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slaphead
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Big Thanks to Chris Gary and Christian for digging me out of a hole on Saturday :thumb:

Went to them for a helicoil job on my stripped sump plug - this all went swimmingly (to be expected with pros like these fellas)

Job done, I headed for home - 3 miles down the road BANG - cough splutter - the engine konks out :o I parked up and checked car over as I was expecting it to be an inlet hose (which I'd stripped off and refitted the previous weekend) nothing visible :cry:

A quick call to Christain sort of confirmed it to be an intercooler connection somewhere - he kindly said that they'd have a look at it for me if I could get it back to them - a very long 30mph crawl (accompanied by billowing clouds of black smoke) later, I was back at APT.

Chris (bless im) promptly dropped what he was doing - jacked the car up and refitted the offending pipe - I went out for a quick test drive before heading home again - hit 1.2 bar BANG :oops: Thankfully only a hundred yards away this time :wink:

This was obviously not as straight forward as it first appeared - this time it was back on the ramps strip everything out - which revealed rather too much oil on the inside of the intercooler piping, this had worked its way into the seal between hard pipe and the hose - basically no jubilee clip on earth was going to hold a joint under those conditions - Chris cleaned everything in site (and few bits that were well hidden) - reassembed it and it all worked again perfectly.
:woohoo:

When all is said and done these guys made time on a busy Saturday to do an inpromptu job - (which they were in no way responsible for) and got me home for a nominal fee.

With tuners around like the APT guys we're in good hands :-D

There's nothing that shouts "Poor Workmanship" more than wrinkles in the Gaffer tape.....

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Post by Ben »

Nice to hear ... well done boys.
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Post by Rnash2002 »

Great job guys :thumb:
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Post by andycaca »

good good :)
im going up there next monday for a dyno diagnostic/tune so hearing stories like this makes me happy.

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Post by Matt_S »

If you can understand the carrot crunching accent and ignore the fact that they go on about their tractors every other sentence, they really TOP NOTCH!

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Hello guys! :D:D:D

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Post by boucherie »

Its stories like this that help me relax cos ive emailed gary to ask for a quote for my spare engine to be rebuilt and its sounding more and more like they are true pros!!

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Post by SM »

At least your return trip to APT gave me an oportunity to say Hello as I was there at the time :lol:
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Post by slaphead »

Yes SM

- It was rather fortuitous wasn't it - hopefully I didn't bore you witless :lol: - nice to meet you mate :thumb:

~Mark

There's nothing that shouts "Poor Workmanship" more than wrinkles in the Gaffer tape.....

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