Stuff you have fixed today

[jsf55]

Worcester bosch condensate blocked. Caught in time and flushed out, serviced in july, 14 months old !

 

[MattF]

I bet you'll be keeping a close eye on that, from now on?

 

[Blobber]

Worcester bosch condensate blocked. Caught in time and flushed out, serviced in july, 14 months old !


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At least it wasn't minus 10 on Christmas day

 

[6ply]

Nearly completed refurbishing a lever operated compound slide. Need to make a couple of adjustable limit screws, order some 2ba screws for the gibs, and make some locking thingies for the gib strip screws.

When it came to me it was in pretty bad condition with every sliding surface and nearly every screw seized. Here is the cut off slide that I haven't yet done anything with...

 

[jsf55]

I bet you'll be keeping a close eye on that, from now on?

I've put the wife's favourite tray under there for now, she'll remind me it's still up there

 

[Blobber]

Springs been running around with a pair of broken ones for a while but its MOT time
Relatively pain free so far

Both towers/inner wings are starting to show a bit of rust, the paint/protection seems pretty poor in these areas, its even falling off the spot of the spotwelds!

A quick clean up and brushed a couple of coats of epoxy on, it could do with the arch liners coming off but that's not happening this time around

Into the spring compressor that I bought for £50 just in case a few years back
Jobs a goodun, pretty pain free and nothing went into orbit!

Had to kill an antiroll bar link to get it off

Just got to wait for me MOT slot now

 

[roofman]

Springs been running around with a pair of broken ones for a while but its MOT time
Relatively pain free so far
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Both towers/inner wings are starting to show a bit of rust, the paint/protection seems pretty poor in these areas, its even falling off the spot of the spotwelds!
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A quick clean up and brushed a couple of coats of epoxy on, it could do with the arch liners coming off but that's not happening this time around
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Into the spring compressor that I bought for £50 just in case a few years back
Jobs a goodun, pretty pain free and nothing went into orbit!
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Had to kill an antiroll bar link to get it off
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Just got to wait for me MOT slot now

got my van booked in for friday MOT...only found out last week it had run out in april

 

[Blobber]

got my van booked in for friday MOT...only found out last week it had run out in april

Mine was the 24th so not as bad as that! my excuse is that its the 1st MOT ive had to do since I bought it

 

[roofman]

Mine was the 24th so not as bad as that! my excuse is that its the 1st MOT ive had to do since I bought it

dont know how i never got pulled...its like i am seat belt exempt and have been for 10 years (long story) and i have never been stopped once in 10 years driving without my belt, even all over Europe

 

[Nomad]

Major niggle fixed today, I adjusted a UPVC back door that had sagged so it couldn’t be locked. Also adjusted the latches to stop the draughts and rattles when closed.

5 minutes to lift the hinges using adjusters concealed in the hinges - after 5 days trying to find an Allen key to fit
Latches are metric, hinges are imperial

 

[voipio]

Major niggle fixed today, I adjusted a UPVC back door that had sagged so it couldn’t be locked. Also adjusted the latches to stop the draughts and rattles when closed.

5 minutes to lift the hinges using adjusters concealed in the hinges - after 5 days trying to find an Allen key to fit
Latches are metric, hinges are imperial
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There's probably also an adjustment to move the door sideways, relative to the hinge pivot. It might be accessible behind the hinge cover, or at the left hand end of the hinge in the photo

 

[indykid]

dont know how i never got pulled...its like i am seat belt exempt and have been for 10 years (long story) and i have never been stopped once in 10 years driving without my belt, even all over Europe

TIL licensed taxi drivers are exempt from wearing seatbelts while conducting taxi duties and the vehicle is exempt when transporting paying passengers. I always assumed they sat on their seatbelts as a fashion statement (and obviously to stop the seatbelt buzzer).

The way some of them drive round here, I'm surprised they don't have to wear 5 point harnesses.

 

[carbonarc]

For lateral adjustment of your door you will need to remove the plastic cover to the hinge plate secured to the door frame.

 

[roofman]

TIL licensed taxi drivers are exempt from wearing seatbelts while conducting taxi duties and the vehicle is exempt when transporting paying passengers. I always assumed they sat on their seatbelts as a fashion statement (and obviously to stop the seatbelt buzzer).

The way some of them drive round here, I'm surprised they don't have to wear 5 point harnesses.

To stop the buzzing i just click in a singular buckle i cut off a set of old belts..

 

[carbonarc]

For lateral adjustment of your door you will need to remove the plastic cover to the hinge plate secured to the door frame.

This cover is secured in place by the security screw you show on the hinge pin area. Fully undo this and the cover will come free to expose the lateral adjuster.

 

[carbonarc]

This cover is secured in place by the security screw you show on the hinge pin area. Fully undo this and the cover will come free to expose the lateral adjuster.

After adjustment and if you are on your own use a length of string or zip tie to pull cover into place whilst securing it with the screw.

 

[RichardM]

There's probably also an adjustment to move the door sideways, relative to the hinge pivot. It might be accessible behind the hinge cover, or at the left hand end of the hinge in the photo

Could be that the axle pin is cammed and lateral adjustment is through that, ours are like that!

 

[qwakers]

lorry mot day yesterday..... went badly. very very badly.

infact so badly it ended up with a pg9 level 1 prohibition, cannot be driven on the road at all and... cannot be towed with its wheels on the ground at all.

but its not actually as dangerous as it seems.

put simply, there is a more than 60% imbalance between the front left and front right brakes. this makes no sense as i've just been through the front brakes.

it also has a small exhaust leak at a joint that will take me about 5 mins to fix.

luckily the dealership i use for mots are ok with me parking it in their yard and fixing it there. i just need to figure out what's causing it and fixing it before i take it to its retest next wednesday.... and i fly out of the country on thursday...

i am just a bit grumpy about that.


forward to this morning...

annnnd fixed.


first off i connected a pressure gauge to the test port on the caliper. it should read the same as the air tank pressure (10bar fully charged) when brake pedal fully depressed. it did. i then checked the other side to make sure i wasn't being stupid about how it works. it was the same. this being the case, the 'command' side of the brakes is fine, so the problem must be in the caliper. i popped the brake chamber off the back and manually depressed the actuator, and found that i get almost to the stop before the brakes move. that'll be out of adjustment then. but there's no way i adjusted it that badly... i then adjusted it up correctly, refitted the chamber, stuck the wheel back on and drove round to the workshop to put it back on the rollers. both wheels lock, no problem.

i can only surmise, either im the worlds biggest moron and simply didn't adjust them anywhere near correctly, or they unadjusted themselves on the drive to the test centre.

i'm going to order a brand new mech for it, but it should pass wednesday no problem.

the exhaust was simple, i just tightened the loose v-band clamp. no idea why it keeps undoing itself.

still, i've done enough to get the pg9 off it, and the mot should be no issue. will find out 8am wednesday....

then i fly to morocco on thursday...


could have timed this better...

 

[harveyp6]

I used to hate taking my transporter down for the commercial test.
I fail to see why the faults you had would render it unsafe to be front end lifted and towed, but there you go. "The Man" always knows best.

 

[qwakers]

i would argue it wasn't even particularly unsafe to be driven. i still had 5 out of 6 wheels braked, and 50% of the 6th....