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[D Spares & Tyres]

You would be better off going to one of those garages that you can hoover your car out by putting a £1 in the slot....

[D Spares & Tyres]

Petrol goes kaboom but I doubt diesel will

[The Moog]

Yeah it would go kaboom!

Mostly veg oil so more worried about it clogging up VAC.

 

 

Would need to run it almost empty then go in through sender hole, not sure esso would be impressed by me doing that on their forecourt

[twosmoke300]

I'm looking to fit a couple of extra lights to me ke175 for night green laning . I have a couple of small spots that would mount fine but the ke is 6v so can't power off the bike . My thinking is to put a 12v sealed battery in the tool pack on the rear mudguard and run them off it . I only need about 3 hrs life and was thinking of using led bulbs .

Has anyone used led h1 or h3 bulbs ? Do they work with a decent pattern ?

Do the canbus safe ones ( all that seem to pop up in searches ? ) draw 55w still ?

[Pillock]

If I run the xantia tank down, could use a wet vac to get the rubbishy bits out the bottom?

 

Would the veg/diesel fuck up the vac? It's a titan wetn dry one from screwfix

How about a Pela pump to slurp out the remains? It would work with little particles suspended in veg/derv but it's only brake cable width pipe. Anything more than 3mm is going to block.

[3VOM]

I'm looking to fit a couple of extra lights to me ke175 for night green laning . I have a couple of small spots that would mount fine but the ke is 6v so can't power off the bike . My thinking is to put a 12v sealed battery in the tool pack on the rear mudguard and run them off it . I only need about 3 hrs life and was thinking of using led bulbs .

Has anyone used led h1 or h3 bulbs ? Do they work with a decent pattern ?

Do the canbus safe ones ( all that seem to pop up in searches ? ) draw 55w still ?

Could you use bike led lights? http://www.brightbikelights.com/

[twosmoke300]

That's kind of what I'm using now and a bit of a pita to be honest . Locating battery packs and poor battery life are issues .

Oh and the poxy switches which cycle through off/dim/bright/ brightest / flashing .

[D Spares & Tyres]

A friend of mine has a Nissan Terrano

 

The back wheels locked up on him 3 times today as he was driving! Not braking, just normal driving.

 

I drove it and it was fine for me, no funny noises and I couldn't see anything amiss.

 

Any ideas??????

[stephen01]

There's a thread over on reto rides, which I'm sure some welding genius posts to (bollox??) , I can't find it, i had it booked marked but that was on a old laptop. Anyone know what I'm on about?

[dave21478]

possibly stripped a tooth off in the rear diff and the loose part is floating about occasionally jamming the crown wheel?

[gordonbennet]

Terranofish should be RWD unless 4WD is selected, have you tried locking engaging 4WD, and locking/unlocking the rear diff lock if it has one, checking it all engages and works correctly then disengaging and making sure all have.

 

If its not transmission, and i'd check all transmission oil levels, then could it be a rear brake shoe coming unstuck and jamming inside the drum, as in Volvo V70/S60?

[Tayne]

There's a thread over on reto rides, which I'm sure some welding genius posts to (bollox??) , I can't find it, i had it booked marked but that was on a old laptop. Anyone know what I'm on about?

 

http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/37171/xbolx-blog-rover-commerce-update

[bub2006]

http://autoshite.com/topic/23086-svm-industries-on-tour-featuring-midlands-massiv/

Thank you

[Clanger]

Sooooooooo...

 

I keep seeing references on here to HGVs being restricted and I was curious when did that happen and why? 

 

I know I have been absent from those green and pleasant shores for some time now, but the last HGV speed memory I have was driving a rented transit towards Welsh Wales sometime in the late 80s.  I was going as fast as it could down a hill, doing about 90 and I had an artic right up my bunghole the whole way.

 

I've driven in the Ukay, Eirelandshire and Urop lots of time in the last 20 years but can't say I really took any notice of the  HGV speed.

 

The rigs over here don't seem to be restricted - on our cross country trip we found a rig that was pulling a decent speed and sat behind him - "big red" as I named him, took us through New Mexico and into Texas at a goodly 85 mph and perhaps a little more.

 

Also, would it be inappropriate to use this as an opportunity to build my cunt count for next years awards*?

[bub2006]

I may have to nip* to Gravesend tomorro with the bike trailer to drop of a RD lc and bring another back. Sat nav says basically m1 and m25. Anyone that road know of road closures etc? My sat nav is a bit dated!

