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From: Adrian on 27 May 2010 08:25 Mike P <mike_w_pearson(a)hotmail.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: >> Centre and rear exhaust box off, heatshield off, rear subframe lowered? >> That's what you need to do to change those spheres... > I thought that they did, though I might be wrong. I've done it myself - with the car on a ramp. > They were under the back end for about 10 mins fiddling away. May just have regassed those. > It's not a Haynes "remove exhaust" job is it, like the handbrake cables > on a Xantia are? i.e. Haynes says it's neccessary, but in reality it > really isn't? Well, a triple-jointed octopus might be able to reach 'em, but there just ain't no way the antisink sphere's coming out the gap without dropping the subframe. Two of us tried for an hour or two - on the ramp - before giving in.
From: Adrian on 27 May 2010 08:26 Mike P <mike_w_pearson(a)hotmail.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: >> In the Xant, the plumbing's also very, very tight. > I will be getting a double jointed dwarf with especially short arms to > do any turbo or exhaust work I might fancy in the future.. Exhaust manifold gasket.
From: Mike P on 27 May 2010 08:32 On May 27, 1:26 pm, Adrian <toomany2...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Mike P <mike_w_pear...(a)hotmail.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much like > they were saying: > > >> In the Xant, the plumbing's also very, very tight. > > I will be getting a double jointed dwarf with especially short arms to > > do any turbo or exhaust work I might fancy in the future.. > > Exhaust manifold gasket. I remember one of the first jobs I got given to do myself at Citroen was to change a leaky turbo cooling pipe on a BX TD... Mike P
From: Adrian on 27 May 2010 08:56 Mike P <mike_w_pearson(a)hotmail.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: >> > Which cars are fighting a losing battle against reliability? You >> > guessed it: they're French. Eight out of the ten least reliable cars >> > come from across the Channel, with the Peugeot 807 >> (Italian) >> > propping up the table. >> > a pair of Citroens (...C8) >> Same car as 807, just as Italian. >> >> Out of interest, where did the Fiat Ulysee come? > 71, that's right, above the Rover 75 again.. But, but, but... badges and lights apart, it's the same car built in the same factory on the same lines as the 807 & C8...
From: Ret. on 27 May 2010 10:01
Mike P wrote: >> Never wished you could see a little better around an unlit bend? > > No one can see around bends Kevin. Lit, or unlit... light doesn't > bend. It can point in a different direction, but it doesn't bend. Nor > can it go through solid things like walls or verges. Off course light cannot bend - but it can illuminate further when pointed in the right direction. . If you position your car as you are supposed to when negotiating a bend (ie close to the centre line with a LH bend and close to the kerb for a RH bend, then lights that turn with the steering will certainly illuminate further around the bend than normal lights will. > >>> Whilst an alert, competent driver won't get into the situation in >>> the first place. >> >> You keep insisting on this Adrian - and it's just not true. > >>> An automatic washing machine means you can do something else >>> completely different instead of standing over the machine. What >>> other tasks are you doing whilst driving an autobox car that you >>> couldn't if you were driving a manual one? >> >> Relaxing? > > I'd rather you were alert than relaxing Kevin. And messing about with pedals and waggly sticks makes you more alert to what's happening in front of you does it? Kev |