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Peter Hill > wrote: > On 19-Feb-18 1:00 AM, Dave Plowman (News) wrote: > > In article >, > > Dean Hoffman > wrote: > >> The only British car I see in the mid USA is the Mini. > > > > Wot - no Range Rovers? Jaguars? Nissans? > > > None of which are British. Nor is the Mini - BMW owned. But I doubt the OP is referring to ownership, given how many US brands ain't wholly owned by the US. I'd guess he is referring to where they are assembled. But even then various parts can come from factories anywhere. > Range Rover and Jaguar are now JLR and owned by Indian steel firm TATA. > Nissan never were British, Japanese forever. Nissan built their > reputation on British and German engineering using an American > production system that the Americans refused to use. The OHV "A" series > engine that powered the Cherry and Sunny though the 60's and 70's was > derived from a licensed copy of the BMC "A" series engine (original > Mini). Actually first saw the light of day in 1947 in the Austin A30. Must have been one of the longest production runs of any basic engine. > The SOHC "L" (also bottom end of "KA" and "Z") series engines > that powered 510/710/810/910/Violet/Bluebirds/Zeds was a licensed copy > of a Mercedes 6 cylinder design (had 2 cylinders lopped off for 4 pot > versions). Both had been improved to the extent that the fee was no > longer payable. > Yes new Q30's are being made in Sunderland, UK. Nissan UK says the US is its second largest export market for UK assembled models. After the EU. -- *Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else. Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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On 19/02/2018 18:49, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
> > the EU will soon be gone, and good ****ing riddance. > Long live the bureaucracy of un-elected EU technocrats! -- mailto : news {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk |
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On 2/18/2018 2:40 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 21:29:24 -0000, Mr Pounder Esquire > > wrote: > >> James Wilkinson Sword wrote: >>> On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 21:17:55 -0000, ultred ragnusen >>> > wrote: >>>> *wrote: >>>> >>>>>> No need to with those little **** ant things you blokes call cars. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> That must be why merkins are so keen to own English cars. >>>> >>>> I'm not sure who is trolling and who is joking as rotating and >>>> inspecting tires is a natural thing that you do on most vehicles >>>> simply because fronts wear differently than rears, and crowns affect >>>> wear and alignment setup per side. >>>> http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/...ic_balance.jpg >>>> >>>> Besides, rotating tires gives you a chance to doublecheck their >>>> static balance and to inspect and remove between 50 and 100 pebbles >>>> and shards from the carcass. >>>> http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/18/splinter2.jpg >>>> >>>> With respect to the country of origin of most cars driven in >>>> America, I'd wager that Japan has the rest of the world beat in >>>> terms of what 'mericans prefer overall. >>> >>> Yes, the fronts wear faster than the rears, but so what?!* You >>> replace whatever wears out when it wears out.* What on earth is the >>> point in moving them around so you have to replace all four at once?! >> >> It's called preventive maintenance. You are too stupid to understand >> this. > > It doesn't change the speed at which the tyres wear out, so is utterly > pointless.* Don't bother replying, you're killfiled, I just peeked into > it to see what ****e you were spouting. > Wrong again. |
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On 2/18/2018 4:13 PM, ultred ragnusen wrote:
> wrote: > >> You really need to find something more interesting to do with your life. > > Pot, kettle, black. > +1 I almost said the same thing, then thought I'd better check the response first. I've never seen anyone else trying so often to demonstrate their own stupidity. |
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On 19/02/2018 4:00 AM, ultred ragnusen wrote:
> wrote: > >>> First question is what is the practical difference between these three 21mm >>> (13/16ths) "sockets" for the lug bolts on the car I was working on today? >>> http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/17/socket_ends.jpg >>> 1. The standard lug wrench (green) has 6 points, each at a sharp angle. >>> 2. The impact socket (black) has 6 points, each at a semicircular angle. >>> 3. The standard socket (chrome) has 12 points, each at a sharp angle. >> >> The impact socket is superior for that application - whether using an >> impact driver or not. A 12 point socket is better in situations where >> fine motion is required. > > This is good to know that the impact socket is superior, probably for two > reasons, right? > 1. It has those radius corners (someone said it reduces stress on both the > nuts and the socket itself). Cracks are more likely to start at a *corner*. That's why crankpins on a crankshaft have a radius at the fillet. The radius also keeps the impact forces back away from the very tip of the hex point. > 2. It is stronger overall (presumably) It is thicker and made of a stronger material. > > Since there is always a drawback, I think the drawback might be: > 3. They're "fatter" it seems, than my normal sockets They are stronger because they need to be in order to resist the *impact* forces. > 4. They don't seem to come in 12-point sizes (at least mine aren't) > A hex socket is much less likely to round off a nut. -- Xeno |
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> I was talking to someone recently who is in the car rescue / roadside > assistance business and he was saying that one of the growing problems > he sees is that cars come without spare tyres and an increasing number > of call outs are to people where the tyre cannot be repaired with a can > of squirty gunk and there is no spare in the vehicle. It's off topic, but I put the following related items in my trunk kit, even though I prefer to repair my flats at home by removing the tire completely from the wheel and then using a one-piece patchplug that both seals and fills the hole from the inside out. 1. Compressor (operated off the cigarette lighter socket) 2. External plug kit (they work just fine even though they're not approved) 3. Magnetic LED light from HF (so you can see what you're doing at night) |
