broken bracket, leaking pipe, imminent mot.

bigdaddycain · Post by **bigdaddycain** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 8:41 pm

Yeah...watch that back kirsty, you only have the one!

Did you get a 9 or 6 hose kit from flippa?

flippa · Post by **flippa** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 8:47 pm

glad to be of service kirsty

missfixit70 · Post by **missfixit70** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:28 pm

Hose clips arrived from Manflex this morning, pretty quick as I only ordered them on Thursday morning, They are packed in pairs for each hose, Look very substantial & good quality, well done BDC for finding these guys & getting them on side. I'll try & post the sizes to relevant hoses later. Not looking too hopeful for a hose day tomorrow though

Back is well & truly stuffed

missfixit70 · Post by **missfixit70** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 9:39 pm

Managed to get the hoses done today, thanks to my friendly tyre fitter letting me use the ramps, took a very leisurely (creaky & painful) 4 hours from getting there to having everything packed up, including a good half hour flush & bleed ( the bongo - not me

) & checking everything at least 3 times, as well as changing the diff oil while I was at it.
All seems ok, by the state of some of the hoses coming off, I would recommend anyone to get this done asap, or do it yourself, it's not that scary as long as you take your time, thoroughly clean the connections with some wet & dry, make sure none of the pipes are likely to rub, if they are make sleeves from the old pipes or reuse sleeving that is on the old pipes.
It could easily be done on your driveway with ramps or axle stands. If I managed to do it with a b***ered back, anyone can do it

Hose clip sizes - 8 of 35-50mm for the 4 larger hoses,
4 of 17-25mm or 22-30mm on the expansion tank to rad & engine to rear heater ( under air intake) (another 4 of either of these sizes if you do the remaining 2 short hoses)
2 of 16mm on the bleed hose

flippa · Post by **flippa** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 10:38 pm

...well done kirsty sounds like to done a great job there

......and putting us blokes to shame you still managed to multi task

by changing the diff oil to boot $\:D/$

missfixit70 · Post by **missfixit70** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 10:41 pm

Almost started on the intercooler system as well

, undid one of the connections to get better access to one of the hoses & was shocked at the amount of oil in there, definitely a job already on the list that is now more of a priority

flippa · Post by **flippa** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 11:06 pm

now thats just showing off kirsty

brorabongo · Post by **brorabongo** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 8:40 pm

Missfixit70. You definitely picked an appropiate forum name for yourself. Hats off to you. ( if I where wearing one)

When do you fancy coming up North to do mine?

@ flippa hows the stock of hoses?

missfixit70 · Post by **missfixit70** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 8:54 pm

unfortunately my doc is not so impressed, I can hardly move today, he's now put me on steroids for my RA

.

brorabongo · Post by **brorabongo** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 9:01 pm

So you will not be coming then.

Seriously though, sorry to hear of you pain, but make sure you do what the Doctor says!!!!

All the best, and hope you get to back to being as mobile as possible, as soon as possible.

flippa · Post by **flippa** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 9:25 pm

brorabongo wrote: Missfixit70. You definitely picked an appropiate forum name for yourself. Hats off to you. ( if I where wearing one)

When do you fancy coming up North to do mine?

@ flippa hows the stock of hoses?

sorry ta hear about your back kirsty

brora ......set wise im down to the last few sets.... black only

bigdaddycain · Post by **bigdaddycain** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 9:28 pm

Well done Kirsty... and a big thanks for taking the trouble to pair the clips with the hoses....

(the amount of times i've had a set of clips, then forgot to pair them with the hoses

)