Smart Engine Bits

[Guest Alan Harrison]

Reached a great mile stone on Sunday. After 10 months building I bolted on the only part that I've ever fitted that I wont have to take off again and again...ever. What can go wrong with an inlet manifold? No its there to stay.

 

To celebrate I want to get a nice new distributor cap with bright coloured ht leads and smart looking cable clips. Oh and one of those chrome plated coil covers. Car accessory shops only seem to sell in-car DVD players, radar snoopers and pressure washers these days. Any idea where I should look?

[Bob Tucker]

Best coil cover I saw was in black & gold

& had GUINNESS printed on it.....

[Bob Tucker]

PS

Wait till you try & adjust the valve clearances......!!

It's quicker to take off the manifold than faff around trying to fit an 8"

spanner in a 2" gap

[Big Jim]

Ah! but if you have the correct tool for adjusting the valve clearances you don't need to.

 

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...item=2435319091

[Guest mickmellors]

Last time I saw something like that, 'er indoors had got her feet in the stirrups in the Delivery Suite !

 

Right tool for the job is always worth an hours saved labour.

 

My best yet - Wallpaper Steamer ! ! How can you manage without one ?

 

Wont adjust the valve clearances though ! !

[Guest MikeD318]

My dad used his wallpaper steamer to start steam cleaning our engine. It's come up quite well, not sure how long the steamer will last though.

[Big Jim]

don't you just love the way that Hoodies find a use for things other that what it was designed for!!

[Bob Tucker]

So Jim,

I guess you need age & experience to bend your tool in two different directions at once??

 

Seriously, can you just heat up & bend a spanner?

Must be better than removing the manifold...

[Guest morty]

Looks like one of Sykes-Pickavant's finest. Surely "reforming" a spanner would come out a hell of a lot cheaper but wouldn't have the section for applying drive at the top. I'm sure hoodies could find a way around that though!

 

Morty

 

Edit: just looked at the ebay link. Firstly, at that price, I'd think brand new S-P stuff would come out cheaper than that, and secondly, has the seller ever seen a "shiny" object? they're either daft or have a really bad camera

Edited October 5, 2003 by morty

[Guest trevor hooley]

Correct spanner as Jims pic shows, most good tool factors approx £5 i got my from CFM in morecambe. Saves quite alot of blood, or buggering your best teng 19mm spanner with a hammer and blowtorch!

 

karl