No time to wash mine before tomorrow so hopefully some kind person will put the hose on or i'll stop at a jetwash on way down
I'll have the hose rigged-up again.
What Have You Done to Your Cougar Today?
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I'll have the hose rigged-up again.
It's slung under the battery tray where IMRC number 2 was - you may not remember, but you fitted that one for me at Tony's place last year. Actually, I should thank you again for that, having watched you do it helped me immensely today
It's slung under the battery tray where IMRC number 2 was - you may not remember, but you fitted that one for me at Tony's place last year. Actually, I should thank you again for that, having watched you do it helped me immensely today
Good work mate
Mine will need a good wash when I get there, going to be travelling through some rough weather tomorrow I think.
Should be better further south you get. I'm sure there will be plenty of hands to help getting her gleaming again. See you tomorrow.
I still use my PiperX foam cone and it needs oil. I have a cleaning agent although it gets a good swill in washing up liquid in the sink, then a really good clean cold water rinse, left to dry naturally once i've wizzed the excess out of it
. It gets a fine mist of the supplied oil prior to refitting. The oil will affect the MAF if overloaded as the initial suction will drag excess oil straight through and coat the sensor wires so be careful, just a fine mist spray is all you need.I call it man humour. My 16-year old son has understood it for years and he's not a dad yet. But my missus and daughter never will get man jokes . .Sorry - that was a very poor example of "dad humour" on my part. I suck.
It's slung under the battery tray where IMRC number 2 was - you may not remember, but you fitted that one for me at Tony's place last year. Actually, I should thank you again for that, having watched you do it helped me immensely today
Oh, of course! I didn't make the connection to your username.
Remind me - that one that I fitted was occasionally failing as well, wasn't it? By which I mean, it was better than the one we replaced, but we knew it was just a matter of time.
Because I'd hate to think that a perfectly good one with a new transistor failed after being mounted in that position. Unfortunately I don't know its provenance.
I didn't know much about it tbh, I'd bought it 2nd-hand and was told it was working. It certainly hadn't had its transistor replaced. It started to play up just before Christmas, but it was still working most of the time - but having one that now works all of the time is much nicer
I didn't know much about it tbh, I'd bought it 2nd-hand and was told it was working. It certainly hadn't had its transistor replaced. It started to play up just before Christmas, but it was still working most of the time - but having one that now works all of the time is much nicer
Thank you - that is very reasssuring.
Tiger had one that was sort of dodgy and I relocated it - same as yours - but it died in the end anyway, as expected. I got one with the uprated transistor from Steve Morris and it hasn't failed since. I hope you have the same luck.
Out of interest, I hung yours from the battery tray with a couple of cross-lashed zip-ties. The same that mine is. Did you do the same, or did you come up with a different solution?
I did the same thing, it seemed by far the easiest way to do it. The zipties are certainly strong enough to hold it that way.
Well, I figured that with the cable and the loom, it's not going to go anywhere. Some have actually bolted it to that spare hole on the battery tray, but that means taking the battery out.
I didn't do that because the law of unintended consequences would probably bite.
I'm glad it's working out for you, and it's really great that I've managed to hand off knowledge that I learned here. Happy trails mate.
So I got brave today and decided to try and fix my IMRC by replacing the transistor with the help of my brother and his friend.
We only went and did it right! It's amazing to drive hard without the sudden drop in torque and the roaring rich-burning engine!
We only went and did it right! It's amazing to drive hard without the sudden drop in torque and the roaring rich-burning engine!
fitted these today with new led bulbs.
also fixed my lights and clocks breakdown that stopped me going to combe today.
was all caused by a faulty battery
would intermittantly go open circuit causing the alty to spike the electrics...and leds being very sensitive to voltage spikes were the first things to fail..
new battery on and new lights and all good...now i just need to get my new speedhut inverter.
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many thanks to andy for these...they came up well andy:beer:
also fixed my lights and clocks breakdown that stopped me going to combe today.
was all caused by a faulty battery
would intermittantly go open circuit causing the alty to spike the electrics...and leds being very sensitive to voltage spikes were the first things to fail..
new battery on and new lights and all good...now i just need to get my new speedhut inverter.
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many thanks to andy for these...they came up well andy:beer:
