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[Fumbler]

Shakedown run before going home for the bank holiday weekend. Drove back to the marsh and there was next to zero traffic. Was absolutely beautiful tonight with the sunset. Also got some nods of approval from a a homeowner putting the bins out and a driver of a K10 Micra. That's a first for me.

After a spirited drive back I did some underbonnet adjustments and it runs very sweetly now. I've got a good feeling about the drive home tomorrow.

[Burnside]

2 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Well the Cav crank pulley torx bolts have rounded off and I cannot fathom how to route the aux belt back on to even get the thing mobile again.

That will be my first and last ever attempt at changing a timing belt.

FUCK. MY. LIFE.

 

I only just sent the previous reply about the service history, without checking for a update 1st.

Sorry to hear it's fighting you with the cambelt change. It's all sortable though. 

You might be able to find some pictures online or via the Cav forum for belt location's. 

If not, dare I say the HBOL? 

[Split_Pin]

Cheers for the updates on the history! The aux belt looks in perfect condition so the timing belt would probably be fine however I don't like playing roulette with a car that's worth keeping.

Sadly HBOL was useless as it was showing a different engine. Someone on the Facebook page sent me the right picture over tea time and I finally realised what I'd done wrong, all back together now. Its a really weird route that passes through a slot in the engine mount.

Its always with a sense of shame that I admit defeat on a job but if I continued I would have made it almost impossible for someone else to get the bolts out. Its booked in next Thursday at the same place that welded it to have the belt changes. Its a Gates kit so hopefully the water pump should last! 

[Lacquer Peel]

[captain_70s]

24 minutes ago, Lacquer Peel said:

@sdkrcThe police will be with you any moment, lad.

[Jerzy Woking]

Wasn't Chris Goffeys son in Supergrass?

[wuvvum]

I may have found a solution to the Innocenti engine mount dilemma.  If anyone can think of a reason why this won't work, speak now or forever hold thy peace.

I've found these on eBay:

They're hard rubber discs, 60mm in diameter (the same as the Innocenti engine mounts) and 20mm thick.  So I'm thinking three of these, stuck together, drilled through in the right place with a bit slightly smaller than the sleeve from the existing engine mount.  Retrieve the sleeve (hey, that rhymes!) - shouldn't be too hard given how knackered the mount is - tap it into place, persuade the rubber discs into the mount clamp (mount thickness is 58mm but I think there's enough give in the rubber to squish a couple of mm, possibly with the help of a G clamp) then bolt through and Robert's your father's brother.  Grand total of about 12 quid.

[dean36014]

They look like ice hockey pucks!

[Cord Fourteener]

6 hours ago, wuvvum said:

 

about 12 quid.

Cake! It's a made up drug. 

[SiC]

Until I read the description I thought they were hockey pucks too. I know they're popular for fitting into the cup of trolley jacks to protect sills when lifting. 

[Split_Pin]

8 hours ago, Jerzy Woking said:

Wasn't Chris Goffeys son in Supergrass?

Danny Goffey, yes he was.

[beko1987]

1 hour ago, SiC said:

Until I read the description I thought they were hockey pucks too. I know they're popular for fitting into the cup of trolley jacks to protect sills when lifting. 

I've nearly bought a pair of those before they do look handy. I've seen them with grooves cut out so they sit all over the jacking point. 

I lift from axle components nowadays though, it's rare I have a car with all its sill jacking points not flattened! 

[cort1977]

9 hours ago, wuvvum said:

I may have found a solution to the Innocenti engine mount dilemma.  If anyone can think of a reason why this won't work, speak now or forever hold thy peace.

I've found these on eBay:

  Grand total of about 12 quid.

Well at that price it's got to be worth a try.

[juular]

@Split_Pin have you got a set of these?

They've dug me out of almost every hole regarding rounded bolts. 

Even when there's only a stud left, you can blob a bit of weld on top and hammer one of these on. I don't think they've ever left me stuck.

