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[N19]

On 2/29/2020 at 9:19 AM, Aston Martin said:

7 ratchet spanners £11.49 with free delivery.

 

https://www.eurocarparts.com/p/top-tech-7pc-ratchet-spanner-set-529771371?awc=3997_1582967840_6657f35f87b802e30853855781d01764&utm_source=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.digidip.net%2F&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_term=ecp+homepage&utm_content=awin+traffic&utm_campaign=Sub+Networks

Ta!  Don't really need another set, but at that price they can sit in the spare wheel well and one day prove vital!

[TrabbieRonnie]

2 hours ago, 00833827 said:

job 1 done on the volvo, wiper linkage was broken as is usual when the cup on the ball wears and it pops off.  someone had been in there before me and tied it with wire. i drilled and bolted it.

also spotted another bodge which might be related to the loss of power. a hose is also wired on, can anyone tell me what i am looking at here and if its likely to affect the turbo?

 

I'm no expert on these having never owned one, but I found a split intercooler hose (hard black plastic one, very fancy injection moulded thing about 10 inches long, not a straight-forward pipe) on my boss's one whilst changing his alternator.  I taped it up and his car was transformed he said, he was grateful as the garage had told him he needed a new dpf.  Fitted a brand new one (about £60 iirc), the next week and I got promoted shortly after that!

[tommotech]

Been looking at an EGR defect on a 2014 Volvo XC60, which has the 2.0 133kw diesel unit. Easy enough to get to, I’ve found the EGR cooler full of soot / carbon - EGR gasses being over cooled I suspect. 
The deposits have proven a challenge to remove. I’ve tried Mr Muscle oven cleaner, alloy wheel cleaner (my usual go-to product for EGR clean) and bleach but cannot get sufficient flow through the cooler. I’ve had to fire up my ultrasonic tank and will give it a couple of hours in there. Fingers crossed!

[cort1977]

Got the keys to our new house this week, excitingly the garage is a double and the drive is quite big for chod storing purposes.

The ex-bobthebeard MX5 was moved a couple of miles to its new home on a trailer* because still no MOT.  Welding has been done, just need to change out the rear discs and clean up the cylinder and sliders and it should be on the road.  Battery was a bit flat but a few hours on my recently inherited 40 year old charger soon had the dash showing signs of life and it started first turn after sitting for at least three months.

Had a minor panic when modern van was found to be leaking oil, turns out it was my poor ability as a mechanic.  The oil filter cap on the VW R5 engine needs to be done up more than hand tight to prevent leakage, who knew?  Had to put more torque on the plastic filter cap than i was happy with but seems to be oil tight now.  Starting as i mean to go on with the drips on the new driveway.

[Split_Pin]

I fixed a few things today, some types of repair I had never tried before.

Changed a dual plug socket today as the switch was loose and cutting out (we binned our tumble dryer because of this as we though it was broken, ahhh!). I've never worked in anything electrical before but I wasnt going to fork out £100 for an electrician. Spoke to @Tickman at Scotoshite and he explained things and encouraged me to have a go- cheers!

Rehung the cupboard door that the tumble dryer sits in.

Sewed my burst jeans and sewed my son's school jumper.

Nothing car related sadly!

[Alex66]

I bought a C2, she is a nippy little thing and its nice to be in a little car again, cost £275 so all good. Alas no interesting collection caper, forgot to record it sorry. 

[stuboy]

53 minutes ago, Alex66 said:

I bought a C2, she is a nippy little thing and its nice to be in a little car again, cost £275 so all good. Alas no interesting collection caper, forgot to record it sorry. 

no picture?

[tommotech]

55 minutes ago, Alex66 said:

I bought a C2, she is a nippy little thing and its nice to be in a little car again, cost £275 so all good. Alas no interesting collection caper, forgot to record it sorry. 

Surely a pez shot, at least......

[Cavcraft]

Finally fitted the cheapo new battery (£8.49 inc. postage) to the SS today.  Got a box of electrical terminal things and wired it up. The indicators work again now, so a nice double whammy due to the price and the fact I don't need to buy a relay for it. Haven't tried it enough to see if the speedo works again,  had a fairly epic night on the sauce last night, so not riding or driving today.

 

As much as I liked the rough looking nature of the bike, it's sort of annoying me a bit now and tempted to strip it and do it up. Probs never happen though.

[Alex66]

I will but not yet it had a near full tank, mind you that could be near empty its a Citroen but I will get one when I get some. Joyfully it has proper wheels,  ones made of steel. 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

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Someone just posted this on FB, it used to belong to forum member J-J on here, looking back he had it about 8 yrs ago. Anyone remember?

[Split_Pin]

I recall his example being burgundy? When I worked in Edinburgh last time around I used to see it sometimes. Unless I'm confused with another member.

[Zelandeth]

On 2/29/2020 at 3:21 PM, paulplom said:

It took 3 and a half litres to get it back to max. I'll be checking it weekly from now on.
The oil light still comes on at very low revs. If I hold it above 3k it stays out. I'm getting some odd looks at traffic lights.