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>> I'm an electrical engineer - but this has nothing to do with that. >> > Maybe it does in the sense that you want things down to the gnat's > ass. I can't please everyone with the details, but I do appreciate learning from others who have the intelligence to understand and convey the details better than I do. > Good enough for what it's for is a common measure in my world. I've > changed a few tires over the years and never had a torque wrench. I wouldn't think of not using a torque wrench, but, I did watch a dozen videos last night on how to /calibrate/ the torque wrench. The problem is not in twisting the calibration mechanism, but in having a known good standard. A lot of the calibration videos use the Harbor Freight $40 Item #68283 "digital torque adapter", which seems like a neat tool if I didn't already have a bunch of old-style torque wrenches already. http://manuals.harborfreight.com/man...8999/68283.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjEP1KMBbAY Since my old-style "made in usa" (so you know it's old!) Craftsman torque wrench is likely still accurate, I can use that as my calibration standard. > None > has ever fallen off or the rim wallowed out. There's value to doing a job right, in and of itself. For example, when you choose a tire, you choose it by the specifications, and then when you mount it, you mount the red or yellow dots (depending on the brand) next to the valve stem, and you clean and statically balance the wheel sans tire, and then you mount the tire by the dots, and then you statically balance the assembly (often it takes no weight) and then you take it for a drive at speed for your dynamic balance test (almost never do you feel any vibration that would indicate a dynamic imbalance at speed). Same with repairing a puncture, where we all have successfully plugged a hole from the outside with the rope plugs, which aren't approved by the RMA but we all know that method to work just fine. I get pleasure out of the method of marking the tire (so that I don't change the balance), breaking the bead with the HF bead-breaking tool, and then dismounting the tire with a different HF tire mounting tool, then marking the location of the injury from the inside, removing the offending protruding nail (or whatever), honing the hole from the outside to 1/4 inch standard size (or whatever was chosen), buffing the inside area to remove non-sticky layers, applying the cement and waiting for it to get tacky, applying the cement to the patchplug and then pulling it through with pliers, rolling down the patchplug from the inside from the centerline outward to force out air pockets, and snipping off the protruding metal tip, and then covering the inside area with the blacktop formula (whatever that black gunk is made up of). After that, if desired, I replace the valve stem, and then I remount the tire on the marks made prior to dismounting, and then, after setting the bead at about 60psi (whatever it takes to pop) and airing up the tire to 40psi, I doublecheck static balance, and if necessary, I rotate the tires on the vehicle or put it back where it was, making sure to torque the lug nuts evenly to 85 foot pounds. Some people get pleasure in doing things the "right" way; others don't care to. > There was a time when someone changing a flat was a common sight. > Tires would last about 20,000 miles. I get a flat about once every couple of years, where it's almost always a screw (dunno why but it is). If flats used to be more common than they are now, you'll have to explain to me why. If it's true that flats are less common now than before, than the natural question to ask is: a. Are tires more resistant to punctures now (what with steel belts)? b. Or are screws and nails less prevalent on the roadways nowadays? It has to be one of the above if it's true that flats are less common now on radials than they were in the olden days of bias-ply tires. |
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> I average about one puncture every 10 years between my 2 vehicles. I have heard many times that nowadays, people don't get flats as often, but I can't see why unless radials, by their very nature, are more resistant to flats than were the old-style bias-ply tires. I don't count the averages, especially since I repair neighbors' tires for them at times, but I think I have been repairing at least one flat a year, what with four cars now in the driveway and a few neighbors whom I help out (and who help me in return). So I average one flat a year, roughly, where I use the RMA-approved patch-plug method, which can only be done from the inside. On the road, I would use the rope-plug method, which, we all know, works just fine (even thought it's not RMA approved). For me, it's just so very satisfying to fix a flat at home. I just pull the wheel, mark the location, break the bead, remove the tire, repair the hole from the inside out using the RMA-approved method, replace the valve stem if necessary, remount the tire, test in the pool, check the static balance, and then mount the tire back on the vehicle (rotating other tires if desired) to the proper torque spec. It just feels good to do things the right way. |
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James Wilkinson Sword > wrote: > > Nissan UK says the US is its second largest export market for UK > > assembled models. After the EU. > the EU will soon be gone, and good ****ing riddance. And given the EU is Nissan UK's largest export market they will likely soon be gone too. Along with lots of others - especially in financial services. -- *What are the pink bits in my tyres? Cyclists & Joggers* Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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On 19-Feb-18 11:44 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 23:02:07 -0000, ultred ragnusen > > wrote: > >> *wrote: >> >>> * I average about one puncture every 10 years between my 2 vehicles. >> >> I have heard many times that nowadays, people don't get flats as >> often, but >> I can't see why unless radials, by their very nature, are more >> resistant to >> flats than were the old-style bias-ply tires. > > I get a few a year.* Mainly nails from incompetant builders.* (Builders > have an average IQ of 50). > >> I don't count the averages, especially since I repair neighbors' tires >> for >> them at times, but I think I have been repairing at least one flat a >> year, >> what with four cars now in the driveway and a few neighbors whom I >> help out >> (and who help me in return). >> >> So I average one flat a year, roughly, where I use the RMA-approved >> patch-plug method, which can only be done from the inside. On the road, I >> would use the rope-plug method, which, we all know, works just fine (even >> thought it's not RMA approved). >> >> For me, it's just so very satisfying to fix a flat at home. >> >> I just pull the wheel, mark the location, break the bead, remove the >> tire, >> repair the hole from the inside out using the RMA-approved method, >> replace >> the valve stem if necessary, remount the tire, test in the pool, check >> the >> static balance, and then mount the tire back on the vehicle (rotating >> other >> tires if desired) to the proper torque spec. >> >> It just feels good to do things the right way. > > To save ten quid at the local garage?* You're nuts. > Where do you lot live? Remind to stay right away. |
