Got my car back from the garage tody, happy bunny, see separaye thread about changing oil cooler.

The good news is job done! I had a look through my stock of O rings, you know, the assortment box that never has the size you want, well this one DID have the size I wanted. Garage man was a bit dubious, but a bit of rubber grease and heave-ho and it fitted. The supplied an fitted a new oil...

Yes, it does make life a lot easier. Very often bus air bags are a PITA as we have to force the ends into the bags!

t makes life a lot easier. Have done loads of air bags on buses they can be right b'stards to fit. We found that once the bags are in place we use an air line to inflate them on the bus rather than the vehicle air supply, there's not enough volume of air to make them seat properly.

Mine's still with the garage down the road, I managed to find some O rings in my collection that will hopefully fit the bottom hose adaptor! LR don't sell them as spares, you have to buy the octopus of bottom hoses for over £500!! I've got hundreds of O ring selections, but never the right size...

So your car is now properly re-volting? :)

Yes, I'm doing that thanks. :) I don't tend to neglect my cars.

That was my thought, garage man though it unwise due to temperture involve. Personally I wouldn't have a problem with it. I'll see what I can find tomorrow.

They still do for bus and coach glazing, at £3k for a windscreen on some of the bigger coaches... A quick internet search finds these: https://www.standard.co.uk/shopping/esbest/best-car-vehicle-windscreen-repair-kit-b1147771.html

Yes, thanks. :)

That's what I thought, I've got quite a stock of big O rings. Garage man said the original o ring is flat, would a round one seal aw well as the flat one? He said one of the rings in there is tapered, like the ones they use in kitchen sink waste pipes.

Latest update on this which I may have posted elsewhere as I couldn't find this thread, local garage have fitted a new oil cooler and thermostat and housing as the housing was leaking. now they find the bottom hos pipe adaptor is leaking round the O rings. A replacement part is over £500 as the...

"A friend" suggested a visit to a place in Earls Court Road for heating up cold arses. :)

I was about to say much the same, get the windscreen repair people to drill a hole to stop the crack spreading the put some "stuff" in there to seal it. With proper "stuff" the crack will be almost invisible and not spread any more.

The saga of my recent bargain basement 60 reg TDV8 4.4 Vogue continues. My local garage has changed the oil cooler, fitted a couple of new pipes and changed the thermostat as requested. The clip all the pipes back on and found the housing cracked. so they replace the stat housing as well...

The bottomless money pit continues to eat my money or my credit card. New oil cooler fitted, then to change the thermostat, they needed a new housing as well. Now they need a new pipe from the housing as the internal seals are shot. Another couple of days off the road. Luckily I allowed a...

My Rangey is still with the garage. They've done the oil cooler then found the thermostat housing was cracked and needs replacing. Another overnight wait.

Get a couple of those double suction thingys from B&Q to lift the glass. Easy.

As long as the crack isn't in the line of swept area vision it should be ok. A crack on the inside is less of a problem, try getting it repaired, it's a lot cheaper. These days you can have a crack right across the screen and in the swept are providing the crack doesn't damage the wiper blade...

As for diesel bug, the black stuff in the fuel, they seem to have changed the fuel over the last couple of years so I hardly ever hear of it happening these days. We both tend to get through a full tank of diesel every couple of weeks, so the bug wouldn't have time to manifest itself. In our 2...