PDM wrote: Thanks. I was on the old forum a little while.
Sucked for sure! Have to jack the motor up on those cars just to get the valve covers off. Pulling the timing cover is an ordeal!
Nice, an OG member. Love to see people returning from the first forum version.
Your DOHC Cobra talk is giving me anxiety! I've got a '97 in the shop I'm putting a small block in - pretty darn sure I got the timing right, but the OE timing procedure is super vague.
PDM wrote: My first real experience with DOHC was doing a timing set on my Cobra. Managed to get the right bank 180* out :silly:
As soon as the coughing and sputtering started, I had a flashback of turning the crank after the first side was done. :facepalm:
OH, that SUCKS! Thanks for using your first post to share that with us, and welcome to the forum!
We have been there...... these days I use lot of paint marks and take pictures with my phone even on engine types I know well,
Back in the old days with 2 valve per cylinder twin over head cam engines it was even more worrying, when you have two big valves because the valves were so much bigger and the cam needed more lift add the fact in those days the valves were set at 90 degrees to each and get it slightly wrong and the valves either crash into other or the piston. Jag XK engines weren't too bad because on pre-XJ6 models they supplied the required special tools with the car but Lotus-Ford Twincam engines were a pain to get right.
Modern 4 valve per cylinder engines usually have the valves set at about 40 to 45 degrees to each other and the camshafts have only half the valve lift so although they are still interference engines you are more likely to get away with small mistakes without bending valves.
" We're trying to plug a hole in the universe, what are you doing ?. "
(Walter Bishop Fringe TV show)
had a old explorer come in and some one decided they did not need 5 leafs in the rear and cut the other 4 off and left them for spacer blocks. This is a new one for me and makes you ask what were they thinking?
Hitting it with a Hammer is worth $5 knowing where to hit is worth $40
That might actually be like that from the factory. Especially if it's a 2 door Explorer Sport.
That's a LOT of work to do in your drive way. The u bolts alone would give most DIY'ers a run for their money with no air or heat. Let alone making 16 perfect cuts through spring steel!
It is goofy for sure! I've seen that before and just filed it under "Things That Make You Go Huh?" I was thinking it may be a Sport since most of the ones I've seen have had only a single leaf on each side.
I'm gonna be laying under Explorers in the grocery store parking lot looking for one like that!
Had a Dodge come in that had just been to Stealership for a new strut and customer stated had a noise in right front brake after repair.Here is what I found not sure if they just left them out or did not tighten them. The caliper slide pins were also rusted fast and had to free them and replace missing bolts.
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Hitting it with a Hammer is worth $5 knowing where to hit is worth $40
This thread
www.scannerdanner.com/forum/post-your-re...re/1151-ac-work.html
about A/C repair made me think of something I saw an old man do many years ago.
There was an old Lincoln Town Car limousine that I'm presuming had some kind of A/C performance complaint.
The old timer says that she needs a "deep reduction". I didn't see his connections, but I saw the giant, stinking smog cloud make the building disappear when he figured out how to hook a service port up to intake vacuum and hold it at 3000 RPM.
Ephratah wrote: had a old explorer come in and some one decided they did not need 5 leafs in the rear and cut the other 4 off and left them for spacer blocks. This is a new one for me and makes you ask what were they thinking?
Speaking of the dealership yesterday I had 05 superduty come in that had ball joints done at the dealer 1 month ago and they didn't tighten the left lower up at all ! You could grab the wheel and flop it atleast 2 inches the axle housing was egged so bad you could see it without even pulling it apart....
JeffBirt wrote: To be fair I have seen some 'professional' mechanics do some really stupid things too......I put 'professional' in quotes as my Dad used to say that 'professional' only meant you got paid to do something not that you were any good at it.
I like to say, "Do they really have 25 years of experience or do they have 1 year of experience that they've held for 25 years?"
Anybody have the torque specs for the sheet rock screws that hold the convertible top to the windshield frame for an 01 Sunfire? Don't want this girl to leak...
Anybody have the torque specs for the sheet rock screws that hold the convertible top to the windshield frame for an 01 Sunfire? Don't want this girl to leak...
Spec says 96 in pounds but I like to go 120 just to be sure :rolleyes:
Thought I might share one of my own DIY blunders. I bought a Geo Tracker (Suzuki Sidekick) new in 1993. I put about 240,000 miles on it before I sold in in about 2000 (still running/driving fine). With this many miles I changed the oil many times. So, one Sunday I was changing the oil and as I started to pour the oil in I noticed it running right back out! Check the drain plug, it is in place and dry. Check the oil filter, it is in place but not quite sealed (it has about 200K miles on it by this time).
The oil filter was pulled back off and I realized that the nipple the filter threads on to had backed out just enough that when the filter was seemingly tight (by hand) the filter seal was not against the filter housing (a very small gap was present.) So, this is Sunday and I live in a rural area and I do not have the proper size nuts (thin / jam nuts) to thread onto the nipple and lock together so I can tighten the nipple back into the housing. I drove into the nearest town (about 15 miles) which had no hardware stores open on Sunday but I did manage to find the jam nuts at the only auto parts place that was open. Luckily I was able to then tighten the nipple, buy a few quarts of oil to replace what went on the floor and the job finished. If the nipple had back out not quite as far it might have sealed well enough to not leak until I was driving to work on Monday (which would have been bad).
One other mishap I had on Sunday was realizing I had a flat tire on the truck (F350 crew cab) and it was sitting in the yard. No problem I though I'll just grab my tire plug kit and fix it up. This seemed better than having to jack the truck up in the yard. When inserting the plug in the tire it was quite tight and then slipped all the way into the tire, surprising me and breaking off the plug tool in the tire! I had to pull the tire, put it in the aforementioned Geo Tracker, drive to Walmart (only tire shop open) and sheepishly ask to fix the tire and retrieve my broken plug tool.
Love to see people returning from the first forum version.
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