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Hate to say it...but that sounds horribly like you've run it dry and have done in the oil pump and/or bottom end.

Expect a horrific gallery noise to develop in the near future shortly followed by terminal failure.

If you're really lucky it's sucked up gunk and a filter change will help...but usually being run for any appreciable time, especially under load, without proper oil flow is terminal.

[bramz7]

15 hours ago, Mr_Bo11ox said:

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Someone just posted this on FB, it used to belong to forum member J-J on here, looking back he had it about 8 yrs ago. Anyone remember?

Looking up the car gives a pistonhead thread posted by someone called W00dy

Is it @w00dy? 

Admittedly a thread from 2013

[reb]

One too many nights washing up in the back of numbertile roundbread while daydreaming* about all manner of far more engaging things than how many more greasy baking pans I need to clean has resulted in a thing;

Honestly I should have done it years ago rather than clinging onto computers because "future". I was reading car manuals religiously from when I was very small and even to this day have been known to flick through an HBOL as a form of light entertainment. It's been staring in my face my entire life that I have the mind for engineering and I've completely missed it! I spent hours last night while driving around at work pondering racing** airbox designs for the C2, if I'd had a drawing board in front of me I could have got quite close to a couple of nearly finished (ish) designs I reckon.

I don't know what I want to do with it, I just know it's what I want to do. Maybe I can become the ultimate chod whisperer?

Maybe it'll help me actually finish the pug one day...

Thanks to all on here who have offered advice over the years, even if I roundly ignored it at the time! I'll piss off now before I get too depression thready!

 

 

*Is it still daydreaming if it's midnight?

[stuboy]

At misses dad's and spotted this jack stashed under old minibus.. wonder if any use

[New POD]

2 hours ago, reb said:

One too many nights washing up in the back of numbertile roundbread while daydreaming* about all manner of far more engaging things than how many more greasy baking pans I need to clean has resulted in a thing;

Honestly I should have done it years ago rather than clinging onto computers because "future". I was reading car manuals religiously from when I was very small and even to this day have been known to flick through an HBOL as a form of light entertainment. It's been staring in my face my entire life that I have the mind for engineering and I've completely missed it! I spent hours last night while driving around at work pondering racing** airbox designs for the C2, if I'd had a drawing board in front of me I could have got quite close to a couple of nearly finished (ish) designs I reckon.

I don't know what I want to do with it, I just know it's what I want to do. Maybe I can become the ultimate chod whisperer?

Maybe it'll help me actually finish the pug one day...

Thanks to all on here who have offered advice over the years, even if I roundly ignored it at the time! I'll piss off now before I get too depression thready!

 

 

*Is it still daydreaming if it's midnight?

Possibly. You might be surprised to find out how many people are involved in Engineering new products. 

It might be interesting for you if you put some key words into total jobs dot com and see where your study might lead.  Engineering is such a wide ranging subject, that a BEng(Hons) will only scratch the surface. What it should do is teach you how to find out and investigate the stuff you were not taught. 

Note, the design and introduction of an air intake duct for a high volume car would probably involve all sorts of specialists, from Cad jockeys, material specialists, stress and noise specialists, tool I g designers, moulding specialists, manufacturing engineers, development and test engineers. 

Plus engineers in purchasing and quality. 

They might work for suppliers, and customer with a risk sharing contract. Or not. 

I see myself as a generalist. I specialised in Design for Assembly, then in project managing the purchase of bespoke assembly equipment, then in lean and manufacturing improvement. 

Now I tend to do Lean within aerospace Engineering. That is speeding up design changes. 

[reb]

9 minutes ago, New POD said:

Possibly. You might be surprised to find out how many people are involved in Engineering new products. 

It might be interesting for you if you put some key words into total jobs dot com and see where your study might lead.  Engineering is such a wide ranging subject, that a BEng(Hons) will only scratch the surface. What it should do is teach you how to find out and investigate the stuff you were not taught. 

Note, the design and introduction of an air intake duct for a high volume car would probably involve all sorts of specialists, from Cad jockeys, material specialists, stress and noise specialists, tool I g designers, moulding specialists, manufacturing engineers, development and test engineers. 

Plus engineers in purchasing and quality. 

They might work for suppliers, and customer with a risk sharing contract. Or not. 

I see myself as a generalist. I specialised in Design for Assembly, then in project managing the purchase of bespoke assembly equipment, then in lean and manufacturing improvement. 

Now I tend to do Lean within aerospace Engineering. That is speeding up design changes. 

I see it as a step to open up all of the opportunities that are currently closed to me because of my lack of academic experience and qualification. I hope to use it as a gateway to specialise in something I find interesting/am good at.

Re the airbox my thinking was more along the lines of a one off or low production track car, which obviously removes a lot of the constraints. Along with being more engaging than worrying about everything else going on!

