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I will confess, you did have me for a minute, no bolts on the floor, thanks.
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I will confess, you did have me for a minute, no bolts on the floor, thanks.
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The missing nut will rattle on Sunday.
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I think I have told this story before but here goes, I am sure @brightspark will relate to this, many years ago, there was a garage on Norton road in Stockton, Chapmans Garage and Jean Chapman, one of the brothers was a Motor Engineer of the old school. Having said that he was always open to a new idea and he set up a system whereby all the bits from a job all went in the same container. So my dad, walking across the workshop one day found a bolt or something on the floor and of course put it safe. Three times they took that gearbox apart, still a leftover part on the bench. To his credit my father confessed and there were some choice words and the car was duly repaired.
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What brand of alternator was it you had?
Cargo are semi decent aftermarket alternators if you can find one of them. The oil leaking into the alternator is also maybe part of the problem?
There is a top alternator guy a couple mile from my house. If I can help in any way let me know. Aka either get a good new one from him and post it to you or send yours for rebuild by him. He is literally the best in the business and rebuilt 20 or so for me and family and zero issues years later.
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There was no oil leaking into the alternator, that is oil leaking out of the vac pump on the back, which of course is the part that failed, you cannot buy it separately, not that I have found anyhow. You can buy them for other Vauxhall models, just not for mine and when I did look the price of the pump on it's own for say the Zafira, was of course more than the cost of the whole unit. I think the one I ended up buying was Morelli. But I need to check that. It was in a blue box anyhow! :-)
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the front of the center two floor beams are finished and all the floor cross braces added, and the tailgate is nearly done...another job nearly completed with scraps of steel... robbed a bit out of dads workshop... im sure he'll be ****** when he finds out tomorrow.....
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Put washing powder on it to soak up the oil. Brush that up with a dustpan and brush and then add more washing powder and boiling water and brush with a stiff brush. Works well.
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Well yesterday really, replaced the battery in something and it wouldn't work, cue much muttering and mumbling, I had bought decent batteries after all:
So, I examined it a bit closer:
I suppose they have to put the sticker "Do Not Eat" somewhere. As if getting them out of the packaging isn't enough.
So, I examined it a bit closer:
I suppose they have to put the sticker "Do Not Eat" somewhere. As if getting them out of the packaging isn't enough.
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From this.
To this.
The colours don't show up well.
Well, it is a welding forum.
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I discovered a similar problem with the callipers I use when reloading. Tried two batteries both the same….I just putit down to agezimers
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nearly there. just a bit of paint and finish the tailgate.the front of the center two floor beams are finished and all the floor cross braces added, and the tailgate is nearly done...
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I like that.
Looks like a 3.2 Ranger belt which is 8 foot long and a pig to replace
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That hose routing is fairly standard for Land Rovers although they're normally steel to provide some cooling effects by being clamped to the chassis.
In this instance the 4.6V8 has the power steering pump the opposite side to the relay box and I'm reusing the same fittings from the reservoir to the pump as they're bent neatly to route through a gap between ancilliaries. Running the hose along the front of the rail makes sense to me rather than trying to route it over or under the engine.
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hubs madenearly there. just a bit of paint and finish the tailgate.
and my last two tyres and wheels fitted. the main trailer body will be ready for paint once i clean up the join in the front crossmember...
and once ive made this lot into mesh ill paint the ramp too.
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didn't have enough grey, white or blue to paint the trailer.... i did however have enough if i mixed it together... its a interesting colour, to say the least. its more blue tinted than the picture shows.
even painted the brake disk(the disk is there purely to make the wheel fit, no other purpose.)
and the grating for the ramp half made.
even painted the brake disk(the disk is there purely to make the wheel fit, no other purpose.)
and the grating for the ramp half made.
