Originally Posted by The_Rattler

so apart from cars, do you start something with its "get that finished by lunch" to either have an expert come in to finish off, or you come back to it 3 months later because the Frau has nagged you to bits

Yeah. my house! Moved in in 1995, started decororating. Still one room untouched! :(

Rule of thumb.. if the wife asks you to do some task and says it will only take a few minutes... allow three hours...

1] something will break
2] parts will be left over
3] you won't have the right tool
4] the store will have sold the last one just before you get there

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Originally Posted by The_Rattler

so apart from cars, do you start something with its "get that finished by lunch" to either have an expert come in to finish off, or you come back to it 3 months later because the Frau has nagged you to bits

3 months ffs.
Try 2 years for a new shower( and it left a great big hole in the wall).
10 years since it started putting in the kitchen ( lost the instructions).
It is NOT allowed anywhere near wallpaper or paint .
I've now hidden all its tools .

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Originally Posted by responder1

Originally Posted by The_Rattler

so apart from cars, do you start something with its "get that finished by lunch" to either have an expert come in to finish off, or you come back to it 3 months later because the Frau has nagged you to bits

3 months ffs.
Try 2 years for a new shower( and it left a great big hole in the wall).
10 years since it started putting in the kitchen ( lost the instructions).
It is NOT allowed anywhere near wallpaper or paint .
I've now hidden all its tools .

So, his plan worked then ? :D

Had a burst fuel pipe on my Discovery this week.
Pished away about £20 worth of diesel (thats nearly a gallon at todays prices), no problem says me, I shall whip it to pieces find out which one of the four pipes it is and order the parts from Land Rover double quick.

Pipes come in sets- No bother. I'll have the set.
Genuine Only- Fair enough get them in for me please
That will be September delivery- I beg your pardon? (or words to that effect)

Apparently the firm that supply Land Rover with the genuine only fuel pipes have gone bust. New supplier won't have them made for until the end of September.
Now bodged with fuel hose and a bucket full of jubilee clips. Should have bought a Toyota

Originally Posted by JRHartley

I had to change a VW front wheel bearing on the missus car the other week and it needed a special VW tool to remove the old bearing.. It worked out cheaper to get hold of a complete front hub assembly which included the hub, the brake caliper, an ABS sensor and brake disc !! from the local breakers yard [ in excellent condition ] than it did just to hire the bleedin bearing tool

Try a Discovery 2
Can't fit wheel bearing, has to be a complete hub at £200 a corner for parts

on the note of discovery's:
my dad recently changed an entire engine in one (after it cracked open one of the piston-chamber-thingies). piece-of-p1ss, kinda. took three days, an engine mount (for re-building one engine), an engine lift and finally a gearbox lift. expensive, but now we have enough kit to completely re-buid any engine, ever. as long as it's less than one tonne. (:

after all that malarkey, he then had to change the gearbox ¬`¬, the bloody thing wouldn't change out of 1st, when we were at about 50mph running up the east lancs. but, all in all, thanks to the bolt-together nature of the b*astards, it was fairly simple. well, more simple than changing one on a renault master van, for example. that was awkward.

Its all a bit sinister *shapes tin foil hat*. Centralisation of expertise. They can turn cars off remotely too.

Originally Posted by JRHartley

Originally Posted by The_Rattler

It appears that on this car it needs a special tool (which I thought I qualified for) to push the calliper back into the housing. Its not a normal push with thumbs with the bleed valve open, its some sort of screw device?? What ever that is anyway??

Bring back the old cars

What motor is it .. needed one for mine .. The rear pistons on most Pugeots and VW/Audi/seat/Skoda will screw back into the caliper rather than push back .. you can get a piston retraction tool from any motor factors or even Halfrauds .. made by a company called Laser about £20 or less

Brake caliper tool



I think its bordering on fcking criminal that car manufacturers are allowed to make thier cars so fecking unaccessable maintenance wise...

Modern cars seem to require so many specialist tools just to change the filters/oil .. changing a bulb on some cars requires removing the bleedin front bumper !!! [ unless you have hands like a 10yr old Indian assembly line worker !! ]

I had to change a VW front wheel bearing on the missus car the other week and it needed a special VW tool to remove the old bearing.. It worked out cheaper to get hold of a complete front hub assembly which included the hub, the brake caliper, an ABS sensor and brake disc !! from the local breakers yard [ in excellent condition ] than it did just to hire the bleedin bearing tool

cheers bought the jiggy thing today, sorted the brakes out in about 2 minutes. will dontate a small contribution to H4H for saving me a bit of money on this ta very much :D

thanks

Originally Posted by The_Rattler

cheers bought the jiggy thing today, sorted the brakes out in about 2 minutes. will dontate a small contribution to H4H for saving me a bit of money on this ta very much :D

thanks

Not that it helps you now you have bought the tool but I've just remembered what I use to wind that kind of caliper back in.
The disc changing tool that comes with angle grinders generally does the job, two pins sticking out of a C shaped spanner affair.
Sorry its to late to help, couldn't remember what it was I used!