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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Topic started by: rizzel on 05 July 2011, 18:03
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As said I have stupidly put a litre of oil in this hole... only to find out later that this actually isn't the where to fill up the gearbox!
Two things... Am I going to get massive clutch problems now??? and would this be why all the oil came pouring out the bottom of the car, or do I have a leak somewhere??
Thank you :(
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You will most likey have clutch issue, that hole is for the timing. It is also why the oil came out too!! :undecided:
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thats not too bad then.. I would much rather buy and new clutch than have to get a new gearbox fitted, thank you :D im more happy now lol
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id prob dose a load of carb /brake cleaner down there and hope for the best
next time the gearoil goes inside the gearbox not the bellhousing :wink:
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OOOooops wheres my Mr Magoo pic!
Thom
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Found it!
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AcBUSVxs82w/TUVJ1O2xdXI/AAAAAAAAlEc/S6S7NO31r-Y/s320/Mr_Magoo.jpg)
Thom
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Classic. Did you not wonder why your gearbox filler cap was a. plastic and b. had a hole in it :lipsrsealed:
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Fail :grin:
You may get lucky with the clutch but it will not have done it much good.
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Classic. Did you not wonder why your gearbox filler cap was a. plastic and b. had a hole in it :lipsrsealed:
I did wonder this yes.. but the picture in the haynes manual isnt the greatest of help and from what I could gather from that, I was putting it in the right place.. :huh:
oh well I have no learnt my lesson :D
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I cant help but :laugh: Sorry.
Closest I've come to this was an emergency oil change many years ago, so stressed and tired I forgot to put the sump bolt back in and filled the engine back up with oil.. Obviously all of it ended up draining straight back out again on to the floor! :rolleyes:
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I cant help but :laugh: Sorry.
Closest I've come to this was an emergency oil change many years ago, so stressed and tired I forgot to put the sump bolt back in and filled the engine back up with oil.. Obviously all of it ended up draining straight back out again on to the floor! :rolleyes:
Quality :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin:
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I cant help but :laugh: Sorry.
Closest I've come to this was an emergency oil change many years ago, so stressed and tired I forgot to put the sump bolt back in and filled the engine back up with oil.. Obviously all of it ended up draining straight back out again on to the floor! :rolleyes:
Quality :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin:
Took me four litres to notice as it was dark! and it was on a public road, clean up was fun!
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FAIL :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin:
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LOL!
I've driven off the drive without tightening the banjo oil feed to a charger, luckly I saw the oil on the drive but did 1 yard in travel.
So lesson learned don't rush to drive without double checking everything :lipsrsealed:
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Two large unmarked bottles of blue liquid. One dark evening doing a coolant flush.
Grabbed one of said unmarked bottles of blue stuff and refilled coolant system with it.
Cleanest coolant system you've ever seen, and very successful at blowing pipes off, and creating your own foam party outside the shops down the road. Screenwash... LABEL IT!! :lipsrsealed:
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Two large unmarked bottles of blue liquid. One dark evening doing a coolant flush.
Grabbed one of said unmarked bottles of blue stuff and refilled coolant system with it.
Cleanest coolant system you've ever seen, and very successful at blowing pipes off, and creating your own foam party outside the shops down the road. Screenwash... LABEL IT!! :lipsrsealed:
That's a good one. :grin:
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:grin: I had a 106 as my first car :lipsrsealed: and bought some oil at a petrol station for a quick top up.... I missed the filler hole and poured it all over the red hot exhaust manifold, It went up in flames of course. I will never forget the womans face (or arse as she ran away) who was filling up her car next to me. :grin:
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Two large unmarked bottles of blue liquid. One dark evening doing a coolant flush.
Grabbed one of said unmarked bottles of blue stuff and refilled coolant system with it.
Cleanest coolant system you've ever seen, and very successful at blowing pipes off, and creating your own foam party outside the shops down the road. Screenwash... LABEL IT!! :lipsrsealed:
Quality :laugh:
I topped up a pas system with water once, in my defence it was on a Renault Laguna and it is bolted to the radiator. :grin:
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Oh dear there's some shocking novice errors being confessed to here!!!
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I was trying to make the OP feel better about their mistake and look what I've started. :grin: Ah well, I'm sure we've all made a stupid error at least once.
