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Stupid things I've done when working on a car...

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Suvvey:

--- Quote from: Saffy on April 17, 2012, 20:53:59 ---reminds me that my dad used to take engines out with a couple of neighbours - straps, lifting bars and muscle.

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I did that last year after being roped in to help my Sister's now ex boyfriend. Only a little Peugeot 106 engine but still a pain to lift out with a couple of short scaffold poles and strops. Especially when it is only as you are bent over taking the weight on your back and with no way of dropping it back in without causing damage, that you realise the stumpy, vertically challenged hobbit your Sister has let 'fix' her car isn't actually tall enough to complete the manouvre!!!

Welshbreed:
Recently, I did manage to acquire an abused Opel Vectra B with EcoTec engine in college and having reconnected the lights, air box and hoses, cooling system and some vacuum pipes, re-tapped and connected the exhaust system, topped up on coolant and oil, checked HT leads connected and pulled one of the HT leads to check there were spark plugs. Had my friend turn the engine over, didn't start, my tutor comes over to investigate, on second turn of the key, HT leads come flying out of top of the engine with a thunderous bang, making me and my tutor basically hit the deck, possibly both of us with a new load in our trousers.

Turned out someone had removed 2 of the 4 spark plugs and didn't bother replacing them. Lesson learned, check ALL spark plugs there, not just the one.

brixworth-alan:
To free off a stuck handbrake shoe on my old astra years ago, my dad recommended this technique: Jack up the right rear corner, take the wheel off and whang the brake drum with the tyre iron until "a clunk, scrunching or otherwise noise" was heard and then I'd be able to achieve forward motion.

He forgot to tell me to chock the front wheel if doing this on a slope, so of course when I jacked the right rear tyre off the deck I achieved forwards motion a bit earlier than expected...

Cue the old joke about brakes failing....

"Did you lose your fluid?"
"Yeah, wouldn't You?"

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