I was once following a friend in his Sunbeam Rapier in the early 70s at rather a fast rate when I saw something fly up , when he eventually turned up at our destination he showed me the hole in his bonnet where a fan blade had made a successful bid for freedom
I always found a soft broom to be easier than a roller when I used to paint my workshop floor every year . I never used 2 pack, well ,only once when I brought some cheap off of some guy that said it was left over from a job and was cheap . 2 weeks later I was still waiting for it to dry, perhaps...
If it’s starting and running on all cylinders I wouldn’t bother with a compression test! It must have reasonable compression otherwise it wouldn’t be running
Break cleaner is likely to have been the cause of the knocking even after being left overnight. Did you notice a strange smell? , always a give away an engine has started on brake cleaner
Used to be a regular problem when tyres were stacked causing the sidewalls to be too close together, before Cheaters were available I have used an old inner tube inflated inside the tyre , great if I had advance warning the tyres were needed. As an apprentice back in the 60s we had a tourniquet...
Think I used something like Starchem from Toolstation when I stripped my chassis ? Panted it on , left for a short time , scrape and repeat with no real effort. The shot blaster that I used told me that shot just bounces off of decent powder coating without stripping it off
But how many clutches have you changed that have ripped the splines out of the center? I have changed hundreds if not thousands and have never come across it yet I have changed several spline couplings on Citroen/Peugeot Talbot cars , considering the relatively few of them I have worked on...
Been thinking about a Chinese diesel heater for ours, I was talking to a neighbours son yesterday who full times in his motorhome and is stopping at his dads for a few days, he had one fitted last time he stopped here and is well impressed with it.
I have a friend who had an older motorhome...
O’Leary’s may be able to help with interior parts, I would check the rear springs before worrying about the air suspension which, if on the rear only, likely just replaces the bump stops with airbags , they are more like spring assistors than actual springs. They do make a huge difference to the...
Citroen /Peugeot used a sleeve coupling as part of the drive train way back in the 70s on some of there cars, it caused problems then so they haven’t learnt!