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« on: 15 August 2006, 15:56:32 »Quote
Can you put Kurust on the joints of an exhaust?...... but exhausts generally rot from the inside out.
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Can you put Kurust on the joints of an exhaust?...... but exhausts generally rot from the inside out.
Just sold Project AKeep your fingers crossed the new owner doesn't need advise form an on-line owner's group dedicated to Vx Omegas! :-?
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Sold it for £750
...... So £300 profit for basically 3 full days of work. Yay!!!
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If it helps at all, the weight at the front of a still connected bonnet is 9.5 KG, you will obviously have to allow for the fact that the fulcrum will be carrying some of the weight - not sure what the proportion is (long time since maths at school!), but I would have thought 15kg would be a reasonable max.That doesn't take the gas struts/springs into concideration though. The bonnet on my wife's Astra G catches me out every time cos I have to lift that myself & it's heavy!
In case you are wondering, just went out and used my fishing scales
HTH
Merv
.....Yes! and too fast.
Pity it's a slushbox though, don't they break if you tow them too far? .....
...... but I dont think it will be the last I hear of the seller.As it's unlikely he/she'll turn up on the door step it's not something I'd lose sleep over.
.....Does that include the RWD Ford V8 powered MGZZ.....(what ever it was called)? That one did look nice.
that and the terrible reliability (i used to work in the workshop for a Rover dealer)
....wish I could have afforded thisWhy would you want to buy a FWD car?
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..........So after he'd topped up with the new engine oil he obviously didn't use the dip stick to check the level!
" It only turns out when he changed my engine oil and filter he had took the wrong blooming sump plug out,so the only engine oil that dropped was via the oil filter....so the other oil was the bloody auto box oil....So my engine oil was basically one and a half times over full and my auto box had hardly any in it. ......
.....May the pressure sores on your posterior heal quickly.
It will be an 800-ish mile round trip in an M-reg 1.4 Corsa with 99,900 miles on the clock.
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............... in the Citroen C4 diesel ( 61.9mpg average ) ......I can't manage that off TWO gallons!
...... my 2.2 does....the best its ever done....was 25mpg on a 360 mile run and i dont drive it hard.....
........There's a mind block over manuals. I can't say specifically about manula MV6'/Elites cos I've not driven one but, surely Omegas can't be described a race cars anyway - they're a bit on the big side for slinging around corners. A bloke came into work the other week complaining about having had to queue all the way in. 'Never got out of 3rd, & my leg aches due to the clutch' he says. I suggested he got an auto. 'No bl00dy chance' he said 'I want to be in the gear I want ... not the car' :-/ Go figure that out!!
There seems to be a mind block in this country about passing your test on a manual......
OK, so by pulling the auto stick backwards you can generate some engine braking, but is there a sensible limit to max revs and time you should do this for before something breaks?Theory is that you can select 1st eg at what ever daft speed you want to but ..... the gearbox doesn't actually select that gear untill the car is going slowly enough. I've never tested it though! :-/