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On 02/19/2018 03:30 PM, ultred ragnusen wrote:
> wrote: > >> I was talking to someone recently who is in the car rescue / roadside >> assistance business and he was saying that one of the growing problems >> he sees is that cars come without spare tyres and an increasing number >> of call outs are to people where the tyre cannot be repaired with a can >> of squirty gunk and there is no spare in the vehicle. > > It's off topic, but I put the following related items in my trunk kit, even > though I prefer to repair my flats at home by removing the tire completely > from the wheel and then using a one-piece patchplug that both seals and > fills the hole from the inside out. > 1. Compressor (operated off the cigarette lighter socket) > 2. External plug kit (they work just fine even though they're not approved) > 3. Magnetic LED light from HF (so you can see what you're doing at night) > I've got a Petzl Tikka headlamp in the car, along with a couple of flashlights. The advantage of a headlamp is the beam is focused exactly where you are looking rather than trying to position a separate light. The flashlights, one of which is 1000 lumens, allow for a wider beam. |
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On 19/02/2018 23:36, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
> In article >, > James Wilkinson Sword > wrote: >>> Nissan UK says the US is its second largest export market for UK >>> assembled models. After the EU. > >> the EU will soon be gone, and good ****ing riddance. > > And given the EU is Nissan UK's largest export market they will likely > soon be gone too. Along with lots of others - especially in financial > services. > Project fear continues! These days a car factory in only in existence as long as the model it was built for is still in production. Manufactures wanting to build a new model prefer a green field sites in countries that gives them maximum grants and the labour cost is cheapest. In the case of western Europe its likely to be the former soviet aligned countries that will get future car manufacturing/assembly jobs. Alternatively, Europe will be importing many of the cars from China or India. -- mailto : news {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk |
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On 02/19/2018 03:50 PM, ultred ragnusen wrote:
> Same with repairing a puncture, where we all have successfully plugged a > hole from the outside with the rope plugs, which aren't approved by the RMA > but we all know that method to work just fine. Royal Music Association? I've had good luck with the common rope plugs, including on an almost new motorcycle tire. I rode home slowly but without any exciting events. A few more short trips without any disasters and I forgot about it. It did develop a slow leak by the time the tire was worn enough to be replaced. I now carry Dynaplug kits on both bikes that have tubeless tires. Knock on wood, I have not had to field test them. On a bike you don't have the option of getting out the spare (unless you ride a Ural with a sidecar) so roadside repairs are a necessity. Speaking from experience, plugging a tubeless tire is a lot easier than breaking down a tubed tire and patching the tube while the bike is propped up on whatever you can find. |
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On 02/19/2018 04:49 PM, Peter Hill wrote:
> On 19-Feb-18 11:44 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: >> On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 23:02:07 -0000, ultred ragnusen >> > wrote: >> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I average about one puncture every 10 years between my 2 vehicles. >>> >>> I have heard many times that nowadays, people don't get flats as >>> often, but >>> I can't see why unless radials, by their very nature, are more >>> resistant to >>> flats than were the old-style bias-ply tires. >> >> I get a few a year. Mainly nails from incompetant builders. >> (Builders have an average IQ of 50). >> >>> I don't count the averages, especially since I repair neighbors' >>> tires for >>> them at times, but I think I have been repairing at least one flat a >>> year, >>> what with four cars now in the driveway and a few neighbors whom I >>> help out >>> (and who help me in return). >>> >>> So I average one flat a year, roughly, where I use the RMA-approved >>> patch-plug method, which can only be done from the inside. On the >>> road, I >>> would use the rope-plug method, which, we all know, works just fine >>> (even >>> thought it's not RMA approved). >>> >>> For me, it's just so very satisfying to fix a flat at home. >>> >>> I just pull the wheel, mark the location, break the bead, remove the >>> tire, >>> repair the hole from the inside out using the RMA-approved method, >>> replace >>> the valve stem if necessary, remount the tire, test in the pool, >>> check the >>> static balance, and then mount the tire back on the vehicle (rotating >>> other >>> tires if desired) to the proper torque spec. >>> >>> It just feels good to do things the right way. >> >> To save ten quid at the local garage? You're nuts. >> > > Where do you lot live? Remind to stay right away. > > Someplace in the United Kingdom. I've managed to stay away all of my life. I've gathered it's not the country of Wordsworth, Shelley, and Byron anymore... |
