Recent content by retneprac

I only managed 2 knuckles worth of skin and small pish stain. That’ll do it.

I had a chat with Heath, he said a 2 foot pair of stelsons should do it. It did.👍

Hm, how exactly do you apply the correct torque with box spanner? I do have a torque wrench and hubnut spanner but joining the two together to apply the correct torque? Shall I give heath robinson a call?

No cloud at all. Tiny amount of black at low speed full throttle. Wonder if an injector seal or 2 is on the way out? Never had to top up oil though

No cloud at all. Tiny amount of black at low speed full throttle. Wonder if an injector seal or 2 is on the way out? Never had to top up oil though.

The Italian service ( as in redline it in4th) recommendation was from another MOT garage (that the Fox went yesterday having been sitting about for year, it passed) off to refil with premium diesel.

Bled through again twice, all seems good. Went for the MOT retest. Still failed on emissions. What’s next after doing a few of the normal things, Italian service, oil fortify added with oil change, fuel treatment. Suggested to burn a couple of tanks of premium diesel? What else could I try next...

New master cylinder fitted, now the joys of purging the air out, bubbles coming up into the reservoir when peddle pushed, bled the system once, settling time whilst it’s pishing down. More later. Any tips on purging the master of air?

What does the plastic pipe do that sits at the back on top of the master cylinder? Looks like a seal that’s split. Bit of rust, wet from too much fluid stilling out.

Going to try the gravity bleed method now a 3rd foot is available.

MOT failed on brake pipe corrosion. Main rear lines changed at garage, front part of line all so changed, bleed through a couple of times with air pressure kit, no bubbles left, brake pedal still a bit spongy, pedal drops very slowly when engines running, not at all when off. Do I have a master...

Cheap nasty flare kit. Thread stripped on the wing nut! Thankfully I have a vice and a bench mounted one to!

Same kit, doesn’t seem to like the 20g copper pipe.

My laser entry level pipe flaring tool is mangling the pipe end hence question on pipe wall thickness. I do have a mini pipe cutter which works well, also have mini pipe bender care of the late FIL. More fun tomorrow. Bearing change as well!

Can anyone throw any light on the correct copper pipe size? The pipe I have 3/16 OD, 20g Should it be 22g?