I wish I'd known you were doing this, I could've lent you my tool, or even sold it to you cheap given I no longer have an Alfa Multiair.
Yeah, I probably would have bought it off you. You can get cheap Chinese kits for £40 or so, but I found a laser tools kit, used, but probably only once, for £50 which I was happy enough with. Was about £100 all in for belt, tensioner, aux belt and locking tool, so still considerably cheaper than paying someone else to do it.
My mum now has a multiair giulietta, and I'm planning on keeping the mito a while so may get another couple of uses out of it.
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2019 7:49 pm
by Simon
19 years ago the Rover garage replaced the HG on my VVC coupe. When they put it back together upon startup it made a loud 'click'. I immediately went back into the dealership and they were like 'that can't have been us, etc etc'. BS I said. After some investigation they suggested they commission and independent report to find the fault, to which I agreed.
Lo and behold when they put the head back they'd used sealant, some of which had blocked the oilways. Result was that the 4 inlet camshafts had to be replaced at their cost. Numpties.
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2019 7:56 pm
by integrale_evo
My grandad passed away late last year. Part of sorting the estate will be clearing out the barns.
The first thing which needs to move is the biggest tractor, been sat for probably 10 years.
The battery left connected was obviously dead, I tried jump starting it with a car battery but couldn't get any more than a couple of turns out of it.
Had a poke about, found bleed screws on top of the fuel filters, found a little hand prime lever on the pump on the other side of the engine and wiggles that until fuel cars out of the bleed screws.
After fully charging a spare battery I took the side cover off to get the massive tractor battery out, connecting the car battery directly to the terminals, then used jump leads to a second one.
It turned over and fired straight into a sewing machine smooth idle with no smoke! Then the alternator belt started squeezing, so I tightened it, then after it had been running a while it started squeezing again. Should be able to pick a new one up cheap enough.
I figured out the basic controls ( still no idea what most of the other levers do ) and moved it back a couple of feet, then forward a couple of feet.
Today I spent and hour and a bit scraping out the floor tracks for the sliding doors, eventually getting them both open and got the tractor out in the fresh air
I wish I'd known you were doing this, I could've lent you my tool, or even sold it to you cheap given I no longer have an Alfa Multiair.
Yeah, I probably would have bought it off you. You can get cheap Chinese kits for £40 or so, but I found a laser tools kit, used, but probably only once, for £50 which I was happy enough with. Was about £100 all in for belt, tensioner, aux belt and locking tool, so still considerably cheaper than paying someone else to do it.
My mum now has a multiair giulietta, and I'm planning on keeping the mito a while so may get another couple of uses out of it.
Yeah, mine’s the Laser one. I’ll have to stick it on eBay.
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2019 2:58 am
by JLv3.0
Simon wrote: Mon Apr 08, 2019 7:49 pmResult was that the 4 inlet camshafts
McSwede wrote: Mon Apr 08, 2019 11:25 am
I'm in at BMW for the M140i's first service. Apparently my oil filter has fallen apart inside the housing when they have tried to remove it meaning my car needs an oil filter housing that they do not have in stock. Marvelous!
No loan cars available due to lots of DPF warranty work so I'm in an Astra SRi Turbo from Enterprise. Woo hoo! TBF it goes quite well and cruises the M/way fine enough so it'll do until 5pm tomorrow.
You realise if that was genuinely the case then you have filter element parts in your oil galleries? Generally it goes directly to the mains. Ask them to explain exactly what was done.
Just did a full set of mains and big ends after the customer was washing oil filters and it broke down after too many washes.
This is why I drive from my house to Bristol on any jobs I just don’t want to fight.
Dave!
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2019 8:57 am
by V8Granite
integrale_evo wrote: Mon Apr 08, 2019 7:56 pm
My grandad passed away late last year. Part of sorting the estate will be clearing out the barns.
The first thing which needs to move is the biggest tractor, been sat for probably 10 years.
The battery left connected was obviously dead, I tried jump starting it with a car battery but couldn't get any more than a couple of turns out of it.
Had a poke about, found bleed screws on top of the fuel filters, found a little hand prime lever on the pump on the other side of the engine and wiggles that until fuel cars out of the bleed screws.
After fully charging a spare battery I took the side cover off to get the massive tractor battery out, connecting the car battery directly to the terminals, then used jump leads to a second one.
It turned over and fired straight into a sewing machine smooth idle with no smoke! Then the alternator belt started squeezing, so I tightened it, then after it had been running a while it started squeezing again. Should be able to pick a new one up cheap enough.
I figured out the basic controls ( still no idea what most of the other levers do ) and moved it back a couple of feet, then forward a couple of feet.
Today I spent and hour and a bit scraping out the floor tracks for the sliding doors, eventually getting them both open and got the tractor out in the fresh air
Needs a bit of a wash
As a diesel mechanic I get a deep deep joy at watching cold start videos, not started in eleventy million years videos and fully mechanical diesels.
Get it working a bit, drain the oil, new diesel filter and it will last another 20 years, lovely thing.
When we move in 5 years or so I’ll be getting a MF35X tractor so I can just drive around whenever I’ve had a bad day
Dave!
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2019 9:13 am
by Beany
Harry, that is utterly cool
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2019 9:17 am
by Sundayjumper
I'm looking forward to the 60-100 vid
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2019 9:20 am
by DeskJockey
Sundayjumper wrote: Tue Apr 09, 2019 9:17 am
I'm looking forward to the 60-100 vid
Simon wrote: Mon Apr 08, 2019 7:49 pmResult was that the 4 inlet camshafts
Y'wha''?
Twin Twin Twin Twin Cam.
I think I've seen a video with 4 sets of twins.
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2019 10:37 am
by tim
integrale_evo wrote: Mon Apr 08, 2019 7:56 pm
Needs a bit of a wash
Have you stanced it yet?
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2019 10:38 am
by JLv3.0
Get Ste to lower it
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2019 10:48 am
by Rich B
JLv3.0 wrote: Tue Apr 09, 2019 10:38 am
Get Ste to rave about how good it is, photograph the crap out of it, lower it, lighten it, sell it, then admit how it was a bit shit.
EFA
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2019 11:04 am
by JLv3.0
NAS (New Angry Ste) is going to tear you a new arsehole for that one
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2019 11:05 am
by tim
JLv3.0 wrote: Tue Apr 09, 2019 11:04 am
NAS (New Angry Ste) is going to tear you a new arsehole for that one
