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[clayts450]

214 continues to fight me every step of the way.

 

Trying to swap out the cranskhaft position sensor held in place with two weeny 7mm bolts on the flywheel. It's in a really tight space and you need arms like a gibbon and preferably made of spaghetti - I do not have said arms.

 

Tried from above, nope, tried from below, nope, tried feeding ratchet in from above then grabbing wedged in tool from below - success. Got the socket one of the screws, rusted solid. Plusgassed. Dropped tool. Forgot how I wangled to get tool in right place.

 

Gave up and googled flexible ratchets. Halfords do one for £20, could be handy. Drove to Ilkeston. None in stock. Found some random tool in Wickes which might do the job. Dark by the time I got back.

 

Reconnected battery to PT Cruiser, started first time....

[fordperv]

^ have you got a sticky lifter?

I have after listening to it

[drum]

^ have you got a sticky lifter?

Might be the Perkins you're hearing.

 

https://youtube.com/watch?v=5wMNXrP9B2Q

[Tamworthbay]

Sooooooooo Sunday was supposed to be a quiet day after fucking about with building work for two weeks straight to the point of being totally knackered. Then get a call from a mate whose transit connect starter motor is fucked.

 

Here’s hoping it’s a an easy one to change.........

[Arthur Foxhake]

Collected the BMW today, it has printouts from a BMW diagnostic machine that say vanos is to blame.

It was definitely running on 5 and had a slight top end rattle, although it has been sat for 6 months so could be hydraulic lifter related.

I think I am gonna just clean it up and eBay it with the diagnostic printouts on show and hope I make a drink.

Should be worth around 3K as good runner, surely?

[meshking]

While the Perkins is chugging away warming up in the background, I thought I'd fire up the Olds. Batteries were dead.

 

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lK6jgX5B0d4

That's excellent. It sounds like it should have a "jake brake"

[Fumbler]

While on the Discords I popped into the Autoshite Discord channel... to find it being intruded by one-time users dumping sex dating ads (two so far) into the channel.

 

 

Could the owner please go to the beige trim phone and ring on line 101 and turn the authentication levels up a notch?

[Skizzer]

the Autoshite Discord channel

Huh? The what?

[Split_Pin]

Paging Supernaut.

[richardmorris]

^ have you got a sticky lifter?

Kenneth Williams to the beige “phone please.

[richardmorris]

Huh? The what?

I’m glad you asked, I was afraid to.

[SiC]

Huh? The what?

It's where sub 40yr olds go to chat mainly about computer games in a chatroom style system afaik.

[somewhatfoolish]

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What's supposed to do what? Is the shaft supposed to rotate within the displacer knuckle or is it fixed?

[Fumbler]

It's where sub 40yr olds go to chat mainly about computer games in a chatroom style system afaik.

Well, tried to. Nothing really happens and I'm usually the only one online as Discord application is set to run on startup.

[Supernaut]

Paging Supernaut.

I ain't the owner of that, and I left it a while back because it was dead.

[Split_Pin]

Ah thought you were sorry.

[vulgalour]

somewhatfoolish:  the shaft is supposed to rotate in the knuckle (stop it), yes.  It does not.  It is stuck.

[somewhatfoolish]

Pointless articulation is pointless; BL rubbishness, the shaft should be fixed in either the knuckle or the swinging arm, rotation in both is stupid. I'd be tempted to modify the knuckle to have a pinch bolt or a roll pin to fix the shaft in position at the same time as doing the drilling for grease nipples etc.

 

Can you get a cutting disc between the knuckle and those bushes? With just the section of shaft inside the knuckle to deal with it might be amenable to being tickled out with a hammer and drift, or an air hammer if you have one.

[cort16]

Collected the BMW today, it has printouts from a BMW diagnostic machine that say vanos is to blame.

It was definitely running on 5 and had a slight top end rattle, although it has been sat for 6 months so could be hydraulic lifter related.

I think I am gonna just clean it up and eBay it with the diagnostic printouts on show and hope I make a drink.

Should be worth around 3K as good runner, surely?

Have you googled removing the vanos solenoids it might not be too bad a job.

 

https://youtu.be/oB2DIfBX8R8

[DeeJay]

That's excellent. It sounds like it should have a "jake brake"

"Jake brake"?

[dozeydustman]

"Jake brake"?

 

Jacobs(?) Exhaust valve release brake. A type of retarder.

[vulgalour]

Can you get a cutting disc between the knuckle and those bushes? With just the section of shaft inside the knuckle to deal with it might be amenable to being tickled out with a hammer and drift, or an air hammer if you have one.

Yes. It's not the way I'd like to have to do them, but it's the way it will probably have to be done. The trouble is, to get the rear displacers out you have to chop through the trailing arm (which then can't be put back together because they're cast rather than pressed plates that are then spotwelded) and the pivot shaft and of course, spares are not available. I had hoped to be able to strip these units and save all the parts and that looks like it's not going to happen. The 'simply regas the units' recommendation for the rear suspension is going to end up a full overhaul and probably some improvements to prevent future seizing issues. It could get quite expensive, or I might get lucky again and find an affordable solution like I did with the individualiser blocks.

[Skizzer]

Today is wedge day.

 

 

The (new) Nankang tyres seem a bit porous, hence the compressor action. This, together with their fondness for aquaplaning, might be enough to push me over into getting some different ones soon.

 

Meanwhile, as it’s dry...hoon mode enabled.

[clayts450]

Uh-oh

 

[catsinthewelder]

Bollocks

 

 

I had a couple of spare hours so decided to see if the two white cars would start after being ignored for a few weeks. Obviously they both had flat batteries despite them both being new. The 220 was a bit damp inside so I started investigations in the boot and found this hiding under the spare wheel. It needs some patent Krujoe rear light seals to prevent a recurrence. It's annoying but not the end of the world. It wouldn't jump start so the battery is on charge indoors.

[Arthur Foxhake]

Have you googled removing the vanos solenoids it might not be too bad a job.

 

https://youtu.be/oB2DIfBX8R8

As far as I know that has been done.

It was owned by a mate who lives next door to another mate who happens to be a mechanic, he had the solenoids out and cleaned them and there was no difference.

[captain_70s]

The 220 was a bit damp inside so I started investigations in the boot and found this hiding under the spare wheel. It needs some patent Krujoe rear light seals to prevent a recurrence. It's annoying but not the end of the world. 

 

Looks like my Dolomite 1850HL's boot floor under the fuel tank. That's BL HERITAGE ROT.

[vulgalour]

Superleggera edition.

[vulgalour]

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[Split_Pin]

Had a go of Davehedgehog31's Saab 95 Aero Hot this evening. This is only my second time driving a Saab and I can't compute how a car can waft and GLF at the same time!