sj-bradley

That's so simple - Brilliant ! (Actually now in wallet which never leaves my side so almost as good I'd spent over a day looking for this and you'd never guess ... It was in the LAST PLACE I looked for it ... Simon.

PM sent. If you want help on troubleshooting techniques, I can help you out there. Simon.

After "putting it somewhere safe" ... I finally found my membership card and window sticker ! Now a happy bunny (or piggy ... ) (Now must remember to BRING it with me. Let's see, where can I put this safely ...) Simon.

"Photo not found" ...

Is this a "light bulb" moment? And please don't call me Shirley ...

I wouldn't mind so much, but when the computers start trying to electrocute me and biting back, I have visions of Skynet taking over. I once tried counting the number of computers I have, both working and dead and lost count as I kept finding more unused / obsolete / dead motherboards. I think they are breeding somewhere ... Simon.

Would a can of carb cleaner help clear this out?

Sounds like a good time to meet up at Towel services, 1pm seems fine. Simon.

Yes, that should be the case that the fuel pump stops if the engine is not running. It's a safety issue. You don't want the pump to continue pumping fuel in case of an accident which stops the engine and breaks the fuel pipe somewhere. Hence the 2-3 seconds of initial pumping then stopping. Simon.

Lucky - With important files like this, always copy them to a working folder and work on THOSE copies. If you make a mess of it, at least you have the originals. Preferably make two copies before doing major work on them if possible. I too get annoyed with computers not doing what they should. I have just blown up two power supply units in one computer which also took out the fuses in the power leads and now going to have to rescue data from the discs inside and rebuild another machine to take its place. Grr - computers ... Simon.

Where do you think KFC get their chicken nuggets from then ... Simon.

Sent off this form today. Proved to be a pig to open with it being in some docx format. Had to save as pdf first, print it, scan it, convert it to smaller jpg before posting. Anyway, hope you got the scanned copy Simon.

Sounds good. Which services usually, and what sort of times? Simon.

True, but might introduce an annoying rattle that you cannot place ... Simon.

If you had some pipe that would slide into those holes, you could make up a removable sump guard with some steel plate and bolt through the tubes to hold it in place Just an idea. Simon.

Exhaust fell off ?

I'm available to help out - and local too Simon.

Sounds like the adapter plate is the way to go in that case. Provided of course, that the new sender works the correct way round ... I'd check that out before fitting it. Simon.

Now you point this out on one of the pictures - It's WAY out Simon.

Not so easy. You need to invert the sender output somehow so that the low and high resistances are at the other end of the scale for that particular gauge. I'm working on this, but have not completed it yet. Simon.

Ooh, look at this LOW MILEAGE car for it's age ... Better than "clocking" it Simon.

The sender will have a resistance value when cold and another when up to temperature. These two extremes should be what the temperature gauge is expecting. For example (these will not be correct, so you will need to measure these yourself) Cold - sender reading is 1000 ohms Hot - Sender now says 200 ohms (Could be other way round, but you get the idea) Now you can buy a potentiometer from maplins for the larger value and pretend that is the sender and connect this to the gauge and when you turn the knob, the gauge should vary from cold -> hot etc. (You can also buy a set of resistors, but you need to know the colour code to read these, Black, Brown, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet, Grey, White 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9) The gauge needs to match the sender ideally, but with some electronic knowledge, they can be made to match The pot above shouldn't cost more than £1 (but, knowing maplin - £2 or so. The cheap LINEAR one is fine - don't get the LOG one if you see it) If you can measure the resistances with the multimeter when hot/cold and the gauge works with the variable resistor, you can see if they match. Simon.

Have you put this behind a solid perspex screen? ... Where there is zero airflow and loads of turbulence ? I thought you might make it like this ... Simon.

I agree. I had to replace a blown resistor pack in my seat ibiza. The haynes manual said you had to remove the dash and a cross beam to do this which meant removeing both air bags !, Steering wheel !! etc. Madness. I also found a short(er) cut the didn't involve all that, but it still took ages and finally needed hands the size of a small child ... After pondering how I could do this which didn't involve abduction of said child, I was quite happy as this would probably have cost more than the car was worth to fix at a (s)dealers. Whoever designed these cars needs slapping with a wet haddock sometime. Simon.

Yes, close enough to be parallel that. 14" wheels -> 19' toe in 15" wheels -> 18' toe in (If you want to be exact ... ) so that's all less than 1/3 degree overall. Close enough to parallel and very good going for string ... Simon.