[Eddie Honda]

Clanger. EU harmonisation. It was probably somewhere between fuel/somebody think of the children and lately with added eco icing. Early 90s think.

 

Add to that buses/coaches/minibuses 100km/h and even 3.5 - 7.5T are restricted now.

[conkerman]

I grew up around haulage and the tales of V8 scanias with coach diffs were rife, there was a place up north somewhere (Castleford) where they would do pump tweakage for GLF 38 tonners.

 

Me and my old man rebuilt his 14 litre V8. Big hammers may have been involved!  Lapping in those valves was an arse.

[Pillock]

I may have to nip* to Gravesend tomorro with the bike trailer to drop of a RD lc and bring another back. Sat nav says basically m1 and m25. Anyone that road know of road closures etc? My sat nav is a bit dated!

 

I was down there last week and nothing springs to mind. You got a smartphone? Google Maps will show traffic information, closed roads etc and route you round delays.

Or, just check maps.google.co.uk just before setting out, get directions on there, at the bottom you see a little traffic indicator. At the minute, if I select tomorrow morning, it says that the A1-A14-M25 is a 5 mile, 3 minute better route.

[bub2006]

Thanks mate. I'll look into it.

[Pillock]

Sooooooooo...

 

I keep seeing references on here to HGVs being restricted and I was curious when did that happen and why? 

 

 

Must have been a rolling introduction in the early 90s. I remember school holidays were often spent with my mate and his grandfather who drove HGVs, sat on the bed (seatbelts?), hiding behind curtains as we went into collieries, and helping out with trailer legs, suzies etc. 

He was quite fond of his B reg DAF 3100 as it flew, seemed to be unlimited. He resisted as long as possible but got a G reg DAF 95 which was more powerful, but slower top end - presumably limited.

 

I did work experience as a truck fitter in 1994, the limiters were in place then on all the trucks in the fleet but every driver knew which fuse to pull, they were hardly complicated affairs. 

[The Moog]

My brothers merc has collapsed on drivers side wheel.

 

Hasn't had a chance to jack it up yet but said that heard a bang then esp and trac light came on and he lost brakes.

 

I am guessing the spring snapped. If this likely? What would cause brake issues?

 

He is going to try and jack it up tonight and get me pics but doing long shift hours.

[scaryoldcortina]

If the broken end of the spring spat out of the cup on the strut, there is a good chance it snagged the ABS wiring and the flexihose, which would cause the problems you describe. Check the inner sidewall of the tyre too because they often hit that and start to cut through!

[Eddie Honda]

Spring mount possible too. Happened on old man's 99 E300 on same side.

[The Moog]

If the broken end of the spring spat out of the cup on the strut, there is a good chance it snagged the ABS wiring and the flexihose, which would cause the problems you describe. Check the inner sidewall of the tyre too because they often hit that and start to cut through!

Rough guess on how much to fix it i that has happened?

[scaryoldcortina]

Assuming the flex is about a tenner and the ABS sensor about fifteen quid and that the OMGEXPENSIVE tyre isn't damaged? AND that it's a broken spring and not a rotted off cup on the strut instead? Er.... how much is the spring? I dunno. I'd guess at £100-150 before seeing the job and adjust accordingly afterwards.

[The Moog]

Cheers SOC. I guessed about £250. He was for sacking it off for different car before investigating it.

[dave21478]

He needs a kick in the balls, then. Throwing it away for the sake of a spring? Doesnt he realise there are millions of starving kids in Africa who dont have a Mercedes of their own?

[The Moog]

He needs a kick in the balls, then. Throwing it away for the sake of a spring? Doesnt he realise there are millions of starving kids in Africa who dont have a Mercedes of their own?

Want to join the queue? He has just borrowed £2k to buy a Passat estate

[Stroller133]

My wife has a 2010 Peugoet 5008, used on local village/rural roads about 120 miles a week but typical journeys of 3-10 miles. No warning but wouldn't start this morning, suspected flat battery.

Should I just get a new battery (cheapest as car will hopefully be gone by next winter) or should I try jumping it/ charging battery and risk a further FTP but with a risk of not being at home next time?

[DSdriver]

/\ I'd try charging it up and then taking it to get the battery drop tested. Five years sounds reasonable for a battery although some go on a lot longer if the vehicle is getting the right sort of use.