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Johnnybravo
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Made good progress on getting the 5 axis Cnc lathe recommissioned. Now ready for reinstalling all the parameters 
Barking Mat
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Where's the thread for stuff you've tried to fix today?
Clio II, 1.6 petrol, power steering and air con. Eventually fought the starter motor out, bloody nightmare.
New starter motor, well, it's half way in, but no further. Just won't go.
Spoke to local garagist, he had the same issue, ended up pulling the transmission shaft.
Really, don't want to do that...
Want to cry....
So inaccessible...
Clio II, 1.6 petrol, power steering and air con. Eventually fought the starter motor out, bloody nightmare.
New starter motor, well, it's half way in, but no further. Just won't go.
Spoke to local garagist, he had the same issue, ended up pulling the transmission shaft.
Really, don't want to do that...
Want to cry....
So inaccessible...
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Melvyn Best
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That’s French cars for you
Barking Mat
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I'll get the pry bar out tomorrow, a crow bar, and a lump hammer........
grim_d
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Not as bad as the sport variant, that engine is properly shoehorned in there, everything is a nightmare.
Barking Mat
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I'm putting it off till tomorrow, clear head, and all that.
Scrapped a Volvo 440, as the starter motor was UTTERLY inaccessible, not even Volvo would touch it....
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Barking Mat
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And a rat.Why do I get a vision of Basil Fawlty?
Made good progress on getting the 5 axis Cnc lathe recommissioned. Now ready for reinstalling all the parameters
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No wonder it’s showing ‘not ready’ Johnny, there’s at least 20 tag eyes left disconnected on that power supply
Johnnybravo
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All connected before switching on. Had it totally out to replace all the caps
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Fixing, not fixed... Car needed a timing belt service and a few other things, and had started to make threatening rattling noises. I couldn't get anyone to do it before November so reluctantly decided to do it myself. Also my pride was piqued by a supposed jag specialist who said the engine had to come out. What absolute utter crap! Yes it's a nasty job that needs the radiator pulled just to make enough space to work in, but it's not horrendous.
Anyway I'm waiting for the timing keys to come Monday, hopefully get it back together then. Found 3 bad bearings so far, one of them the water pump and one of them the cambelt tensioner, so definitely needed doing...!
Anyway I'm waiting for the timing keys to come Monday, hopefully get it back together then. Found 3 bad bearings so far, one of them the water pump and one of them the cambelt tensioner, so definitely needed doing...!
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I stupidly offered to fix a Renault 19 16v clutch cable for my sister in laws dopey boyfriend in a Tesco carpark! What a poxy job! Never again and never have I bought a Renault after that .
I think the first thing to be installed in the engine bay at the factory was the clutch cable followed by everything else
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Yesterday was a busy day, guests who left me many items, finished a few on going projects.
Had a few beers.
One of my on going projects is to make a set of files up "On how to do........"
Small file, reclaimed handle.
Bit of heat. The trick is to get the small end hotter than the file end.
When you fit the handle, you want it to slide on. Some times the wood "Screams" as the handle goes on.
Yay. A worm free plane, the blade was sharp, the wedge was easy to fit.
Oh.
This is not good. It goes the whole length of the body.
So nowt to do.
But to clean it up and use it as a display item.
This plane arrived with no blade, wedge and worm.
The worm was treated by:
20 mins. in 90 secs. burst in the micro wave.
Then 4 hours in the vacuum bag with liquid worm killer.
Had a few beers.
One of my on going projects is to make a set of files up "On how to do........"
Small file, reclaimed handle.
Bit of heat. The trick is to get the small end hotter than the file end.
When you fit the handle, you want it to slide on. Some times the wood "Screams" as the handle goes on.
Yay. A worm free plane, the blade was sharp, the wedge was easy to fit.
Oh.
This is not good. It goes the whole length of the body.
So nowt to do.
But to clean it up and use it as a display item.
This plane arrived with no blade, wedge and worm.
The worm was treated by:
20 mins. in 90 secs. burst in the micro wave.
Then 4 hours in the vacuum bag with liquid worm killer.
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another tip with the hot file tang method........stick a pair of gloves on when you put the handle on............I remember as an apprentice being shown this method, but negelected put some gloves on
the wood stain residue took weeks to wear off my hands
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i hate..........with a vengeance working on "modern" cars.........best of luck
I think they had the same arrangement as the 11. Original cable lasted years, the genuine replacement a year or so and was a right pain to fit.I stupidly offered to fix a Renault 19 16v clutch cable for my sister in laws dopey boyfriend in a Tesco carpark! What a poxy job! Never again and never have I bought a Renault after that .
I think the first thing to be installed in the engine bay at the factory was the clutch cable followed by everything else
Yet my sisters then husband, the least mechanically minded person you could ever meet, managed to fit the next one outside their house at the side of the road
Lancia integrale is the worst car I've owned for access to anything in the engine bay - including the gearbox oil dipstick on a 16V version . . . take an engine bay designed in the 70's for a 1300 single cam single carb engine with a FWD gearbox - and jam a turbo charged 2-litre twincam fuel injected engine connected to a 4WD box with power steering . . . if you ever go look at one, open the bonnet - look at the passenger side chassis leg alongside the engine - its there' a dent, it's where the person gave up attempting to fit the timing belt by the manual and simply levered the engine over with a big lump of something.
