RoverFolkUs Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 I love keeping old bolts, trouble is I have zero way of organising them so that when I need one, I can't find a suitable one unless I spend hours going through them all 🤦 Rust Collector 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grogee Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 2 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said: I love keeping old bolts, trouble is I have zero way of organising them so that when I need one, I can't find a suitable one unless I spend hours going through them all 🤦 Allow me to introduce you to The Megatron neil1971, GrumpiusMaximus, rainagain and 6 others 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PicantoJon Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 2 minutes ago, grogee said: Allow me to introduce you to The Megatron Phwoaaaaar. Nurse! grogee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoverFolkUs Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 18 minutes ago, grogee said: Allow me to introduce you to The Megatron Brilliant! Now, because it's me, something like that would be knocked over and a massive paddy thrown within about 5 minutes of setting it all up. Or the darned thing would just go missing. As does everything else! Rust Collector, GrumpiusMaximus, PicantoJon and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catsinthewelder Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 1 hour ago, RoverFolkUs said: Or the darned thing would just go missing. As does everything else! I have a couple of large sets that once filled are completely immovable therefore hard to loose! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted January 8, 2023 Author Share Posted January 8, 2023 Time due for the oil change in the Focus, got just enough in the bottom of a 20 litre 5w30 for the 4 litres required. £6.16 delivered for a genuine Ford filter, why buy crap Fram or Crossland when you can get the real deal for that price. You never can tell with Ford, stuff is either the cheapest around or it’s crazy money, take Mk5 Mondeo driveshafts, over £400, yet a set of genuine Mk2 Focus rubber mats for £31. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoverFolkUs Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 MOT for mine tomorrow, wish me luck, think it'll be ok though Might do an oil change if I get a chance, got 4l of Castrol going spare (taking up room on the shelf) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted January 8, 2023 Author Share Posted January 8, 2023 5 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said: MOT for mine tomorrow, wish me luck, think it'll be ok though Might do an oil change if I get a chance, got 4l of Castrol going spare (taking up room on the shelf) Likely to be fine apart from the back bushes on the front arms common and the inevitable trailing arms. Despite the light on mine flew through the emissions. Top end really clean as well. Rattled a bit in a morning if it’s cold but that seems normal on the Ti-VCTs, no start up death rattle so I’d consider that ‘good’. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoverFolkUs Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 5 minutes ago, sierraman said: Likely to be fine apart from the back bushes on the front arms common and the inevitable trailing arms. Despite the light on mine flew through the emissions. Top end really clean as well. Rattled a bit in a morning if it’s cold but that seems normal on the Ti-VCTs, no start up death rattle so I’d consider that ‘good’. That's what I'm worrying most about but I think it's ok. Been way too busy to get it up on the ramp at work and check so I'm just going to have to send it in blindly and hope for the best. Mine does the death rattle every now and then, but it's always done it and never got any worse. Oil light takes about a second longer to go out on a cold cold start than I'd like, but nevermind, it's fine* 🤷 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted January 8, 2023 Author Share Posted January 8, 2023 1 minute ago, RoverFolkUs said: That's what I'm worrying most about but I think it's ok. Been way too busy to get it up on the ramp at work and check so I'm just going to have to send it in blindly and hope for the best. Mine does the death rattle every now and then, but it's always done it and never got any worse. Oil light takes about a second longer to go out on a cold cold start than I'd like, but nevermind, it's fine* 🤷 The rattle I believe is the injectors, there is a service schedule for the valve clearances at 100k but the shins are fucking expensive and it’s a bit involved. If it’s a start up rattle that’ll be the VCT solenoids, sometimes they’ll block, a flush should sort that. But realistically it’ll run forever like that. They seem a bit hit and miss with oil consumption as well, mine uses none but another I look after has gone through 2 litres in 5k yet still flies through the emissions. Saw a really tidy 1.8 the other day, they piss through oil but worth considering if sub £1,500 and not smoking like Nat King Cole. theshadow 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted January 11, 2023 Author Share Posted January 11, 2023 The fucking power steering is leaking AGAIN!! Got ‘the call’ earlier, ‘it’s making a funny noise’. Sure as hell the reservoir was empty, at first I figured the high pressure hose was