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Omega General Help / Re: Oil treatment: seal conditioner

« on: 16 May 2014, 09:19:43 »

BB, if your comment was for my benefit, I thank you, but as I have had the car for the last  5 years/50k miles and the leak has only started in the last 1,00 miles and the gearbox has never been out in all my ownership, maybe never at all, could it still be the cause?

Ron.

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Omega General Help / Re: Oil treatment: seal conditioner

« on: 15 May 2014, 19:09:24 »

Andy, well done for being one up on the "I'm a cyclist" lycra louts! You now have immunity from extermination; and thanks for your wishes re the leak.

Ron.

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Omega General Help / Re: Oil treatment: seal conditioner

« on: 15 May 2014, 18:23:53 »

DrAndy, if you don't ride on pavements, jump lights and feel that traffic laws do not apply to you, I will refrain from leaving YOUR blood on the higheway!

Ron.

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Omega General Help / Re: Oil treatment: seal conditioner

« on: 15 May 2014, 15:57:54 »

How mean of you, Mr. Gixer: now, if you had written "trail of blood from demolished cyclists"......
More seriously, I take your point about fixing the leak, but the problem is I can't determine where it is. On the garage's ramp, it seems to be coming from what looks like a blanking plate near the bell-housing, above the oil level (hence why it only leaks when the engine is running?), but there isn't anything to undo, just a cap in the casting?
I can't really top it up on my drive, as it slopes too much to get the level right, and I'm too fat to get under the car anyway, even if I had ramps!
I'm getting close to parting with the car, as this regular expense is getting too much.....

Ron.

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Omega General Help / Re: Oil treatment: seal conditioner

« on: 15 May 2014, 10:58:50 »

I have an oil leak in my autobox, such that I have to have my garage top it up monthly (I can't get under the car to do it myself and they charge me £20 a time, with me supplying the ATF!) and I've used Wynn's Oil Seal Renovator firstly and then Lucas Seal Reconditioner - posh and expensive - and neither made a scrap of difference.
On wet roads, you can see a trail of where I've been!

Ron.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Ebay Spam

« on: 14 May 2014, 14:15:53 »

Emd, I'm sure you don't need telling (but I'll tell you anyway!) that any legitimate company will NEVER ask you for personal or account details, and most will address you by name (NOT "Dear Customer").

Ron

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General Discussion Area / Re: DIY Question

« on: 12 May 2014, 22:43:41 »

Agreed, I would use Boss White, mainly because I always seem to get PTFE tape everywhere except in the threads it is meant to go in.
Is that just me?

Ron.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Should i complain ?

« on: 12 May 2014, 15:37:09 »

I just KNEW somebody would make that observation; did it have to be you?!!!
 

Ron.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Should i complain ?

« on: 12 May 2014, 14:55:48 »

Remember how HUGE Wagon Wheels used to be?
I wonder if they still make them, or have they shrunk out of sight......

Ron.

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General Discussion Area / Re: DIY Question

« on: 12 May 2014, 12:04:35 »

Andy beat me to it in recommending a hole saw, Kate, but sometimes Lidl/Aldi do boxed sets of hole saws for a very reasonable price; you just need for them to be offering them in their "specials" when you actually want them.

Ron.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Official complaint to admin...

« on: 11 May 2014, 08:46:11 »

I thought the place we cant spell was part of Reading and the capital was Slough 

Slough? As John Betjeman once wrote:-
"Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,"
and Reading/Reading would surely get the collateral damage from such a bombing raid...

Ron.
 

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General Discussion Area / Re: To do or not to do ???

« on: 10 May 2014, 22:50:36 »

"terbert", you are correct in saying that rust treatment products converted iron oxide chemically, but not sure about magnesium. Most were based on phosphoric acid, which converted the iron oxide into iron phosphate - black, as you say - and rendered it inert.
Then wash and prime, which is where Kurust comes in, if it is still made? Was it lead-based?

Ron.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Please Vote for Izzy

« on: 10 May 2014, 11:34:12 »

Yep, me too!
 

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General Discussion Area / Re: RobG

« on: 10 May 2014, 09:07:20 »

May I add my thanks - cam covers just received, along with good advice, although I'm still nervous about doing the job!
Rob, I'm still interested in that AR 35 autobox, but as you know transport is a problem, coupled with not having anyone to do the job of swapping it over with my leaking AR 25; I may have to pass up this opportunity, sadly.

Ron.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Vinyl Sheet Flooring (Lino) on kitchen walls?

« on: 09 May 2014, 18:48:24 »

I can imagine those comments - reminds me of an old joke, too rude for here!
If what you are putting up is as stiff as I remember lino to be, it won't flop all over the place or show dirty patches and if you wear surgical vinyl gloves YOU won't be stuck-up, so surely it's worth a try, rather than the extra expense of using panels and the effort in cutting them to size as well?

Ron.