Recent content by smorris_12

FWIW, Barum have a YouTube channel. Watched a few of their bids. Funnily enough they seem to get the reverse problem of building an engine or honing a block and then getting shirty clients complaining (usually because of the clients own cockup.)

They do come pre-gapped these days so I think it must be an optical illusion, but worth a look.

I must admit I wrote my pieces without quite realising you'd explicitly said that (just had a re-read) - well now you *know* they're trying to wash their hands of you. Bastards.

I was going to say the same but assumed it was the picture!

Sorry if there was any teaching of egg sucking in that. I was trying to dispel anything along the lines of "give it another few months to get it run in" that they may have spun.

This must be gutting, you have my sympathies, but I can only give you a few over observations from rebuilding an engine the other year. There is no such thing as an engine being "tight" after a rebuild. Start it, hold 2500rpm for a few minutes, then get it on the road and working hard to bed...

This came up recently (or it was an old thread resurrected), have a search. I think it boils down to how far out the pulley sits.

<checks list of cars> <checks spend on 250GT> Daddy!

International Standard for Book Nerds. The original barcode for books.

They build them (I always admire American get-up-and-go) but I believe they're quite bad at maintenance after. There's a huge backlog of federal bridge inspections and some are in quite precarious states as I understand it. I think the littering thing is because we can diffuse from one area to...

Americans must have a safety catch on their cars in the form of a clutch switch to avoid starting them in gear and driving into a tree because they only have to demonstrate a minimal amount of competence to get a driving license. Americans don't bother about safety catches on their guns so that...

I am an engineer. I can memorise email addresses, IP addresses, codes and patterns without a problem. I can tell you my first Switch card (remember them) number. I worked out how to decode barcodes when I was a teenager. I dial whole mobile numbers from memory. I use the phonetic alphabet. But...

IME, the usual failure mode of starters is sticky solenoids rather than anything burning out. Remove starter, removed solenoid, clean plunger and tube, give a light wipe over with WD40, put back together.

I was getting confused with the Nissan GTR. I remember the bits Top Gear did on that one and they both look like wedge shapes to me. Probably been confusing them for the last 20 years!

The timed cutout makes me think of a failing electrolytic capacitor if there are any on the board.