I've got a click from the back when going from forward to reverse and vice versa, which apparently is down to the rivets in the rear swingarm working loose. Apparently "they all do that sir" and short of taking the arm off, drilling out the rivets, and replacing them with high-tensile bolts there's not a lot to do about it.

That's what lots of similar enthusiasts sites have said Gordon, however.... http://www.verticalscope.com/automotive/site-list.html
(even though many of the members of those sites subsequently complained about all the adverts / cookies /vendor push etc to
the detriment of the previous tone/content..)

I'm not sure how VS managed to convince them to join up. I'm not in it for the money and rrpub is currently hosted on a server that would likely swallow all of VerticalScope's traffic quite happily, which is kind of overkill really. If rrpub starts getting enough traffic that it's costing me real money to run I'll come and ask you lot for a donation - it would be a nice problem to have :-)

I have considered running some branding for a couple of "well known" supplier sites if they'll give us a bit of a discount or some merch or something, but only if folk are generally okay with the idea.

I just posted some answers to questions, a couple of comments on other threads and a question on the other site. Just to be neighbourly, like.

Interesting reading too; Only 130 employees but after ~15 years of Acquisitions etc they own 600+ 'Enthusiasts Sites'.... !

rrpub is owned by a rabidly lefty Scottish Nationalist anti-capitalist and is most definitely Not For Sale. VerticalScope can fuck off.

The person who told me about the drinking issue also pointed me to some other complaints about him (on FaceBook etc) plus this:

Don't think we really need that link on here.

and yes, I sincerely hope he is reading this

If he joined here I'd consider him a valuable and welcome part of the community. Doubt I'd give him the admin stick, all the same.

Late diesels don't appear to have the dipstick on thirstymatics.

Of course if it's saying "GEARBOX OVERHEAT" and it's on a manual box, there's something profoundly weird going on.

(although if I was expected to spend most of my leisure time administering such a busy site as RR.net I would at least expect something from the commercial company that owns it).

Yeah, dammit, the site owner ought to be paying me to look after all this stuff!

Good to hear things are going well! I changed my subwoofer speakers with a pair of 6.5" speakers that I picked up from Bishop Audio. They might have a few more in stock.

I don't get why leaking NRVs would cause that. Surely if it's parked the solenoid valves are shut and no air will reach the springs?

He really is a dick, isn't he? I don't think I've had to ban anyone yet, that didn't have an email address at yandex.ru and an odd fascination with camgirls.

Mod Note: Let's maybe ease up a bit on the character assassination, eh?

The ROM appears to be in the memory addressing of $A000 to $FFFF. I have a document which has the memory mapping if that's useful to anyone? Assembly code and programming things like that is a bit beyond my skillset at the moment!

That would be right; the last 64 bytes of ROM are used as the interrupt and reset vectors (eight bytes, on 6809, which doesn't have all the extra goodies). So they're placed in ROM and when the chip is reset it looks at the 16-bit value at $FFFE to work out where to start running code. From there you just set up your disassembler to break it down into blocks.

Marty - I'm guessing your magic tool for poking values in the chip uses the on-chip debugger? What happens if you try to read values from $A000 to $FFFF, do you get anything sensible out?

Well I've already done most of the Ensoniq Mirage boot ROM and OS disk, and that's a 68C09... :-)

So KA suggests that it hasn't got a lock bit. I'd be really interested to see if you can suck the ROM image out of it.

Hmmm, so you'd need to get the chip decapped or find some way of reading out the OTP. I wonder if it's a flavour of HC11 that can be made to boot from an external ROM, and then flipped back to its "own" ROM, or for that matter if arbitrary code can be uploaded to it. That way it might be possible to upload something to RAM, jump to it, and read out the contents of the ROM.

Edit: It wouldn't be 68HC11K4 would it, and not KA? That's got certain implications for how you'd talk to the chip.

Martyuk wrote:

Yes, it would be lovely to be able to add some new features to the BECM, to add in some functions that over the years of experience of having a P38, we've all found would be useful... like and over temp warning on the dash, or a low coolant alert... And I'm actually pretty sure it would be possible, as I'm sure there are a couple of spare digital input pins on the logic board... the issue is being able to get a copy of the original coding, so that you could write the additions into it, and all of that, before reprogramming the CPU with it... Since there's not even a circuit diagram of the boards, yet alone someone kicking about with a copy of the BECM code, and the software to amend it, we are unfortunately a bit stuck...

What's the processor used in them, and how big a ROM does it have? It can't be that hard to disassemble it...

I don't think the seat wears so much as the cone that the rubber bit goes around. All three of mine have about half the cone eaten away.

You'd just replace the ECU with something equally more modern. There's bugger all to it.

Renewing the O rings doesn't work, because the soft brass cone wears down and they don't sit square on the seat any more, and it all starts to leak badly.