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General Discussion Area / Re: Career roundabout
« on: 12 July 2007, 22:03:14 »Quote
I reckon I'm close
To the edge of your seat? Yeah, me too
Kevin
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To the edge of your seat? Yeah, me too
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: Career roundabout
« on: 11 July 2007, 21:19:28 »
Not Mike Brewer then?
You're not going to be standing in for Ed China and doing lots of project Omegas on telly?
Kevin
You're not going to be standing in for Ed China and doing lots of project Omegas on telly?
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: Royal mail strike = no valves :(
« on: 13 July 2007, 12:09:40 »
The fact that the Royal Mail tracking web site is up at all is quite a result. Having your parcel delivered would be too much to expect!
Last time I tried to track a parcel their web site said that their whole IT infrastructure had been taken out by a virus!
Phoned them up and asked them to track it and they said ALL their computers had been taken out so your guess is as good as mine. 
Kevin
Last time I tried to track a parcel their web site said that their whole IT infrastructure had been taken out by a virus!
Phoned them up and asked them to track it and they said ALL their computers had been taken out so your guess is as good as mine. Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: Had A Big Shouting Match With VX LOL
« on: 12 July 2007, 14:19:50 »
Classic.
Typical of a little squirt with a little empire and everything he says goes!
Sounds like you found a nice, helpful bloke in the end, though.
I should hope steering boxes never go wrong at that price
Kevin
Typical of a little squirt with a little empire and everything he says goes!
Sounds like you found a nice, helpful bloke in the end, though.
I should hope steering boxes never go wrong at that price
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: Whats the best way to clean.....
« on: 10 July 2007, 23:00:08 »
Dishwasher powder is good. Lob some in with a bit of hot water, cover holes and give it a good shake. If that doesn't shift it immediately give it a soak.
Kevin
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: DSL Uptime
« on: 12 July 2007, 14:33:07 »Quote
Yes, Zen Internet, on a legacy product - the MaxDSL products are much less stable (and often slower) if my BT MaxDSL line is anything to go by.
Will have to keep an eye on that. There's no route back to the product I was on so if I'm not happy with it there may be an ultimatum.
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: DSL Uptime
« on: 12 July 2007, 14:15:23 »
Very nice indeed!
Do I recall you saying that's a Zen service?
Just regraded mine to 8mb so we'll see how that goes. It very very rarely went down when it was 576kb/s. Have been really happy with them.
Kevin
Do I recall you saying that's a Zen service?
Just regraded mine to 8mb so we'll see how that goes. It very very rarely went down when it was 576kb/s. Have been really happy with them.
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: Do cars have a soul?
« on: 11 July 2007, 22:14:14 »Quote
However many years ago i had an Austin 1300GT.
Don't know why but. That just threw up a memory of John Cleese thrashing his with a branch from a tree in "Fawlty Towers".
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: SH*T
« on: 09 July 2007, 13:17:01 »
Oh, dear.. 
Still, look on the bright side. If technology had progressed to the point where cars have retina scans for entry you'd be bound to lose a retina. And that sounds much more painful.
... goes to check spare key is still hanging in the cupboard under the stairs...
Kevin
Still, look on the bright side. If technology had progressed to the point where cars have retina scans for entry you'd be bound to lose a retina. And that sounds much more painful.
... goes to check spare key is still hanging in the cupboard under the stairs...
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: I've stripped the Veccy Head....
« on: 11 July 2007, 21:38:20 »
A loose injector plug would be a nice easy fix.
If it still plays up just get an injector from a scrapper. I've had plenty of good injectors from the scrap yard. as long as the car hasn't been sitting for months with old fuel in it. If it's not perfect it'll only have to run on it during warmup as you say.
Kevin
If it still plays up just get an injector from a scrapper. I've had plenty of good injectors from the scrap yard. as long as the car hasn't been sitting for months with old fuel in it. If it's not perfect it'll only have to run on it during warmup as you say.
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: I've stripped the Veccy Head....
« on: 11 July 2007, 14:14:32 »
Wasn't the no.3 injector fault code electrical (i.e. injector low / high resistance)?
I'd at least measure the resistance of each injector coil and ensure they are the same. It could just be that no.3 injector was on its' way out and getting lazy, no. 3 cylinder ran lean when on petrol as a result hence poor running on petrol, OK on gas. Then the lean running killed the valve and poor(!) running on both LPG and petrol henceforth.
It'd be a shame to bu66er an newly rebuilt head due to the lean running not being sorted
In fact, while you've got the head off it's an ideal time to get the injectors cleaned and flow tested.
Kevin
I'd at least measure the resistance of each injector coil and ensure they are the same. It could just be that no.3 injector was on its' way out and getting lazy, no. 3 cylinder ran lean when on petrol as a result hence poor running on petrol, OK on gas. Then the lean running killed the valve and poor(!) running on both LPG and petrol henceforth.
It'd be a shame to bu66er an newly rebuilt head due to the lean running not being sorted
In fact, while you've got the head off it's an ideal time to get the injectors cleaned and flow tested.
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: Do I really need new valves?
« on: 11 July 2007, 16:35:27 »
Problem is, it's easy to regret taking short cuts when you've rebuilt an engine and very difficult, expensive and time consuming to go back and correct it.
One of the exhaust valves failed in a big way. At least one of the other exhaust valves has been through exactly the same life as the failed valve, because it was in the same cylinder. The other 6 may well have been through the same. Depends exactly what caused the failure.
It could be that the failed valve was defective in some way and that the others are fine. It also could be that they're all at the end of their life and about to do the same. There's no real way of knowing how fatigued they are, even if they appear perfect.
An alternative mode of valve failure is that the head drops off and trashes the piston, head and block.
The package of gaskets plus valves on EBay looked very good value and I would certainly be replacing the whole lot if it were me, just for the knowledge that I haven't left anything in the engine that could bite me in the @rse one day. Maybe I'm just over-cautious.
Kevin
One of the exhaust valves failed in a big way. At least one of the other exhaust valves has been through exactly the same life as the failed valve, because it was in the same cylinder. The other 6 may well have been through the same. Depends exactly what caused the failure.
It could be that the failed valve was defective in some way and that the others are fine. It also could be that they're all at the end of their life and about to do the same. There's no real way of knowing how fatigued they are, even if they appear perfect.
An alternative mode of valve failure is that the head drops off and trashes the piston, head and block.
The package of gaskets plus valves on EBay looked very good value and I would certainly be replacing the whole lot if it were me, just for the knowledge that I haven't left anything in the engine that could bite me in the @rse one day. Maybe I'm just over-cautious.
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: Today I bought...........
« on: 11 July 2007, 16:13:21 »Quote
Yes, this is for our Mondeo in South Africa. The only one in the country...
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I'm sure that, when I visited my mate in Cape Town in September, he had a Mondeo in his garage.
Maybe there are two
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: Valves - HOW MUCH!!!!!
« on: 10 July 2007, 16:32:46 »
54 quid a valve is total lunacy.
I would investigate getting them elsewhere. Failing that, buy a head from a scrappies and clean up the valves from that.
Kevin
I would investigate getting them elsewhere. Failing that, buy a head from a scrappies and clean up the valves from that.
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: Valves - HOW MUCH!!!!!
« on: 10 July 2007, 16:12:10 »
Are you sure £54's not for a complete set?
I took a set of 16 valves out to Cape Town for a mate of mine when I went there on honeymoon. These were specials of non-standard size and material for a tuned engine and the total cost for 16 was only about double that!
I'd expect £7-10 per valve or so.
Kevin
I took a set of 16 valves out to Cape Town for a mate of mine when I went there on honeymoon. These were specials of non-standard size and material for a tuned engine and the total cost for 16 was only about double that!
I'd expect £7-10 per valve or so.
Kevin