marshalla Posted September 3, 2007 Posted September 3, 2007 Your manual states that a special tool can be used for winding back the pistons into the callipers, but it is not essential, and to quote your manual “circlip pliers” can be used as an alternative, so I set about winding pistons back into the callipers, I was using an angle grinder disc spanner as it seemed better suited, Why do I get the feeling that this might be the essence of their next letter ? "Dear Mr. Keene, We specifically said Circlip pliers. You seem to have ignored our advice and chosen to use another tool, we cannot, therefore, be held liable....." Quote
V 8 Posted September 3, 2007 Posted September 3, 2007 Cut him a bit of slack Mike, he's only 4 ft tall and you know what short blokes are like....... Quote
Mike H Posted September 3, 2007 Posted September 3, 2007 Cut him a bit of slack Mike, he's only 4 ft tall and you know what short blokes are like....... That explains it. Quote
Martin Keene Posted September 3, 2007 Author Posted September 3, 2007 Are you still going on about this? Just so I understand, you're an 'experienced' mechanical engineer, built your own car and yet you needed a Haynes manual to change a set of pads !? Mike <!--emo& P**s off... ETA: Actually, I was going to amend that comment, but I'm going to leave it. I'm sure I would be quite capable of changing them without the help of the manual, but until this manual I have always prefered to have one 'to hand' just in case and, particulary when it comes things like brakes, like to make sure things are re-built to the correct torques etc. Although one wonders if Haynes torque figures should be trusted. Is that a joke or are you just a generally abusive person? Judging by the rest of this thread I guess maybe you are. Mike I would like to think that my past post record would show me not to be abusive. But, with my current circumstances, cheap cracks like that are not appreciated. FWIW, although I do take the P**s out of people on here, I do try and keep it to people I have meet and know can take a joke. Quote
Martin Keene Posted September 3, 2007 Author Posted September 3, 2007 Cut him a bit of slack Mike, he's only 4 ft tall and you know what short blokes are like....... Cheers mate... Quote
windy Posted September 3, 2007 Posted September 3, 2007 Interesting comments about CanBus. I went on a course recently & was very suprised that for all the practical excercises we were set where they engineered some deliberate faults into the electrics on CanBus cars, we did not need to use the diagnostic tool to find the faults once. The manufacturers checking procedures (on screen manual) was all that we needed in order to be given guidance on performing some basic checks in a set sequence. Yes agree about the Haynes Manuals, most are getting thinner because there is no need to take things apart as much because replacement components can now only be bought as assemblies. I have some old Ford manuals which tell you how to completely strip down a gearbox, that's because you could buy the individual replacement components to repair them in those days. Nowadays gearboxes can only be bought as complete units because the bits inside them are far more complex, require specialist tools to dismantle which is generally beyond most DIY'ers. Mind you - I'd quite fancy taking one of those VW DSG gearboxes apart to see what's inside - provided it didn't need rebuilding afterwards Quote
Matt Seabrook Posted September 3, 2007 Posted September 3, 2007 I'd quite fancy taking one of those VW DSG gearboxes apart to see what's inside - provided it didn't need rebuilding afterwards Quote
Martin Keene Posted September 3, 2007 Author Posted September 3, 2007 4ft? Is he still growing then? b***h... Quote
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