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What colour is the smoke? Black? White? Or blue? And where is it coming from? Tailpipe? Under the bonnet?

Smother them in laxatives. The neighbours will moan about the crap and you have a solution…

Ciao, amico fumatore. Anch'io ho una 19J. Il mio problema è simile al tuo. Quando la accendo fuma molto e sento un odore di olio bruciato. Una volta avviata, dopo una buona accelerazione, la moto si stacca e non fuma più. Tranne quando scendo da...

Great perseverance to a fantastic result! Impressed we are.

Hi guys! I have an Land rover 19jtd. When i start the car it smokes a lot and oil smell. Once started and accelerated significantly, the engine seems to be uncorking it makes a cloud of oil smoke and then it no longer smokes excessively. Has...

I hope everything bloody works coz it's on now, 🫣 used big breaker bar with a bit of scaffolding tube fir more leverage and tightened it as hard as I could . Then again I'm not as strong as I used to be these days. So might get my son to give it...

I have an update on my 2007 Rangerover sport 2.7 diesel. I stripped down the top of the engine and replaced all four camshafts from a donor engine that had cracked its crankshaft. Comparing my camshafts with the donor camshafts I found that...

So I don't need access to the slave cylinder?

I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Boeing use aluminium bolts. :(

I prefer the kiln-dried Ash or Oak, but last year I took a job-lot of 2xM3 "various" from some local lads and their start-up business and it was mainly pine. It all burnt though and no harm seems to have been done.

I have no insewerants to check with. I ceased that scam about 15 years ago. However, now that I am becoming old, frail etc. etc. I may give it another go. :D

Did they really use aluminium bolts? Never heard of such a thing.

Just the failed engine to do an ortopsy on now ! Started this morning. I think I'll turn it into a competition to see what peeps think happened. Although of course, I don't know !! So I know compression was bad across all cylinders and oil was...

We have ours done every year, herself says it's a requirement in the house insewerants. Might be worth checking yours?

That accounts for it.

Maybe @sierrafery might have some helpful ideas. I'm reasonably confident he will need some live data to be able to help though.

My stars, that must cost! Or it would over here, absolute minimum being €50 per stere. Hope it heats your hot water too.

Part of what we have been doing is disposing of fruit trees that I took down a while back. We have been burning those and W likes to take all the twigs off for kindling and the next size up for the next stage before we put logs on. It works well...

I fort you only burned propah dried hard wood? I suppose it goes up through another floor and the roof space? I may now stare up ours, if I can. Might actooly be easier to get on the roof and peer down it!!

I suppose that if you try and recut the thread wiv a die it just goes round and round? Maybe you could clamp the tie-rod and ball joint to stop this? I fink your way may be better, unless it starts to go round and round as you use the saw. Best...

If I had to do this moren once, I would!!

Could have picked a better day than the hottest day of the year but hey ho 🤣 Replaced the wiper boxes, what a pig of a job! Drivers side was actually fine, passenger side SEIZED SOLID couldnt even move it with some 12" stilsons.. 🫥 Replaced...

Not sure what you are trying to do. Did you use the bolt suitably adjusted to get leverage to pull the UJ yoke off ?? If so then the bolt is sacrificial and might be bent but never had thread damage. How did you remove the VCU from UJ ??

Divide 250ft/pounds by your weight in pounds which will give to the length of bar in feet to stand on , if bar a bit longer just use tape to measure length where to stand Maybe do the final torque over the 210 when you know everything works and...

Not huge bucket I suspect. He had vacuumed as much of it that came down the chimney directly into his catch can and what the physically shoveled out of the fire-box was like a black mountain of soot to the top 1/3rd of the box. I have always...

Thanks for the patience with this lad Stan, much appreciated. :) Having tried BPE5 plugs to no avail (except the introduction of pre-ignition) I did a few things. 1. I put the BPE6 plugs (cleaned up with a gas torch) back in. 2. I popped the...

So my local garage has replaced the injector seals and copper washers on all of the injectors. When the looked at them they said that they noticed diesel leaking from injector number 5 so there was definitely an issue there. I think I have...

I have considered a larsen trap but for it to be effective, it would need to be at front of house and i know someone would release the bird. i bought another wiper blade earlier from Halfrauds so will see how long it lasts.

Well on would hope check would be done. I had similar issue with a tractor some years ago when adjustment was not done.

Why ?? Are you leaving the country ?