I hate cars...

[prepman]

You could convert the old car to electric....saving 80% of the car from the landfill.

I think the extension lead might snag going round bends?

 

[redlig]

You could convert the old car to electric....saving 80% of the car from the landfill.

A friend has just tried that and found that the legal and technical hurdles put in his way made it unviable . I'm sure some have done it but it's not straight forward.

 

[Onoff]

Doing my Mondeo clutch the other day and the BIL commented how easy it was to do on earlier Cavaliers and I think Novas. No beggaring about removing wishbones and subframes!

Progress, I think not!

 

[mtt.tr]

I just see it as if modern cars are meant to be so good and have ability to show so many fault codes to show and so may sensors then it should be easy to diagnose the problem direct, otherwise whats the point, its all guessing if the tech fitted cant do it.

I used to love working on cars but more tech makes it expensive tan it needs to be.

Again it's lack of knowledge.

I see it as, steam engine mechanics wouldn't know how to work on an ICE evolve or stay behind.

It is strange times as industry needs mech-elec engineers but still has them kept separated I think we'll see a middle Industry blossom

 

[mtt.tr]

Doing my Mondeo clutch the other day and the BIL commented how easy it was to do on earlier Cavaliers and I think Novas. No beggaring about removing wishbones and subframes!

Progress, I think not!

What would your rather do 200miles in?

 

[redlig]

I just see it as if modern cars are meant to be so good and have ability to show so many fault codes to show and so may sensors then it should be easy to diagnose the problem direct, otherwise whats the point, its all guessing if the tech fitted cant do it.

I used to love working on cars but more tech makes it expensive tan it needs to be.

Problem with fitters is that a number of them are 'old school' and still think of I.C. not E.V. we will have to wait for the next generation of 100% E.V. savvy guys to come along.

 

[Onoff]

What would your rather do 200miles in?

I'm an 80's child so a Cavalier SRi would be nice.

 

[W.olly]

This shows how stupid car designers are now.

To remove a throttle body takes four bolts, tree from direct acces in front. and one from behind it giving less then not even a 75mm swing for a ratchet if you can get a socket on the bloody bolt thats about 15mm into the body from the back.

they want sacking or heads banging and sending back to college.

 

[W.olly]

Problem with fitters is that a number of them are 'old school' and still think of I.C. not E.V. we will have to wait for the next generation of 100% E.V. savvy guys to come along.

and i will be dead and buried i hope by then. Thing is folk cant fix cars 10 even 20 years old now so they will be as bad if not worse with even more tech cars.


just think when flying cars arrive , FFS that will be fun haha

 

[redlig]

This shows how stupid car designers are now.

To remove a throttle body takes four bolts, tree from direct acces in front. and one from behind it giving less then not even a 75mm swing for a ratchet if you can get a socket on the bloody bolt thats about 15mm into the body from the back.

they want sacking or heads banging and sending back to college.

No problem on assembly so it's down to the dealer /owner then. Not their problem. Don't say you would buy another brand ,they are all the same .

 

[redlig]

and i will be dead and buried i hope by then. Thing is folk cant fix cars 10 even 20 years old now so they will be as bad if not worse with even more tech cars.


just think when flying cars arrive , FFS that will be fun haha

Just pray ALL the censers ALWAYS work. Then all we've got to worry about is your average flying drivers. Of course they will all be self flying /navigating so back to the censors again.

 

[Onoff]

What fun it was to do the Mondeo clutch master cylinder! Must have been an 18" extension through a square hole in the dash, to get at one poxy fixing!

https://flic.kr/p/2nGuKLC

AND you have to remove the clocks and steering column!

 

[redlig]

What fun it was to do the Mondeo clutch master cylinder! Must have been an 18" extension through a square hole in the dash, to get at one poxy fixing!

https://flic.kr/p/2nGuKLC

AND you have to remove the clocks and steering column!

About now some bright spark will make your day complete and tell you there is an easier way to do it and it only takes 1/2 hour.

 

[Onoff]

About now some bright spark will make your day complete and tell you there is an easier way to do it and it only takes 1/2 hour.

Please do!

 

[redlig]

Please do!

You will have to wait until you put all the tools away.

 

[Onoff]

You will have to wait until you put all the tools away.

I have. All done a while back in August last year.

 

[indy4x]

Toledo you sit in the passenger seat to change the clutch from the inside

That's the one, they were quite plush on the inside, folding window winder handles, quality carpet and proper wood

We had some horrendous snow, probably would have been around 90/91 and it just went through it all where everything else was getting stuck

 

[bricol]

The tweaker/tuners around here with the loud pipes.....I can clearly tell that they can't drive stick...
"mind the clutch" springs to mind.
Endless slipping, even when upshifting.

I think I should make a QC clutch, just open the hood, unbolt a cover on the bellhousing, reach in, slip out the old, and just like a LP, slide in a new clutch....

What do these kids average ? 30k miles on a clutch ?

Let's not even try to cornfuse them with double clutching, and no clutch driving.

My 16 Dodge Challenger had a "clutch delay valve" in the hydraulic line from master cylinder to slave - so if you were driving with enthusiasm, the speed of clutch re-engagement after a fast gearchange was too slow for the oomph you expected it to transmit. It also seemed to make actually moving off smoothly hard work - you thought you had the biting point . . . and then you hadn't as a bit more fluid passed through it and give you more engagement than you thought you had - in 30 plus years of only owning manual cars, I suddenly couldn't use a clutch properly. My first modification was to remove it. Sudden no clutch slippage I believe it was in there to reduce the shock to the transmission from enthusiastic clutch dumps, especially at the Friday night drag strips.

So it might not necessarily be the fact they haven't yet learnt how to drive stick . . .

 

[BarrieJ]

The tweaker/tuners around here with the loud pipes.....I can clearly tell that they can't drive stick...
"mind the clutch" springs to mind.
Endless slipping, even when upshifting.

I think I should make a QC clutch, just open the hood, unbolt a cover on the bellhousing, reach in, slip out the old, and just like a LP, slide in a new clutch....

What do these kids average ? 30k miles on a clutch ?

Let's not even try to cornfuse them with double clutching, and no clutch driving.

If I recall, early import Datsuns 100A (the Cherry?), had just the style of clutch you suggest. Four 6mm bolts released the clutch arm and assembly , two x 6mm bolts released a plate on top of the bell housing covering the clutch . Lift out old plate , pop in new one , jiggle to line the splines up and replace covers. Now, changing a clutch on an Austin Mini of the same year...

 

[Shedendman]

Hybrid, jack of all trades and master of none, electric apparently having to wait for up to 2 hours at a motorway service station during busy periods is now a “thing” who could be arsed with that? I’ll stick to my internal combustion engines and leave the electric to the next generation.

gonna get one of these and stick it in the back of my 99 Mk5 tranny