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this was how i found my sump plug just after i bought it. some people just cant be taught how to do basic jobs on a car. P.S. it leaked but not after i replaced it for the princely cost of $10
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this was how i found my sump plug just after i bought it. some people just cant be taught how to do basic jobs on a car. P.S. it leaked but not after i replaced it for the princely cost of $10
Fuk custom sump plug
Some vehicles have a plastic pan on the trans which you have replace the whole thing a the filter is build into the panQuote:
Originally Posted by No.3
I remember having to weld a nut onto my mondeo sump plug which inlet a mate service it for free. Rattled on the sump plug for me mint.lol.
Yep, see the two dents in the washer, it had three of them, meaning three oil changes after super mod.Quote:
Originally Posted by blip
I had to use a few of my tricks to remove my brother in laws sump plug after he rounded it, I’m not saying you shouldn’t change your own oil but many should not be allowed tools.
Least they don't have a sump plug fitting in metal cast into the plastic which is supposed to handle the torque of a gorilla swinging off a 3/4 breaker bar on the sump plug...Quote:
Originally Posted by blip
could of got a few more out of it if they had some thread tape:thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by 2post
You would just love doing the Terrano. Doesn't matter which way I try...the only way to reach is hanging plurry near upside down over left mudguard with arms fed down side of engine to undo or do up filter...can't for life of me get oil filter wrench in there....reminds me I must hurry up and do the change.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trout
I think there's a good chance 15W40 is the right oil for a old tdi 4.2 engine.Its been running smooth as for the last 15yrs on that oil and never given a problem.You sound like a garage looking for work,spin a bit of bull shit to get new clients in to yr work shop,then ripp them off.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2post
I used to love the sound of a v8 now days when I hear one coming I cringe. Its usually a yank piece of shit that every expert has had a go at first and now we have to sort it out
What I've been using for 20yrs on my TD42, oil and filter changes every 5k with no exception. Delo 400, have had no issues whatsoever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trout
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I see you only get 18L down there,how much does that cost?
As someone thats been a lowly mechanic for over 30yrs, I can say we just love it when people do ( or attempt to do) their own servicing and repairs. We are certainly kept busy fixing their "work".
People may bitch and moan about what it costs these days but our expenses to operate are also astronomical. Oil isn't cheap. And the correct oil for certain vehicles can be crazy expensive. And if you don't use that right stuff you could just end up with a very expensive mistake.
Know of a place that used the wrong oil in a Maserati and it cost them a new motor from Ferrari...plus lawyer's fees after a court case.
Mechanics also have to purchase their own tools some of which are so specialized it makes surgeons weep when they see the prices.
I have 2x 44 gall drums of 15W40 dino diesel engine oil sitting in the workshop that also says its the right oil for older diesel engines. Runs everything from the generator, 3 x Nissan Patrols, small tractor, big tractor, dozer, Miller welder.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trout
Back in the days when I owned my own Unimog, I went to do a full service on it, Changing all the oils etc:omg: The Castrol dude listed all the oils I needed, including about $1,200 for the gearbox oil!!!! (2005)
I went home and dragged the owners manual out as I was pretty sure I was right...and I was. The entire engine and drive train excepting the diffs and reduction hubs runs on engine oil. Bog standard mono grade diesel engine oil. That dropped the cost of gearbox oil from $1200 to $150.:D
I was a diesel mechanic in a former life and we used Castrol CRF30 in those engines/drivetrainsQuote:
Originally Posted by XR500
Every other engine got Molbil Delo/Delvac 400
Even the Comma knockers and Detroit 2 strokes
It’s good to be a tradesman, and to have grown up rebuilding and modifying cars, with my mates. Different times, things ain’t that simple anymore, but some young guys are still extremely clever with their cars. I always saw the black hole and believed in buying things with residual value.Quote:
Originally Posted by cambo
had a clown a few weeks back who attempted to fit an aftermarket IC ("chip") into the engine management computer of his audi, completely destroyed the board by breaking all the copper print then thought i could repair it for him.
nope!
$3000 for a replacement.
Actually we are rip off cunts. We dont do wofs anymore. We get customers wanting us to take their vehicles for wofs for them even tho they know we dont do them here any more. How much for a wof they ask? Well it will be the price of the wof and what ever time it takes us going down there and waiting. Apparently we are in buisness to do work for nothing.
If you are averaging 50Km/h over that period 5000k's is 100hours of in-service time or thereabouts - it's a bit lower than marine or industrial service intervals based on hours run (usually 150hours between oil/filters changed). Based on those figures you could probably go out to 7500K's between services and not change anything apart from only having to do 2 services in the time you've been doing three.Quote:
Originally Posted by Twodiffs
Only a bit of a labour time saved though, and 2/3 of the servicing costs so no real major. Only real way to know for sure how you're going for oil life is get an oil analysis done at the next service, grab a sample before you ditch the oil and send it in. Probably cost more than the replacement oil and filters though now!
