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General Discussion Area / Re: Repairing your cordless batteries

« on: 02 January 2014, 16:45:37 »

Another thought, are there better cells I could use?

Best cells to use is a truck battery(s)12-24v.
Here's how. The auto spark at my work bought a brand new top of the range snap-on impact driver minus the i-on battery (18 volt)for £50.00 from the snap-on rep he then attached a 6 metre flex to the terminals inside the gun and put clips on the other end and all he has to do is connect it to either 12 or 24 volt set up (truck,bus or van etc).
When I asked him how it worked he said great best £50 he ever spent he said that because it's 18v and has a forward reverse function on it,it doesn't matter how you connect it to the battery and you get away with running it on 12v or 24v. This also works with normal battery drills and he recommends only doing it on a 18v or more drill.   

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General Discussion Area / Re: Poor Celtic

« on: 12 December 2013, 18:54:04 »

Shame it wasn't Rangers that humped them

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General Discussion Area / Re: Category C LGV Training

« on: 30 November 2013, 06:52:49 »

Aberdeen is where the money is at the mo for hgv drivers a former work mate left a driving job with the council to drive from Stonehaven to Fraserburgh on Saturday and Sundays and he's clearing £600 a weekend (Shell paying the wages,meals and digs)

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General Car Chat / Re: HGVs 'Overtaking'

« on: 24 November 2013, 11:22:29 »

I think overtaking for LGVs should be banned between the hours of 7am and 7pm

The between A41 Chester and Whitchurch poxes me off. You get stuck behind 2 LGV doing 40mph and the second LGV is right up the chuff of the first so mo gap to nip into should you run out of road when over taking so your stuck for 20 miles. Then you get the sign for a dual carriageway in 1 mile, brilliant. You get to the dual carriageway and the second truck pulls out to overtake the first truck but the driver has burried his foot so they accelerate at the same speed. The overtaking truck either gets past very slowly at the end of the dual carriageway leaving you stranded at the side of the first truck and there's no way he's going to be letting you in or the second truck has to pull back in and everything goes back to how it was for the last 20 miles.
My question is. If the first LGV driver was happy doing 40mph for the last 20 miles why bury the throttle for a mile of dual carriageway

single carrageway 40mph ,dual 50 ,motorway 60

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General Car Chat / Re: Skoda 2.5v6 wheasel possible prob??

« on: 10 November 2013, 11:40:04 »

When was the last time the fuel filter was changed.
Or when was it last serviced.

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General Car Chat / Re: Diesel MPG?

« on: 04 November 2013, 19:31:15 »

15-20mpg around town  my disco 1 gets 29mpg.
Why not get a golf gt tdi with the PD engine I get around 37mpg around town.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Heating oil prices.

« on: 04 November 2013, 19:25:46 »

Well if I had a mansion not I would plant a 36000l tank below ground as you would get another 20% discount when you buy tanker load

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General Discussion Area / Re: gps blocker

« on: 19 August 2013, 10:07:19 »

Don't know if worked, but some of the guys I used to work with fashioned a piece of lead sheeting to cover the gps unit , blocking the signal , sounds good in theory?

Tinfoil wrapped around the black box after you disconnect the gsm and gps ariels and don't pull the two power feeds out as this will set of an alarm. Most ive come across are in the dashboard as the take power of the battery directly and also the radio so when you turn on the ignition it activates the tracker. This works on the tom tom system

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Omega General Help / Re: TD Fuel leak

« on: 30 July 2013, 06:54:57 »

Try number 6 leak off pipe more so the small blanking cap

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Meetings, gatherings, parties etc / Re: Scotland Meet, Any Intrest??

« on: 11 June 2013, 06:46:07 »

Sunday the 23 June

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Meetings, gatherings, parties etc / Re: Scotland Meet, Any Intrest??

« on: 09 June 2013, 06:51:29 »

What time are we meeting at Stirling services then (about 1ish)

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Meetings, gatherings, parties etc / Re: Scotland Meet, Any Intrest??

« on: 07 June 2013, 20:56:47 »

Yip me to for the 16th and i'm going to bring my sennyA just passed it's mot yesterday woohoo.
Jim (laird)are you bringing a flask with hot water this time just incase your wee stove spits flames out again pmsl (I'll bring the biccys)

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Omega General Help / Re: facelift 2.5td rear susp

« on: 30 May 2013, 07:05:12 »

ps just got through my first 20litre batch of filtered blended WVO this week, running like a champ.
Would you run the engine with no oil in the sump?
This is what your doing by putting veggie in you fuel tank.The injector pump is lubricated with the oil in proper diesel.
You could add a small amount of two stroke to the veggie mix but as said these hate veggie

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Meetings, gatherings, parties etc / Re: Scotland Meet, Any Intrest??

« on: 21 May 2013, 20:37:45 »

Ave got the balls to name a date
Sunday 26th May (yip this Sunday lol)

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Omega General Help / Re: poor power 2.5 td

« on: 10 May 2013, 06:54:46 »

It does seem like its trying to stall when I change gear. Got a flat spot then picks up again. I will see if I can source a second hand pump from somewhere if the diesel treatment doesnt work. The guy I bought it off was running it on used cooking oil so thats probably whats done it. Never mind. I will drive it til it dies if I cant get another pump.

Theres the answer to your problem (cooking oil) these engines hate it. the fuel pump will be knackered because diesel lubricates the guts of the pump where as cooking oil doesn't.
It's the same as running the engine with no oil.
Theres no point wasting money on diesel magic it won't work