Post by remmington on Sept 19, 2022 1:24:48 GMT 1
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtJ8Tr5Znj0
Got a belt driven waterpump to do on Friday on Skoda 1.2TSi - just had a little look on YouTube (looks simple enough). Doubt Skoda will be too much different from the 1.4TSi Golf in vid'
Did have a look at AutoData online and could not really grasp what was involved (me being thick). But a YouTube video made it look very simple.
Surprised - I have not come across or been challanged with one of these to do before. Cars are about 2013 - nine years old now.
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I am also half way thru doing one of these - 2011 Merc E280 CDi "heat exchanger seals".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDDPajzdlrU
I got that stripped in a couple of hours - job only stopped Friday as Merc dealership did not send whole set of gaskets - another imcomplete order from Merc dealer parts dept. Plus I had to die grind off - EGR flexi pipe clamp - it just ripped thread out of stainless band. Ordered one Friday for Saturday - but it never came.
Owner of this car must hate his low mileage Mercedes - it was less than six months ago - I had the autobox off and did the crankshaft rear main seal.
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Beginning to think - a bit more online/youtube research for incoming jobs - is time well spent in the evenings. Yeah I know - I should get out more often/get a hobby/have a holiday!
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Electrical work drying up for me a bit of late (they must be shipping it all off to the Isle of Wight - for wightdiag to do).
But the lack of electrical work is being replaced with enough of this sort of stuff to fill (overfill) my working week. Reckon there is more money in this type of mechanical work - than all the lost hours for electrical testing. Gonna try and avoid anymore engine out jobs - down to the internals from now on. Last few engine swaps I done - really have been hard work for the money I got for doing them. givusaclue keeps telling me - big jobs don't pay - but I never learn.
Got a belt driven waterpump to do on Friday on Skoda 1.2TSi - just had a little look on YouTube (looks simple enough). Doubt Skoda will be too much different from the 1.4TSi Golf in vid'
Did have a look at AutoData online and could not really grasp what was involved (me being thick). But a YouTube video made it look very simple.
Surprised - I have not come across or been challanged with one of these to do before. Cars are about 2013 - nine years old now.
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I am also half way thru doing one of these - 2011 Merc E280 CDi "heat exchanger seals".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDDPajzdlrU
I got that stripped in a couple of hours - job only stopped Friday as Merc dealership did not send whole set of gaskets - another imcomplete order from Merc dealer parts dept. Plus I had to die grind off - EGR flexi pipe clamp - it just ripped thread out of stainless band. Ordered one Friday for Saturday - but it never came.
Owner of this car must hate his low mileage Mercedes - it was less than six months ago - I had the autobox off and did the crankshaft rear main seal.
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Beginning to think - a bit more online/youtube research for incoming jobs - is time well spent in the evenings. Yeah I know - I should get out more often/get a hobby/have a holiday!
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Electrical work drying up for me a bit of late (they must be shipping it all off to the Isle of Wight - for wightdiag to do).
But the lack of electrical work is being replaced with enough of this sort of stuff to fill (overfill) my working week. Reckon there is more money in this type of mechanical work - than all the lost hours for electrical testing. Gonna try and avoid anymore engine out jobs - down to the internals from now on. Last few engine swaps I done - really have been hard work for the money I got for doing them. givusaclue keeps telling me - big jobs don't pay - but I never learn.
