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I am not too comfortable with individual stoning of ports or use of straight edge alone. (OK Granny :wink: .) In the absence of a large engineers surface plate and unintuatively, I have found a sheet of PLATE glass can be suitable if checked out first in all directions with said straight edge. Plus ...

Agreed. Although I just can't through habit ommit to depress the clutch pedal when starting from cold so as to give the system the best chance. Incidentally I park on a slight up hill slope and, particularly on icy or compressed snow conditions I just gently let the clutch upon tickover to ull away ...

Sure your symptoms are caused by a duff gearbox?

An up and running (albeit grossly untidy) workshop, a lifetimes stack of hoarded materials and a fully functioning set of head marbles is my solution to many special tools. In fact I can't envisage life without either. Blighted or gifted - you tell me :roll: . Leastways Mrs Bean benefits from - oft...

When you say you tried a jump start was it from another vehicle with a fully charged battery i.e. one known to be good? Fizzing inside a battery under load is a sure sigh of high internal resistance - classic duff battery.   Re cranking volt drop I Goggled this: Question: How many volts should a st...

Sorry to put a downer on it but exactly the same thing happened to me some years ago trying to park in an impossible tricky sloping pub car park - foul smell and all. Within a month the clutch started slipping on a journey forcing me to gradually work my way down through all five gears until it was ...

Based on my experience with my 2.1 WBX  - I am assuming that your 1.9 has fuel injection, Given that all is well with the injection system etc, a fuel injection engine will compesate for any slight extra load by detecting the drop in RPM and compensate (I think) by changeing the pulses to the air co...

When I aquired my WBX  the top of what appeared to be the breather tower was  secured with a poly bag and elastic band. On the WBX the tower is part of the induction system/airflow management  and requires to be air tight. To be frank there being no handook I did wonder where you put the oil in and ...

I am still planning on changing to silicone, not that I don't trust a Govt site.. but they may not have considered vehicles older than 20 yrs in the review for instance Couldn't find the reference to silicone in the thread - my experience is that petrol swells up silicon tubing and drastically redu...

Seems to me that we have a lot of folk around not gifted with the ability to put together a model in their head as to the functional requirements of stuff like differentials and what goes on behind closed doors (inside gaiters for instance). Why would the MITS need that? Having done engineering to ...

Oldiebut goodie wrote: ↑26 Apr 2021, 18:07 Have you upset anyone? A favourite trick to get back at someone was to stick some pieces of old fish or meat in the air vents.

Our revolting smell stopped when we flushed the wiper tank. No rhym or reason...
 

Too soon the be calling any machine "she" . Sadly that term of endearment needs earning over time, oily hands and a dented wallet and you are clearly only at the beginning of that particular  "road map" :wink: in my book. Well worth it anyway. My old girl is sitting outside as I ...

Yes - having run a 2.1 WBX for over ten years with the higher pressure buzzer of doom pressure switch shorted out by an unscrupulous engine "rebuilder" - in the event with no problems, I think the diagnostic leap to an engine rebuild is a big step on one visitation to the garage. If you co...

I have experience of cleaning processes in an aerospace environment where I rode through the banning of chlorinated fluorocarbon cleaning solvents (CFC's). We had both ultrasonic machines and the vapour phase cleaners. The ultra sonics searching out the crooks an nannies while the vapour phase proce...