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My boss said "my brakes are not working properly"

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Value for money.

If you don't count needing new discs.

Better go check mine

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

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

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.

MTB.

I didn't know motor torpedo boats had brakes.

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...

weeksy wrote: Tue Nov 21, 2023 4:27 pm My boss said "my brakes are not working properly"

Your boss seems like they're very perceptive

mangocrazy wrote: Wed Nov 22, 2023 4:26 pm 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.

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...

Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Wed Nov 22, 2023 4:35 pm 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.

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.

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.