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> Royal Music Association? Rubber Manufacturers Association. http://www.rma.org/wp-content/upload...lchart1111.pdf Short summary: http://www.rma.org/wp-content/upload...ir_handout.pdf All tire shops in the USA follow RMA guidelines (they must, by insurance rules and for legal liability reasons). No professional would be caught dead using the rope plugs, even as we all know them to work just fine, in practice. > I've had good luck with the common rope plugs, > including on an almost new motorcycle tire. I rode home slowly but > without any exciting events. A few more short trips without any > disasters and I forgot about it. It did develop a slow leak by the time > the tire was worn enough to be replaced. While almost all of us have had continued success with the emergency rope plug, they're forbidden in professional use for a variety of reasons, explained below by the TIA. The Tire Industry Association decries use of the rope plug he https://www.tireindustry.org/tire-ma...ce/tire-repair Here's their video on the topic: https://youtu.be/mdTAalpkSLM Having said that, I reiterate we've all successfully fixed dozens of tires with the rope plugs, so all I'm saying is that there is a right way and a wrong way, and both ways have worked for all of us - but the right way is the right way for a reason. I like doing things the right way, unless I'm stuck on the shoulder of the road, in which case the wrong way is the right way for that situation. > I now carry Dynaplug kits on both bikes that have tubeless tires. Knock > on wood, I have not had to field test them. On a bike you don't have the > option of getting out the spare (unless you ride a Ural with a sidecar) > so roadside repairs are a necessity. Here's a video of a guy plugging bike tires with a tubeless repair kit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5_nK8V-nU0 Take a look at that biker's concept of a "pocket knife" at 53 seconds! https://youtu.be/M5_nK8V-nU0?t=53 I'm curious if you mount and balance your bike tires? I did that when I owned a bike. It was hard to find a tire shop, nearby anyway, that mounted tires, so I learned how to do that myself. Bike tires are easier than car tires, which themselves are easier than SUV tires (all of which I've done) which are easier than truck tires (which I've never done). > Speaking from experience, plugging > a tubeless tire is a lot easier than breaking down a tubed tire and > patching the tube while the bike is propped up on whatever you can find. Plugging from the outside is pretty simple on all tires. Patchplugging from the inside is simple - if - if you have the tools, which cost about $150 and which last forever. |
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> I've got a Petzl Tikka headlamp in the car, along with a couple of > flashlights. The advantage of a headlamp is the beam is focused exactly > where you are looking rather than trying to position a separate light. > The flashlights, one of which is 1000 lumens, allow for a wider beam. I agree that a headlamp has advantages, as does a magnetic lamp, where one of each might be perfect redundancy for a nighttime emergency at the side of the road. |
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> Someplace in the United Kingdom. I've managed to stay away all of my > life. I've gathered it's not the country of Wordsworth, Shelley, and > Byron anymore... What's odd about the troll James Wilkinson Sword is that he doesn't seem to understand the most basic and one of the simplest of human endeavors, which is that there is pleasure in doing things yourself, whether that be baking your own bread, whipping up your own mayonaise, growing your own tomatoes, fixing your own car, shoeing your own horse, helping an old lady across the street, learning something new, etc. To him, it's only about his "ten quid". |
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> You're nuts. Pot, kettle, black. |
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On 02/19/2018 06:58 PM, ultred ragnusen wrote:
> Take a look at that biker's concept of a "pocket knife" at 53 seconds! > https://youtu.be/M5_nK8V-nU0?t=53 Compared to what's in my pocket at the moment... http://www.coldsteel.com/recon-1-tan...0-50-edge.html After using it for a few years, I'm not that crazy about the tanto style, but it is good for prying out nails. > > I'm curious if you mount and balance your bike tires? I did that when I > owned a bike. It was hard to find a tire shop, nearby anyway, that mounted > tires, so I learned how to do that myself. Bike tires are easier than car > tires, which themselves are easier than SUV tires (all of which I've done) > which are easier than truck tires (which I've never done). I mount the knobbies on the DR-650 myself but don't bother with the balance except for lining the dot up if there is one. With DOT knobbies it is sort of hard to tell if it's balanced or not. The last time around I went with Kendas and getting the bead to seat on the front was an adventure. I never had a problem with Dunlop 606's. I take the ones with tubeless tires to a shop. After watching an guy trying to get the bead to seat on a Bridgestone as the sun sank into the west I was skeptical of my abilities. He had a high flow air system, the tourniquet, and so forth but it was a struggle. I might take a shot at it in the spring. I've got a slow leak around the bead on the Harley that needs to be cleaned up so it won't be a complete demount. Truck tires are just bigger :) I watched a guy in Canada fix one in place. He had me drive the inside dual up on blocks to get clearance, spudded it off, patched it, and put it back on. I think he'd done it that way once or twice. My first DIY attempt was with a '51 Chevy. iirc, the owners manual had an illustration of breaking the bead by putting the bumper jack on it. All I managed to do was jack the car up. |
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On 02/19/2018 06:58 PM, ultred ragnusen wrote:
> wrote: > >> Someplace in the United Kingdom. I've managed to stay away all of my >> life. I've gathered it's not the country of Wordsworth, Shelley, and >> Byron anymore... > > What's odd about the troll James Wilkinson Sword is that he doesn't seem to > understand the most basic and one of the simplest of human endeavors, which > is that there is pleasure in doing things yourself, whether that be baking > your own bread, whipping up your own mayonaise, growing your own tomatoes, > fixing your own car, shoeing your own horse, helping an old lady across the > street, learning something new, etc. > > To him, it's only about his "ten quid". > Sometimes I question my motivation, like last month when I was changing the oil in a cold drizzle. At least this year step 1 of putting the studs on did not involve boiling water and salt to release the bottom tire which was frozen to the ground. A little dunnage is a good thing. |
