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#Post#: 61073--------------------------------------------------
Re: Dave's 88 and other Land Rovers
By: Gadget Date: May 16, 2013, 1:48 pm
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If you can't be arsed to fix it why not take it to fix a garage
and pay someone to fix it?
You go to work to earn the money to pay someone to do the money
job you can't be arsed to to do because your at work.
Or just man the fuck up and get on with it!!!
Yours just got in from welding some more of ffragle up and
fitted chassis bushes in the rain!!
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Re: Dave's 88 and other Land Rovers
By: harryhedgehog Date: May 16, 2013, 1:57 pm
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So do you have an appointment to obtain a fail sheet Dave?
HHH
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Re: Dave's 88 and other Land Rovers
By: Dave Date: May 16, 2013, 3:02 pm
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Have I fuck! Where's the point in throwing away 50 quid for
someone to tell me it's fucked. I already know that! It won't be
going any where near an MOT station until I fix it.
Pay someone to do it? It's not going to happen. I'm not paying
someone £40 an hour, which is what they charge - if they will do
it at all. Sometimes I don't earn that much in a DAY! Garages
I've asked in the past refuse to take the job on because they
know what a bastard these things are to bleed and they're in the
game of swapping parts over - they're not real mechanics at all.
If they can't unbolt something and bolt a replacement on, or if
they can't plug a computer in that will TELL them what's wrong
they don't want to know. Hudds. LRC would do it but I'd need to
win the lottery or sell a kidney first.
I'll buy a new brake pipe on Saturday and then spend the rest of
the day fitting it and fucking about trying to bleed it if
anyone's daft enough to come and help me bleed it cos that's
something I can't do on my own no matter how much I "man the
fuck up!!!!".
That is IF I'm not working Saturday and IF it ceases raining.
What I really want is a V5 from a 1958 series 2. I wouldn't have
to worry about all this MOT bullshit then.
#Post#: 61090--------------------------------------------------
Re: Dave's 88 and other Land Rovers
By: mistericeman Date: May 16, 2013, 3:11 pm
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[quote author=Dave link=topic=15.msg61087#msg61087
date=1368734561]
Have I fuck! Where's the point in throwing away 50 quid for
someone to tell me it's fucked. I already know that! It won't be
going any where near an MOT station until I fix it.
Pay someone to do it? It's not going to happen. I'm not paying
someone £40 an hour, which is what they charge - if they will do
it at all. Sometimes I don't earn that much in a DAY! Garages
I've asked in the past refuse to take the job on because they
know what a bastard these things are to bleed and they're in the
game of swapping parts over - they're not real mechanics at all.
If they can't unbolt something and bolt a replacement on, or if
they can't plug a computer in that will TELL them what's wrong
they don't want to know. Hudds. LRC would do it but I'd need to
win the lottery or sell a kidney first.
I'll buy a new brake pipe on Saturday and then spend the rest of
the day fitting it and fucking about trying to bleed it if
anyone's daft enough to come and help me bleed it cos that's
something I can't do on my own no matter how much I "man the
fuck up!!!!".
That is IF I'm not working Saturday and IF it ceases raining.
What I really want is a V5 from a 1958 series 2. I wouldn't have
to worry about all this MOT bullshit then.
[/quote]
Surely that would compromise the originality of your .....ohhh
errr actually :-?
IF you get the bits together i could possibly head over one
evening next week to give you a lift ...I'm working this weekend
though :thumbs:
#Post#: 61100--------------------------------------------------
Re: Dave's 88 and other Land Rovers
By: harryhedgehog Date: May 16, 2013, 3:54 pm
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Dave, invest a couple of quid in one of these.
HHH
edit: a clear wine bottle handy too
HTML http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VIZIBLEED-ONE-MAN-BRAKE-CLUTCH-BLEEDING-TOOL-NEW-/251042733384
HTML http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VIZIBLEED-ONE-MAN-BRAKE-CLUTCH-BLEEDING-TOOL-NEW-/251042733384
HTML http://www.powertoolsdirect.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/s/a/saxon-vizibleed-brake-clutch-bleeding-tool.jpg
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Re: Dave's 88 and other Land Rovers
By: mistericeman Date: May 16, 2013, 3:58 pm
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[quote author=harryhedgehog link=topic=15.msg61100#msg61100
date=1368737691]
Dave, invest a couple of quid in one of these.
HHH
HTML http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VIZIBLEED-ONE-MAN-BRAKE-CLUTCH-BLEEDING-TOOL-NEW-/251042733384
HTML http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VIZIBLEED-ONE-MAN-BRAKE-CLUTCH-BLEEDING-TOOL-NEW-/251042733384
HTML http://www.powertoolsdirect.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/s/a/saxon-vizibleed-brake-clutch-bleeding-tool.jpg
[/quote]
Won't make lot of difference with TLS as the air bubble gets
stuck at the "top" of the brake line loop :smilewide:
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Re: Dave's 88 and other Land Rovers
By: Lurch Date: May 16, 2013, 4:04 pm
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Do as Harry says Dave wagfinger
I bled mine in twenty minutes the other day, didnt bother
clamping fuck all or winding out the adjusters,I took the n/s
wheel off for access as I had a tight nipple :-*
I will wind the adjusters up later and rip tarmacadam off the
road surface with my braking ability. :smilewide:
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Re: Dave's 88 and other Land Rovers
By: Lurch Date: May 16, 2013, 4:09 pm
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TLS are hassle
As a last resort,remove hubs, backplate bolts etc and turn
upside down whilst bleeding.
#Post#: 61110--------------------------------------------------
Re: Dave's 88 and other Land Rovers
By: Albert Ross Date: May 16, 2013, 4:33 pm
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I never seem to struggle..... I do it all alone, on the street,
mortgage to pay etc..... I manage. Just.
#Post#: 61117--------------------------------------------------
Re: Dave's 88 and other Land Rovers
By: LeftHandFred Date: May 16, 2013, 4:51 pm
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Know the pain of having to deal with "part swoppers" - call
themselves fitters but are no where near the standard of fitters
of days past and the hourly rates?!
We have to get a ninety on the road before we can strip &
rebuild our series and the brother in law who's meant to be
helping has done his back in - it's not always easy to attack
things when there's only one of you [although a cunning plan has
led to SWMBO lifting weights so she's strong enough to give a
hand ;D]. Hope you can get it sorted - if we weren't sat on a
rock in the middle of the channel I'd offer to help...
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