Threadlock on wheel nuts

[Ubique]

After dealing with seized ford taper seat plugs I've always put a dab of copperslip on plugs.

Likely only siezed because they've been over-torqued in the first place...

 

[Farside]

RS-whatever are 'sensitive souls' to all kind of things, along with Merc. A35/45's they are incredibly intolerant to 'standard' petrol - there's a suitable warning in the owners manual about it (along with an advisory of don't drink the starter battery contents...) The real prima-donna's are the R8's (and their finance payers) which need the plugs changing within a specific temperature range otherwise they will happily misfire until something melts.

Makes me glad I don't have one of them.

 

[premmington]

Makes me glad I don't have one of them.

Me too....!

 

[Ubique]

Me Three....

 

[Ubique]

I think the only reason I enjoy working on German cars is it gives me more time / reason to hate them! - and working at a German car specialist, I'm not alone in that sentiment...

 

[keithski122]

Ford 1.25 engines only ones I have had a problem with - I got box of thread inserts somewhere.

I'm going back to old cortina days.No crush washer on the plugs and had to airgun some out.

 

[m_c]

Likely only siezed because they've been over-torqued in the first place...

It was a common issue on the old CVH? engine, that still had a cast iron head, as they'd seize in due to corrosion.
My employer at the time bought a batch of Ka vans with the old engine, and they had that many issues changing them at the official interval, it got added to every service where they weren't due to be replaced, to remove, grease, and refit.

 

[voipio]

Talking of torque, Lidl middle aisle from Thursday:

Parkside Digital Torque Adaptor - | Lidl UK

Parkside Digital Torque Adaptor - For digital display of the current torque Adjustable target torque value with audible and visual alarm Units of

www.lidl.co.uk

Bought one of these today :-)

For anyone that might be interested:

The quoted range is 40-200 N.m, corresponding to the preset range, settable using the + and - buttons, giving a pulsed buzzer and green LED (approaching set point) and continuous buzzer and red LED (at and above set point).

It will happily read down to about 1 N.m with a resolution of 0.1 N.m.

By way of a quick check on accuracy, a 2kg mass placed at 226mm horizontally from the centre of the longitudinal axis which, according to my calculations, should equate to a torque of 4.434 N.m, gives a reading of 4.4 N.m on the display.

The display is backlit LCD, and a bit difficult to read in broad daylight, but fine indoors.

The moulded symbols on the rubber buttons are all but impossible to read, but easy enough to remember, or work out what they do.