rob83ke70 Posted October 10, 2009 Report Posted October 10, 2009 I finished work around 6pm on friday night, and I had to replace a rear wheel bearing and a CV boot on my brothers ae93 after work. I ripped into the wheel bearing first, stopped for a bite to eat halfway through, and by the time I got to the CV boot it was maybe 8:30pm or so... I ripped the CV shaft out, pulled it apart, cleaned it up, took the new boot out of the box and found it was the wrong one!! fat chance of getting a hold of auto one to get the right boot at that time of the night... anyway, as I had to drive the car home, I had to pop it all back together. Now I was replacing the boot on account of there being a small (10-15mm) gash in it and grease leaking out and water leaking in and so on. Now the BEST intended application of super glue is on rubber... you can see where this is going can't you... I cleaned the boot up, superglued the split together, let it set, then reassembled the joint using castrol agri-grease (which I'm told is rated for CV joints) and popped the second hand clamps back on. I've done 70km in the car since with no signs of grease leaking out of the joint.... Obviously not an ideal repair, but I'm not planning on pulling it apart again until it leaks/splits.... Anyway, thats my funny story of the day ;) Robert. Quote
Evan G Posted October 10, 2009 Report Posted October 10, 2009 pffttt if you can't fix it with cable ties you shouldnt be in the shed Quote
rob83ke70 Posted October 10, 2009 Author Report Posted October 10, 2009 lol.... if you can fix it with cable ties, rag, and banana skin then you should work in used cars! Robert. Quote
78ke30 Posted October 10, 2009 Report Posted October 10, 2009 if you can fix it with cable ties, rag, and banana skin then you should work in used cars! just the cable ties should do it ;) Quote
rob83ke70 Posted October 11, 2009 Author Report Posted October 11, 2009 A salesman at my previous workplace suggested (seriously) that we should tuck some rag up around and under a leaking turbocharger on a nissan patrol to stop it from leaking oil.... I confronted the boss about it and APPARENTLY he was "only joking".... I don't think so. I mean, what could possibly go wrong? Robert. Quote
78ke30 Posted October 11, 2009 Report Posted October 11, 2009 A salesman at my previous workplace suggested (seriously) that we should tuck some rag up around and under a leaking turbocharger on a nissan patrol to stop it from leaking oil.... I confronted the boss about it and APPARENTLY he was "only joking".... I don't think so. I mean, what could possibly go wrong? Robert. sends shivers down my spin hearing stories like that. just recently brought a 00 gt forester from a dealer, so far tranny died, now I'm rebuilding the engine due to internal damage.... ;) Quote
Roo Posted October 11, 2009 Report Posted October 11, 2009 did the same thing with my cv joint in my excel, superglued it back together, drove it for another 60000kms and sold it with it still together Quote
rob83ke70 Posted October 11, 2009 Author Report Posted October 11, 2009 Why do you think I now work for Ultratune?? That and I was sick of getting yelled at by too many people over stupid communication stuffups... Robert. Quote
altezzaclub Posted October 11, 2009 Report Posted October 11, 2009 What do you mean you've killed an '00 Forester motor AND gearbox? That's your "new AE86" mechanicals you're talking about there! Quote
rob83ke70 Posted October 11, 2009 Author Report Posted October 11, 2009 not quite.... 2000 forester gt would be ej20 turbo, and would have had the christ flogged out of it all its life... the synchros in the gearbox normally die if its a manual, and if the engine has had a hard time and poor service history it wouldn't be hard to do a big end bearing in... if its been "modified" and given a hard time it wouldn't be hard to melt a piston or similar. Nice car, but you'd have to be really careful about buying one. Robert. Quote
Felix Posted October 11, 2009 Report Posted October 11, 2009 Mechanics are just dodgy these days. A mate did his apprenticeship at a so called reputable dealership. I saw myself as part of a scheduled service to replace and bleed the brake fluid.. all they would do is suck the old brake fluid out of the m/cyl resevoir and refill it. They didn't bleed the brakes. ;) Someone came in with a vibration in the rear end. The car was test driven and determined that the rear wheel bearing was at fault. They replaced it and it didn't improve. On further inspection they found one of the rear tyres had a bubble in it. They swapped it for the spare and it was all good. Charged the owner for a wheel bearing replacement and a new tyre. The first and only time I've ever taken a car to a mechanics for servicing in 20 years of driving was a joke: I took a subaru liberty that our sister-in-law lent us to a workshop for a basic service and requested they check the timing belt as the service history of the car was unknown. They changed the filters and fluids and told me the timing belt was fine, and would be fine till the next service when they would replace it. I checked the car over after the service and found the high pressure fuel line to the fuel filter was cracked and perished and that the timing belt was rooted and cracked on every tooth. I replaced the fuel lines and timing belt myself. Quote
rob83ke70 Posted October 11, 2009 Author Report Posted October 11, 2009 dealerships.... get it in and out as fast as you can to do as much as you can so the figures on paper look good and the service manager doesn't get fired.... that is how it works... if you take a car to a mechanic, find one that you like and stay with the one mechanic. follow him/her if they change jobs, as long as you are happy with them that is ;) I've seen/heard that brake fluid stunt before, I would NOT do it that way and if I was told to I'd complain higher up the hierachy. If that didn't work I'd find another job. I'm not into doing bodgy shit and I never will be. I treat all cars as if they were my own, sometimes this causes me stress, but I'll live with that. Dealerships don't understand, you can either compete with other workshops on price, which they can't/won't do, or quality. If customers get these better elsewhere they will go elsewhere. Robert. Quote
78ke30 Posted October 11, 2009 Report Posted October 11, 2009 I'm not into doing bodgy shit and I never will be. I treat all cars as if they were my own, sometimes this causes me stress, but I'll live with that. Dealerships don't understand, you can either compete with other workshops on price, which they can't/won't do, or quality. If customers get these better elsewhere they will go elsewhere. i totally agree with this, as i am a mechanic that works in a small workshop, Ive had to deal with alot of customers that get ripped off n taken for a ride by these dealers n most of the time its not the mecanhics choice at the dealership to do the half ass work it as it would be the workshop superviser who make's these choice's not the person doing the work. As for killing my forester, yes the engine has died (142km) n the auto died at (137km). everything appeared to be fine with the car when it was brought, even had another mehanic check it out to. Now i have pulled it apart n all the covers off, all i can say is i hope some one who's not in the trade doesnt get what i got, whole bunch of hidden problems =[ o and the cars dead standard as i have a 5l efi vk commo for my fun ;) Quote
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