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I did this on my mk3, needed a new clutch. :grin: :angry: :laugh: :cry:
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I did this on my mk3, needed a new clutch. :grin: :angry: :laugh: :cry:
Oh dear..... :grin:
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Hahahaha we need more fails, absolute gold to read :afro: This thread should be renamed to "Me no stupid?" haha!
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Did an engine change on my Beetle years ago. Drove off for a test drive, then stopped a mile or so down the road wondering why the rear felt a bit 'wobbly' when I realised I had only loosely fitted the wheel bolts back on by hand.
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Ok, so ill join in, I was only going to read and laugh, but here goes.. Did a 1.3 to 2.016v conversion last year, no probs, no faults, well chuffed. Went out 4 a test drive and heard a funny grinding sound.. went back home, looked underneath and saw the disk backplates all bent into the disks. I prised them out,levering against the disk with a screwdriver (which returned the pistons + pads also) reversed slowly back off driveway without pumping brakes back out, went to stop at the end, pedal went to floor and car rolled back into a house crunching freshly painted back bumper and badge panel. Novice error. Can teach myself to do a full engine conversion + associated work, but 4got to pump brakes back out!!
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I once torqued my wheel nuts up to 120Nm....
how stupid did I feel when I realised they should have been 110Nm :embarassed:
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Hahahaha we need more fails, absolute gold to read :afro: This thread should be renamed to "Me no stupid?" haha!
Yeah, VW Chat so all Mks can join in. :grin:
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Done a headgasket on my mk2, took head off with manifolds attached but when it came to put it back together i had to take the head outside and put that on and then the manifolds because i had no one to help me lift it.
Was chuffed that after a few hours it was on and ready to test fire without the downpipe attached.
Cleaned up, put tools away and went to wash my hands and saw the nice shiny new exhaust manifold gaskets on the kitchen side next to the old ones.
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Done a headgasket on my mk2, took head off with manifolds attached but when it came to put it back together i had to take the head outside and put that on and then the manifolds because i had no one to help me lift it.
Was chuffed that after a few hours it was on and ready to test fire without the downpipe attached.
Cleaned up, put tools away and went to wash my hands and saw the nice shiny new exhaust manifold gaskets on the kitchen side next to the old ones.
Damn... bet that was gutting.
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remember pouring oil into the mini once and it come pouring all over the mani and floor, massive hole in the cam cover :D
also had a no lable incident - had oil in and old screenwash bottle - half asleep - oil in washer bottle - difficult to wash your windows :D
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i was well chuffed with myself bleed the brakes...lovely went to swig down the last of my tea...my dad used the cup to put the brake fluid in :sick: trip to A+E asked what brand :huh: its ok it was "girling" thats not toxic :shocked: :grin:
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I serviced my car the other week, I was in my garage (as it has a pit) where my mum keeps her mini.
Was in there most of the day, and towards around 530 I was sort of rushing in order to get out of there before my mum got home so she could get the mini in there.
I checked the brake fluid, fine.
Checked the coolant, could do with a top up!
All done I cleared up and got out just in time.
Went for a drive later, waiting outside a mates house I see smoke coming from the engine bay.
"Must be oil that I carelessly spilled down the engine block when I was filling it up, just burning off from a hot engine" I says to a mate.
Engine off, out the car and bonnet open and there's the coolant expansion tank erupting like Mt. Vesuvius!
It had puked its guts up all down the road :sick:
I'd only forgotten to put the expansion tank cap back on! :embarassed: :embarassed: :embarassed:
So there we are running in and out of his house with kettles full of hot water to fill it back up again, bloody hurt squeezing the radiator tubes to get bubbles out of the system!
Luckily I hadn't lost the cap, it was in the battery tray!
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i was well chuffed with myself bleed the brakes...lovely went to swig down the last of my tea...my dad used the cup to put the brake fluid in :sick: trip to A+E asked what brand :huh: its ok it was "girling" thats not toxic :shocked: :grin:
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sorry
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in my first job i worked for halfords in the service / valet dept and used to get lumped with the sh1tty cleaning.
some d1ck decided to keep wd40 in a glass cleaning bottle so i picked it up assuming it was glass cleaner and attempted to clean the inside of a windscreen with.
fcuking stank the car out and spent forever trying to degrease the windscreen. :grin: