Recent content by lynall

Will be a CAV pump of some variant.

I think we will be okay, two adults both with two pensions, plus one house possibly two to rent out, of course if she leaves me that will all change!

Rochecter city diesel in er Rochester, he probably has one of the shelf. Peter is his name and he can talk more than me! Quick google will give you his phone number, if you can give him any numbers off the pump it might help. Enter co name into google maps and it is pretty accurate, well one...

Many moons ago we went to see an ifa for our first mortgage, he was a huge round man called Alan Middleton Stewart, and I really liked the bloke gave good advice, and yes he had a large house in a lot of ground with a very nice car! The co he worked for then sold out to another and so on a few...

Check levels and drive it.

I have my doubts being mid 50s is even worth adding/starting to any pension. Recently changed job and decided I am not starting another pension at 56. I think existing ones means I will be able to retire early and keep afloat until state pension kicks in.

I think pensions are a minefield, Iirc there were one or two ifas on the disco3forum. We saw ours recently, and for them to go through the pensions and offer advice on savings etc is going to be circa 1.5k, not cheap but I would rather pay and know now than curse myself in 10yrs time for being...

Yes and no, but if head gasket has blown between cylinders then the piston on compression could be pushing gases into the cylinder that is charging hence the noise out of the air filter as the charging cylinder has its valve/s open to let the fresh air in. Have seen trucks with cracked piston...

Called a tell tale, same as the holes in the bottom of the timing chest and flywheel housing.

Running on two? Noise/blowing out of the air filter points to valve gear issue of some sort, or head gasket blown between two cylinders.

I would pop the dash and disconnect and reconnect every connector you can get to, weird things can happen to electrics if left standing.

I think the original question is plain daft, air brake even on old ****etrs are more complicated than hydraulic brakes. No insurance company on the planet would touch it with a barge pole.

Scania R cab heater matrix, flushed it multiple times, still crap heater, new matrix all fixed, I reckon all heater matrix with their inlet/outlet pipes at the top are a silt trap.

I have had exactly the same with 200 stats, quality ones are like rocking horse poo.