My car's been having a bit of a rest the last week or so, working from home, nights driving rail replacement buses. I get to keep the minibus at home as the job is local to me in Ashford. But, today we're off to the local indie garage to get the...

Did nothing with my car today, it had. day off while I got my bus engine in place under the bus ready to lift it in tomorrow.

It was intereesting to see the mpg on a long motorway run. I wonder how the sticky rear brake affected the mpg? :)

Could be a split diaphragm in the servo.

A lengthy trip today in my TDV84.4, Ashford via London to Grantham and back. 350-odd miles, average speed of 47 mph, mpg 30.4. Not bad at all. At one stage the average speed was 57 mph an 34,6 mpg! The sticky brake problem is temporarily fixed, a...

Drivers side rear brake caliper sticking, now sorted! The worst bit is trying to get the car raised! I drove the back wheel onto a block of 4x4 (wood), chock front wheels, raised suspension, big bus jack under rear jacking point, small jack under...

I'm just about to tackle unsticking the sticky driver side rear brake caliper. sometimes it sticks, sometimes it doesn't. I found Rimmer Bros do a vey good video on how to do it. I find their videos very matter-of-fact, not over-produced like...

ISTR doing one on my last long-term car, it was not an easy job. I had to give up and take it to a garage.

What I do with bus airbags is to put them in plac with the bus jacked up, use a tyre inflator to inflate the bag. It will soon take its right shape. the tyre inflator, giving about 90 psi inflates it in a few seconds. Or if you must fole them to...

How difficult/easy is it to do front suspension arms? ISTR trying on my old car and couldn't get access to a ball joint under the stub axle. My"new" car needs them replacing, indi garage wants about £1k to do them.

My "bargain basement" 4.4TDV8 has had a couple of days off, just a local shopping trip and a visit to the dentist today. Next thing to fix is the saloon heater valve unit, drivers side is still blowing cold, passenger side hot. Still rebuilding...

I think my S reg P38 had a bottle jack, but my 52 reg L322 had the nasty scissors jack, as have the others that I've had. I do't have the physical strength to operate the scissors jack; last time I tried the thing started to give way. It's simply...

Been using my "new" 60 reg TDV8 for the commute to work this week, night work, so traffic is light but the roadworks do as well! On Wednesday morning at about 0130 coming down the A249 from sittingbourne to the M20, police had closed the road to...

Surely the grinding sound is the ABS working?

Yes I intend to, I had a similar problem on my previous Vogue.

Yes I do use cruise control whenever I can. I've not noticed braking when using cruise control except going down hills. I do feel the engine reves dropping back gently to mintain speed. Popped out this evening on a local run and made some...

Newer vehicles generally don't like short journeys, the Euro 6 kit doesn't work properly at low temperature, especially DPF filters. That's a big problem on Lonodn buses, they idel in traffic all day and the DPFs get blocked quite quickly.

Copper grease, is that ok for the job?

Personally I would not put WD40 anywhere near the slider. Plus Gas to free it if it doesn't want to come apart, clean it up, apply a thin smear of high temperature grease. WD40 goes all sticky.

You can get special grease for the sliders as it doesn't break down the rubber👍

Thanks, WD40in the slider then.

Google translate can be your friend sometimes. :) I'm currently rebuilding a 1952 AEC 9.6 litre bus engine. No oil reaching the top end, valve stems and guides has 3mm of play!! It's great fun and I'm amazed the engine ran at all, but it did and...

What did I do with my Range Rover yesterday? An evening out with my partner to Margate, car running ok, no noticeable lack of performance, got home after e nifty run along the 20/M20, got home and as I walked past the back of the car noticed the...

No, something else will go wrong even when it's parked up.

Heaters in 1960s cars? You having a laugh?? My 1948 P3 hd one come to think of it and a curtain that dropped down inside the back window. My Rover 2000 had a heater as well, all mod-cons. I'll look on youtube, cheers. Otherwise Ranco valves on...

So many variants, presumably i'll have to order by VIN number? My car is the "facelift" version on a 60 plate.

Thanks, do I have to remove the engine cover to try to find it? By right hand side, I presume you mean under the passenger side on a RHD car?

Any clue as to where it hides on the car? all i see under the bonnet is a mass of pipes, totally lost with modern vehicles!

Having recently had the oil cooler and thermostat and housing changed, I now find the passenger side heating works as it should; the driver's side heating is hit and miss. I initially mentioned this in another post as just the driver's side...

I took the easier but dearer way out and let a local garage do the job. They also replaced the thermostat and housing. The other isse was an O ring inside one of the plastic adaptors in the "octopus" pipes, not available separatelt, the whole...