I?ve used a similar mixture but using granulated sugar instead of the sand, Has the advantage that it washes away cleanly down the plug hole and dissolves in hot water. I would have thought sand would soon scratch any sink/basin when you came to clean it and the risk that a lot of it may clog up the plumbing.
GH
Then, all you have to do is to get rid of the smell of the diesel!
I'd personally not use those, had one fail just after fitting, Romoving the water pump is a pain, but so is losing all the coolant :-/
On 13/04/2018 09:41, Huge wrote: [snip]
Noise reduction. Surprisingly effective on diesels IME.
As I posted above, I had the concertina type fail on me after a water pump replacement on a Mini, so had to take it all apart again to fit a proper one.
To be honest. most washing up liquids contain microbeads that act as a very fine scouring agent..
Thats what swarfega smelt of anyway.
Just fondle yer balls and replace it with the smell of Thrush...
In message , Marland writes
'Back in the day' we used to use a mixture of washing up liquid and whatever washing powder was in the cupboard. Tide, OMO etc. Good for cleaning, but probably not terribly good for the skin.
Likewise. Even at best had a much shorter life than the plain ones. Makes sense if you think about it.
Think if a new standard one was fitted each time the pump was replaced (or head lifted) they'd not normally fail in service. But people do try and penny pinch. ;-)
You either use odd diesel odd Swarfega...
Last new car I drove was so noise controlled that I couldn't hear the engin e properly. No clue what rpm it was doing. But that's new cars all over, a load of extra crap that costs money that I've zero interest in buying.
NT
Oh, OK, thanks.
I sold my diesel car some 30 months ago and will never be buying another.
ISTR, on a Mini at least, the head needs to come off if you're not using a compressible hose? I remember looking at the concertina type and thinking 'nope'.
You can remove the water pump to change it. Up to you whether that is more fiddly on a Mini.
You can drop the whole front subframe (or rather leave it in place, and lift the body off) for better access to the fiddly bits of a Mini. But there's loads of space to get at everything on a Moggy Minor.
A question I've occasionally asked myself while lying under a car on Sunday evening, when I'll need it to drive to work on Monday morning.
In message , Rob Morley writes
I think we've all been there, in days of yore :-)
Luckily, this Traveller is fun only, so no deadlines. The parts having arrived, and the sun shining this morning I changed the heater control and fitted the new bottom hose, and went for a run. So far, so good ...
One day, I'll look at the fuel gauge, which reads permanently empty.
BTDT, too. Replacing the thermostat on a 3 litre Capri, in the road, in the dark and pissing rain, when I'll need it to drive to work on Monday morning.
Fortunately, those days are over.
Does it have a "reserve" setting on the tank? My Triumph Vitesse (Herald) did, together with a manual priming lever on the fuel pump.
That was very much a triumph thing. Never on a moggy tho .
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