully with the exception of a high idle speed when cold. After a couple of minutes (literally 2 or 3 mins) it settles down. My bet would be that the auto choke needs setting but I thought I'd see what you guys...