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    Rangier Rover Guest

    Non LR Break Downs.

    On my last two trips to Sydney and back, one Xmas day and the other new years eve I came across four break downs and one prang. Good to see no Land Rover products involved here

    First trip I came upon a 80 series cruiser having fuel problems and an Audi stopped in its tracks on the very busy F3
    The prang was an early MG. Not sure how but she lost it on a straight piece of road at 110 kmh. I was two cars back and seen the tyre smoke and the MG spinning around bouncing of the barriers then came to rest in the right lane. No serious injuries, lucky is all I can say! Stopped and helped make the scene safe wile we cleaned the carnage up and made sure the occupants were OK. Most others were care full other than an Effy driver with a carrot up his arse Idiot Near cleaned us all up.

    One the second trip a BT-50 had lost its coolant about 20odd kms out of Denman. Had a small hole in the radiator. We organised some eggs, pepper and water and he was on his way Told him to run the heater so he knew when he had lost his coolant as would go cool. No idea how far he got but was gone today.
    The other was a Dunnydoore. The ecu had carked it from the wet. Some how water got in the kick panel area so it was dead.

    So glad I have something reliable now

    Well done to the Land Rover products

    Cheers Tony

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    Tony with the egg's-in-the-rad trick do you put the egg whites in or the whole egg?,whats the pepper for?. Pat

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    the pepper basically circulates in the coolant and gradually attempts to leak out with the coolant, provided the hole isnt too big, the pepper invariably plugs the leak

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    Quote Originally Posted by PAT303 View Post
    Tony with the egg's-in-the-rad trick do you put the egg whites in or the whole egg?,whats the pepper for?. Pat
    Whole egg is fine unless your worried about the colesterol The Mazda had been very hot so I'd expect would at a minimum have a cracked head etc. The Pepper can help in this part. Some times you have to make out with what is available at the time.
    If bad you have to remove a plug or injector to keep the coolant in for a wile. Also may have to tip oil down the pots to get them started if lost ring tension big time but not seized.
    Doesn't always work, obviously if the head gasket has blown between all the combustion chambers its not a good look Does work 90% of the time though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PAT303 View Post
    Tony with the egg's-in-the-rad trick do you put the egg whites in or the whole egg?,whats the pepper for?. Pat
    Egg white, Little petrol lux with us got across the simpson and all the way home to vic with egg whites and pepper after blowing the headgasket or cracking the head 130kms into the simpson desert

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    Quote Originally Posted by PAT303 View Post
    Tony with the egg's-in-the-rad trick do you put the egg whites in or the whole egg?,whats the pepper for?. Pat
    Quote Originally Posted by Rangier Rover View Post
    Whole egg is fine unless your worried about the colesterol
    Make sure you beat the egg up (break the yolk) before you tip it in tho ... I drove AROUND Australia with a "egg repaired" radiator ... We were stuck on the Nulabour, tried "Bars leak", "pepper" .... but with about 3 cores to repair, It was the egg to the rescue .... priced at 20c



    Hope you had a good chrisy break Tony ... No traffic incidents my way tho, other than 4x4's getting stuck in beach sand .....


    Mike

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    What model was the MG? Sounds like something seized and locked up the driveline, or, a badly worn brake pad peeled back and jammed the rotor causing an instant turn to that side.
    URSUSMAJOR

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm View Post
    What model was the MG? Sounds like something seized and locked up the driveline, or, a badly worn brake pad peeled back and jammed the rotor causing an instant turn to that side.
    Was a very good example of an original MGB I was more upset than the bird who owned it She was just glad to have here life and that some people do care I guess. Would still have a lot of good parts. It had no rust at all. Looks like it had been in storage for years. Hope it wasn't her Crissy present

    Got me bugged why she lost it as seemed a very alert bird. Had to be a mechanical failure,locking brakes or got clipped by another car may be.
    Every thing seemed fine when we shoved it of the road.

    Always sad to see a nice classic car destroyed

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