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Started by TurboTomato , Mar 15 2006 06:52 PM

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#621 Guest_AntB (Guest)

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Posted 20 August 2007 - 07:40 PM

Ant, at what temperature do i really have to add a bit of petrol? :)
Coldest these past few days as been ITRO 12 degrees C.


depends how much you like having to turn it over endlessly.... i'll probably be chucking in some petrol when it gets to 12 degrees, it sometimes helps to start with a bit of dinodiesel and then move onto petrol when it gets really cold.

chuffing clutch has begun to stick again, so i wound it out a bit on the cable. there was corrosion everywhere from where the battery leaked the other week... i don't know if that has made it worse, my only consolation being that at least the battery acid can't eat through any of the clutch mechanism, but it does look like it'll need changing soon... James? help please? you have done one before after all :P

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Posted 20 August 2007 - 08:03 PM


Ant, at what temperature do i really have to add a bit of petrol? :)
Coldest these past few days as been ITRO 12 degrees C.


depends how much you like having to turn it over endlessly.... i'll probably be chucking in some petrol when it gets to 12 degrees, it sometimes helps to start with a bit of dinodiesel and then move onto petrol when it gets really cold.

chuffing clutch has begun to stick again, so i wound it out a bit on the cable. there was corrosion everywhere from where the battery leaked the other week... i don't know if that has made it worse, my only consolation being that at least the battery acid can't eat through any of the clutch mechanism, but it does look like it'll need changing soon... James? help please? you have done one before after all :P


we can do a clutch in a day. 54 quid :D

happy days.

A bit of stick is fine. When you run out of travel on the adjuster we'll stick a new one in. thumbsup

Edited by JamesGray, 20 August 2007 - 08:03 PM.

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Posted 11 September 2007 - 09:50 PM

cars i own: two number sitting in my garage i can rely on: zero technically the vx is fine, it's just at PLANS' getting armourfended thumbsup the shed is fcuked though, gear selection being not what it was and mostly closer to four forward gears than five :( going back to the garage next week to get sorted properly, looks like i may be borrowing the girlfriend's ka in the meantime :rolleyes: possibly time to replace the once mighty shed. currently VERY tempted by an e39 2.5td beemer, as long as i can establish the situation with their fuel tank sensors......

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Posted 12 September 2007 - 09:08 AM

its not that hard to adjust it! just think of all the thing that you don't have on the corsa that are going to go wrong on the beemer. We are seriously thinking about getting another veg oil shed. Mine started on a quarter turn this am on the coldest morning so far 8 degrees. Still no petrol aditive. thumbsup

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Posted 12 September 2007 - 12:06 PM

trust me James, it fecking is. first off there's the issue that i don't have a jointed extension bar to my ratchet, then there's the issue of undoing the bolt so that you can get the movement on the lever at the driver's end without over loosening so that the serrated link bar jumps out of its holder, then there's the loosing 1st and 2nd gear and/ or reverse when you're adjusting it. had 4 hours of it over the last two nights and i'm fecking sick of it! it somehow manages to get loose over the following day as well :9mm: i've being doing the bolt up so hard (and at such an awkward angle) that it no longer fits a 13mm spanner socket :9mm: sick to death of the bloody thing! :angry: think i'll need a new bolt now as well :rolleyes: fancy coming down saturday and fixing it for me James? i'll have to have a good think about whether it stays, the beemer would be far nicer, just having a bad time with the shed at the mo :(

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Posted 12 September 2007 - 01:12 PM

It does really need 2 people and it needs locktite and it needs a new bolt. Trust me, i've beeen pissed off with it. You can always give it to me if you want to get rid of it. I'll look after it for you until you decide you need it back :)

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Posted 14 September 2007 - 08:13 AM

I've got a shed finally. It cost £ 275 and smells of dog hair and child sick. It's an "RXE" spec which means badly kerbed alloyes and packed full of malfunctioning french electronics, including a knight rider stylee voice syntheriser which informs me about the ABS fault etc in a plumby English accent with annoying regularity. Posted Image

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Posted 14 September 2007 - 09:58 AM

Top quality french shed thumbsup I await more comedy stories of malfunctioning electronics :D

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Posted 14 September 2007 - 12:44 PM

Here are a couple of soundbites:

recording.amr - 0.01MB

recording 2.amr - 0.02MB

I'll add more as his vocab expands :P

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Posted 14 September 2007 - 03:45 PM

Brilliant :lol: 2nd one is best thumbsup Keep em coming

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Posted 14 September 2007 - 05:03 PM

Shep - top shedding! BTW why is there what appears to be water congretating around each tyre? I hope you havent washed it. :P :lol:

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Posted 15 September 2007 - 10:31 AM

Shep - top shedding!

BTW why is there what appears to be water congretating around each tyre? I hope you havent washed it. :P :lol:


No, of course not! It was first thing in the morning, so I think it's just condensation. I'll confess I have hoovered the inside to try and stop my throat itching.

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Posted 15 September 2007 - 03:14 PM

problem solved by bodging James! there's a small plastic lug on the r/h side of the gear lever (under the gaitor) that limits travel. if you cut it down (using a special surgical angle grinder) it all works fine! thanks for all your help though! i owe you one! :)

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Posted 16 September 2007 - 06:17 AM

Thought i'd fixed it properly :rolleyes:

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Posted 16 September 2007 - 09:14 AM

fraid not James. maybe it's the age of the car, but it just wasn't playing ball :angry: . we'd got fifth back, but second was becoming intermittent as well :9mm: . not to happy that i've bodged it, but at least i have a permanent full compliment of gears now :)

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Posted 16 September 2007 - 09:29 AM

yeah, its a pretty crap design, and i don't think it has anything to do with the age of the car. My white was one, as i was saying yesterday was the same. glad you've fixed it though, i shall do it to mine if i ever have the same problem thumbsup I've just finished fixing the Megane. Starting problem was a dirty crank sensor. The 'vibrating like its about to all fall apart' was down to a bent hear shield on the exhaust, which i think was my fault on the way to our first drinks in crawley or where ever it is. I also cleaned and polished it (few brownie points ;) )

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Posted 16 September 2007 - 10:20 AM

told the Missus about your plan for a low car- outgoings household, she was well impressed. not enough to swap her ka though! :lol:

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Posted 24 September 2007 - 12:40 PM

wish you'd brought some of that 200 litres you've got sitting in your garage on saturday James! there's a veg drought round here! just had to go to sainsburys to get some 3 litre bottles! Tesco were out of everything! sainsburys are 66p a litre! christ! at that cost i'll be filling the car with diesel next!! :o

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Posted 24 September 2007 - 12:48 PM

Interestingly we have a drought here too. I like to keep stocks high, so as i was going past yesterday thought i pick some more up. I used to be fussy and would only buy the plastic containers. I'll have anything soon. K's makro card might be useful soon.

Edited by JG, 24 September 2007 - 01:11 PM.

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Posted 24 September 2007 - 05:18 PM

In the true british way of panic buying i've just added 100L to my stock :lol:
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