19sixtysix
Life as viewed from a Gay Gorbals Garret
Got noisy wheel bearing on my citroen camper and had a look at a you tube. It's doable but only if nothing goes badly. I will leave them to the pros with the correct tools.
Working on your own vehicle - Advice & Tales of Woe
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It’s great when it does go right, but it only takes a rusted nut and bolt to snap or be immovable to spoil your day.
I believe some folk watch Ed China on Wheeler Dealers at work and it is all perfect and a doddle. It is having the ability to think before you commence that can sometimes save you a lot of grief and damaged knuckles.
I believe some folk watch Ed China on Wheeler Dealers at work and it is all perfect and a doddle. It is having the ability to think before you commence that can sometimes save you a lot of grief and damaged knuckles.
19sixtysix
Life as viewed from a Gay Gorbals Garret
It's the tools to get stuff done when you get trouble that I lack. That's why i pay a decent garage.
Yep, oxy-acetylene being one resource I would like in my garage.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Particularly true of vans, where immovability can mean specialist recovery = expensive
Gromit
International Man of Misery
Had a gearbox issue on my VW beetle.
Replace a gearbox?
Yeah I can do this.
Ordered one off a guy in North Wales.
It arrived.
Removed gearbox from car.
Oh it's just a spongey gearbox mount that needs replacing.
Replaces mount.
Replaces original gearbox.
Stores spares gearbox in hall closet of flat for the next 5 years.
Every six months of which girlfriend asks "when you going to get rid of that fucking gearbox?".
Result of amateur not knowing what simple faults cause what symptoms.
Replace a gearbox?
Yeah I can do this.
Ordered one off a guy in North Wales.
It arrived.
Removed gearbox from car.
Oh it's just a spongey gearbox mount that needs replacing.
Replaces mount.
Replaces original gearbox.
Stores spares gearbox in hall closet of flat for the next 5 years.
Every six months of which girlfriend asks "when you going to get rid of that fucking gearbox?".
Result of amateur not knowing what simple faults cause what symptoms.
Gromit
International Man of Misery
Big man spent eighty quid on a £2.50 problem.big man need big problem.
Been there.
Didn't really need the expense.
I console myself with the fact a garage would have lied and said yeah the gearbox was knackered and charged me the labour and new box anyways.
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
I've just bought some dealer only 4G63 tools off Yahoo Marketplace Japan. I don't own a Mitsubishi.
I've also sold my R32 GTR ($$$$
) and think I might get an R35 if I can find a DBA model with enough problems to make it (relatively) cheap.
I've also sold my R32 GTR ($$$$
) and think I might get an R35 if I can find a DBA model with enough problems to make it (relatively) cheap.
High Voltage
In the top 97% of Urban's most interesting posters
Ah! But you might, so makes perfect sense
dessiato
🇪🇸 my spirit is crying for leaving
I've a spare set of headlights. I've carried them around with me for 7 years. You never know when you might need a pair. They don't match the ones on the car so I'd have to replace them both.
I did throw away a pair of front Bertone fogs recently. They were broken so never going to go on a car but they're a difficult shape to find and...
I did throw away a pair of front Bertone fogs recently. They were broken so never going to go on a car but they're a difficult shape to find and...
plurker
tú no tienes la culpa mi amor que el mundo sea feo
I've a spare front grille and wiper motor for a MK1 Golf. I sold mine three years ago, but definitely worth me hanging onto them just in case I buy one with both those items missing.
dessiato
🇪🇸 my spirit is crying for leaving
The grills are hard to find now so you must keep that.
I've a spare front grille and wiper motor for a MK1 Golf. I sold mine three years ago, but definitely worth me hanging onto them just in case I buy one with both those items missing.
High Voltage
In the top 97% of Urban's most interesting posters
Don't look on them as unused spares - look on them as a pension fund
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
Don't look on them as unused spares - look on them as a pension fund
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High Voltage
In the top 97% of Urban's most interesting posters
dessiato
🇪🇸 my spirit is crying for leaving
You could put it in a boat.
keybored
Well done. You remember cat good.