Yeah, accountancy rent and standard OPEX costs make my eyes spin when I'm talking to the mates who have their own businesses in a variety of industries. When I first started commercial diving, a surface supplied diving helmet was NZ$14,000 landed in NZ pick up from the local freight outfit. Not a lot of change out of NZ$50,000 now. That's a brutal increase, and that's only one bit of the kit required...Quote:
Originally Posted by cambo
I went looking for a OBDII scantool/datalogger a while back - to do what I needed in a commercial tool I was looking that the $6500+ gear. Just not viable for a home job. Luckily a $20 android app, and a $120 bluetooth dongle and I was in action. Not ideal if it was a more obscure make of vehicle though!
Change filters n oil around 10k on patrol.
I'd be more concerned with the specification (API, ACEA, JASO, etc) rather than the viscosity within reason but each to their own.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trout
That was a ridiculous price for the gearbox oil,you can use Engine Oil in the gearbox but Castrol Syntrans makes shifting alot smoother. 20L is $750 bucks here you can use it in the hubs too but they don't take much.Quote:
Originally Posted by XR500
If that's for me it's 130 drinking vouchers at a dollar a pop mate.Quote:
Originally Posted by norsk
This thread reminds me... do our own services on our farm bikes now but send them in for brakes, bushes etc but last year we sent 3 DR200s into town to the local dealer to be serviced and got the call they were ready to pick up a couple days after. Shot into town and picked them up. Came back to the farm and one of the boys was at the dairy shed waiting for his bike so took his off the trailer and away he went. Two minutes later get a call "boss my bike not working" so drove the 1km or so he'd gone to take a look. Bike was seized solid and had no oil in it. Had a look at the other two still on the trailer and same thing. They'd drained the old oil out of them, put new filters in them, and then fucks me what happened after that, must have been lunch time or something. No new oil in any of them. I now don't let suzuki touch any of our bikes, including our Kingquad, if it needs a mechanic it goes to Honda.
That is a serious piss me off. Bit like what the local did to me, it's not event he fact that they make it right it's the fark around and the lost time and the fact you can't trust them any more if you did take something back.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst
Thats a shocker fuck up big time.They give you a new bike to replace the seized one.?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst
They rebuilt it at their cost, but once bitten twice shy
I try and do a lot myself.
The mechanic I go to in Palmerston North really good guy.
Dene Stevenson autos.
Last wof, truck failed on a few things, wheel bearings needed tightening up, some bushes on the leafs and a brake imbalance. So tightened the bearings up, cool no problemo. Replaced the bushes no problemo. Rear brake, I happened to have some wheel cylinders at home, well fuck me couldn't get it off thing was seized on there I fuckin hit it with a dead blow hammer till the cows came home, backed the brakes off, heated the drum, nothing. Took it to Dean for wof and booked in the extra time for brakes. Well he fixed it in one hour. His experience and training he knows that there's two threaded holes in the drum that you can wind a bolt into and push it off the axle if it's seized on. Well I never saw those but he did! Ha so for all that fucking around for me It would have been cheaper just to pay the man from the start and be doing something else. But hey I'm just a builder who rips people off does a better quality job in a quarter of the time a diyer would do it in right so what would I know ����
Gotta value a professional eh, he good guy though he's busy as hell so really doesn't mind hinting smart enough people in the right direction to do small things themselves
I think most trade qualified people rip everyone else off......
Well if you call making a living off your skills because they don't have them..I'm a rip off alright ��
Rip offs generally don't make money unless there is a vast supply of stupid or ignorant people to rip off
Should be in the humour thread, but the subject is oil after all....
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He's wrong again, should have said Land Rover (or Ground Rooter to those of us that have experienced the joy...).
Mate had one a few years back, proud as hell of it. Stepped roof Disco, whichever version that was. OK, credit - quite capable off road. Downside - dealer started chasing oil leaks from a very young age, 3rd main seal had the mate asking questions and a little after that he took a sketch in about an oil recovery setup that you could park on with a little pump that sent it back to a reservoir with a tap on it. The dealer was not impressed - but I liked his effort and points for style. I told him to see if they thought it was a labour-saving initiative, just change the filter at service time and keep tipping fresh oil in the top.
He got rid of it soon after, as it was an utter shite of a thing for a guy who was having to park in client's driveways - nothing like leaving your mark all over a brand new concrete driveway.
Haha that in a nutshell is the benefit of a full-time fella who's been there, done it. I can confirm that unless you've had the joy of a rust-stuck drum you won't have been shown that little trick. Some drums only have blind holes, and you can bolt a little stirrup onto the drum to pull it. The ones with through-holes are easier though. Mate of mine has a nifty long pin punch, reaches through from the back and lightly taps the drum and spins and repeats. After a turn or two it usually lets go with a horrendous boom and flies across the room.Quote:
Originally Posted by SeftonB
Had a stuck from disc on a poxy little Nissan Ramraider (Tiida) once, luckily it was for replacement so it got grabbed with a large 3-jaw puller and smacked the F outta with a 12lb sledgehammer. When that finally let go it disappeared. The 3-jaw was about 15 feet away, the disc sodded off out the door. Brakes and rust hey?
Like any trade u want it done to a standard and then u pay. Ive seen plenty of hone handy man shit in my sparky trade. People like tonsave a buck I get it . But at what expense the family's safety . Remember you are most likely putting your loved one in a car your happy to maybe have a guess at fixing . Oil filters sure easy enough.
The original post was asking about oil changes, simple enough. He’s not asking about replacing the snycro on 3rd gear 😂