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On 2/19/2018 8:58 PM, ultred ragnusen wrote:
> > Plugging from the outside is pretty simple on all tires. > > Patchplugging from the inside is simple - if - if you have the tools, which > cost about $150 and which last forever. > I'm driving on a plugged tire right now. Last Saturday I was 600 miles from home and the only shop nearby was a truck shop. He plugged it but did not have the proper equipment to play with my wheels. I put about 2999 miles with no air loss so will go home on it too. The drywall screw removed it still usable too! |
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>> Take a look at that biker's concept of a "pocket knife" at 53 seconds! >> https://youtu.be/M5_nK8V-nU0?t=53 > > Compared to what's in my pocket at the moment... > http://www.coldsteel.com/recon-1-tan...0-50-edge.html > > After using it for a few years, I'm not that crazy about the tanto > style, but it is good for prying out nails. Jesus. That's battle gear for heaven's sake! This is what I consider to be a typical pocket knife. https://media.midwayusa.com/producti...365/365933.jpg > I mount the knobbies on the DR-650 myself but don't bother with the > balance except for lining the dot up if there is one. With DOT knobbies > it is sort of hard to tell if it's balanced or not. The last time around > I went with Kendas and getting the bead to seat on the front was an > adventure. I never had a problem with Dunlop 606's. The Harbor Freight tire mounting tool has an accessory for mounting motorcycle tires, but the HF static bubble balancer does not. AFAIK, most people statically balance motorcycle tires using a horizontal freely spinning bar, do they not? > I take the ones with tubeless tires to a shop. After watching an guy > trying to get the bead to seat on a Bridgestone as the sun sank into the > west I was skeptical of my abilities. He had a high flow air system, the > tourniquet, and so forth but it was a struggle. I might take a shot at > it in the spring. I've got a slow leak around the bead on the Harley > that needs to be cleaned up so it won't be a complete demount. I did bike tires in the 80s, before they were typically as fat as they are now (especially the rears), where it wasn't hard in the olden days, with a good tire iron and three hands. > Truck tires are just bigger :) I watched a guy in Canada fix one in > place. He had me drive the inside dual up on blocks to get clearance, > spudded it off, patched it, and put it back on. I think he'd done it > that way once or twice. I find that car tires are easiest on the import economy vehicles, and almost as easy on the European sport vehicles, but the sidewall and larger profile makes SUVs harder (at least the ones I've done), where I just ass-u-me that truck tires would be even worse. > My first DIY attempt was with a '51 Chevy. iirc, the owners manual had > an illustration of breaking the bead by putting the bumper jack on it. > All I managed to do was jack the car up. I've seen every redneck method of breaking a bead that YouTube can fester, where the purpose-built HF bead breaker is the tool of choice for the home owner. https://youtu.be/MXWb4q_DljE The main flaw of that bead breaker is that they try to limit the diameter of the wheels you can break the bead on by limiting the overall length of the teardrop-shaped base - so you have to "extend" the base by putting a board over it and then the wheel on top of that board. The bead breaker attachment that comes standard with the HF tire mounting tool works fine on the import economy vehicles, and even works on the European sports cars, but it fails miserably (it bends out of shape) on the SUV tires I've tried. |
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> I'm driving on a plugged tire right now. Last Saturday I was 600 miles > from home and the only shop nearby was a truck shop. He plugged it but > did not have the proper equipment to play with my wheels. I put about > 2999 miles with no air loss so will go home on it too. I agree with you that reasonable men have successfully plugged a tire from the outside after pulling out the offending nail or screw, but we can't argue too hard since the logic of the inside path is that it supposedly stands the test of time and the elements better. Still, none of us are complaining that the rope plugs don't work, so it's surprising that no professionals will dare to use the method we all swear by. It's one of the enigmas of DIY home and auto repair. > The drywall screw removed it still usable too! I wish I had saved a jar of all the embedded objects I've pulled out of tires over the years! |
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>> To him, it's only about his "ten quid". >> > > Sometimes I question my motivation, like last month when I was changing > the oil in a cold drizzle. I enjoy changing the oil where I've used those topside extractors, but I prefer lying under car just marveling at the engineering that went into building the thing as the hot oil drains completely out into a wash basin. To the comment of the one oddball guy who actually thinks it's all about his "ten quid", I have rarely needed a mechanic, where each of my vehicles are all well over a decade old, so I have no idea what I'm actually "saving" by doing my own tire repairs, clutch, flushes, cooling system replacements, brakes, tire mounting and balancing, etc. > At least this year step 1 of putting the > studs on did not involve boiling water and salt to release the bottom > tire which was frozen to the ground. My days of living in snow country are long gone, where I remember having to freeze inside the car while the defroster laboriously attempted to clear the ice, and having to heat up the locks to defrost them after a freezing rain, and once, my aluminum door handle snapped right off my 280Z in the cold. I'm glad I never will see cold weather ever again, except during visits to the snow. > A little dunnage is a good thing. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dunnage 1 : loose materials used to support and protect cargo in a ship's hold; also : padding in a shipping container 2 : baggage |
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On 02/19/2018 10:23 PM, ultred ragnusen wrote:
> I enjoy changing the oil where I've used those topside extractors, but I > prefer lying under car just marveling at the engineering that went into > building the thing as the hot oil drains completely out into a wash basin. When it's January and drizzling, you pull the drain screw and hesad inside for a cup of coffee. > To the comment of the one oddball guy who actually thinks it's all about > his "ten quid", I have rarely needed a mechanic, where each of my vehicles > are all well over a decade old, so I have no idea what I'm actually > "saving" by doing my own tire repairs, clutch, flushes, cooling system > replacements, brakes, tire mounting and balancing, etc. The Toyota hasn't made ten years yet, but the rest of the fleet is at least 10. The elder members are the F150 I bought in '86 and the Harley I bought in '97. It probably was 20 years ago when I ran the pickup through an alignment shop after replacing some steering components just to make sure, but it was in spec. Other than that none of them has seen a mechanic other than me. When I was a kid my father told me if I intended to drive that way I did I'd better learn how to fix things. I did. > >> At least this year step 1 of putting the >> studs on did not involve boiling water and salt to release the bottom >> tire which was frozen to the ground. > My days of living in snow country are long gone, where I remember having to > freeze inside the car while the defroster laboriously attempted to clear > the ice, and having to heat up the locks to defrost them after a freezing > rain, and once, my aluminum door handle snapped right off my 280Z in the > cold. > > I'm glad I never will see cold weather ever again, except during visits to > the snow. > >> A little dunnage is a good thing. > https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dunnage > > 1 : loose materials used to support and protect cargo in a ship's hold; > also : padding in a shipping container > 2 : baggage |
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On 02/19/2018 10:03 PM, ultred ragnusen wrote:
> Still, none of us are complaining that the rope plugs don't work, so it's > surprising that no professionals will dare to use the method we all swear > by. Can you say 'lawyer'? I've spent some time in southern AZ close to the border. It's refreshing to deal with Mexican mechanics. They still use a bit of ingenuity. >> The drywall screw removed it still usable too! > I wish I had saved a jar of all the embedded objects I've pulled out of > tires over the years! My winner is a screwdriver that embedded itself in the outside dual on a trailer. The handle was a little scuffed but it was still usable. We won't go into bicycle tires. I hate goathead thorns and any place the damn thing grow. |
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On 02/19/2018 09:58 PM, ultred ragnusen wrote:
> Jesus. That's battle gear for heaven's sake! So I'm told. I had to make a personal appearance at the SSI office a couple of weeks ago. The security guard said "You can bring in a small knife. That's a big knife.' so out to the car I went. > > This is what I consider to be a typical pocket knife. > https://media.midwayusa.com/producti...365/365933.jpg I've got one of those I found by the side of the road. I guess it's the Officer' model with the toothpick, tweezers, and other strange stuff. I never carried it. This is Montana; we subscribe to the Crocodile Dundee School of Knives. > The Harbor Freight tire mounting tool has an accessory for mounting > motorcycle tires, but the HF static bubble balancer does not. AFAIK, most > people statically balance motorcycle tires using a horizontal freely > spinning bar, do they not? Yes. I'll probably pick one up and see if it makes any difference the next time around. Knobbies give you plenty of practice. 5K on the rear is doing good. > I did bike tires in the 80s, before they were typically as fat as they are > now (especially the rears), where it wasn't hard in the olden days, with a > good tire iron and three hands. I haven't used it yet but I picked one of these up: https://www.amazon.com/Motion-Pro-08.../dp/B0035UDHZ2 The DR is 4.75 x 17 for the rear and 3.00 x 21 for the front although I've run 5.10 on the rear. They're started to go to the 120/90 stuff for knobbies but I'm used to the older sizing. > I find that car tires are easiest on the import economy vehicles, and > almost as easy on the European sport vehicles, but the sidewall and larger > profile makes SUVs harder (at least the ones I've done), where I just > ass-u-me that truck tires would be even worse. BIG tools :) Breaking the beads with a sledge hammer, or rather something like a cross head splitting maul is common. >> My first DIY attempt was with a '51 Chevy. iirc, the owners manual had >> an illustration of breaking the bead by putting the bumper jack on it. >> All I managed to do was jack the car up. > I've seen every redneck method of breaking a bead that YouTube can fester, > where the purpose-built HF bead breaker is the tool of choice for the home > owner. https://youtu.be/MXWb4q_DljE Back in the '60s Harbor Freight and Chinese stuff was well in the future. Real tools cost real money. The cellar had a door through a poured concrete wall that was sturdy. You could do strange stuff with a scissors jack. You could also launch stuff when you were trying to compress the coil springs on your Healey... I was literally a shade tree mechanic. There was a handy maple with a branch that was just right for pulling engines. Much ambition, little money, get 'er done. > > The main flaw of that bead breaker is that they try to limit the diameter > of the wheels you can break the bead on by limiting the overall length of > the teardrop-shaped base - so you have to "extend" the base by putting a > board over it and then the wheel on top of that board. > > The bead breaker attachment that comes standard with the HF tire mounting > tool works fine on the import economy vehicles, and even works on the > European sports cars, but it fails miserably (it bends out of shape) on the > SUV tires I've tried. |
