In future, when one is attempting to join two pieces of aluminium by using the MIG welding process, ensure one has placed aluminium filler wire in the welding machine instead of stainless wire as stainless wire will NOT join the pieces together and will occasion much swearing, gnashing of teeth and irritation before one realises what is going on!
Signed one emarassed twit!

He He, have to confess to doing the same with tig, spent ages faffing with the machine before i realised



Originally posted by Browser
In future, when one is attempting to join two pieces of aluminium by using the MIG welding process, ensure one has placed aluminium filler wire in the welding machine instead of stainless wire as stainless wire will NOT join the pieces together and will occasion much swearing, gnashing of teeth and irritation before one realises what is going on!
Signed one emarassed twit!

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Originally posted by Browser
In future, when one is attempting to join two pieces of aluminium by using the MIG welding process, ensure one has placed aluminium filler wire in the welding machine instead of stainless wire as stainless wire will NOT join the pieces together and will occasion much swearing, gnashing of teeth and irritation before one realises what is going on!
Signed one emarassed twit!

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Originally posted by PeterW


Its like removing a landrover gearbox to check why you've got no drive to the wheels, and realising the transfer box is in neutral....

Pete

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Changed an Alfasud gearbox once to cure an loud knock in the transmission.

Turned out the front wheelnuts were loose.

Was young a stupid then!

This summer I changed the box in daughters106 and both drive shafts, then had to change the box again when she said 'I can't seem to find fifth gear, dad'. Scrappy had flogged me a four speeder. Eventualy found the wheel bearing that had been making all the noise! Wasted about £250 and three days work!

THANK GOD!!! I thought I was the only one...

I've done enough questionables myself but a friend once rebuilt an Alfa 1300 because of a bad compression gauge.

Resolved one cock-up today, as it happens...

For a month or so I've been thinking that my engine really wasn't pulling as well as it used to, and I was getting some tappet rattles even though I was CONVINCED that I'd adjusted them to the book. I even re-checked the settings a week later.

Last night I was looking through some notes and found the tappet settings that go with my BCF2 cam - significantly different from book values... I re-set them to the correct values this morning and, surprise surprise, the engine pulls as hard as it should do, and the rattly noises have gone away!

After calling myself a pillock, I went out for a quick blast around the local lanes - my, aren't the roads a bit slippery at the moment, especially when you've just found a few extra horsepower!

I've now put a post-it note into my Haynes manual, just in case I do the same dumb trick again...

David

David , why not put the settings inside the engine bay perhaps even on the rocker cover? that way you don't even have to remember where you put the book

I thought I had put them in a sensible place - I collated a 'manual' for the car, full of useful data. Trouble is, I forgot to read it...

I spent about 6 months hating my civic because it was getting noticably slower by the day. I thought I had lost compression or something. I thought I had to rebuild it or drop a new motor in.

'Twas the air filter all along - a $6 part.

Thankfully I didn't spend a fortune on it, but I ended up hating the car because it was no fun to drive anymore. It's fun again, but I still look at it a bit suspiciously when I walk by it.