V6Matty
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he’s been bonkers for years like the rest of usThere’s no need to go mad!
he’s been bonkers for years like the rest of usThere’s no need to go mad!
WkerProbably a result of young designers straight out of college who have never even held a spanner
Whilst I was at Cranfield Uni I caught a MSc student fitting a 10mm tap into an electric drill
Saw this today in the workshop & thought of this thread .... its only M8 though......
Whilst I was at Cranfield Uni I caught a MSc student fitting a 10mm tap into an electric drill
Citroen/Peugeot do the same thing.Some bright young thing at ford thought it a great idea to immerse a rubber timing belt in sump oil, that didn't work out too well either, the new generation of engine designers have clearly abandoned longevity as a design objective.
Some bright young thing at ford thought it a great idea to immerse a rubber timing belt in sump oil, that didn't work out too well either, the new generation of engine designers have clearly abandoned longevity as a design objective.
VW/Skoda do the same on some of their engines…Citroen/Peugeot do the same thing.
Ford had a similar thing years back on the V6 Essex with the fibre timing gear .... it certainly made the engine quieter when the teeth sheared
VW/Skoda do the same on some of their engines…
Not for me thanks, I'll take the bus.
Luckily, downpipe/cat is actually quite easy on those, and can be done mostly from the top with the intercooler off.What worries me now is that daughter has an MOT this week, if it fails on emissions (which a lot do) then one of the fixes is to replace the catalytic converter , which means i have to do the whole job again ( fingers crossed )
At least the oil consumption should now drop a bit, It must have been loosing about 1/2 litre a month from the leak, as i cleaned the oil off the sump to see where leak was, and within 10 miles it was dripping again. The seal on the oil filter housing had gone rock hard.
Back in the day, a friend came to me with a BMC J2 Van (BMC B Series) that had worn through its timing case and lost its oil, running the ends. Thought the noise was normal!In my days playing with minis the best mod to do to smaller engined ones was fit a duplex chain kit off a Cooper S.
The standard simplex chain had a "tensioner" and would stretch after 30-40k miles to the point it rattled on the timing cover. The duplex ones had no tensioner and I never recall changing one due to rattling on the timing cover.
At least in both cases they never snapped!