leaking, cleaning all the shit off revealed the pressure switch was absolutely streaming out. Lesser of two evils perhaps but not what I wanted after a fucking wank day at work to be covered in PAS fluid on the Focuses annual January Fail to Proceed event which invariably involves me laid in a frost at 7pm on a Winters evening. Anyway switch duly ordered, I think the old one has failed inside, didn’t fancy fucking about replacing the O ring... I had to replace most of the fluid when I did the other jobs, I’m assuming it hasn’t liked new CHF and has started leaking. AnnoyingPentium and grogee 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grogee Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 45 minutes ago, sierraman said: The fucking power steering is leaking AGAIN!! Got ‘the call’ earlier, ‘it’s making a funny noise’. Sure as hell the reservoir was empty, at first I figured the high pressure hose was leaking, cleaning all the shit off revealed the pressure switch was absolutely streaming out. Lesser of two evils perhaps but not what I wanted after a fucking wank day at work to be covered in PAS fluid on the Focuses annual January Fail to Proceed event which invariably involves me laid in a frost at 7pm on a Winters evening. Anyway switch duly ordered, I think the old one has failed inside, didn’t fancy fucking about replacing the O ring... I had to replace most of the fluid when I did the other jobs, I’m assuming it hasn’t liked new CHF and has started leaking. Have you got shares in a CHF manufacturing concern? Commiserations, I feel your pain. It really is a shit time of year to be fixing cars outdoors. 'The call'... I've had A Talk to Mrs Grogee about Managing Expectations vis a vis £2500 Espace I put deposit on today. "It's ok as far as I can tell from five minutes lying on some cardboard looking underneath it, and a ten minute test drive. But it's a 14 year old Renault, so something will go wrong soon. Let's keep £500 in a tin for when the inevitable happens" sierraman and AnnoyingPentium 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted January 11, 2023 Author Share Posted January 11, 2023 Just now, grogee said: Have you got shares in a CHF manufacturing concern? Commiserations, I feel your pain. It really is a shit time of year to be fixing cars outdoors. 'The call'... I've had A Talk to Mrs Grogee about Managing Expectations vis a vis £2500 Espace I put deposit on today. "It's ok as far as I can tell from five minutes lying on some cardboard looking underneath it, and a ten minute test drive. But it's a 14 year old Renault, so something will go wrong soon. Let's keep £500 in a tin for when the inevitable happens" Given it’s ten quid a fucking litre, I wish I had. Looking at switches now, loads of no name shit on eBay, or £25 gets a Lemark or Lucas, both of which will be slightly less shit than a no name one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 1 hour ago, sierraman said: The fucking power steering is leaking AGAIN!! Got ‘the call’ earlier, ‘it’s making a funny noise’. Sure as hell the reservoir was empty, at first I figured the high pressure hose was leaking, cleaning all the shit off revealed the pressure switch was absolutely streaming out. Lesser of two evils perhaps but not what I wanted after a fucking wank day at work to be covered in PAS fluid on the Focuses annual January Fail to Proceed event which invariably involves me laid in a frost at 7pm on a Winters evening. Anyway switch duly ordered, I think the old one has failed inside, didn’t fancy fucking about replacing the O ring... I had to replace most of the fluid when I did the other jobs, I’m assuming it hasn’t liked new CHF and has started leaking. When I bought the fiesta the pressure switch was leaking. I put a bonded washer on it and sealed the threads with liquid thread seal. Been right as rain since, (3 years). Give that a go. Cheap fix and if it doesn't work I'll send you 10p reimbursement on the washer. sierraman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted January 11, 2023 Author Share Posted January 11, 2023 I’ve got a spare pump somewhere with the switch still in, going to try that one first. Matty 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 16 minutes ago, sierraman said: I’ve got a spare pump somewhere with the switch still in, going to try that one first. Probably safer 😄 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted January 12, 2023 Author Share Posted January 12, 2023 £30 later on another sensor and it seems leak free, for at least another fortnight... Could have got a cheaper sensor but I’m not prepared to fuck about with some crap from EBay that won’t work so went for a Cambiare one. Got bummed with £16 a litre for the CHF but I needed the fucker back on the road and had minimal time for sorting this out after work. I shouldn’t moan really though, some would have paid for it at the garage and added another £60 on to the job. grogee and Rust Collector 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted January 23, 2023 Author Share Posted January 23, 2023 Oil change today for Focus, looks like it’s only done 3k since the last one last year. Anyway it’s that cheap to do that it’s silly not to so in went some fully synth 5w30 and a genuine Ford filter. Cleaned the engine bay up as well so I can spot when it decides to dump all its PAS fluid again. RoverFolkUs, Dan302, mk2_craig