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Ford Mondeo 6 and half hours to do the clutch
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its mad how a Mondeo can take me 6 hours and a Renault take,s me 16 hours i have done loads of Renault's and the job seems to last forever
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Rava 4 took me 8 hours full day not a bad 1
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Took us 7/8 hours to do the Micra in our lockup, but we didnt have the proper tools
. Car was only just off the ground (No ramps) and we had to use jacks to support the gearbox and manouvre it around.
Needless to say, Japanese cars dont go back as easily as they are taken apart
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lol telling me
Needless to say, Japanese cars dont go back as easily as they are taken apart
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last week a duel mass fly wheel broke up on a Golf 18 tdi
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Had to change all this because the CLUTCH Slave cylinder
had burst in side the box
Why don,t there just build them on the out side of gear boxes
like normal cars
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how bad a 2006 Volvo with 70.000mls on the clock
yet again banging from the engine diver says and yes it was the duel mass grr ...
THESE DUEL MASS FLY WHEELS ARE NOT WORTH GETTING AT ALL
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how bad a 2006 Volvo with 70.000mls on the clock
yet again banging from the engine diver says and yes it was the duel mass grr ...
THESE DUEL MASS FLY WHEELS ARE NOT WORTH GETTING AT ALL
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The Clutch is OK But the duel mass has over 30mm of play terrible it should only have 15mm at the most ;(
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All the new Volvos have those flywheels don't they? Nightmare, it took 2 hours to change my Astra's clutch, you extract the input shaft from the side and then the clutch comes out of a hatch underneath!
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hi guys just got back from a diagnostics course at jim barrow motor factors lol you think cars are bad now with the management systems Just wait to see whats in line for all cars after 2010 all cars will have to have Tyre pressure monitoring systems also all will have electronic handbrakes to this is all part of the new car laws coming into place on new cars wooooowww the world going to electronically MAD good look for the future ROBBO wink 1 more thing when you change a battery on a new car you will have to tell the E.C.U what battery it is and amps it is or the car will not start NOTE what a pain in the ass
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These dual mass flywheels also kill starter motors - its a very common problem on the new transits
Dual mass flywheel, good Idea - NOT!! Ill live with a bit of lumpyness rather than having to replace the starter all the time..
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yep the dust and the mettle filings from the duel mass kills the bushes in the starter
but some times the ring gear goes on the fly wheel and that also kills the gear on the starter motor
when the duel mass flywheels kick to 1 side they cam jam up the starter and burn it out also pop,s a main fuse from the battery
the duel mass eats away at the gear box if the play in the duel mass is very bad
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Solution - buy a solid flywheel conversion kit
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Thats what were doing at the moment changing all duel mass in to solid its only the clutch and the slave cylinder that is different the only difference is is a smother take off on the duel mass the new ford fiesta 58 plate,s have gone back to solid flywheels now thank god
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Pah, people have lived without them (essentially a harmonic damper) on Diesels up to now
A small trade off for the cost of the things plus the other damage they can do.
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Pah, people have lived without them (essentially a harmonic damper) on Diesels up to now
A small trade off for the cost of the things plus the other damage they can do.
waist of money time and effort
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Some great pics there robbo
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Back in work from Monday so there should me more on the way
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Right today we had a Peugeot 2005 406 in Came in with banging in the gear box it was down to the slave cylinder bearing had fell to bits in the box and seized the clutch up Hence the noise and NO>GO PIX the car
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i can not believe whats happened to the bearing LOOK
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I kept one from a few years ago, it had disintigrated into about 30 different bits. You know what it is when you prize the gb off and bearings drop onto your face.
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lol no never done that lol lol mad Droped a subframe on me finger tho now that heart and still does lol its been about 3 to 4 months now and it still has not healed gutted
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spot the difference
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nah...i cant...go on give me a clue....
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2005 Transit connect engine holed Con rod snapped gone though the block not good 8 hours to replace new engine The pix off my phone
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Closer look at the engine damage
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Niiiiiice....
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Abuse on the motor way Con rod snapped gone though the block
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The step welding
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Nice 1 dude there just a pain once you start there,s more more more grrrrrrrr
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Some nice engine damage on that con rod jobbie Cools pics mate More damaged engine pics!!!
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been on this transit for 12 hours ahh welded 2x out rigger suspenion mountion side burns lol and 1 inner siill by slidind door before pix
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That's quite a bit of work - must have struggled to get through last MOT?
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Had a Focus Diesel 1.6 Sigma in today WARNING TO YOU ALL NOT TO BY A NEW DIESEL FOCUS WITH ANY SIGMA ENGINE (THERE CRAP) Nothing but oil leaks and engine failures Back to the point this car has had 2 turbo's so far and now this 1 has gone all together. What has happened is the 6mm nut has come off the end of the outer turbo turbine and its travelled its way though the hole Turbo intercooling system and then Though inlet inducton intake and made its way into the engine DOING SOME NICE DAMAGE Engine knocking and clunking its head off Some pix Turbo
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1 thing that is good with the sigma engine is the two top cams are built into its own cover part of the engine pix
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Total mess All down to a nut from the turbo Last pictures More Update tomorrow
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couldnt you try and claim from the warrentee from the new turbo? as thats got to be a manufacturing fault?!
shocking,i did a clutch on the 1.9 c-max the other day, easy had it done in 4 hours. enjoyable as everything was easy to get to.
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I Felling that the oil pump is to blame as it has not got enough oil psi to feed to the turbo to the sepecs its needing
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Is that swarf in the head? Was the nut still in there or disintegrated?
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What i found in the sump Number 2 big end bearing in the sump blocking the oil PICK UP PIPE
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New engine Supplied and fitted 10 hours BUILT complete
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Was that expensive for the customer?
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Hope you're gonna find the rest of that turbine before you give it back to me Robbo
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Hope you're gonna find the rest of that turbine before you give it back to me Robbo
i imagine most of the swarf and leftovers will be floating around inside the inlet manifold seeing as its on the coldside of the compressor wheel ???
lost a 4.5k cosworth engine when the compressor wheel decided to come loose in similar fashion to your turbo was gutted !!
hopefully youll be good though with yours and a lot luckier than me
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I,ve found some bits and blasted out inter cooler and Exhaust all the inter cooler pipes full of Engine oil NOT NICE Thinking of taking the inlet pipes and check for mettle tracers possibility the inlet manafold off to grrrrrrr 2 more pix turbo
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Found the rest of the turbine on the subframe by the rack
Got new Turbo 3pm
Turbo's back on now
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Here we go the jobs done
Needs a TPS now tho
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i imagine the tps switch will have been damaged by metal fragments possibly due to ingress !!! and i suspect a similar failure to mine (compressor wheel nut coming loose ) which in turn kills turbo instantly .. still looks like you doing a cracking job there mate and keep us posted
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Hey Robbo, the boost isn't kicking in until 3000, only leaves me 1500 until gear up. Been reading around, most forums say no run in required for new turbo but might need adjusting?
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