bad times....

Yeah mate metal with a nut ..... lol ... it doesnt help with room although if i lose my rag with it it will have a hole big enough to fit my toolbox through

Gtirchris wrote:An easy way of getting the oil out of the cooling system is to use a couple of dishwasher tablets dissolved in hot water,  pour the solution into the cooling system,  fill with water,  bleed system,  run it up hot, drain and flush,  repeat until cleared of oily gunk, we have to do it quite often at work on the lotus's mate.

Astonishing! Great tip

I've got an 8l Audi a3 1.8t. Luckily I've not had any problems with it. The thing just doesn't want to die.
Bought for £297.30 with 6 months tax and a parking permit in town for a year.
Replaced dipstick, maf, tie rods. Thought it's worth keeping alive just for the permit.
Still going to this day although the dog gearbox mount is shot so the drive shaft bottoms out in the box making a CV jointy noise. Fixable but really cba.
Uses 1l of oil every two months, I suspect a minor leak on the rocker and also the oil breather system is in pieces.
Last time I touched it, the whole thing fell apart had to block pipes off with those plasticky wine bottle corks. Still there

Well started at 9:30 this morning what a c*nt to get out i had to cut the pipes off at first as the thread that holds the oil filter was stuck in the block so i couldnt get it past the manifold ... got it out to make it easier to put the new one back in ... had to take the air con pump off and belt egr valve just to slide the thing back in .... i flushed through the coolant and bleed it up so far so good going to take it out for another run see if i get any oil in the tank .... fingers crossed its looking good ... but dont want to jinx myself lol

you'll be glad to get a break by working on a pulsar, they are pretty easy really compared to some of the mainstream french & german tat . fingers crossed it sorted ....

Cheers b .... there was two types of oil cooler  trust me to have the one with the pipes  running behind the manicat ... if it had been the other one it wouldnt of been so much of a ballache as it just has two stubs ... but least i know if i have too do it again not that i want too lol so pinkies crossed it now behaves .... just got to decorate the house top to bottom then fingers crossed its pulsar time ...