Do you like working on cars?

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Feb 27, 2016 15:01:46 GMT flavourtank said:

Feb 27, 2016 15:00:09 GMT @broadblaster said:

not quite as bad as Worthing or hastings but not far off 

Eastbourne is the waiting room

i thought most were all ready there but nobody had told them 

[thebishman]

Pmsl sorry it was eastbourne i meant. Got them mixed up

[VapingBad]

Feb 27, 2016 14:54:56 GMT thebishman said:

Ah ok...if you get the 2nd hand caliper then make sure you remove clean and grease the sliders before fitting. You know what will happen in 3months time if you dont lol

[thebishman]

Nothing wrong with that lol

[flavourtank]

Feb 27, 2016 14:54:56 GMT thebishman said:

Ah ok...if you get the 2nd hand caliper then make sure you remove clean and grease the sliders before fitting. You know what will happen in 3months time if you dont lol

I'll give it a good clean, I've got a mechanic that's doing the fuel lines that's going to glow plugs as they've split so he said he will fit the new caliper.

[thebishman]

Fuel to glow plugs??

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Feb 27, 2016 15:07:40 GMT thebishman said:

Nothing wrong with that lol

I think thats the new fully floating version 

[flavourtank]

Feb 27, 2016 15:08:39 GMT thebishman said:

Fuel to glow plugs??

it's fuel pipes under bonnet, it's a diesel engine,

[thebishman]

Glow plugs dont have fuel lines.

[VapingBad]

Feb 27, 2016 15:09:37 GMT @broadblaster said:

Feb 27, 2016 15:07:40 GMT thebishman said:

Nothing wrong with that lol

I think thats the new fully floating version 

Air breaks

[flavourtank]

Feb 27, 2016 15:13:25 GMT thebishman said:

Glow plugs dont have fuel lines.

it's some fuel line, they are a braded type material it does something but it's leaking lol

[thebishman]

Ah ok! Lol. Return lines from injectors is my guess

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Feb 27, 2016 15:16:53 GMT VapingBad said:

Feb 27, 2016 15:09:37 GMT @broadblaster said:

I think thats the new fully floating version 

Air breaks

Or it could be like that to aid in the cooling of them   i do like a new invention.

[flavourtank]

Feb 27, 2016 15:18:14 GMT thebishman said:

Ah ok! Lol. Return lines from injectors is my guess

yeah I think that's it lol that's an area I don't touch as I will bugger it up lol

[nanotm]

Feb 27, 2016 13:34:36 GMT yahoo2u2 said:

I just hate working on modern cars. Everything that should be a simple job ends in needing special tools, ramps, removing large amounts of kit.


for example my freelander 2 the front washers packed in this week, now checked fuses, fine, so its got to be either a blockage, pump or electrical.


To get in you have to try and remove the wheel, the inside wheel liners, of course the car does not come with a spare so no jack and no wheel brace. So I had to try and work in a space for a hamster with hands now cut to bits.


To do it properly to access the pumps and check the electrics I should have done this? (see pic) and it could be the stalk problem, but you cant check this until you get to the pump electric connector to check.


This is not my car, but what someone posted to help.


WTF, its a £10 pump that needs replacing and about 3 hours labour. I sorted this by using the rear pump to drive the front by swapping the hoses as this is more important.


But these are parts that do go often and to have to all this is ridiculous.


Same problems trying to change a bloody bulb.

the last car I worked on was in 2009 when a lad I knew got reversed into by a landrover, his 6 month old brand new pice of junk looked like the mid section of a closed accordion ... but he needed to swap out the arfetmarket stereo system before the insurers saw it ..... nothing like my old espace that would of just needed a new lump of fibreglass cos the caseing would of disintegrated....