26-08-2014, 03:33 PM
(26-08-2014, 01:39 PM)silverzx Wrote: Looks good mate. Shame about the vane stop & actuator position.Yeah but its just like adjusting a bosch pump, you know what the screws do, they only adjust 2 ways and so its just trial and error (sadly taking the turbo off every time)
Its decided that its not going to return all the way to the stop now so I have nothing low down but I can't see there being much wrong, probably just the actuator settling into being used for the first time in at least 3 years or me not of having tightened lock nuts properly.
Anyway I got a puncture last night, well, I say last night buy my tyre mysteriously went flat after the first time I drove the car but I pumped it up and it had been fine since. It was still inflated when I left work last night and ended up rather sideways about 3 miles up the road but its always covered in diesel and slippery so thought nothing of it. Another 5 -10 miles up the road at another roundabout ended up sideways again and knew there was something wrong, pulled over and low and behold a flat tyre NSR that I hadn't been able to hear or feel, tried pumping it up to no avail, couldn't feel a foreign object in the tyre so fired in a can of tyre weld.
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Did the 10-15 miles it recommends to let it set at 40mph (straight up the A41) and the car had felt OK but then it really is pretty much non stop straight line at 40mph and pulled into a lay by, It still looked flat so I got the pump back out and had a go. 3 mins later and still 0psi so had a better feel of the tyre and found a hole in the rear sidewall I could get my hand in. Contemplated calling a cab to go home and pinch a wheel off the rallye but it was £20 each way so called the AA
Called the AA at 00:10 and the bloke on the phone was saying they have to send a patrol to assess it and see if they can repair it at the side of the road even though I could get my hand in the hole and if (when) that doesnt work then they call out a 24 hour tyre place to fit a new tyre, the AA pay the callout and I have to pay for the tyre (and you can bet that wont be cheap). If they cant get a tyre fitter with my uncommon size of tyre on a bank holiday at 2 in the morning then and only then will they tow me home. Anyway it turns out my buckets are at least reasonably comfortable for sleeping in when reclined and the patrol arrived at about 02:10.
The patrol aggreed with m verdict that the tyre was f*cked but fortunately common sense prevailed for him and he was happy to drive the 10 miles back to mine and pick up a spare off the rallye (and some flat seated bolts) and drive back and fit it. I think he was also happy to pick up my low entry jack too LOL as the AA ones never go under.
So at about 0250 I left the lay by sporting a nice shiny cyclone.
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Got to a tyre shop this morning and this is the old tyre.
Think it might of gone flat rather soon after leaving work. Amazed I couldn't feel it flapping about.
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