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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: JamesV6CDX on 25 October 2009, 12:34:20
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Went to do a quick oil change this morning - this tickled my funnybone: :D
(http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k205/jamesv6cdx/24102009379.jpg)
It would appear a garage has welded the plug to the sump - never cured a drip that way before :D
Hehe... it's not a problem at all, the sump will be coming off to clean the strainer anyway. I'll probably just drill a hole in it to drain the oil, and fit a new one...
Just goes to show - there is a need to watch garages......
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Just to add - not in the slightest bit worried about it - just thought I'd share the picture because the nature of the bodge amused me immensly.....
little things/minds... ::)
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;D ;D ;D ;D Garages ::) That's why i do as much as possible my self :) For the things i can't i have a trusted garage that i've used for years :y
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Thats not your new car is it?
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Harder to tig weld mucky cast ally than to re-tap the bloody thing!
Kwality bodgery! :y
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what t!t of a garage did that >:(
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Harder to tig weld mucky cast ally than to re-tap the bloody thing!
Kwality bodgery! :y
Its not cast ally, its mild steel, it looks to me like the plug has been brazed in position
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Harder to tig weld mucky cast ally than to re-tap the bloody thing!
Kwality bodgery! :y
Ali doesn't rust mate ;) :)
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Yeah, looked again and it is indeed low carbon steel. OK, so I'm a bit tired this aft! (My excuse, I'm sticking with it!!!)
Still - be harder to braze than re-tap, unless that was the only option for some reason.
Have to say, that's not a bad bit of brazing - overhead position.
Like I said before - kwality bodgery! ;)
Aluminium doesn't rust CDPete - you're quite right, but it does corrode. :y
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Yeah, looked again and it is indeed low carbon steel. OK, so I'm a bit tired this aft! (My excuse, I'm sticking with it!!!)
Still - be harder to braze than re-tap, unless that was the only option for some reason.
Have to say, that's not a bad bit of brazing - overhead position.
Like I said before - kwality bodgery! ;)
Aluminium doesn't rust CDPete - you're quite right, but it does corrode. :y
Yup. Goes a horrible white-ish colour & eventually crumbles into dust
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Thats not your new car is it?
Yep :D
Methinks the garage has been doing the oil changes via an extraction pump, for some time :)
It's really no problem, just made me chuckle!!
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Thats not your new car is it?
Yep :D
Methinks the garage has been doing the oil changes via an extraction pump, for some time :)
It's really no problem, just made me chuckle!!
You have a strange sense of humour ;D
He's obviously not known as Naughty Nigel for nothing then ;D
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Thats not your new car is it?
Yep :D
Methinks the garage has been doing the oil changes via an extraction pump, for some time :)
It's really no problem, just made me chuckle!!
You have a strange sense of humour ;D
He's obviously not known as Naughty Nigel for nothing then ;D
I can fully assure you, Nigel wouldn't have known about that for one minute -
The car has been religiously put in for service - I suspect an independent garage has done this deed! ;D
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I've used a spark plug after I ripped the plug out of the tractor at 80mph ::)
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I've used a spark plug after I ripped the plug out of the tractor at 80mph ::)
If thats on the corner i think it is, no wonder it ripped off!
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I've used a spark plug after I ripped the plug out of the tractor at 80mph ::)
If thats on the corner i think it is, no wonder it ripped off!
I caught as the car landed