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

Hate RENAULT

I enjoy doing CLUTCH's but not RENAULT's at all

Rava 4 took me 8 hours full day

not a bad 1

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

lol telling me

last week a duel mass fly wheel broke up on a Golf 18 tdi

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TAKE A LOOK I NEVER ANYTHING LIKE IT

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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And another to join the DUEL MASS collection

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

Total cost of job £ 640.00

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.DUEL MASS

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!

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

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..

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

Solution - buy a solid flywheel conversion kit

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

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

excellent robbo.

Some great pics there robbo



NASTY!

Back in work from Monday so there should me more on the way

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

WOW!!!!!!!!


brilliant mate..

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.

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

spot the difference

nah...i cant...go on give me a clue....

2 less balls in the second picture

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

Closer look at the engine damage

Niiiiiice....

What caused it - the big end still appears to be in place

Abuse on the motor way

Con rod snapped gone though the block

Niiice

The step welding

1 of the old school transits

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a well done job.

Nice 1 dude there just a pain once you start there,s more more more grrrrrrrr

Some nice engine damage on that con rod jobbie

Cools pics mate

More damaged engine pics!!!

been on this transit for 12 hours ahh

welded 2x out rigger suspenion mountion side burns

lol

and 1 inner siill by slidind door

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In a Corrosion mess

AFTER

Mission weld

Painted

The sill

Job done

(What A Day )

Weld-done!

That's quite a bit of work - must have struggled to get through last MOT?

it was a mission last year to lol

i`d undercoat the bstrd in bitumen i`m afraid, no way, couldn`t be doing with that every year

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

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Turbo

Strip down

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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

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Total mess

All down to a nut from the turbo

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More Update tomorrow

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.

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

Is that swarf in the head? Was the nut still in there or disintegrated?

What i found in the sump


Number 2 big end bearing in the sump blocking the oil PICK UP PIPE

More damage

Engine

ENGINE IN THE BIN

New engine Supplied and fitted 10 hours

BUILT complete

Was that expensive for the customer?

2006 Golf Turbo blowen up

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

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

Found the rest of the turbine on the subframe by the rack
Got new Turbo 3pm
Turbo's back on now
pix up tomorrow

jobs a goodun mate

Here we go the jobs done

Needs a TPS now tho

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Last pix from me

Built and running codes

That's nice and clean!

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

Nice one Robbo, I'll wait for the call.

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? http://uk-mkivs.net/forums/p/353504/2412205.aspx