I would just like to say

Stone56 said:

Have you ever seen a rat gnaw its own leg off to get free from a trap,
Typical Towney response

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Another stupid comment. Nowt to do wiv you choosing to unnecessarily harm an animal more than yer need to.

Had a practice at using ma hippo to flatten down me manc cobbles yesdi. Onlt the test patch eye weeded recently. Not much diffrrence. Gorrabit enthusiastic and swept me drive after.

Morning all, Kuga has a leaking gasket and now hdc sensor going mad and when I braked I heard a grinding noise on Freelander.

Loving work, just not life ATM.

Mornin
Sunny and warm, clear skies
Got a phone to use in new car
Have a good Tuesday
Stay cool all

Morning All.
Bright N Sunny here for now.A shopping day.
Have a good day.

landowner said:

Mornin
Sunny and warm, clear skies
Got a phone to use in new car
Have a good Tuesday
Stay cool all

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That looks weirdly like my old Motorola V171, so is it a new phone but with a retro look or is you joking?

Sadly my old one won't work soon as Tesco are closing down their 3g and this phone won't work with newer stuff. Even still has its original charger and the plastic screen protector is still in place, although no longer stuck down in one corner.
Will still work in Frogland for at least a while. I love it for its compactness and battery life.

(He's joking! Motorola V220, came out about the same time as mine prolly. It'll work for a while!)

...Fun & Games this morning.
Wife went up to her Ma's for the usual Tuesday bin preparation and shopping list collection.
Found the old gal collapsed on the floor, all the indications are that she was there all night.
Totally out of it and less than lucid. Called the Ambulance and they have just carted her off to the knackers yard Hospital.
Tachycardic, poor O2 sats and has pain in leg. Wifey has gone with.

Maybe nearly halfway through the job I hate most on the Disco.
Emptying the sump.
Cannot get the sump plug off, haven't been able to for ages, so I syphon it, or pump it out through the dipstick tube. Takes flipping ages and the handpump is next to useless.
I don't fancy getting the sump plug out with neanderthal methods then replacing is cos sure as eggs is eggs, it'll go the same way.
Grrrr!

Stanleysteamer said:

Maybe nearly halfway through the job I hate most on the Disco.
Emptying the sump.
Cannot get the sump plug off, haven't been able to for ages, so I syphon it, or pump it out through the dipstick tube. Takes flipping ages and the handpump is next to useless.
I don't fancy getting the sump plug out with neanderthal methods then replacing is cos sure as eggs is eggs, it'll go the same way.
Grrrr!

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Oh dear, sorry to hear this. Have you tried the electric oil change pumps that work thru the dipstick hole?
I have one but never actually used it, some folks swear by them, some at them.

Stanleysteamer said:

Maybe nearly halfway through the job I hate most on the Disco.
Emptying the sump.
Cannot get the sump plug off, haven't been able to for ages, so I syphon it, or pump it out through the dipstick tube. Takes flipping ages and the handpump is next to useless.
I don't fancy getting the sump plug out with neanderthal methods then replacing is cos sure as eggs is eggs, it'll go the same way.
Grrrr!

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I have a spare 200 tdi sump, not sure what yours is though

obs not a 200 tdi soz

...the 95YO MIL's loving son who can readily visit her at home to help empty her bank account unfortunately cannot go hold her hand in hospital because Hospitals upset him and make him feel bad. So my wife has been with her Mum since 10AM this morning without a break. It is unclear whether they are going to admit the old gal or what. I told her (the wife) I was going to call him to tell him what a pathetic piece of crap he was but she has asked me not to. Hopping mad at the injustice.

DanClarke said:

...the 95YO MIL's loving son who can readily visit her at home to help empty her bank account unfortunately cannot go hold her hand in hospital because Hospitals upset him and make him feel bad. So my wife has been with her Mum since 10AM this morning without a break. It is unclear whether they are going to admit the old gal or what. I told her (the wife) I was going to call him to tell him what a pathetic piece of crap he was but she has asked me not to. Hopping mad at the injustice.

