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[beko1987]

Can anyone recommend a ball bearing lubricant? It's for vacuum cleaners, but bearings are bearings. I've been scopping general grease in, but the machine I am refurbishing now could do with something a bit more special...

 

Bonus points for it being easy to get hold of on ebay/amazon etc!

[DodgeRover]

There's the grey graphite grease, no idea on it's suitability for a given application though.

Do they have seals on the bearings or do they get full of dust and crap?

[Ghosty]

Anyone in Manchester have a rattle gun I can use? The GTi engine doesn't have any sort of cam locking facility and I can't be arsed putting the whole thing back together to have to do it again for the cambelt.

[beko1987]

There's the grey graphite grease, no idea on it's suitability for a given application though.

Do they have seals on the bearings or do they get full of dust and crap?

They have seals, which will stop fling. Their just a bit glooped up after 25 years! Their all clean and shiney after an overnight soak in tar remover, one doesn't free spin as well as the other but their £14 each so I'm not replacing them!

[somewhatfoolish]

Can anyone recommend a ball bearing lubricant? It's for vacuum cleaners, but bearings are bearings. I've been scopping general grease in, but the machine I am refurbishing now could do with something a bit more special...

 

Bonus points for it being easy to get hold of on ebay/amazon etc!

What's the bearing doing? 

[beko1987]

Spinning around...

 

In a dry only vacuum cleaner

[DodgeRover]

They have seals, which will stop fling. Their just a bit glooped up after 25 years! Their all clean and shiney after an overnight soak in tar remover, one doesn't free spin as well as the other but their £14 each so I'm not replacing them!

Got a bearing number for them? That sounds excessive, work the stuff one until it's loose or it will either bugger the housing or the shaft.

[DodgeRover]

Right for the Shiters of the future and the good of the internet in general I can reveal that on a mk1 lexus rx300/ Toyota Harrier if you need to delete the aircon pump then the belt you need is a 6pk938, this JUST clears the top of the aircon pulley when fitted, a couple of mm longer might be better but I'm not sure of the adjustment remaining on the alternator.

[somewhatfoolish]

Spinning around...

 

In a dry only vacuum cleaner

Does the non-freespinning one feel gritty or rough when you spin it, or can you rock the outer part relative to the inner? In either case it really needs replacing. Any general purpose grease will do the job as long as the seals keep dirt out. Don't fill the bearing up completely, push grease in until it starts squeezing through the other side then wipe most of it off again.

[beko1987]

Does the non-freespinning one feel gritty or rough when you spin it, or can you rock the outer part relative to the inner? In either case it really needs replacing. Any general purpose grease will do the job as long as the seals keep dirt out. Don't fill the bearing up completely, push grease in until it starts squeezing through the other side then wipe most of it off again.

No, doesn't feel gritty or rough, just slows down faster. Knowing the state of the motor when I got the vac (exploded fan) it's taken its fair share of abuse! I'll probably fit it to the top of the motor and put the better one by the fancase.

 

I think I've always over-packed them before then, I've filled them right up and popped the cap on!

 

Will pap the bearing number up when I get home. The ones on ebay are £5 with £silly foreign postage! Their no 608zz cheap ones for sure

[Lacquer Peel]

I hope the Passat isn't "doing a Passat" and pissing rain water inside, it's been steaming up a lot since the heavy rain we had.

 

[crapcarcollector]

Took the Guilietta for a car wash (modern so don’t get excited) but saw these round the back...

 

 

 

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[richardmorris]

I’ve been up to oxford today to visit the sister and family, nasty accident on the a34 this am with a car aquaplaning and summersaulting into the hedgerows. Then on the way home there’s a nasty accident on the m4 at theale. I counted six police cars. Plus ambulances etc. Plus point of the day was parking outside the natural history museum as the £20 a year university permit covers the area.

[Fumbler]

Theale. I swear the Top Gear Ecnalumba service would have attended and crashed their way to an A&E.

[BorniteIdentity]

If I make him an offer it will be insultingly low.......

 

Already got five cars T&Ted and winter's on the way - what the heck would I do with it?!

I’ve thought about this all day. If it was a manual, I’d have said let’s go halves and talk about the consequences further down the road.

 

But I’m not a huge fan of autos in stuff like this - and I don’t know why.

 

2/3 - 1/3 your way? (!!)

 

They still seem to sell for sub £500 - I wonder if you waved £450 at him whether he’d bite?

[Brodders]

Took the Guilietta for a car wash (modern so don’t get excited) but saw these round the back...

 

 

 

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Oof, that looks like it is full of interesting stuff. Is that a beige Mk1 Sierra sticking out in the last picture?

[crapcarcollector]

It is indeed....

 

 

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[SiC]

Was there ever any doubt? Only question is whether it needs recovering to the NEC or makes it under its own power...

