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Can anyone tell me please, if the gasket under the plate for the fuel pump and the one on the locking piece, can be reused? The wifes Estate Omega smells of petrol. When switched off. She hasn't overfilled it, as I asked. Fuel cap is ok and the seals inside the filler area look OK. I have looked under the inspection plate. The top of the fuel pump plate, with the two outlets is dry. So was going to check underneath the plate, incase the pipes have rotted. (I hope not, only found one replacement, so far and it is stupid money.)
If the pipes are OK is there anywhere else I can look? The smell is definately from the back of the car.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Addy
). See you've checked your pump cover though.
OK, the CD won't have Bose (unless you've retro fitted it).
Given the age of these radios now, the EEPROMS seem to be failing a little. Sometimes refreshing them helps, sometimes that can end in tears.
I'd be inclined to try to live with it TBH.
CDR2005 is not Bose-able. Is this in your Elite, or CD ?
Fitting a non Bose HU to a car with a Bose amp will make the volume loud, and each click of the volume makes a large difference in volume.
Is it a non Bose radio in a Bose equipped car?
Almost certainly pushed back then. How much depends on the original impact.
The fact you have to force the bonnet, however slightly confirms that things are out of whack.
I bought one of these before Christmas : https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234199171649
DeWalt DCF901. If you put it in your 'watch list' and leave it there for a week or two, they will send you a special offer - I think I paid £159 in the end.
For occasonal use it's fine - small and will get into places the larger guns won't. Only 12V, but a 5Ah battery gives it enough grunt for what I want. I only really use it for undoing things - stuff like wheel nuts - which it spins off no trouble at all. Doubt it would do a crank bolt, but then I doubt any of the 250Nm guns would. I don't like doing things up with impact guns - I prefer to know how tight I'm doing them up.
One thing I will say is that performance is much better with good real impact sockets, rather than normal ratchet sockets. Impact sockets are much more rigid, whereas normal sockets are quite 'springy'. The springy-ness absorbs some of the 'impact' and makes them less effective. So budget for a decent set of deep impact sockets too.
It's always worth checking that the pin and spring on the bonnet are in good condition, clean and lubricated as well as the mechanism on the crossmember
Apart from general lubrication, how else can you determine if the spring is ok? I generally give them a bit of oil or spray grease every so often, same with door hinges and catches and anything else that moves/pivots is a hinge.
Check that the spring isn't rusted to the retaining cap or broken, and that there isn't any crap caught in it.
The pin needs to be straight, reasonably clean, greased and burr free where it slots into the latch. They usually screw in or out to provide the bonnet closed height adjustment, so if the car has been damaged at the grill/headlight height that might be necessary.
It only takes minor faults with any of these to make the whole assembly reluctant to release.
I use an older DeWalt one, mainly because it matches the rest of my cordless tools, but also because its small bodied, so can get in tighter spaces.
It's claimed to be something like 185Nm, but tests with my torque wrench put in nearer 150Nm. Most of the others I've tried that claim 10,000,000Nm achieve about the same, or less.
Obviously, I can't recommend mine as its no longer made, but I'd say you want:
A genuine >150Nm - this may not be enough for everything, so you may have to crack some bolts with a ratchet first, but enough for most.
A small body - to get in tighter areas
A variable trigger - essential for doing stuff back up without cross threading or over tightening.
It's always worth checking that the pin and spring on the bonnet are in good condition, clean and lubricated as well as the mechanism on the crossmember
Grifter - with the trick aren't you rising a cracked light?
