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moanthebairns

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17,918 posts

197 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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Prof Prolapse said:
Is the baby powder a real thing or did you just like the idea how him making a of himself?
Id heard it used before on the 675 forum. It does work well.

Prof Prolapse

16,160 posts

189 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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moanthebairns said:
Prof Prolapse said:
Is the baby powder a real thing or did you just like the idea how him making a of himself?
Id heard it used before on the 675 forum. It does work well.
I doubt its anywhere near as good as the proper stuff which cost about a quid a use.

I want you think about that when you're sweeping up baby powder.



moanthebairns

Original Poster:

17,918 posts

197 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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Prof Prolapse said:
moanthebairns said:
Prof Prolapse said:
Is the baby powder a real thing or did you just like the idea how him making a of himself?
Id heard it used before on the 675 forum. It does work well.
I doubt its anywhere near as good as the proper stuff which cost about a quid a use.

I want you think about that when you're sweeping up baby powder.
Whats the proper stuff, the dye that you need ultra violet light to see?

Prof Prolapse

16,160 posts

189 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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Dye - £6.20
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Leak-Detection-UV-Dye-Fo...

Torch - £1.49
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/UV-Ultra-Violet-9-LED-Fl...

I can understand you'd rather charge on with Talc with time being what it is, and your leak was obvious in the end, but just for future.

ETA: Works on petrol leaks as well (but you need another one for coolant).

moanthebairns

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17,918 posts

197 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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Baby Powder £1.50 from Asda.
Bought at 9pm for use the next day.

No brainer

Prof Prolapse

16,160 posts

189 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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moanthebairns said:
No brainer
No argument from me there.




supermono

7,368 posts

247 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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(Since this great thread seems to have finished its usefulness I'll chance an Asda question)

I went there about 4 years back, 5 maybe and they had mobil 1 at 16 quid per 4 litres. Never been back after clearing them out, but what amazed me was the amount of flange in there! Christ I've never seen anything like it.

Presumably you picked up your talc from near the condoms and I imagine there were even more around there than the engine oil?

moanthebairns

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17,918 posts

197 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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supermono said:
(Since this great thread seems to have finished its usefulness I'll chance an Asda question)

I went there about 4 years back, 5 maybe and they had mobil 1 at 16 quid per 4 litres. Never been back after clearing them out, but what amazed me was the amount of flange in there! Christ I've never seen anything like it.

Presumably you picked up your talc from near the condoms and I imagine there were even more around there than the engine oil?


being a piping designer when you said flange I thought of these first.

it wasn't till I read your second paragraph that it clicked.

Yazza54

18,464 posts

180 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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That crack looked weldable to me

moanthebairns

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17,918 posts

197 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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Yazza54 said:
That crack looked weldable to me
Why is it when I spend money, people say, "by eck id have fixed that"

yet when I don't want to spend much money people call me a tight arse.

The thing is fked, buy a new one.

wtf is £70 you cant even get a hooker and a gram of ching for that. st loads of baby powder though

LoonR1

26,988 posts

176 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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Buy new.















Nothing worse than an old used up hooker.

Yazza54

18,464 posts

180 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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moanthebairns said:
Yazza54 said:
That crack looked weldable to me
Why is it when I spend money, people say, "by eck id have fixed that"

yet when I don't want to spend much money people call me a tight arse.

The thing is fked, buy a new one.

wtf is £70 you cant even get a hooker and a gram of ching for that. st loads of baby powder though
Cos it's a track bike at the end of the day, probably a fair chance you'll do it again smile

moanthebairns

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17,918 posts

197 months

Thursday 4th September 2014
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You'll be glad to know its all sorted now.

One mistake was forgetting I had the old sump plug washer still in then filling it with 3 litres of oil. fk. Still I swapped it over in the blink of an eye.

Took an hour to clean up the old gasket that had melted onto the face of the casing.

job done. All back together for its last day out this year.

Hooli

32,278 posts

199 months

Thursday 4th September 2014
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moanthebairns said:
One mistake was forgetting I had the old sump plug washer still in
Do people really care about this?

I've had the same sump plug washer for about 70k, it's never leaked yet even with 4k oil changes. I only changed it when I did to see what difference it made, which was nowt.

moanthebairns

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17,918 posts

197 months

Thursday 4th September 2014
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Hooli said:
moanthebairns said:
One mistake was forgetting I had the old sump plug washer still in
Do people really care about this?

I've had the same sump plug washer for about 70k, it's never leaked yet even with 4k oil changes. I only changed it when I did to see what difference it made, which was nowt.
I could have used it again, the compression on it was fk all.

Hooli

32,278 posts

199 months

Thursday 4th September 2014
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Unless the mating faces are fked I can't see any reason not to reuse them tbh.