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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2020 17:18:41 GMT
The worst thing I did was to drive to work and back for 3 days, 10 miles each way, with only a handbrake and the gears to stop me. I had no money to get the brakes fixed until pay day. Those behind me must have thought there was a right doddering old granddad in front of them. Little did they know. Ha done that also, in the welsh valleys also, big hills! and with only side lights one night from Merthyr to tonypandy coz I couldn’t afford bulbs till payday.
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Post by Clinton Cool on Aug 28, 2020 17:30:34 GMT
The worst thing I did was to drive to work and back for 3 days, 10 miles each way, with only a handbrake and the gears to stop me. I had no money to get the brakes fixed until pay day. Those behind me must have thought there was a right doddering old granddad in front of them. Little did they know. Ha done that also, in the welsh valleys also, big hills! and with only side lights one night from Merthyr to tonypandy coz I couldn’t afford bulbs till payday. How mad were we. Nowadays my recklessness is somewhat limited. I took a bit chunk out of the rear tyre on my bike a couple of weeks ago. I reason that as it hasn't exploded while I go round a corner yet, it's unlikely to in the future.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2020 17:42:06 GMT
It’s the attitude of ‘I’ll be alright’ when we were younger, I still have moments but not as many, plus the mrs makes me see sense.
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Post by JohnV on Aug 29, 2020 7:35:33 GMT
That stuff is worse than useless and all it will ever do is to block the smaller water passages, kill the engine and make it permanently unrepairable. You cannot repair damaged metal by tipping any type of product into the oil or water system. Whilst I would never use these products, I do know a guy that has repaired two leaking head gaskets on high performance bike engines. They did stop leaking. He still owns one of them, 3 years on and several thousand miles later all is still well. I saw the leak prior to him tipping the liquid in. It stopped leaking within an hour. I still wouldn’t use it though, my head says it can’t work, my eyes saw that it does. Used to sail occasionally on a biggish tug (10 ton bollard pull) that suffered from cooling water leaks that there was no money to fix ....... when buying the stores for the next leg of the trip he always ordered an extra 4 dozen eggs for the engine
(but Jeez did it stink !!!)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2020 8:25:26 GMT
Years ago I was with my friend in his nackered Land Rover S2 and we went to Newbury to collect a Rayburn for my narrow boat.
Anyway collected it ok then on way back to Kingston on Thames coming through Southall big crunch from the front end and gearbox would no longer select, only 4th was available. I think it is a design feature ie limp home and it seemed like it was straight through with no reduction.
Southall to Kingston not very far but quite interesting. I remember the smoke from the clutch. And I had to push it a few times specially around Richmond which is hilly.
Did do the job and turned out a bearing had collapsed in the gearbox.
Another time with the same vehicle he was coming back from Newhaven and the steering went. There was half a turn of backlash each way. I wasn't with him but it must have been quite ridiculous keeping it in a straight line.
The joys of scrap cars.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2020 6:26:50 GMT
Im no expert, but when a head gasket went on my wonderful Yanmar YSB sommat it just kept running, fortunately I had a good backup team and managed to recover the engine, it was touch and go, I'd not take a risk, I d ask someone to breast me up to the marina. Best of luck, I also had head gasket on a van, it was on the ramp for two weeks while a proper garage found a crashed vehicle, and got the replacement, did some magic wand sKimming, tested etc, that was £800 for cash (cash saved VAT aparently), I still got a receipt, but for some reason it referred to another vehicle . Really miss a proper garage, with real mechanics, one year he told me I was his best customer! The joys of running old vans in to the ground......
UPDATE read later posts and all looking better, whew. PS I did not realise TD was a man for all seasons, he helped me on my first journey on the Trent, for which I was most grateful.
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