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Lewis
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| ..... there were definately a lot of banging and scraping noises coming from under during the event |
Are there any lumps of white curly wool anywhere? 
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| Jet wash your engine bay? I didn't realise you could do that, thought it would bu88er up the electrics or something. |
Diesels arn't quite as prone to the problem like a petrol engine is.
I pressure wash mine.
My battery terminals have rubber coverings so first its a nice gently sprinkle and left for everything to soften up.
Then I use a wide angle bendy (adjustable) attachment, so I can get down the side of the engine block etc.
The underside of the bonnet gets a real good blasting then its left up for a while to drain off. Then I take if for a run to help warm things up and help it dry out. Well thats my excuse for a drive anyway. 
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simmossotto
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Location: Stretford, Manchester, UK
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| Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 19:23 Post subject: |
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Nice one Lewis. Forgot to mention the bleating noises as well.  Anyway good news bout washing the engine, I honestly didn't realise you could do that, just jetwashed the motor today but was cautious about doing the engine bay so didn't bother. Will do it during the week now I know its okay and underside of the bonnet, that looks as if it's been dug up after 100 years or something. So the engine.... You can actually blast it with a strong stream of water then? |
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REDNECK
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| Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 20:00 Post subject: |
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| simmossotto wrote: |
| Nice one Lewis. Forgot to mention the bleating noises as well. Anyway good news bout washing the engine, I honestly didn't realise you could do that, just jetwashed the motor today but was cautious about doing the engine bay so didn't bother. Will do it during the week now I know its okay and underside of the bonnet, that looks as if it's been dug up after 100 years or something. So the engine.... You can actually blast it with a strong stream of water then? |
Be careful not to blast the intercooler or radiator too closely, these are quite delicate and a strong jet wash will destroy the vanes. Also try not to get too close to any electrical connectors, I know it's difficult because they're scattered all over the engine bay but just try not to blast them a lot, it's a good idea to spray any connectors with WD40 or similar straight after washing so as to flush any water out of them
I did actually give my engine bay a quick going over today along with the rest of the Paj (I was out laning again on Friday) just to stop it getting too built up in there
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Lewis
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| Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 21:02 Post subject: |
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| REDNECK wrote: |
| Be careful not to blast the intercooler or radiator too closely, these are quite delicate and a strong jet wash will destroy the vanes. |
Yes I forgot to mention that! Which is daft having spent the best part of a Saturday afternoon and evening using a pair of flat faced grips to straighten mine up after the first go last February.
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simmossotto
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| Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 21:20 Post subject: |
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| Thanks for the advice guys, will try and make sure I don't knacker up the intercooler vanes with the jet wash. Incidentely some of the vanes on mine are bent anyway, don't know how they got like that though. Will try and do what Lewis did with the flat faced grips. Oh, I also have an industrial leaf blower at work so maybe I could use that to dry things out quicker once I've washed the engine. |
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steve b
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| Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 2:15 Post subject: |
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when's the next one, okay so i bottled it a bit on angry farmer, but i'm well up to do it again, what do you reckon ?????  , and yes Mark i would have done the lake, but ,as earlier post indicated i needed to get home, proper meet up place this time, camp out, early set off, and longer days = more fun |
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andyrep
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| Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 21:54 Post subject: |
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Had the Deli up on the ramps today whilst i fitted a new exhaust
didn't realise the amount of crud that i collected !!
and the damage to the bash plate 
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strangerover
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| Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 22:03 Post subject: |
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LOL
thats not damage !!!
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Noisey
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| Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 22:11 Post subject: |
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I concurr with Strangerover,
Thats not damage.....
I got more mud out of Williams ears that night.....
ha ha, W'ere still digging mud out, everytime we go under!...
Still good fun tho, and I agree with Lucky Steve - when can we do it all again?
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andyrep
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| Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 22:16 Post subject: |
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NOT DAMAGED BUT iTS SCRATCHED 
i agree when we going again !!
couldve spend a bomb in milners had a lovely set of alloys with gabbers on 
265/75/16 do we think these might be a bit big ?
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Noisey
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| Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 22:28 Post subject: |
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Andy.
ha ha, that weekend opened a door for you, to a dark and Deli place.....
Glad your enjoying yourself.
When ever it is, can we get our snorkels on first as I don;t want to get swamped again...
You'l be fitting flashing lights next...
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Lewis
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| Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 23:52 Post subject: |
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| NOT DAMAGED BUT iTS SCRATCHED |
Scratched! Where?
This was mine after my first Offroad trip in the Deli (before the 1/4" chequer plate mod):-
In case your wondering; its not there, having been ripped off somewhere up a hillside.
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Noisey
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Lewis
Trust you to have the last laugh / biggest ha ha.
Love the great dent in your front tube on left of photo.....
You win...... Unless some one knows different?
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simmossotto
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Know what you mean about the crud still coming off Noisey. Went under the Deli to fit new rear arb bushes and got a facefull of it, most of it went in my eyes and I swore a lot. Thought I'd gotten rid of it all. How wrong I was.
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Rusty
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| Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 21:49 Post subject: |
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Damaged
I'm still finding mud from the Swindon meet Jeez... I've just looked and that was 3 years ago
It's also the place I got my 'Mud Magnet' part of my signature picture from
The last time.. No the time before that I think, I did a Salisbury Plain meet I tore off the thing completely
Found a photo:
 That's after I'd staightened it to see if I could fix it
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steve b
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| Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 4:10 Post subject: |
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| SO, c'mon,,,,,,,,,, when are we going again,, i'll give "angry farmer " miss, i loved wayfarer, it was good, a damn good weekend :D , look forward yo the next............. :D :D :D |
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strangerover
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| Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 22:38 Post subject: |
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not sure
I have a photoshoot next month
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jennysteve
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sorry weve been out of it for a while guys, computer went down due to a power surge. had to replace most things so am now trying to catch up on everything. fistly took Deli to a mates garage and got about half a ton of corwens finest topsoil out of the wishbones whilst he fitted new rear exhaust andtook off bash plates. done an oil and filter change and noticed the front wishbone bush kaput, also the rear diff seal, got parts just got to do it.
question for mark ,what happened to the gentle off road bit, okay for bog standard Deli? ha ha. really enjoyed it though, and yes would do it again.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 10:30 Post subject: |
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that was the gentle bit...
you will have to come again !
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| Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 19:58 Post subject: |
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that was the gentle bit...
you will have to come again ! |
You'll have to show them the "not so gentle bits" mark
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