Ah I read your last message about it not running right as that it wasn't going. Where abouts will it be shown? In the additional new hall they're having this year?

[dollywobbler]

I hope the Passat isn't "doing a Passat" and pissing rain water inside, it's been steaming up a lot since the heavy rain we had.

 

 

Talking of steaming up, I drove through a huge puddle in the Invacar earlier. I don't have the bottom plates on the cowling for many reasons, the key one being laziness. So, the water all schooched up into the cooling fins, turned to steam and then passed through the heater pipe straight into the cabin - a phenomenon I have previously observed in the 2CV when attacking fords with too much vigour. Quite exciting as I suddenly found myself in a plastic sauna, hurtling along the Elan Valley mountain road at a fair lick!

[SRi05]

It's been a quiet week or two on here , then blam, about 4 cars I want to buy at the one time Must resist...

[catsinthewelder]

The mate who just sold his C15 to Tom suddenly needs wheels again so I'm going to lend him the 214 and borrow something from work for a week or two.

 

In protest it found a new and exciting way to go wrong this morning.  I reversed into a space at Aldi and knocked the ignition off slowly, this caused the speedo needle to whizz up to 140mph and stick there.  I wondered if it had always done this and I'd just not noticed so got my shopping and fired it up, still 140mph FFS.  It stayed there all the way through town but when I passed the NSL sign and accelerated it suddenly dropped to 50mph and worked normally all the way home.  When I reversed into my spot I knocked the ignition off and it whizzed up to 70 but I was quicker this time so it dropped back to zero.  It seems fine but makes me think I should fix the cigrette lighter in case he needs to use a sat nav as a speedo.

 

He's looking for a cheap, MOTed car or small van so I've sent him a few ads off here to mull over.

[stuboy]

Daddywagon failed on cv joint, so told them to get it done and mot'd..

[davehedgehog31]

Had a busy and productive day yesterday, mainly with the Alto. I'm not good at remembering to take photos.

 

First order of business was to change the fanbelt, I finally got the correct item at the third time of asking... Thanks eBay listings. Easy peasy, slacken one bolt attaching the top mount on the alternator, jimmy the alternator in a bit to introduce some slack on the belt, old one off, new one on, push alternator back to correctly tension belt and nip up the bolt. It's now nice and quiet. 

 

I had my DAB adapter previously fitted to the 407 lying about and decided to put it in the Suzuki as my cheapo head unit has no AM capability and I quite like to listen to 5 Live, Talksport etc from time to time. Got one of the cheapy stick on aerials and routed the cable through the pillar trim and along the headlining so I could have the aerial on the passenger side out of the drivers view. 

 

 

 

I've read folk having mixed success with these, but this one has always worked quite well for me. When installing it there's a little adhesive copper earthing strip hidden behind the pillar trim, this works best if placed on bare metal rather than paint so I just scratched a bit back. 

 

In the course of my work I'd ventured out to my little lock up garage and was appalled by the state I left it in, no way a car was getting in anyway, so a tip run ensued and it was looking pretty neat afterwards;

 

 

The Alto went to his bed in there for the night, makes it look positively massive;

 

I've decided I'm not going to completely hibernate the 405 over winter, but it will spend most of it's time in the garage and only make selected trips out in fair weather with the C1 and Alto doing the rest of the driving.

[chaseracer]

We've had our C3 for 10yrs, great motor but front springs are made of cheese, had at least 2 sets in that time..

 

Blimey, is it that long?  I remember collecting that.

[stuboy]

Daddywagon failed on cv joint, so told them to get it done and mot'd..

£160 Inclusive of mot test.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Just after swiping the last litre of LHM+ fluid from local Halfrauds. Let's see how long they take to restock this time....

[Floatylight]

Blimey, is it that long? I remember collecting that.

It is indeed, about to become son of FL's first car , collected from the now defunct Citroen Birmingham on the Small Heath Highway.. If you remember they thought it was acceptable to sell a retail car with a new MOT with advisories for tyres on the limits...

 

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[stuboy]

thinking of buying a number plate, seller says all i need to do is send v5 details over, this right??

[catsinthewelder]

News from Scotland is that AA arrived and checked 405,  tiny fluid leak from pipe in accessible place.

 

Car now delivered to shite friendly garage who estimate 1-1.5 hours @£45ph,  happy with that.

 

214 now with temporary custodian until he finds a cheap car to buy (or I win a roffle).

 

16 plate Fiesta 1.25 in doom blue parked outside.

[Noel Tidybeard]

It is indeed, about to become son of FL's first car , collected from the now defunct Citroen Birmingham on the Small Heath Highway.. If you remember they thought it was acceptable to sell a retail car with a new MOT with advisories for tyres on the limits...

 

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it has arisen like a phoenix out of the ashes of citroen uk to be both a shiteon & pugrot dealer