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Socoder -> Off Topic -> Cars are Still Expensive |
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| Sat, 12 Mar 2016, 02:03 | |
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GfK |
Changed the glow plugs on the car today - had to take off the EGR valve and manifold. All going swimmingly until I was trying to put the EGR valve back on, and dropped a 10mm nut - down the fucking air pipe! Had to jack the car up and strip it down from underneath to get the nut out. >:|
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| Sat, 12 Mar 2016, 02:03 | |
steve_ancell
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If only I had a quid for every time I dropped a nut down a pipe.
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| Sat, 12 Mar 2016, 02:19 | |
rockford
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LOL!
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| Sat, 12 Mar 2016, 02:20 | |
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GfK |
I'd have a quid. It's a first for me. Didn't even know for sure thats where it was - one minute it was in my hand, then, gone! Looked all over the floor - nothing. Thought it was in the front grille at first cos something was rattling - took 20 mins to find out it was a pebble. The only place left was the pipe. Luckily it didn't go down one of the ten inlet ports. That would have needed the engine out. :s |
| Sat, 12 Mar 2016, 02:22 | |
Dabz
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Mmmmm nuts Dabz -=-=- Intel Core i5 6400 2.7GHz, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (8GB), 8Gig DDR4 RAM, 256GB SSD, 1TB HDD, Windows 10 64bit 
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| Sat, 12 Mar 2016, 02:24 | |
rockford
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Get yourself a magnet on a string, ready for next time! 
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| Sat, 12 Mar 2016, 03:12 | |
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GfK |
You can get some extendy stick things with a light and a magnet on the end for exactly this sort of thing. I keep seeing them in shops and going "nah, I don't need it now". Then when I do need it, like last night, I haven't got one. :/ |
| Sat, 12 Mar 2016, 10:58 | |
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steve_ancell
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I just use a small magnet rammed in the end of a length of silcone tubing, the same stuff that's used as fuel tubing on model planes and car engines. It's flexible enought to go around bends and stuff, I even managed to retrieve a washer that had fallen through a sparkplug port.
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| Sat, 12 Mar 2016, 14:06 | |
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rockford
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Sounds like you're often having little accidents steve. Perhaps servicing your car is best left to someone else!  J/K  I can't tell one end of the car from the other 
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| Sat, 12 Mar 2016, 17:32 | |
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steve_ancell
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rockford  Perhaps servicing your car is best left to someone else! Another car more like.
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| Sat, 12 Mar 2016, 23:03 | |
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Dabz
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I'm the same as Rockford... I know how to drive the things, fill the fluids up... but other then that... Nowt! Dabz -=-=- Intel Core i5 6400 2.7GHz, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (8GB), 8Gig DDR4 RAM, 256GB SSD, 1TB HDD, Windows 10 64bit
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