I just found one I used to use when I had a 2005 Mondy, yours if you still need it.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Thanks. I paid to have the discs and pads done as they were in a bad state and was worried what I'd find and time was short, but intend to do them myself next time, so would be appreciated.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Car woes which I won't be touching anyway. Niggling problem that got a lot worse today.
Grey smoke from the exhaust and occasional judder when holding it at a constant speed. Google suggests it could be many different things, which is where experts come in I guess.
Also realise I've done 9k miles since I did my first oil change earlier this year. Going to see if I can do it in a slightly less messy fashion next time.
Grey smoke from the exhaust and occasional judder when holding it at a constant speed. Google suggests it could be many different things, which is where experts come in I guess.
Also realise I've done 9k miles since I did my first oil change earlier this year. Going to see if I can do it in a slightly less messy fashion next time.
polly
Well-Known Member
My car wouldn't start this morning in the cold - fired up ok, revved, then died again three times. Then I pumped the gas while starting it and that worked, though it idled erratically until it had warmed up. So I suspect it's a gummed up idle control valve, which I have suspected before but still haven't got round to replacing. I need to figure out where it is This is what it looks like under my bonnet - would anyone be able to point out the inlet manifold please?? Haynes says it's on the right side of that.
This is what it looks like under my bonnet - would anyone be able to point out the inlet manifold please?? Haynes says it's on the right side of that.
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
The ICV is in the red circle.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Great finish from a trip to Scotland. Car wouldn't start due a dead battery. Not totally unexpected as it hadn't when we we set off. Still not fun in a wet cold field when we were already strapping canoes to the roof. What was shit was an hour later got a puncture and had to change at the side of the road and do 5 and half hours on the space saver.
Can get a new battery today, slightly over the odds at Halfords. Can't find a place for new tyres on a Sunday, so going to have to cross fingers I don't have an issue tomorrow when working. It would be embarrassing to say the least.
Can get a new battery today, slightly over the odds at Halfords. Can't find a place for new tyres on a Sunday, so going to have to cross fingers I don't have an issue tomorrow when working. It would be embarrassing to say the least.
High Voltage
In the top 97% of Urban's most interesting posters
I'm about to re-embark (possibly) on working on my own vehicle having just got rid of the Jaguar (a car on which I could barely change a headlamp bulb due to lack of access). It's replacement is a Chrysler 300 and there are loads of truly excellent How To videos on "the YouTube"
So far, I'm mid way swapping over the stereo to an aftermarket one which has necessitated the removal of interior trim and some gentle "relieving" of plastic with a junior hacksaw
Surprisingly only a small amount of blood and skin has had to be offered to the DIY car god
So far, I'm mid way swapping over the stereo to an aftermarket one which has necessitated the removal of interior trim and some gentle "relieving" of plastic with a junior hacksaw
Surprisingly only a small amount of blood and skin has had to be offered to the DIY car god
weltweit
Well-Known Member
UnderAnOpenSky you seem to have lots of vehicular issues in your life, have you never thought of AA membership? When my electrics recently went south, also in a field a long way from anywhere, the AA was with me in less than an hour, diagnosed a failed battery and supplied me a spare from their van. I probably overpaid, I paid something like £90.00 for it - but I wasn't complaining because it had all been diagnosed, for example my alternator was working fine it was only the battery that had failed. How much is your Halfords one going to cost?
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Yeah I've got breakdown cover. Pretty essential considering the journeys I do I'm far from an expert at sorting stuff, I'm pretty sure I could jump start and change a wheel a fair bit faster then they can get to me, especially when in the Highlands of Scotland.
polly
Well-Known Member
Thank you so much! Sorry, I got ill and forgot all about this and actually showed it to an old boy who's fixing my husband's car yesterday, who showed me where to find the ICV. He reckons I should leave it until it becomes a proper problem, I think because my car is such a banger that any interference just increases the chances of more going wrong
I'm poised though. Cheers.
polly
Well-Known Member
Solidarity! I proper skinned my hand doing just this with my new banger. I think the bit of the stereo that you can't see is probably still bloodstained.
weltweit
Well-Known Member
Yes, good point, changing a wheel doesn't take so long indeed.
I was glad to use the AA when my electrics failed because I wanted them to diagnose what the actual issue was - rather than perhaps having an alternator issue and not knowing.
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