Vince's Repair Thread - (Console Repairs & Mods)

You're really Mat Armstrong and I claim my £5.

What makes you think it's bottom end? How many miles on it? It is one of the flat 6 air cooled ones?
 
Nigel Kingdon said:
You're really Mat Armstrong and I claim my £5.

What makes you think it's bottom end? How many miles on it? It is one of the flat 6 air cooled ones?
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its a 1999 car, c4 Cab, 60 odd k miles. I think its the bottom end because last time I had it running it sounded very bottom end rumbley.
 
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Can't see that being bottom end, unless it's been starved of oil at some point.
Might be worth having a specialist give it a once over. What's stopping it from starting?

Have you seen the Porsche owners thread on this very forum?
 
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Nigel Kingdon said:
Can't see that being bottom end, unless it's been starved of oil at some point.
Might be worth having a specialist give it a once over. What's stopping it from starting?

Have you seen the Porsche owners thread on this very forum?
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Yea it spat out all of its coolant all over a main road. It does turn over just doesnt sound at all healthy. after xmas ill drop the oil and see what its all about. It had a rebuild (long story) about 300 miles before it died.
 
Crikey, that's bad luck. If it dropped the coolant, did the heads get too hot? I had a top hose go on an XJ I6 4l on the M25, head gasket was toast before I got it to the hard shoulder.
 
Nigel Kingdon said:
Crikey, that's bad luck. If it dropped the coolant, did the heads get too hot? I had a top hose go on an XJ I6 4l on the M25, head gasket was toast before I got it to the hard shoulder.
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Head gaskets on these are metal and never go really, heads should be good but who knows. It's gonna be some fun thats for sure.
 
Diggsy said:
Hope your soldering iron is powerful enough for this task :p
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Gonna need a bigger soldering iron :D. All jokes aside, I have all the tools bar the specialist tools I might need to rebuild an engine. Never done it before so it could be an interesting project! First though I need to be sure that the engine is done! In the new year I am going to get on it!
 
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Vince said:
Gonna need a bigger soldering iron :D. All jokes aside, I have all the tools bar the specialist tools I might need to rebuild an engine. Never done it before so it could be an interesting project! First though I need to be sure that the engine is done! In the new year I am going to get on it!
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Loving this - can’t wait for the ‘Vince’s Repair Thread’ in Motors!!
 
Job is now jobbed... One roof fixed!



Still some very minor clean up and painting to do but looks good to me. Tell you what though all this manual labour kills me. Total cost for everything about 600 quid. Could have added another 0 to that had I have paid a pro.

What's also a plus is that I managed to use a load of spare obs board and stuff I had laying around which did wonders for keeping costs down.

Did get dragged away for a bit to rewire some plug sockets for the neighbour as he had new appliances delivered and Curry's wouldn't help him remove the old as they were hard wired in so I isolated them chopped the wires and installed 3 new plug sockets for him. Quite how Curry's assumed a 94 year old was going to deal with this I have no idea. He was a tad confused when I bundled in to sort it out but we got there and he is happy so good deed for the day also done.

Luckily I'm very close with my neighbour and have a key etc as he relies on me if anything goes wrong as his sons live abroad.
 
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Vince said:
Job is now jobbed... One roof fixed!



Still some very minor clean up and painting to do but looks good to me. Tell you what though all this manual labour kills me. Total cost for everything about 600 quid. Could have added another 0 to that had I have paid a pro.

What's also a plus is that I managed to use a load of spare obs board and stuff I had laying around which did wonders for keeping costs down.

Did get dragged away for a bit to rewire some plug sockets for the neighbour as he had new appliances delivered and Curry's wouldn't help him remove the old as they were hard wired in so I isolated them chopped the wires and installed 3 new plug sockets for him. Quite how Curry's assumed a 94 year old was going to deal with this I have no idea. He was a tad confused when I bundled in to sort it out but we got there and he is happy so good deed for the day also done.

Luckily I'm very close with my neighbour and have a key etc as he relies on me if anything goes wrong as his sons live abroad.
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Love this!! Great work Vince. Such a nice gesture looking after your neighbour!!
 
@Vince The PS5 controller that you kindly repaired for me a while ago is still going strong and is my favoured controller, but.. my other controller is now drifting on the left analogue!

I appreciate that you're a busy guy, but is there any chance that you could pop a couple of halls in there like you did for my first controller?
 
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@Vince The PS5 controller that you kindly repaired for me a while ago is still going strong and is my favoured controller, but.. my other controller is now drifting on the left analogue!

I appreciate that you're a busy guy, but is there any chance that you could pop a couple of halls in there like you did for my first controller?
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Yea of course mate, swing it my way and I can do that for you.
 
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