and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoverFolkUs Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 I think I've still got my old knackered pump with the pressure switch still on. I've seen them fail before and that's now given me all the more reason to keep it 😆 I can't remember what car it was but the plastic casing bit had blown straight off Having said that if I saw your post sooner I'd have happily bunged it in the post for you. You're sorted now anyway! sierraman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoverFolkUs Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 Done a rear spring on a MK3 Mondy this afternoon, was a blast from the past! Both front bottom arms as well to do in the morning, on a bargain clearance from the factors, about £22 each! Time to blow the cobwebs off the subframe alignment pins which I probably haven't touched for about 5 years now 😆 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted March 4, 2023 Author Share Posted March 4, 2023 Oil changed on the Mondeo today, it sounds like it has a minor boost leak, no loss of performance/smoking just a feint whistle on occasion. Couldn’t see any obvious splits in the intercooler pipework but the plastic but that goes under the sump was flapping about, possibly this worked loose at the Turbo end so tightened all the hoses up and we’ll see. RoverFolkUs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoverFolkUs Posted March 6, 2023 Share Posted March 6, 2023 Probably the best thread to post this in, changed the oil on a 1.4 Duratec fiesta this morning, just shy of 140k on the clock, barely 500ml came out the sump so they're definitely a bugger for burning oil! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted March 12, 2023 Author Share Posted March 12, 2023 No photos but a few minor electrical jobs today on the Mondeo, the small bulb that goes off when you unlock the car had a poor connection so was working on/off and fixed the trip computer buttons, figured the switch had completely gone so was anticipating fucking around taking the airbag out to replace but a severe dousing in contact cleaner has brought them round. Did have to top about 150ml of coolant up, cannot see where this is leaking so I’ll monitor it for now. Rad looked ok, couldn’t see any leaks under stat. The EGR was disturbed last year so maybe i didn’t top it up quite enough. Dave_Q, Matty and RoverFolkUs 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted June 25, 2023 Author Share Posted June 25, 2023 Set of pads today on Mondeo, they weren’t near being fucked but I figured I’d sooner be doing them in summer than January. So chucked a pair on from Comline (watch out folks with my budget brake pads!!!). Next job is a pair of tyres on the back. Matty, PicantoJon, Dave_Q and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty Posted June 25, 2023 Share Posted June 25, 2023 Fancy upgrading to a mk4/5 from the fiesta. It'd have to be a 4 though cos I'd want one with a duratec in it. Don't do diesels or tiny petrols. Got an immediate no from her because "it's just another ford". Fair play love 🙄 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted June 25, 2023 Author Share Posted June 25, 2023 10 minutes ago, Matty said: Fancy upgrading to a mk4/5 from the fiesta. It'd have to be a 4 though cos I'd want one with a duratec in it. Don't do diesels or tiny petrols. Got an immediate no from her because "it's just another ford". Fair play love 🙄 The 1.0 isn’t that bad if you get the belt done then continue to use the correct oil. You are looking at around a £1000 at an independent though for the belt but once it’s done just change the oil regular with the correct grade and it’ll be fine. Matty 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty Posted June 25, 2023 Share Posted June 25, 2023 30 minutes ago, sierraman said: The 1.0 isn’t that bad if you get the belt done then continue to use the correct oil. You are looking at around a £1000 at an independent though for the belt but once it’s done just change the oil regular with the correct grade and it’ll be fine. Still no replacement for displacement 😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoverFolkUs Posted June 25, 2023 Share Posted June 25, 2023 4 hours ago, sierraman said: Set of pads today on Mondeo, they weren’t near being fucked but I figured I’d sooner be doing them in summer than January. So chucked a pair on from Comline (watch out folks with my budget brake pads!!!). Next job is a pair of tyres on the back. Budget brakes and tyres YOU ABSOLUTE WEAPON TO SOCIETY 😂 Get the pitchforks 😂 Matty and GrumpiusMaximus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted June 25, 2023 Author Share Posted June 25, 2023 1 hour ago, RoverFolkUs said: Budget brakes and tyres YOU ABSOLUTE WEAPON TO SOCIETY 😂 Get the pitchforks 😂 I’m a disgrace I know! I’ll be booking in a pair of Autogreens and heading towards the M5 soon. 😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoverFolkUs Posted June 25, 2023 Share Posted June 25, 2023 2 minutes ago, sierraman said: I’m a disgrace I know! I’ll be booking in a pair of Autogreens and heading towards the M5 soon. 😂 Think of the danger YOU WILL POSE to the kids being pulled along the M5 in a Qashqai with its factory fitted Goodyears worn down to 1mm 🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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