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Fetch and the Art of Car Maintenance

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Diogenes Jul 2022 11:30pm, 17 Jul 2022 71,316 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes Palace fixtures 1974-75
Diogenes Jul 2022 11:31pm, 17 Jul 2022 71,317 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes Lol
Angus Clydesdale Jul 2022 11:48pm, 17 Jul 2022 25,027 posts	Quote Pin Angus Clydesdale Are you on the vino tinto Dio?!
Diogenes Jul 2022 6:04am, 18 Jul 2022 71,321 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes Possibly, or just old age. Fetch = Google, right?
richmac Jul 2022 6:17am, 18 Jul 2022 19,239 posts	Quote Pin richmac Have heard good things about this book The Rusty Nut Bible: How to Undo Seized, Damaged or Broken Nuts, Bolts, Studs & Screws amzn.eu One day I'll bore the with the story of how I got the coolant feed Union off a MK2 cortina inlet manifold without buying a new manifold..
Angus Clydesdale Jul 2022 7:57am, 18 Jul 2022 25,028 posts	Quote Pin Angus Clydesdale ~ Draws up sandbag ~ ~ swings Tilley ~
Northern Exile Jul 2022 8:30am, 18 Jul 2022 9,014 posts	Quote Pin Northern Exile I've got a Tilley lamp 🙂
Angus Clydesdale Jul 2022 9:53am, 18 Jul 2022 25,029 posts	Quote Pin Angus Clydesdale I’m not in least surprised!
richmac Jul 2022 8:00pm, 18 Jul 2022 19,246 posts	Quote Pin richmac Lol
richmac Jul 2022 8:27pm, 18 Jul 2022 19,247 posts	Quote Pin richmac You want to know? Basically the heater hose had to come off for some reason. As I tried getting it off this union thingy it crumbled like the cheap piece of 30 yo alloy it was. FFS. Put a spanner on the thing, it was solid and I guessed to much graunching whittle reduce the remainder to crumbs as well, but inside the inlet manifold. The only way to get a new union piece was to buy an entire second hand manifold with it in there. I thought I'd have to change the whole thing which annoyed me, many bolts and a carb linkage not to mention having to buy gaskets. Then I decided, bollocks that thing is coming out, after checking the one was loose, it was. And to began a very tedious week. Before work I went to the car cleaned off the joint sprayed WD on tapped it with a hammer, cleaned it, sprayed it again. Came home from work, same thing. For a full 6 days. Day 7, put the spanner back on, thing span out like it was brand new. That is the most patient I've ever been with anything.