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Another way to ensure the timing belt is replaced correctly without timing pins is to before it's removal Jamb the camshft belt wheel by banging a wooden wedge behind it firmly to stop it moving then paint marks across both camshaft wheel tooth and belt valley between teeth, same with lower crankshaft toothed belt drive wheel. Once the belt is off these paint marks can be transfered to a new belt if needed. These paint marks and transfer paint marks from old to new belts need doing very accurately. If the crankshaft or camshaft moves, all the paint marks will all align up and be corrected. I often did this on many different engines when no timing pins were handy. to be safe. Afterwards always turn engine over by hand before starting it up, to be sure as valves and pistons on diesel engines only just miss each other when running, ONE tooth out and they could collide, TWO teeth out and they almost certainly will.

I reckon it has a timing belt. The top half of the timing belt case comes off as is usual on timing belt engines. You can see the divide line between the upper and lower parts of the casing as a diagonal line from lower right to upper left. The pump would be bolted to the block inside the timing belts circuit and driven by the outer notched V belt

Homemade Meccano trivet to pre dry my Excel on.

I have a Lavatree in my bathroom.

And me. Smooth quiet petrol engine. Gas bottle standing next to the cooking stove, handy to turn off at the bottle after cooking or boiling the kettle. Leaky decks, rain water dripping into yer gob whilst asleep in a bunk.

Have you any flexible gas hoses in the system especially from the regulator or to the cooker itself. Sometimes they can degrade inside bits fall off and act like a one way valve blocking it.

Anyway, thanks Rod I have to pop out now, taking my lovely ancient dumbphone. So basically Jen folk are forced to keep buying new smartphones every so often when they're still working fine. What a con.

I think I'll shove it back on Ebay for sale should make a profit now it charges ok.. I believe you can de-google them, seen it on Utube.

That's diabolicle init when a phone still working well. Google's as bad as Microsoft.

That's a shame, a nice big sprocket and chain in it would work. I'll try the Googe store, thank you.

I searched for updates on it and the only one goes back to 2020 probably when it was new.

I bought a Smartphone from Ebay for £11 unlocked with a charging problem. It's a Nokia Android thing. I fixed the charging fault ok. Set it all up fine to use, but what worries me is because I had to use my laptops Google password to set it up I'm worried because I can't find a security suite on it at all , like AVG for example so if I use it I might get bad bugs and scams and all sorts because it is alied to my laptop by google and I don't want my laptop infected with nasties if I use it. I tried to download AVG FREE on it it's browser but it refused to do it.Thanks in advance.

What Ian D said is perfectly true as far as proper bona fide proffesionals go, as for the cowboys ? When I had my garage I sometimes had a chap and his wife-girl friend come in for a job on their car demanding it done NOW, ''showing off in front of her'' when I said I'll book you in for tomorrow morning as I'm fully booked today. Still showing off ''If I had the tools I'd do it myself''. I kept a special box of old tools handy for these very blokes, and I'd say You'll find the tools you need to do that job in there and if you shift your car over there your welcome to do the job with those tools yourself at no charge. The bloke starts getting jittery, but I can't do that I have to be at the dentist soon ''lie'' Wife=girlfriend smiling to themselves, they new what a big shots they'd tried to be. In the end they usually booked when I told them.

Most call out fitters don't want you to supply parts,ie Oil and filters or whatever as they normally buy them at trade prices and charge you the retail price as well as the labour charge.

If the filter is very close to the engine block like on some cars the clamps on Ditchcrawlers post might not clear the block in which case the fabric belt type is needed.

Contact ''Wade Diesel'' of Hoddesdon Herts, they are very knowlegable. Phone 01992 444020.

My boats electrics are simple, no massive inverter ect, so I've just chucked out my last hefty 110 amp battery. I know have a bank of 30 amp Yuasa batteries all connected togethe. Gone are the days of humping those big bas---ds about. The beauty of small batteries is that if a cell fails in one thats the only one you need to relace=cheap and light weight.

The two tapers might not be accurately matched so slipping. Remove it and paint the male taper with engineers Blue and swing it back and forth for a minute and check for full contact. If not they could be re- ground together with valve grinding paste, swinging the tiller back and forth for a day or two checking regularly.

T'would need more power goin uphill than downhill.

A bit like my car insurance which is RAC online. I had to print out my own paper copy of the certificate.

I made mine. Champagne bottle with a half blown up balloon inside with a Tee piece araldited into the neck for the pipes.