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I was considering looking for the VAG 3149 locking tool, shown on Bentley Vanagon manual page 13.35, which engages with the alignment holes in the pulley and sits on the engine mounts, but I turned a couple of pages, and found another tool. VAG 3102, which connects one pulley hole with a bolt hole i...

I am fitting the old triple groove crankshaft pulley to a recon engine I am installing. I loosened the bolt to remove the pulley from the old engine by whacking a 3/4" drive t-bar with a small sledgehammer, but don't think I can calibrate a clout to give the correct torque to use the same metho...

I set about changing the rack boots on my LHD Syncro yesterday, starting with the driver's side. The gaiter is febi BILSTEIN, and seems good quality, but I was unable to stretch it over the rack end - the same problem mentioned by noggintom above. My slightly arthritic old fingers don't have the str...

A recent CT (French equivalent of MOT test) showed split bellows on the steering rack. When I checked these myself I noticed that the trackrod end gaiters were also beginning to split. 2 years ago, using the information I found here, I managed to finally get my front wheel alignment correct, so that...

Fair enough. But to avoid the performance of trying to keep the probes in contact while you pull the connector off and back onto the terminal, use alligator clip extensions, or similar, on the meter probes to maintain the connections.

If you have the meter in series with the disconnected terminal and the post, it is switched to ammeter function, "DC" is selected, and the leads are plugged into the correct connections on the meter (if this is necessary), you should be reading any current flowing. If no reading, any curre...

Could someone please confirm which end of the shaft has the rubber damper? I removed the shaft 2 years ago for repair and can't find any note I might have made (getting a bit old). Bentley Manual says "damper faces transmission". For me, the drive shaft is part of the transmission. :? Is &...

White pepper works pretty well on small leaks and does no long term damage. A teaspoonful or two at a time. Makes your coolant smell like a nice curry too

There shouldn't be any petrol in the oil - it would be highly unlikely. I agree, BUT. Was driving through Yugoslavia in the '60's when a "service station" - actually a pile of drums in a field - filled up our Perkins P3 - engined Trojan van and topped up some cans with petrol, in spite of...

It started! He says it sounds unusually quiet. I suggested he changes the oil in case of dilution from unburnt petrol, but even that is not straightforward as he has to remove a plate under the sump first. I said change the oil anyway and leave the plates off when on roads. I also persuaded him to t...

Thanks, I passed that on to him. He reckons he has syphoned off 68 litres from the tank, having filled 65 this morning, so there shouldn't be much petrol left in there. He's now filling up with as much diesel as possible, carting it from the service station down the road. I'm waiting with bated brea...

Hi All, My son has just 'phoned me from Denmark. He filled his van's almost empty diesel tank with petrol this morning, but didn't realise until he couldn't start it this evening. He's supposed to catch a ferry fom Copenhagen tomorrow morning and is preparing to work all night if necessary. He has s...

My newest Alfa has a similar noise, although it has only done 50,000 miles. I decided some time ago it is due to the springs in the driven plate.
http://worldofland.blogspot.com/2010/09 ... aring.html (Scroll down a bit)

If the noise is only when the clutch is released (i.e. pedal down), surely it must be the release bearing, or possibly the gearbox input shaft rattling inside the crankshaft pilot bearing, as the input shaft won't be turning.

In the Ozzie desert we used aircraft tyres on our 5 ton surveying trucks, which carried a lot of equipment over very soft sand, and mud when it rained. They were run at very low pressure, about 10psi if I remember correctly, were ribbed, and very fat, so they spread out enormously. Someone said they...