What have you been doing today?

[Mottie]

Can't be that difficult, with hoist, and a hydraulic transmission jack.

Luxury! I’m doing it on the floor. It is honestly the heaviest gearbox I’ve ever lifted. FWD gearbox too so have to wiggle it around the crossmember as well as lifting and pushing the bastid. Not touching the clutch as that’s fine, only done 44,000 too. It’s the concentric slave cylinder that’s burst so just changing that. A complete clutch kit with DMF is over £700.

 

[fillyboy]

A complete clutch kit with DMF is over £700.

Wow.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Luxury! I’m doing it on the floor. It is honestly the heaviest gearbox I’ve ever lifted. FWD gearbox too so have to wiggle it around the crossmember as well as lifting and pushing the bastid. Not touching the clutch as that’s fine, only done 44,000 too. It’s the concentric slave cylinder that’s burst so just changing that. A complete clutch kit with DMF is over £700.

That clutch slave is the one job I'm dreading on mine, when it eventually fails. There use to be a local guy, who had a reputation of being so well practised in doing them, he could turn them round in 3hours, working on his back at that. He retired from doing them a while back, he now specialises in DAF HGV's

Many suggest that the easy way, is to drop the sub-frame. Others, suggest dropping it just part way.

The £700 is similar to the cost of mine.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

2am, and sleep would not come, so I got up, to potter about on a few little projects in the workshop, attached to my garage. Whilst out there, it began spitting, and that soon turned into a deluge. Not fancying getting wet, walking back to the house, I decided to wait it out. I was still waiting at half past four, and it wasn't easing, so I decided to just get wet, to get back to bed.

That amount of water, in such a short time, last year, would see water flooding onto my garage's slab, in earlier years - except earlier this year, we had a concerted effort, to try to resolve it. The garage slab is the low part of the garden, with the workshop slab, around 3" higher, and garden sloping up, a couple feet, to the high point at the rear - all built on heavy clay. Over the summer, we trenched, and laid french drains, all the way behind, then along the side of the workshop and garage.

It was 13C in the workshop, which felt warm enough. Funny how the body accustomises itself to temperature.... Had it been 13C, in the summer, I would have felt a bit chilly.

 

[Brigadier]

13 degrees in the lake today, for my mile swim.

Didn't feel too uncomfortable.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

That clutch slave is the one job I'm dreading on mine, when it eventually fails. There use to be a local guy, who had a reputation of being so well practised in doing them, he could turn them round in 3hours, working on his back at that. He retired from doing them a while back, he now specialises in DAF HGV's

Many suggest that the easy way, is to drop the sub-frame. Others, suggest dropping it just part way.

The £700 is similar to the cost of mine.

There is a mobile clutch fitter called Williams who posts videos on Youtube. This bloke is tough as old boots. He turns up at the customers' house, gets the front wheels off, mats down, then underneath to disassemble everything and split box from engine. He does this in all winds and weathers inc. ice and snow, much of the time lying on his back under the engine and box. Few hours later the customer has a new clutch installed. He has it planned as a military operation and is a blur of activity. Does everything from smallest cars up to transit size vans on his own. That's a really tough game, day in day out.

As for modern slave cylinders - whoever thought of putting them inside the bell housing? Oh yes, the manufacturers did. Bit like fitting a rubber band to engine instead of a proper timing chain. Some have thought of an even better wheeze of wet belts where rubber belts are run in hot oil - often with disasterous results. All about gouging the paying public for more money on parts and labour.

Kevin-Albert Williams

We re no longer trading.. All videos are from archives.. thanks for watching kind regards Kevin-Albert Williams

www.youtube.com

 

[Brigadier]

Some have thought of an even better wheeze of wet belts where rubber belts are run in hot oil - often with disasterous results. All about gouging the paying public for more money on parts and labour.

Supposedly done to reduce frictional losses.
Agree on the stupidity of it though, as I've posted before.

 

[Nwgs2]

As for modern slave cylinders - whoever thought of putting them inside the bell housing? Oh yes, the manufacturers did. Bit like fitting a rubber band to engine instead of a proper timing chain. Some have thought of an even better wheeze of wet belts where rubber belts are run in hot oil - often with disasterous results. All about gouging the paying public for more money on parts and labour.

1.0 eco boost engine!!

Why, just why

 

[Mottie]

Ordered up the bits today, picking up Monday. Concentric slave cylinder, CV boot, oil, oil filter, air filter, Yuassa 5 year g/tee battery, 1 litre brake fluid. £320.

 

[Mottie]

Mrs Mottie and I met up with our son and DiL and grandkids. Went to a garden centre with a German market. Had a game of mini Golf and a game of curling. Can’t believe how good our grandson was with it - beat me hands down. He cheated on the golf though - got round ten holes in eight strokes!

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[Harry Bloomfield]

Looking at ways to better control the space temperature, when my diesel heater is on, in my workshop. It runs flat out/full power, until it gets the space to the set temperature, then switches to minimum output. Even minimum, produces far too much heat, so I'm trying to devise some way, to have it .shut down completely, then restart when the space cools. Problem is, you cannot just switch them off, they need to be told to shut down, then go through a few minutes of self cooling, otherwise the residual heat, can fry the controlling PCB.

 

[Brigadier]

Disassemble the unit, and move the pcb "out of harm's way"?

 

[Mottie]

Went to West Mersea with friends and dogs for a wet 'n' windy walk along the beach. The kite surfers were out in force too.

After that we went for Lunch at the Coast Inn. I had mussels. Luvverly.

After lunch and another quick walk, we went to our usual place for afternoon tea - the Tiptree tea rooms where they make the jam you see at breakfast in just about every hotel in the world.

 

[kingandy2nd]

Picked up my 1956 Berkeley Sports Car from the lovely chap that’s restored the engine and made it roadworthy. Still lots of work to do aesthetically, but the car is moving under its own steam for the first time since 1980.

Sounds like the crazy frog when running.

 

[Murdochcat]

Turned up for jury service today and got sent home early so now on a bus home as they won’t pay town centre car park changes.

In fairness to the bus it’s only £2 and gets me within a mile of home so what’s there not to like