Quick way to kill your car?

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Fri 28 Mar 2003 15:09
Quick way to kill your car? - Gen
Was looking for some tools on ebay, and came accross this for sale:

cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2408...=

And that doesn't sound sensible (even) to me...think I'll stick with the hand pump...
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Fri 28 Mar 2003 15:20
Quick way to kill your car? - borasport20
the c**p you can buy on ebay

where's my bargepole ?

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Fri 28 Mar 2003 15:21
Quick way to kill your car? - Dan J
Ohmigod. Well it's certainly the most original way of wrecking your catalytic convertor that I've heard of...
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Fri 28 Mar 2003 15:22
Quick way to kill your car? - borasport20
If you bid for the syphon for sucking the engine oil out through the dipstick tube as well, you could do a really good job !

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Fri 28 Mar 2003 15:28
Quick way to kill your car? - Cliff Pope
I've always wondered about these tyre and air-bed pumps run off the sparkplug hole. Doesn't it fill the tyre etc with explosive mixture?!!!
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Fri 28 Mar 2003 15:31
Quick way to kill your car? - Dan J
:) Accidentally dropping cigarettes on the old airbed would become a whole new ballgame...
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Fri 28 Mar 2003 15:39
Quick way to kill your car? - Richard Hall
I wonder if the vendor has misunderstood the purpose of this device? He says there are no instructions. I remember reading something about pressurising cylinders via the spark plug hole, to find the reason for low compression. If air hisses out of the inlet or exhaust manifold, you've got a valve seating problem. If it comes out of the oil filler cap, the problem is pistons/rings. Bubbles in the coolant? That'll be the head gasket.

In which case, perhaps I should bid for it, before anyone else realises what a useful piece of kit it is.....

Richard Hall
bangernomics.tripod.com
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Fri 28 Mar 2003 16:45
Quick way to kill your car? - Altea Ego
"It has the instructions but no guage,"
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Fri 28 Mar 2003 18:54
Quick way to kill your car? - Richard Hall
"It has the instructions but no guage,"


Oops. It was a nice theory anyway.....

Richard Hall
bangernomics.tripod.com
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Fri 28 Mar 2003 18:59
Quick way to kill your car? - Obsolete
A blow out would be fun then.
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Fri 28 Mar 2003 19:31
Quick way to kill your car? - henry k
Back in the distant past circa 1970s I recall an item in a Car Mechanics type magazine.
Reader had tried everything in the book to cure a consistent pinking. Eventually took the cylinder head off and discovered one piston with lots of small round dents in it with a sad little ballbearing hiding there too.
You guessed - too much suck and not enough blow did not kill the car but ended the life of said motoring aid. I never did find out the end of the story. Perhaps somewhere over a hedge a future generation will mull over what it is they have found.
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