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On 19-Feb-18 11:51 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 23:49:23 -0000, Peter Hill > > wrote: > >> On 19-Feb-18 11:44 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: >>> On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 23:02:07 -0000, ultred ragnusen >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> *wrote: >>>> >>>>> * I average about one puncture every 10 years between my 2 vehicles. >>>> >>>> I have heard many times that nowadays, people don't get flats as >>>> often, but >>>> I can't see why unless radials, by their very nature, are more >>>> resistant to >>>> flats than were the old-style bias-ply tires. >>> >>> I get a few a year.* Mainly nails from incompetant builders.* (Builders >>> have an average IQ of 50). >>> >>>> I don't count the averages, especially since I repair neighbors' tires >>>> for >>>> them at times, but I think I have been repairing at least one flat a >>>> year, >>>> what with four cars now in the driveway and a few neighbors whom I >>>> help out >>>> (and who help me in return). >>>> >>>> So I average one flat a year, roughly, where I use the RMA-approved >>>> patch-plug method, which can only be done from the inside. On the >>>> road, I >>>> would use the rope-plug method, which, we all know, works just fine >>>> (even >>>> thought it's not RMA approved). >>>> >>>> For me, it's just so very satisfying to fix a flat at home. >>>> >>>> I just pull the wheel, mark the location, break the bead, remove the >>>> tire, >>>> repair the hole from the inside out using the RMA-approved method, >>>> replace >>>> the valve stem if necessary, remount the tire, test in the pool, check >>>> the >>>> static balance, and then mount the tire back on the vehicle (rotating >>>> other >>>> tires if desired) to the proper torque spec. >>>> >>>> It just feels good to do things the right way. >>> >>> To save ten quid at the local garage?* You're nuts. >> >> Where do you lot live? Remind to stay right away. > > What are you objecting to?* The ability to pay £10 to get a puncture > fixed?* Do you live in the Aussie outback or something? > I really don't to experience the number of punctures being talked about here. 1 in 20 years is quite enough. |
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>> What are you objecting to?* The ability to pay £10 to get a puncture >> fixed?* Do you live in the Aussie outback or something? >> > > I really don't to experience the number of punctures being talked about > here. 1 in 20 years is quite enough. With respect to repairing punctures, the relevant part of the conversation is HOW to properly repair them. There is only one proper way, which is to remove the carcass off the wheel, simply because the only way to know if there's damage to the inside is to look. If you've ever seen the handfuls of fluffy black shavings that indicate a tire was driven on while very low in pressure, you'll know what I'm talking about, since a tire can easily have the belts visible inside, will look perfectly fine from the outside. Luckily it's easy to dismount, remount, and statically balance (and dynamically test) a tire yourself, where it takes about the same amount of time as it takes a tire shop to do, only you don't have to drive to the tire shop on the flat tire (or mount the spare), and you get the satisfaction both of doing it yourself, and knowing you did it right. |
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> Back in the '60s Harbor Freight and Chinese stuff was well in the > future. Real tools cost real money. The cellar had a door through a > poured concrete wall that was sturdy. heh heh ..., I remember those red cellar doors, at an angle to the house, from ground level to about two feet, with the lock on the inside that was always making that scraping sound that chills your spine, and then those solid concrete steps down. Yup. I haven't seen them in years either. I don't know when HF came into existence, but thank God they did, as, well, for about $150 or $200, you get all the tools you need for changing and statically balancing tires that you don't already have, which means they pay for themselves in just about 10 tire changes, which, for me, is only a year or two (what with 4 cars to maintain). The one thing I WISH HF had was a smoke machine, as those bimmers sure do find funny places to leak air! |
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In article >,
alan_m > wrote: > On 19/02/2018 23:36, Dave Plowman (News) wrote: > > In article >, > > James Wilkinson Sword > wrote: > >>> Nissan UK says the US is its second largest export market for UK > >>> assembled models. After the EU. > > > >> the EU will soon be gone, and good ****ing riddance. > > > > And given the EU is Nissan UK's largest export market they will likely > > soon be gone too. Along with lots of others - especially in financial > > services. > > > Project fear continues! In the lack of any firm plans for the way forward after Brexit, just what do you expect? We have had May promising Nissan they won't suffer financially after we leave. So taxpayer's money to subsidise car production? Seems only yesterday Boeing were objecting to what they thought was that. > These days a car factory in only in existence as long as the model it > was built for is still in production. Manufactures wanting to build a > new model prefer a green field sites in countries that gives them > maximum grants and the labour cost is cheapest. In the case of western > Europe its likely to be the former soviet aligned countries that will > get future car manufacturing/assembly jobs. Very worrying that not only do those countries apparently have human beings far more suited to pick fruit etc than the English, but also have better skills for car building too? Perhaps we should simply give up now... > Alternatively, Europe will be importing many of the cars from China or > India. -- *You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me * Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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On 20/02/2018 08:33, ultred ragnusen wrote:
> Luckily it's easy to dismount, remount, and statically balance (and > dynamically test) a tire yourself, You are joking! I've seen on many occasions how much effort goes into removing/replacing a tyre from/on the rim using the specialised tyre fitting equipment. There is also the 15/30 minutes for blowing up a completely flat tyre with one of those little 12V compressors that fit into the cigarette lighter socket. I can just see all those inexperienced people breaking/chipping their alloy rims using breaker bars. For the money I pay to get a puncture repaired (and dynamically balanced) by a tyre shop it's not worth the effort to even consider Do-it-Yourself. Without researching prices, I'll bet here in the UK the cost of obtaining one or two proper tyre repair patches would actually be close to the cost of using someone who does it for a living. -- mailto : news {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk |
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On 20/02/2018 11:03, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
