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[cort16]

Cheers, I knew someone had one on here buy couldn't remember who it was.

[twosmoke300]

I've always done it by box.

 

For what that's worth.

Did a meriva clutch today ( a blown up corsa c) and I reckon that on a corsa 1.0 I'd pull the engine . You need to drop at least one side of the subframe , suspension links , driveshafts , gear linkage etc . On the 1.0 there is acres of room on the os to pull the engine if you have a crane

[red5]

Usually do 1.7's so drop one side of frame. Depends on inclination I'd say. ...

 

Only pulled and engine for an engine change, then drop the frame on floor. With a 2 poster obv.

 

[barefoot]

Why are FWD cars better in motorway crosswinds than RWD?

 

even the 944 is comparatively shit.

[Asimo]

Why are FWD cars better in motorway crosswinds than RWD?

 

even the 944 is comparatively shit.

Front drivers are relatively nose-heavy so the centre of gravity is relatively far forward. For best stability that centre of gravity is in front of the centre of aerodynamic drag (like an arrow).

[320touring]

Why are FWD cars better in motorway crosswinds than RWD?

 

even the 944 is comparatively shit.

you need to go faster for downforce!

 

bcuz racecar.

 

srsly though, sorn me is correct

[willswitchengage]

cockpit spray

 

Isn't that what women do in 'heat'?

[Bobthebeard]

What's the best thing to clean "cockpit spray" off?

 

 I've had enough of slipping of everything in the car for now.

 

I think they put it on with a garden sprayer or something.

If it is the ' long lasting cockpit shine' stuff just leave it for two days. It will disappear. Cheap stuff vanishes in an hour.

[Matt]

Why do some cars have five digit odometers and some six?

[Pillock]

Because digits cost money.

[Matt]

Because digits cost money.

 

There must be more to it than that otherwise why would any manufacturer bother with six.

[Pillock]

Because their cars last longer than 1990s Fords

[Richard]

Manufacturers assumed, mostly correctly, that their cars wouldn't make 100k- and if they did it would be easy to tell the difference between a 20k car and a 120k car. As cars started to last a bit longer more and more manufacturers added a sixth digit.

[scaryoldcortina]

I think volvo actually used the 6 digit odo as a sales pitch during the early 80s.

[HH-R]

Did anyone else but Ford have such penny pinching into the 90s?

[barefoot]

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[Jazoli]

Fecking fat fingers....

[mat_the_cat]

As cars started to last a bit longer more and more manufacturers added a sixth digit.

 

Do any vehicles (I'm thinking trucks or buses) have 7 digits?

[D Spares & Tyres]

i think there`s a chap on clee hill that has 7 digits

[D Spares & Tyres]

So....

 

who started / runs autoshite and why? Is it profit making? I don`t care if it is, I`m just interested

[willswitchengage]

Wot would cause premature coil failure? (about 100 miles driving)

 

Got infinite resistance across the low voltage terminals, and it obviously doesn't work.

[daveb47]

So....

 

who started / runs autoshite and why? Is it profit making? I don`t care if it is, I`m just interested

Mr H Sceptre

Electric Leyland

&

Siestaboy

Started Autoshite.

 

I run it now by myself & own the servers & software that it is on.

Cavcraft & Trigger are moderators.

 

It is totally none profit making although there is a Donate button at bottom of board for members to help with running costs etc.

[Lacquer Peel]

Do any vehicles (I'm thinking trucks or buses) have 7 digits?

 

 

I think the digital odometers on modern lorries might go up to 7 figures (1m km might come up relatively quickly), but I've not seen any.

[willswitchengage]

 

I run it now by myself & own the servers & software that it is on.

Cavcraft & Trigger are moderators.

 

The latter is the very sensible and mature looking chap on the left in this month's calendar image. At shitefest he's always really quiet, boring, and sober.

[MrBiscuits]

Wot would cause premature coil failure? (about 100 miles driving)

 

Got infinite resistance across the low voltage terminals, and it obviously doesn't work.

The one time I had this it was a ballasted coil that I had mistakenly connected up to the non ballasted feed (Austin Rover helpfully included both in the loom!). It ran really well for about 100miles (probably with a mega fat spark) then started to miss and cut out. Coil was getting really hot.

 

If there's a separate ballast resistor and it fails short circuit you could get the same.

[alf892]

Wot would cause premature coil failure? (about 100 miles driving)

 

Got infinite resistance across the low voltage terminals, and it obviously doesn't work.

Depends what vehicle....

 

Most more modern vehicles run at 9v for ignition and just get an extra shot of full 12v (usually from starter solenoid) for starting. The 9v is usually achieved by having a ballast resistor near the coil.......easy to find........or a resistive wire in in the circuit from ign switch to coil.

 

 

Just noticed Mr Biscuits reply!

 

Btw A lot of fords use a resistive wire......easy to spot if you're looking as it is the last bit to the coil.....just work back from coil and there will be a join

 

Before doing anything else check how many volts you have at switch side if coil.

[cobblers]

Th

 

Do any vehicles (I'm thinking trucks or buses) have 7 digits?

 

Most new PSV stuff has a LCD/TFT screen in the dash which can show graphics etc etc, so they only show as many digits as required. We repair them at work, the highest I've seen anything come in with with is 1150000miles which I think was on a Volvo B12 truck dash. The bloke said the truck was used for a regular run between two depots (IIRC for a waste/recycling company) and basically never stopped, they ran three shifts at both depots. 

 

It would hook a trailer at one end, drive 100 miles, swap for another trailer, drive 100 miles straight back. It only stopped for servicing and on Xmas day

 

It was only about 6 or 7 years old too! The stepper motors for the speedo and revcounters had lasted all that those miles, they usually fail about 250k miles.

I reckon it must have just spent all the time on the limiter down an A road so the needles didn't move much. Bus ones knacker about 150k miles, if that.

[skattrd]

Polishing cloudy headlamp plastics - what should I use?

I seem to remember mention of the following on here: toothpaste, t-cut, brasso, auto-sol ... should I give whichever of these I can a go?

[robinmasters]

Radweld but for steering-what's it's actually called, and does it work? I'm sure I read somewhere that it makes the seals swell, so presumably it's only a short-term fix-how sort term?

[Asimo]

Headlamp polishing:

 

Brasso 2/10

Toothpaste 1/10

Silvo 9/10

Autosol 9/10

TCut 2/10