Stuff you have fixed today

[Melvyn Best]

Another Ranger in, this time for a head gasket.

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That doesn’t look fixed!

 

[Dcal]

Another Ranger in, this time for a head gasket.

O lovely, wet belt too.

I just did the son in-law Ranger's head gasket, in place.

Pig of a job and a ridiculous amount of stuff to unscrew with awkward fixings everywhere.

Just the job for the mature home mechanic.

 

[Guzrik]

Another Ranger in, this time for a head gasket.

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Body off for only a head gasket?

 

[Morris]

Body off for only a head gasket?

That's what I thought. Ridiculous design, what the hell were they thinking?

 

[bricol]

That's what I thought. Ridiculous design, what the hell were they thinking?

Is it though - a hand full of fasteners from cab to frame, unplug wiring loom, disconnect steering etc, and lift away for fantastic access?

 

[Morris]

Fair point.

 

[Puglet1]

Body off for only a head gasket?

That’s an unbelievable amount of work.
I guess it encourages most people to take them to a garage for repair.

 

[Robotstar5]

That’s an unbelievable amount of work.
I guess it encourages most people to take them to a garage for repair.

Then when the car's a few years old, a blown head gasket could write the car off as too expensive to repair

 

[Melvyn Best]

Body off for only a head gasket?

I saw a two post lift online that had 2 sets of arms, one on the outer side of the posts and the other on the inside like a normal two poster , specially made for lifting bodies off of chassis’s while still being able to raise or lower the chassis. Probably perfect for Range Rover brake pipes?

 

[Mick Annick]

Then when the car's a few years old, a blown head gasket could write the car off as too expensive to repair

My neighbour’s 2014 Ranger has been written off sub 100kms, needs engine replacing but best quote was €18,000

 

[qwakers]

ive been meaning to add another water trap, filter, regulator combo for a while. i was given 2(£~100 worth! each) so i might as well use them.

i added it, tidied it up and tested it, and it leaked. weird.






i took it apart several times, it would still leak from the bypass port. then it dawned on me id fitted it in the best place logically, but i had the inlet and outlet reversed. doh.

having refitted it in a less ideal location it no longer leaks.



then i wanted to add the other one to the other compressor, as this one has a bad habit of adding a lot of moisture to the lines. its portable, so i wanted a easily movable setup. turns out this was easy, just fit it inline with the hose..





thatll work.

 

[Moose McAlpine]

That doesn’t look fixed!

I got most of it done and left work at 11:30 last night. That's fixed enough for me..

O lovely, wet belt too.

I just did the son in-law Ranger's head gasket, in place.

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The 3.2s are much easier to work on. But if you have a 2-post at your disposal taking the body off makes working on the engine so much more comfortable.

Body off for only a head gasket?

Yep, it just makes working on the engine so much easier. The next one i'm probably just going to lift the body then pull the engine out entirely. To drop the sump (to clean the pickup and change the oil pump belt.) you need to remove the steering rack, O/S driveshaft and hub. Pulling the engine and putting on a stand is easier.

My neighbour’s 2014 Ranger has been written off sub 100kms, needs engine replacing but best quote was €18,000

Was it a 3.2? These newer 2.0s are actually surprisingly cheap. We bought a brand new crate engine for under 4k.

 

[Melvyn Best]

Was it a 3.2? These newer 2.0s are actually surprisingly cheap. We bought a brand new crate engine for under 4k.

At least 10 years ago a prop shaft U/J was £147 + VAT for a 2.0 , a clutch kit around £400 and a DMF was nearly £600

 

[harveyp6]

Another Ranger in, this time for a head gasket.

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I'd sooner jack up the number plates and fit a new truck.....

 

[Mick Annick]

I got most of it done and left work at 11:30 last night. That's fixed enough for me..



The 3.2s are much easier to work on. But if you have a 2-post at your disposal taking the body off makes working on the engine so much more comfortable.



Yep, it just makes working on the engine so much easier. The next one i'm probably just going to lift the body then pull the engine out entirely. To drop the sump (to clean the pickup and change the oil pump belt.) you need to remove the steering rack, O/S driveshaft and hub. Pulling the engine and putting on a stand is easier.



Was it a 3.2? These newer 2.0s are actually surprisingly cheap. We bought a brand new crate engine for under 4k.

I don’t know, but I noticed a new Dacia on his drive today.

 

[brewdexta]

The daughter omitted to tell me there was no hot water yesterday lunch time, so I didn't find out that the boiler was broken until I wanted a shower later. We are using the standby gas boiler while I fix the auger on the pellet boiler, typical, 2 boilers screwed at the same time.

It's a Vaillant ecotech plus 360, the above error is usually the pressure sensor or the pump according to the web and my ex-heating engineer.

So, yesterday evening I drained it down and got the pressure sensor out. When monitoring the water pressure on start-up, there was no kick as the pump cut in. This can be the pump not doing it's thing, or the sensor not measuring it correctly.

Sometimes they are covered in schmoo, cleaning it off sometimes fixes it this one was ok. Next up was getting a spare. Screwfix keeps Vaillant spares, and they have pressure sensors. The part number on the listing was not the same as the supposed part number on the part, 0020036671. Instead it was 0020059717.

But, looking on the new sensor, it does have the same number as the old one.

Why do they do that? Stupid idea. I couldn't find a conversion or superseded chart on line. What's wrong with putting the same part number on the bag as the part, unless it's a different part number because it is a kit including O ring and clip, in which case, say it includes the part number.

Anyway, 28 quid later, back in, you can see the pressure kick as the pump cuts in. I made sure to purge the heat exchanger of air with the gas off first otherwise your in a world of pain as the heater exchanger has a fuseable link and there is no air bleed valve on the heat exchanger. Older models had a separate purge program, on these you just open the bleed valve on the back of the pump and start it without gas a few times until it stops bubbling.

It's now running nicely, touch wood.

 

[Onoff]

My 4 pronged, old man's diggy thing. Following on from yesterday's what I broke post.

First time I've used the flux core mig/tig/MMA welder I bought from someone on here. Well impressed tbh with the strength, (if not the appearance) of the finished weld. 0.8mm flux cored at 90A. Far easier to use than my gassed Clarke 130TE.

Getting inside was awkward is my excuse here:

 

[Robotstar5]

Hopefully fixed a future problem today, I was replacing the starter battery on the generator at the stables and pulled the cable out to make connecting the battery easier, the outer sleeve was worn through and it had just started to mark the red insulation after 700 hours runtime.

I only had insulation tape with me so it it got a few layers of that and a better route

 

[Keithmac]

Pinigale 899 V Twin.

Came in for engine noisey, already been written off as crank knocking..

A good listen round with the stethoscope revealed noise from around oil pressure sensor port on clutch cover.

Found previous customer had removed some crash bobbins and used the same bolts to put back in..

Nice long bolt straight through crankcase and rear timing chain tensioner guide, ironically not the cause of the noise though!.

Removed clutch cover to find composite waterpump gear with chipped teeth and composite pump idler totally shot. Why make gears out of toffee, it's like my Powershift gearbox failure all over again!.

Had to strip bike down to set rear cam timing due to tensioner replacement.

Checked OIL PUMP gears, also made out of plastic fantastic, the mind boggles really.

All back together and runs sweet as a nut..

Just a ballache to work on unfortunately..

 

[nickk]

This,who can guess where it’s from,I straightened the long round shaft,then adjusted the short arm with the cast lump on the end,to set it square with the long shaft.