> Very worrying that not only do those countries apparently have human > beings far more suited to pick fruit etc than the English, but also have > better skills for car building too? > Perhaps we should simply give up now... Henry Ford established over 100 years ago that you don't have to have much skill to assemble a car. To be competitive it just needs to be cheaper either by having cheaper labour cost and/or offsetting a lot of the spend on new factories and equipment with generous "regional grants" that will be given to deprived eastern EU countries (and/or to bale out many of the financial basket cases in southern Europe). If you don't think car assembly jobs are not going to migrate ask someone from the USA what happened to Detroit. -- mailto : news {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk |
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On 20/02/2018 04:58, ultred ragnusen wrote:
> wrote: > >>> Take a look at that biker's concept of a "pocket knife" at 53 seconds! >>> https://youtu.be/M5_nK8V-nU0?t=53 >> >> Compared to what's in my pocket at the moment... >> http://www.coldsteel.com/recon-1-tan...0-50-edge.html >> >> After using it for a few years, I'm not that crazy about the tanto >> style, but it is good for prying out nails. > > Jesus. That's battle gear for heaven's sake! > > This is what I consider to be a typical pocket knife. > https://media.midwayusa.com/producti...365/365933.jpg > Carry the former in the UK and you would probably be arrested if stopped or if you used it in public. -- mailto : news {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk |
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ultred ragnusen explained on 18/02/2018 :
> And I can visualize how to mechanically clamp a bolt in a vise to hang the > torque wrench on - but then - how do you calibrate the two types? I can imagine, when building them that they simply check the calibration on a pass / fail basis. The only way I can think to adjust them is via shims under the spring, to increase the tension. |
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ultred ragnusen wrote on 18/02/2018 :
> I think not - but I've heard people say use the shortest extension bar you > can get your hands on. I don't understand why. It should be the same torque > if I used a 16-inch extension bar, right? I place a hand on the head of the wrench to support it, whilst pressing down for the click, so the extension should make little difference. |
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In article >,
alan_m > wrote: > On 20/02/2018 11:03, Dave Plowman (News) wrote: > > Very worrying that not only do those countries apparently have human > > beings far more suited to pick fruit etc than the English, but also have > > better skills for car building too? > > Perhaps we should simply give up now... > Henry Ford established over 100 years ago that you don't have to have > much skill to assemble a car. To be competitive it just needs to be > cheaper either by having cheaper labour cost and/or offsetting a lot of > the spend on new factories and equipment with generous "regional grants" > that will be given to deprived eastern EU countries (and/or to bale out > many of the financial basket cases in southern Europe). > If you don't think car assembly jobs are not going to migrate ask > someone from the USA what happened to Detroit. And Trump apparently has conned many into voting for him by saying he'll get those jobs back. In exactly the same way as Brexiteers have conned the poor in the UK into thinking the EU is the cause of their woes. However, comparing car production in the heyday of Detroit and now is a nonsense. Globilasation has changed the way components are sourced. But then I do realise most Brexiteers base their hopes on when Britain ruled the waves. Rather than the world today. -- *Verbs HAS to agree with their subjects * Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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On 20/02/2018 14:00, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
>And Trump apparently has conned many into voting for him by saying >he'll get those jobs back. Or was it the population just got fed up with the corrupt political class and wanted something different, good or bad? > But then I do realise most Brexiteers base their hopes on when Britain > ruled the waves. Rather than the world today. > You have no idea why most people who voted to leave did so. I predict that staying in the EU or leaving will have exactly the same result with regards car assembly - it will migrate towards the poorer Eastern European countries in much the same way as many other industries have disappeared from the UK during the 40 years of EEC/EU membership. Ask French and German car workers why their jobs are at risk, and both these countries are not leaving the EU. -- mailto : news {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk |
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On Tuesday, February 20, 2018 at 2:12:25 AM UTC-10, alan_m wrote:
> > Henry Ford established over 100 years ago that you don't have to have > much skill to assemble a car. To be competitive it just needs to be > cheaper either by having cheaper labour cost and/or offsetting a lot of > the spend on new factories and equipment with generous "regional grants" > that will be given to deprived eastern EU countries (and/or to bale out > many of the financial basket cases in southern Europe). > > If you don't think car assembly jobs are not going to migrate ask > someone from the USA what happened to Detroit. > > -- > mailto : news {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk My guess is that eventually, the factory jobs will come back to these United States. That's going to be good and bad news. Who the heck aspires to have a factory job? That's like wanting to grow up to be a coal miner. |
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In article >,
alan_m > wrote: > I predict that staying in the EU or leaving will have exactly the same > result with regards car assembly - it will migrate towards the poorer > Eastern European countries in much the same way as many other industries > have disappeared from the UK during the 40 years of EEC/EU membership. > Ask French and German car workers why their jobs are at risk, and both > these countries are not leaving the EU. There is more to making cars - especially above budget level - than just finding the cheapest place to do it. -- *Geeks shall inherit the earth * Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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