Please Help - Girlie being taken for a ride?

redhand said:

Yes there is there's the boss who quoted 7hrs but expects it done in 3.5hrs so he can rip 2 poor bastids of instead of just the one. and make even more money. Most mechanics are on about £8 to £10 an hour. and have the boss breathing down there necks to make sure he gets his pound of flesh out of them.

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ya just can't trust anyone these days

DIY, it's the only way to go .....

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I wastoldit would take 2 days!!- do you think there may be a misunderstanding.....I just cant understand why somuch he isnormally really cool.....something about taking it backto the struts...and not being ableto tow...without lossing back end!!!

i love this thread its like when cheerie is in trouble every1 rushes 2 her rescue as we got another woman in trouble every1 ruses 2 her rescue sorri lizzie i cnt help i live in norfolk

Mseries3 said:

I have worked in a ford main stealer and a independent garage.... Both seemed to have the same amount of work productivity, I have been around a few garages in the local area (Say 5??) and they all seem to work about the same... If they don't the boss shouts at em.... but it does depend on what you see as alot of garages i suppose.. But you do hear alot of stories about garages ripping people off...

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So are you gonna offer to fix this problem for the damsel in distress?

Seein as tho you sound an eggspurt

fook me he want to stick a 1/4 chassis on it? that must be rotten as a pear!

can you take photos of the rust holes???

mintcherrie said:

So are you gonna offer to fix this problem for the damsel in distress?

Seein as tho you sound an eggspurt

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Nope... I am the saturday boy / holidays and i can't weld... yet

did ya take the vehicle to them to look at? maybe its not just the X-member - maybe it needs the xtensions anorl?

toplizzy said:

I wastoldit would take 2 days!!- do you think there may be a misunderstanding.....I just cant understand why somuch he isnormally really cool.....something about taking it backto the struts...and not being ableto tow...without lossing back end!!!

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have you got some pictures of the underneath of it, maybe there's crossmembers and outriggers that also need doing, maybe the battery is about to fall outta the bottom of it's box

we can all moan that yer getting ripped off but unless we know exactly what's to be done tis a bit pointless speculating

It does sound like it needs a cross member with extentions , but still the price is well steep to do that job

once the rear tub is off you can do all of that with reitive ease getting the rear tub off is abit annoying. taking it off will take abit of time i got mine off within an hour n half. that was taking the roof off including the sides in 1 go then getting off the side steps or sills then the supports bolts all around the seat base yer read ya haynes it actually tells ya how to do it then get two blokes once you have lifted it up a few inches disconnect the wiring or cut then reconect it with bullets incase you remove it agen. do what ever needs doing then reverse what i said as u put it back together. quite simple rearlly not hard i first did it when i was 15

whats all this about an 8 hour day i was up at 5 as i am most mornings went to chester and back by lunchtime and only just finnished work i may get a call to work tonight aswell and then ill start all over again tomorrow bloody 8 hour work days whatever next payed leave

karlos said:

whats all this about an 8 hour day i was up at 5 as i am most mornings went to chester and back by lunchtime and only just finnished work i may get a call to work tonight aswell and then ill start all over again tomorrow bloody 8 hour work days whatever next payed leave

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do you want a medal ?

Sean said:

do you want a medal ?

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i found out today that you can't take a medal into an MRI scanner...fookin horrible thing, don't do it if yer claustrophobic - one of the most unpleasant experiences of my life!!! (which always seem to happen at Treliske Hospital!)

odenne said:

i found out today that you can't take a medal into an MRI scanner...fookin horrible thing, don't do it if yer claustrophobic - one of the most unpleasant experiences of my life!!! (which always seem to happen at Treliske Hospital!)

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do you always wear yer jim fixed it fer me medal ?

Ere Sean, while yer on, tell me about the disco tranny you just did, am seriously considering it. Is it a simple bolt on bolt off jobbie, like for like, or is there need for some welding or fiddling round? Also i int been watching em on fleabag and i know what you paid for yours, but what sorta price are they going for?

YOU were lucky i had to get up half hour before i went to bed, well i say bed it were more like a shoe box int middle of road, then i had to lick t' road clean with tongue, then ah had half a handful of warm gravel for breakfast, then i did a 18hr shift down t' pit for thruppence a day then ah when i got home i got thrashed t sleep and ah were grateful

Sean said:

do you always wear yer jim fixed it fer me medal ?

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nowthen nowthen owzabouth thatthen. wot ave we ere little boy, come sit on my lap and play with my puppeis and we'll see what comes up...

yes!

a medal aint required im just happy knowin g man works nearly as hard as me

The Mad Hat Man said:

did ya take the vehicle to them to look at? maybe its not just the X-member - maybe it needs the xtensions anorl?

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Which is even easier to do. As it's easier to get at all the edges that need welding. The ends of the chassis on mine had gone in places and had to be patched.

odenne said:

Ere Sean, while yer on, tell me about the disco tranny you just did, am seriously considering it. Is it a simple bolt on bolt off jobbie, like for like, or is there need for some welding or fiddling round? Also i int been watching em on fleabag and i know what you paid for yours, but what sorta price are they going for?

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Si has got at least 1 disco box going, dont suppose he'd want much more than the price of a chippy tea for it - i've seen them go for as little as 20 quid for the entire GB and TB assembly - also seen then go for a couple of 100 as well

it really is a bolt off/on job - driver seat and panel off, middle panel off, drivers floor plate off, both props off (do yer UJ's while yer at it), transmision tunnel off, tranny brake drum and shoe mounting plate off, speedo cable off, replace the tranny box mounting bolts with 180mm M10 bolts with their heads cut off - this is so you can slide the tranny box out untill the output shaft is clear - length of wood across the seats with a short strop down and around the tranny box (if you put some twists in the strop using the plank this helps lower is by undoing the twists) - replace the output shaft seal - smear some goo on the mating faces of the new tranny box and hoist it back up onto the 5 studs that you've cut the heads off - slide it back on etc etc

you'll also have to swop the depender tranny brake cable adjuster frame onto the new disco tranny box as they are slightly different - i've done a good few of these but this one (on my own 110) is the first disco box i'd seen that didnt have all 4 M8 mounting holes pre drilled - just had to drill and tap 2 of the 4, simple task to do

might want to drain and refill the tranny box with ATF etc

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