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My money's on the 26th. Isn't that engine from Turner's? They are very good at sending quickly.
I had a gearbox sent from the UK by air last year. It got stuck in France for a week or so, (I can't blame it - I would have stayed too), but otherwise I was happy.
Almost everything I've ordered from England has gotten here quicker than something from the Eastern states.
So not much point sending the old short motor back to get the core charge refund. :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift
er, no.:p
the old block is worth 30cents per kilo as it stands(with crank and pistons) from a scrappy, and around 90cpk if I take all the non alloy bits off.
I'd actually like to bring it home and take it apart in the garage,, but it would still probably only end up scrapped.
Late Edit;
given away to a good home :)
arrived yesterday the 19th, so 5 days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift
:cool::cool:
now DHL just have to get it to the Sunshine Coast,,,,,,:spudnikworried:
arrived at BOR on the 20th.
I installed the reconditioned fuel pump today.
They recalibrated it to factory specs, which is what i asked them to do. The price was pretty good in the end, could have saved myself months of dramas. but anyways
Take it for a test drive..... oh my.. I nearly forgot how gutless these things are in standard tuning. I may have tweaked it back up a little while i was out :angel:
SS
I had the same dilemma recently with an MB G Wagon.
Customer brought me a Euro spec temp grey import unit camper (looked like a Pope mobile quite frankly German family touring the USA )
The power pack was a MB 602 Turbo unit with an electronically controlled VE pump which was suffering with pumping problems .
Big problem! No such animal on this side, the same unit uses a 5 cylinder inline jerk pump for NAS imports. No info, no interest, no shops wanted to touch the vehicle so it got the Dracula sign. It ended up on my doorstep!
The instant remedy for me was to find one in the UK/Europe and that was my conclusion after calling a lot of pump shops locally and got a negative nodding dog syndrome.
Lucky I had used a pump shop for a similar pump shop in Oregon for the VW Diesel Jetta ALH engine, it too has a similar version but of course 4 cylinder type VE pump. So I shipped it to them. OK they had it for 6 weeks trying to get a test plan out of Bosch USA but eventually they came through and the truck went back into service. The pump repair charge was a reasonable $850 US.
The tourists rented a motor home and carried on touring
This allowed me to make a serious coin fixing it!--Fillet Minion was for dinner!:angel:
And I got a "Shoen & Dankeshoen".
Glad you got your pump sorted
Cheers & Best regards
Dennis
Seems karma has caught up with this turd
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While I relish the opportunity to use my fist to drive this :censored: 's teeth down his throat, this'll do for now.
Interesting to read the delivery times from the UK in this thread. I've had to order parts/stuff from the UK a few times in the last eighteen months and the delivery times just keep getting longer. The last, a lightweight box (had a small sensor and a foam filter in it), took just over three weeks to arrive and it was sent by airmail. The previous, a vinyl badge that came in an ordinary envelope, was nearly as bad. Either they're using Tiger Moths for airmail or Australia Post is really killing delivery times once things get here. :mad:
I take it this stuff is tracked so you can tell how long the pommy stage takes compared to the Aus post stage? + are you factoring in the processing dispatching time etc ? I generally find 7-10 days to be the average across all formats once its indicated that the stuff has been mailed. Sometimes longer.
cheers,
D
A year ago, it was 7 days and I didn't mind that. This year, it's blown right out though it's been more of a creeping thing. And yes, I'm referring to time AFTER I receive an email saying it's been shipped - generally, things are shipped within a day or two, depending on weekends and holidays.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark61
I haven't bothered too much following the tracking in recent times because originally, it didn't really tell me much. I do remember one package though, that was shown as 'delivered' before I got it. I went to my local post office and asked about it, they checked and yes, it had been 'delivered'... to the Australia Post depot - took another three days for it to get to me.
At the moment, I have a Landy workshop manual coming from England - it's already at the outer end of what they claim to be the normal shipping time so it'll be interesting to see when I do get it.
Actually, now that I think about it, about 6 years ago, I was buying bike parts from Europe and the US and delivery times were pretty good (of the order of a week). I actually received a bike frame from the US within a week. You just didn't think about postage times. From twelve months ago, it's all fallen in a hole. I've also found that the companies in the UK still quote the 'in our experience, it takes 7 days' line, which was fair enough recently.
I don't expect things to arrive overnight, especially from the other side of the world or the back blocks of China, but it has got stupid.