has to be said, your bus has a thing about orange ( sorry)Just spent over an hour washing orange drink off mine and my neighbours windows, plus the side of Furgo.
It was apparently thrown yesterday morning by a group of young kids, but I hadn't noticed. It had dried on nicely in the sun...
I live in a row of very old terraced miners cottages. Four ladies in my row all of us on our own. I'm in my 50's and am the youngest. Two in their mid 70's and one who is 98. Its horrible when this sort of thing happens, especially for them. Me I'd happily "smash their little heads in", but of course I didn't actually say that...
Don’t like reading posts like this.
they use that principle on bikes to keep nuts/bolts for coming loose, but as LeStempy said locktite will do the jobLooking at your swirl flaps above I thought this may be the way to go to modify the set up for future readers.
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Do away with the original 12 screws and replace them with hex head bolts ( same size ) and 6 locking plates, were you punch up the tabs on the ends to lock the bolts in position.
See scruffy diagram for enlightenment, 6 of these plates would be cheap to manufacture and guaranteed to stop hex head flap fixings from vibrating loose and being sucked into your engine.
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Feel free to copy idea and sell it ‘kit form’ for €$¥Billions.
if you use the right stuff it ain't going nowhere, some bike butterfly flaps are held on by screws that are locktite'd at the factory and ive never seen them come loose, in fact ive mashed some screw heads trying to get them outLotions and potions thread lock and glue will make your engine swallow a screw…
My mechanical fix is engineeringly proven.
True. You need a blow torch to undo Loctite 270.if you use the right stuff it ain't going nowhere, some bike butterfly flaps are held on by screws that are locktite'd at the factory and ive never seen them come loose, in fact ive mashed some screw heads trying to get them out
Photos?
OK, when I've finished it.
Just photo the half you have done and lie about the rest of it.
Good idea. I used tab washers on my Vespa GS160 years ago after one of the air filter nuts came undone and dropped into to carb and then into the barrel. I also used tab washers on a Cortina Weber carb manifold that kept shaking loose.Looking at your swirl flaps above I thought this may be the way to go to modify the set up for future readers.
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Do away with the original 12 screws and replace them with hex head bolts ( same size ) and 6 locking plates, were you punch up the tabs on the ends to lock the bolts in position.
See scruffy diagram for enlightenment, 6 of these plates would be cheap to manufacture and guaranteed to stop hex head flap fixings from vibrating loose and being sucked into your engine.
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Edited to add : More time to create a better picture.
Feel free to copy idea and sell it ‘kit form’ for €$¥Billions.
Didn't want to lie so finished the process today. First time it's had a deep clean since leaving the UK almost three years ago. Even did the roof. It may not be quite up to the standard of those who buy black Elgrands just to prove their polishing skills, but I'm pleased with it and glad it's done after too long without. Not bad for a 21 year old car.