[3VOM]

9 hours ago, dean36014 said:

They look like ice hockey pucks!

Probably because a lot of them are.

[Fumbler]

I wonder if they are also used as bilge plugs or something like that to temporarily seal off a piping system.

[Leyland Worldmaster]

The most luxurious Railway Station Waiting Room? 

[wuvvum]

4 hours ago, juular said:

@Split_Pin have you got a set of these?

They've dug me out of almost every hole regarding rounded bolts. 

Even when there's only a stud left, you can blob a bit of weld on top and hammer one of these on. I don't think they've ever left me stuck.

+1 on these.  I'm yet to find a rounded off bolt that will stand up to them.  They're good for locking wheel nuts as well if you lose the key.

[Stanky]

Are those Irwin bolt removers one use? or are they able to be detached from the extracted bolt and reused? I assume hammering them onto a seized bolt doesn't do them much good or are they made of double 'ard admantium or something?

[Agila]

7 minutes ago, Stanky said:

Are those Irwin bolt removers one use? or are they able to be detached from the extracted bolt and reused? I assume hammering them onto a seized bolt doesn't do them much good or are they made of double 'ard admantium or something?

Reusable. Mine look like brand new. I just lay it on the ground and tap with a hammer to free the old bolt. If things are still jammed, put the socket in a vice and hammer it out with a punch.

[wuvvum]

Yep, they're pretty hard metal.  Much harder than any bolt I've encountered anyway.

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

I'm about to embark on a new construction project. Today I had a meeting about it and it sparked my curiosity because it's out in the country side. I accessed some files of pictures taken of the oversite... the cleared land. There's an old abandoned selection of buildings beyond the boundary and what did I see?

A severely pogweaseled, red (pink), complete looking, 8v MK2 golf GTi hiding in the overgrowth. GODAMMIT! Why me? Why do I have this desire to give it a home? I just hope it's owned by some angry, slightly bonkers farmer who tells me to get to fuck and sees me off his land with a shotgun.

[chaseracer]

On 27/04/2021 at 16:44, artdjones said:

Wheel centres for the Berlingo arrived from @ruffgeezer. Thanks, Tim.

Mr L is a top shiter and all-round decent bloke.

[Fumbler]

Made it back in just under 5 hours. I blame the A303 and M25.

To reward its excellence, I gifted the BX two collapsed suns.

[Ghosty]

2 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Yep, they're pretty hard metal.  Much harder than any bolt I've encountered anyway.

'bolt' and 'hard' aren't words I pretty much ever use in the same sentence.

[chaseracer]

20 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

'bolt' and 'hard' aren't words I pretty much ever use in the same sentence.

Depends who's chasing you, IME... 😉

[bunglebus]

Fox right outside A+E tonight. Nothing to do with cars, just pleased me to see it

 

[Fumbler]

Collapsed Sun The Third ordered for the boot. I'll pick it up at college next week.

[juular]

7 hours ago, Stanky said:

Are those Irwin bolt removers one use? or are they able to be detached from the extracted bolt and reused? I assume hammering them onto a seized bolt doesn't do them much good or are they made of double 'ard admantium or something?

As mentioned, they are pretty tough. I've had mine for 10 years and they have taken some amount of abuse.

They work best with an impact wrench, but they also work with a ratchet if you try to simulate an impact gun by wiggling / shocking the socket until it bites channels down into the bolt for the teeth to grip into.

Once it has buried itself in the metal you can apply a surprising amount of torque. 

With the impact wrench you just hammer one on and the gun does all the work.

[loserone]

1 hour ago, Fumbler said:

Collapsed Sun The Third ordered for the boot. I'll pick it up at college next week.

I've just driven @yes oui si's BX home and it's got LEDs everywhere.  They're painful and horrible and horrific.  Yuk.

 

Also, pretty sure they're brighter than the headlights