Night Train
Maker of Things
- Location
- Greater Manchester
Three for £4 pizzas, six pack of muffins, applewood smoked cheese, McLelland seriously strong chedder from Asda.
Your latest purchase (Non bike related)
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Mr Pig
New Member
- Location
- North Lanarkshire
Just so happens that mine was half interesting.
Yesterday morning I got up bright and early to do some work on the car. I needed to fit a new top-link to the front suspension and change the knock sensor. The suspension arm turn out to be really easy and was done by about 9am. The knock sensor was a totall bitch! On a scale of one to ten on the awkward bitch scale it was a ten.
The knock sensor detects pre-ignition in the engine and the ECU retards the timing to protect it. The sensor is bolted to the block by a single bolt, right in the middle of the back of it! Which on my car means it's underneath the inlet manifold, above the starter and has a metal coolent pipe over it. There are only two ways to get to it. One is to remove the plenim chamber, inlet manifold and injector rail. The other is from underneath where there is just enough room to get a couple of fingers to the sensor between all the gubbins around it. One bolt though, how hard could it be!
So I get a ring spanner into the bolt. It is solid! In the very limited room it is impossible to get any purchase onto it, there is no room to get a bigger, longer tool in and all attempts to make up some kind of extension arm to apply more preasure failed. It was driving me mad. So it ocured to me that if I had swivel-headed ratchet ring spanners I might be able to get the spanner pointed in a direction that would allow me to fit a lever bar of some kind to it. So I borrowed my neighbours little van and bought my last purchase, a set of these:
Not things I would normally buy as I think they are of very limited use but.
Did they work? Did they stuff :0( Eventually I did get it undone. And eventually I got the new sensor bolted in, must've taken me at least thirty minutes just to get the bolt into the hole, yes, it's that awkward. In total it took me four hours to remove one bolt and put it back in again.
So my last purchase was a set of wanky spanners that I will probably never use again in my life. At least they were reduced and 'only' cost me £40... :0(
Yesterday morning I got up bright and early to do some work on the car. I needed to fit a new top-link to the front suspension and change the knock sensor. The suspension arm turn out to be really easy and was done by about 9am. The knock sensor was a totall bitch! On a scale of one to ten on the awkward bitch scale it was a ten.
The knock sensor detects pre-ignition in the engine and the ECU retards the timing to protect it. The sensor is bolted to the block by a single bolt, right in the middle of the back of it! Which on my car means it's underneath the inlet manifold, above the starter and has a metal coolent pipe over it. There are only two ways to get to it. One is to remove the plenim chamber, inlet manifold and injector rail. The other is from underneath where there is just enough room to get a couple of fingers to the sensor between all the gubbins around it. One bolt though, how hard could it be!
So I get a ring spanner into the bolt. It is solid! In the very limited room it is impossible to get any purchase onto it, there is no room to get a bigger, longer tool in and all attempts to make up some kind of extension arm to apply more preasure failed. It was driving me mad. So it ocured to me that if I had swivel-headed ratchet ring spanners I might be able to get the spanner pointed in a direction that would allow me to fit a lever bar of some kind to it. So I borrowed my neighbours little van and bought my last purchase, a set of these:
Not things I would normally buy as I think they are of very limited use but.
Did they work? Did they stuff :0( Eventually I did get it undone. And eventually I got the new sensor bolted in, must've taken me at least thirty minutes just to get the bolt into the hole, yes, it's that awkward. In total it took me four hours to remove one bolt and put it back in again.
So my last purchase was a set of wanky spanners that I will probably never use again in my life. At least they were reduced and 'only' cost me £40... :0(
Flying_Monkey
Recyclist
- Location
- Odawa
A bottle of Brahma beer and the Brazilian equivalent of a cheese pasty.
My last sizeable purchase was the thing I am writing this on - my Acer Aspire One netbook.
My last sizeable purchase was the thing I am writing this on - my Acer Aspire One netbook.
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
I only read half the postMr Pig said:
Mr Pig said:Just so happens that mine was half interesting.
Yesterday morning I got up bright and early to do some work on the car. I needed to fit a new top-link to the front suspension and change the knock sensor. The suspension arm turn out to be really easy and was done by about 9am. The knock sensor was a totall bitch! On a scale of one to ten on the awkward bitch scale it was a ten.
The knock sensor detects pre-ignition in the engine and the ECU retards the timing to protect it. The sensor is bolted to the block by a single bolt, right in the middle of the back of it! Which on my car means it's underneath the inlet manifold, above the starter and has a metal coolent pipe over it. There are only two ways to get to it. One is to remove the plenim chamber, inlet manifold and injector rail. The other is from underneath where there is just enough room to get a couple of fingers to the sensor between all the gubbins around it. One bolt though, how hard could it be!
So I get a ring spanner into the bolt. It is solid! In the very limited room it is impossible to get any purchase onto it, there is no room to get a bigger, longer tool in and all attempts to make up some kind of extension arm to apply more preasure failed. It was driving me mad. So it ocured to me that if I had swivel-headed ratchet ring spanners I might be able to get the spanner pointed in a direction that would allow me to fit a lever bar of some kind to it. So I borrowed my neighbours little van and bought my last purchase, a set of these:
Not things I would normally buy as I think they are of very limited use but.
Did they work? Did they stuff :0( Eventually I did get it undone. And eventually I got the new sensor bolted in, must've taken me at least thirty minutes just to get the bolt into the hole, yes, it's that awkward. In total it took me four hours to remove one bolt and put it back in again.
So my last purchase was a set of wanky spanners that I will probably never use again in my life. At least they were reduced and 'only' cost me £40... :0(
Don't drive a Kia by anychance?!!
MajorMantra
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Edinburgh
Chuffy said:
Since I cycle and am a student, I think that description applies rather a lot of the time.
Matthew
Piemaster
Guru
- Location
- UK City of Culture
A 'fun' day at the stables for Miss PM during half-term
tdr1nka
Taking the biscuit
- Location
- SE London, Bandit Country
Mr Pig said:So I borrowed my neighbours little van and bought my last purchase, a set of these:
Not things I would normally buy as I think they are of very limited use but.
Did they work? Did they stuff :0(
Someone didn't go to Halfrauds by any chance?
Incidentily, my last purchse was a return to Billericay.
Dave5N
Über Member
- Location
- Outside The Little Nibble
tdr1nka said:Someone didn't go to Halfrauds by any chance?
Incidentily, my last purchse was a return to Billericay.
I really do miss Ian Dury.
tdr1nka
Taking the biscuit
- Location
- SE London, Bandit Country
Dave5N said:
It's an emptier world without him, that's for sure.
BigonaBianchi
Yes I can, Yes I am, Yes I did...Repeat.
- Location
- Iskele TRNC & Mordor UK
12 Pack of hybrid light top heavy bottom Di Addarios
Dave5N
Über Member
- Location
- Outside The Little Nibble
BigonaBianchi said:
is that beer or chocolate?
tdr1nka
Taking the biscuit
- Location
- SE London, Bandit Country
How light is your top then BOAB?
Aperitif
Meme bar
- Location
- ...I don't have much idea - really.
My latest purchase - these.
Easy. Good.
Easy. Good.
