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Hi All, Quick post to let you know about U-Spanner http://u-spanner.co.uk/ A new facility for petrol heads and alike a friend of mine (Grant) has set up in Southend on sea. "U-Spanner is a fully-equipped self-service garage workshop for hire to the DIY car enthusiast and mobile automotive profession...

sorry got carried away - the green valves in the vacuum circuit will help with air leaks and lumpy idle/dodgey mixture, not oil issues.

The spider and pressure limiting valve just tends to get gummed up - so I just used carb cleaner (not brake cleaner) and cleaned it out. The same can be said for all/most of the valves in the oil breather circuit if you don't want to splash cash. Ultimately the valve that stops boost pressurising th...

I've managed to clear up quite a few misfire issues - checking the usual out on these first i.e - duff coil packs, duff amps, vac and boost leaks, spark plug tightness, maf knacked. I then went onto contact cleaning all the ignition amps and the maf contacts and also using high tension silicone grea...

As you both say its nowt to do with direct fuel delivery - other than indirectly - i.e. if the pipe perishes there will be a vacuum leak which will stop the fuel pressure regulator delivering the correct pressure. Fuel is delivered - via the other reinforced fuel lines on the left of the engine whic...

Yep it's a bit of a sod to do but not too taxing compared to some jobs. I tested and replaced (where necessary) all vacuum lines about 12 months ago when the over zealous mechanics managed to put a split in the FPR vac pipe whilst trying to for it off without undoing the clip. So the pipe runs behin...

Had a word with a v.senior marine diesel engineer on the subject the other night - as engine failure is something they are very passionate at avoiding and want to know why it occurs. Essentially cam lobe wear occurs due to incorrect tappet adjustment - too large a gap. This means that the wedge of o...

Looking at it and I think I'm right in saying that the cam shafts are identical on each bank for the exhaust I believe - just reversed I think. Wouldn't this point to either 1/ Oil starvation at then end of the oil track where the pressure would have dropped off furthest from supply? 2/ A manufactur...

Forgot to report that I sorted the hot start issue with my motor. Issue was a leaky injector. Diagnosis: So you can actually pull the fuel rail off complete if you detach the pipes with the green non return vaccum valves on and undo all the allen bolts etc. Once it's off you can flip it upside down....

Invoice was £500 ex vat, £12 delivery £601.60 all up.. (as of 14 sept last year)

I've got the Quattro gmbh rears on mine - got em from Kim Collins @ QSTuning.. bout 550 or something I'll dig out the invoice and let you know or give em a call.. http://www.qstuning.com/ I looked at the various options but personally didn't want to modify the car and want to be able to set back to ...

The amp output was plotted on a picoscope setup (http://www.picotech.com/) and it was pretty evident from the trace that the amp was duff - think there's some example traces on the site. In the end just compared the two and a new one on the plot. Did suggest to my mechanic that the simplest way was ...

Have similar issue(s) 1) Slight, annoying, cant diagnose poxing misfires Gone through the car and done (checked/sorted) all the standard stuff to sort i.e maf, lambdas, plugs, plug boots, vacuum leak check, charge pressure leak checks, coil packs, amplifier tests + 1 replaced, throttle body adapt, f...

Dunno about confident, not even optimistic, pessimistic perhaps - I'll try my luck getting one replaced, if not then my local independent garage has mentioned that one of his contacts in the trade has recently acquired an alloy wheel straightener...

I had similar suspected wheel bearing but on inspection/investigation (after swapping the bearing) turned out to be asymmetrical wear on the tyre tread think it took 7000 miles to resonate (I forgot to rotate them front to rear earlier in their life doh). I rotated the wheels and the problem moved w...