Mechanical mayhem and woes... what you got.

[weeksy]

My boss said "my brakes are not working properly"

IMG_20231121_162046 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr

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IMG_20231121_162105 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr

[Skub]

Value for money.

If you don't count needing new discs.

[formula400]

Better go check mine

[Ditchfinder]

That can happen to a set of pads in 1 ride round Rivi. Many a set of mine have shown similar amounts of wear before being binned

The wheel bearings in my e-bike rear wheel are wobbling like a fat man on a bouncy castle. They are a funny size so not easy to find an extractor or press for them.

So I have switched my saddle onto the wife's bike and pushed mine to the back of the shed until such time as I've cleared the bench of other jobs

[Count Steer]

Give the boss a clip around the ear and remove the brake handles.

[cheb]

What are they from?

I used* to run my van pads until they made the wear limit warning noise. The most worn pad would be replaced until I had no spare pads left, then a set of new pads would be bought and fitted the next time the warning sound was heard. It was a half hour job on the Transit, I even did this one Boxing day morning a few years back, somewhere in the Forest of Dean.

*Used to because i haven't had this van long enough to create spare pads.

[weeksy]

MTB.

[cheb]

I didn't know motor torpedo boats had brakes.

[mangocrazy]

You've seen these pictures before, but this is what happens to pistons when you cut through the oil delivery pipe to the carb spigot on a 350LC...

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[Mr. Dazzle]

My boss said "my brakes are not working properly"

Your boss seems like they're very perceptive

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

You've seen these pictures before, but this is what happens to pistons when you cut through the oil delivery pipe to the carb spigot on a 350LC...


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That's feck all for an LC piston, I used to have a box of LC pistons with various sized holes in the crowns, I had a 250LC crack a piston right across the crown, down the sides to the gudgeon pin holes, I only noticed because it knocked about 5mph off the top speed and it rattled a little, I can't remember how long it was before I decided to take the head off to see if there was an engine issue, but it must have been a couple of weeks.

[mangocrazy]

That's just the most recent example... Pride of place in my 'Hall of Shame' is a 350LC piston that I put a hole in halfway across Northern Spain in 1981. From cruising at 80-90mph it suddenly went Duuuuuuuh, slowed down and stopped. I pushed it to a garage where a mechanic removed the plugs , got a piece of welding rod and poked it down the plug holes. When the welding rod suddenly headed south the mechanic said 'Piston perforada'. I figured out the translation...

[ZRX61]

That's feck all for an LC piston, I used to have a box of LC pistons with various sized holes in the crowns, I had a 250LC crack a piston right across the crown, down the sides to the gudgeon pin holes, I only noticed because it knocked about 5mph off the top speed and it rattled a little, I can't remember how long it was before I decided to take the head off to see if there was an engine issue, but it must have been a couple of weeks.

Back when I ran a few Kaw triples I had a Rickman topbox under a bench that was full of fucked pistons.

[Bowman]

Valve guide dropped into the chamber on the r1.
Heard the racket just after the back straight in Anglesey, coming out of rocket. I thought it was stones hitting the fairing, then it turned into a "clacking noise" and pulled off at Peel. Replacement engine time.

[wheelnut]

2021 Nissan navara.

EWL came on. Took it to main dealers. They had it for 3 weeks and replaced the EGR pump. EWL warning light came back on with 5 miles. Engine running fine, no other symptoms apart from the EWL.
Took it back. They had it another 3 weeks and announced that they didn’t know what the issue was and that they had authority from Nissan to put a new engine in.

Had it another 9 weeks before I got it back. All that time they gave me an Enterprise rented car.