So far in normal life I've found myself doing all sorts of things, i seem to be quite quick to pick up concepts and I'd like to actually explore them properly!

[New POD]

I think actually understanding the science (or maths or physics) behind how stuff really works is fascinating.  I remember learning about the science of single point turning and then having it turned on its head with PCBN tools and the science behind using them as a alternative to grinding on hard metal. And since I graduated never going near any cutting process ever again. 

[SiC]

Funds requested for house purchase. It'll come in a minimum 24 hours and maximum of 5 days. Marked as urgent priority because of situation, so should (possibly) be done in time but no one will make any guarantee. 

House sale completes on the 4th March and we have to legally move out then. 

Need to let the removal company know if our stuff needs to go into storage by tomorrow first thing. Might just have to take the punt it'll happen on Wednesday. 

Farrrrrrrk...

[Yoss]

Started tidying the garage a bit as I'm planning on getting the Triumph out at the weekend. I opened the bonnet to see a little face looking at me. He then jumped out and managed to run along the door to the boot. 

As I get to the back he runs back to the front. 

And then back again. 

Then he comes round the drivers side and of course I'd left the window open so he jumps straight in the car. Bugger. Though it seems he's been in before as a polystyrene cup I'd left under the back seat had been nibbled away at. 

 

But he's obviously been living in the bulkhead which is not good. I keep a couple of rags in there for cleaning the dipstick and general wiping of oil and these had been chewed into little bits with lots of leaves added for extra comfort. This is after I'd removed most of it. 

I always leave the bonnet popped as if I don't use it for a few weeks (and it hasn't been out since before Christmas) it helps to prime the fuel pump before starting. So that little gap and this bit of nibbling of the seal that runs round the scuttle... 

... was enough to get in. 

I knew I had a guest in the garage because the bird seed I keep in there had been got at and all the sunflower seeds had been removed and taken to a different part of the garage to be opened. I wouldn't mind if he stayed in the garage and there are plenty of nooks and crannys he could make himself at home in but moving into the car itself is not good. You hear about them chewing wiring. Fortunately it all still works at the mo but I have now ordered some of these. 

And my job for the weekend is to get the Triumph out properly, take the seats out and give it a damn good hoovering. 

[High Jetter]

I'd get an plug-in ultrasonic repeller, much less hassle. One rapidly evicted the squirrels from our loft.

[Yoss]

We tried one of those to stop the neighbours cats shitting on our lawn. Didn't work. Anyway I've already ordered the above now. We'll see what happens. 

[MarvinsMom]

that little mouse is SOOOOO sweet, but i know the damage they can do.

at some point in the past one has been behind the dash of Rodney Mini, and the number of earths we had to sort through caused by nibbled wires

at one point there were a couple of "tame" mice at the factory, nicknamed Austin and Rover.

they would sit and watch the guys in the tool room at breaktime, and gratefully accept crumbs and scraps off them.

well until the arsehole managers found out about them, well the less said about that the better.

the tool room staff were too a man saddened, furious, and disgusted.

oddly though when we had that dirty rat in our shed, i had no worries at all about killing it!

[SiC]

16 minutes ago, Yoss said:

We tried one of those to stop the neighbours cats shitting on our lawn. Didn't work. Anyway I've already ordered the above now. We'll see what happens. 

Cat ears have a different frequency response to rodents. They can hear noise in the ultrasonic region but it's not very loud for them. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

37 minutes ago, Yoss said:

We tried one of those to stop the neighbours cats shitting on our lawn. Didn't work. Anyway I've already ordered the above now. We'll see what happens. 

Are there any rodent urine stains in the upholstery or carpeting? Might want to give those a bit of a shampoo and disinfectant  ...

[Yoss]

4 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Are there any rodent urine stains in the upholstery or carpeting? Might want to give those a bit of a shampoo and disinfectant  ...

 

I can't see any stains but the front seats are black and the carpets are already shot. 

But as I say plans for the weekend are a bit of a deep clean. It can wait til the weekend because the garage is a bit restricted and I have to move two Skodas to get it onto the drive and we're in a permit parking area and only one Skoda has a permit so lots of shunting and too lazy. 

[Yoss]

47 minutes ago, MarvinsMom said:

that little mouse is SOOOOO sweet, but i know the damage they can do.

 

I have no intention of killing it, hence the humane traps, though I'm not sure what I do if we do trap it. 

[richardmorris]

9 minutes ago, Yoss said:

I have no intention of killing it, hence the humane traps, though I'm not sure what I do if we do trap it. 

I had ultrasonic plug ins in my last place. Found a mouse had taken a liking to my CX’s spare wheel tray and shredded the tea towel rag. And left little pellets all over the place. Robert dyas has them , but so I expect does amazon.

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

Make sure you are all sitting down for this ...

 

Ready????

Ok ....

The discovery has another leak!

I think that's about 26 now but this is properly chucking coolant out so needs to be fixed... On Friday... Maybe....