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Just call him and call him a *u*t anyway

DanClarke said:

Oh dear, sorry to hear this. Have you tried the electric oil change pumps that work thru the dipstick hole?
I have one but never actually used it, some folks swear by them, some at them.

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Yes, I have looked at them in the past. Just had another look and they do certainly look a lot better than I remember them.
I will prolly get one. Don't want to go through this hassle again. My hand pump, which is nigh on useless, takes forever to clean.

The other pain is that to get to the centrifugal filter you have to take the ornery oil filter off. (You ought not to need to, but like many, one of the original bolts was going round and round in the ally, so I put a bolt through from the bottom and a nyloc on the top. ) So needed to get a spanner on the bottom end of it.

For once struggled to get the ornery filter off. I am a stickler for only putting them on with hands in rubber gloves but this piece of barstaff didn't want to shift. Tried to use a gator grip type tool, couldn't get enough room to make it lock up and tore it taking it out. Couldn't see for the blue haze of the language.
W and I hunted for better rubber gloves as the orange type of protective gloves I wear to work on cars at the mo do not have the same grip. Couldn't find any "large" ones so forced my mitts into medium ones, which hurt the arthritic fingers and thumb.
Still couldn't get the flipper off. Finally remembered I had a "proper tool" that I normally never need. Had to move lots of stuff out of the way to get the top of my tool box open. With a little language this tool finally freed it off. So I was able to get it out of the way and do the centrifugal one.
So, on the home straight I thought. Got new filter ready, but fitting it was weirdly impossible. Extremely difficult to get it under the mounting point and impossible to rotate it vertically into position to be able to screw it on. Compared it to the old one, it was about 1 cm longer!

This never normally happens with Motabitz but I took it back and they found one listed, 9mm shorter. A posh Bosch one. So it'll be there tomoz. The taller one was correctly listed and we had a bit of laugh discussing what bits of the car I could take off to get it in and on!

So packed up, cleaned up tools and me and now in just finishing a beer. Such a shame as I wasn't really able to enjoy the lovely weather!!

So funny that a job I always regard as one of the quickest and easiest parts of regular maintenance is such a pain on this vehicle. It takes me no time at all on W's car!

I also can no longer squeeze under the front of the disco, gut too big. Grrr!!

Enjoy the evening folks!!

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...Fun & Games this morning.
Wife went up to her Ma's for the usual Tuesday bin preparation and shopping list collection.
Found the old gal collapsed on the floor, all the indications are that she was there all night.
Totally out of it and less than lucid. Called the Ambulance and they have just carted her off to the knackers yard Hospital.
Tachycardic, poor O2 sats and has pain in leg. Wifey has gone with.

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Hope she recovers to a point where she can go back home and live as she has been doing.

DanClarke said:

...the 95YO MIL's loving son who can readily visit her at home to help empty her bank account unfortunately cannot go hold her hand in hospital because Hospitals upset him and make him feel bad. So my wife has been with her Mum since 10AM this morning without a break. It is unclear whether they are going to admit the old gal or what. I told her (the wife) I was going to call him to tell him what a pathetic piece of crap he was but she has asked me not to. Hopping mad at the injustice.

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Sympathise mate, I think you have incredible self-control, I couldn't control myself.

Stanleysteamer said:

Makes you pine for the days when you couldn't do that in the middle of the night!!

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Yer n have to walk miles to get to a phone box which stunk of pish n had page 3 models on lager cans scattered on the
floor

Stanleysteamer said:

Maybe nearly halfway through the job I hate most on the Disco.
Emptying the sump.
Cannot get the sump plug off, haven't been able to for ages, so I syphon it, or pump it out through the dipstick tube. Takes flipping ages and the handpump is next to useless.
I don't fancy getting the sump plug out with neanderthal methods then replacing is cos sure as eggs is eggs, it'll go the same way.
Grrrr!

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You need one of these, warm the motor up then suck away...you could remove the oil as well

Evening all, what a scorcher of a day best of the year oh well snow next week.

landowner said:

I have a spare 200 tdi sump, not sure what yours is though

obs not a 200 tdi soz

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Ive got a 200tdi engine to go with said sump, all he needs is give me that v8.