Hydraulic Pipe Blow out

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Hydraulic Pipe Blow out

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I seem to get it good with my cars. BX blew main pressure line from pump on the drive. mum not happy.
Xm to work then, fixed the TZD with a petrol pressure line for the min untill new one arrives. it is a bit to long and have had to put it up and over the thermostat housing.
are the pipes still available?
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Is your accumulator sphere knackered? That will expose the line to excess bursts of pressure as there will no buffering by the accumulator. :wink:
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good thought, but i replaced the accumulator a year ago. so i hope its not that.
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if this is a high presure metal feed pipe you have repaired with petrol pipe, it wont stand mains hydraulic presure,


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i used the main feed pipe from a petrol model, which is double the length of the tzd one. yes that would be a bit of a stupid thing to repair a main pressure pipe with. would last 3 seconds if you are lucky.
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ok just a slight missunderstandding there :roll: :wink: ,

you might be suprised what some folk do :shock: :lol:


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citronut wrote:you might be suprised what some folk do :shock: :lol:
Sadly I fear I wouldn't... :roll:
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no it can be surprising the lengths people will go to for a bodge repair. worst one i saw has a clear plastic pipe for a flexible brake pipe on an astra. bad darts
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djm666 wrote:no it can be surprising the lengths people will go to for a bodge repair. worst one i saw has a clear plastic pipe for a flexible brake pipe on an astra. bad darts
Thats Bad, I once bought a Mini Metro and I noticed the front end used to lock up a lot when applying the brakes, I eventually found the fault; The previous owner had clamped the rear brake flexi hoses with mudflap clamps to prevent the leaking rear cylinders loosing brake fluid. :evil: :?
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I accompanied a friend when he went to look round a council house - the gas had been capped off with a carrot stuffed in the pipe.... :shock:

My first mother-in-law's house, that later became mine, I discovered the gas supply to the boiler wasn't soldered, just pushed into a standard barrel connector...

In mains electrics I've seen nails used as fuses, a cooker installed by just twisting the cable from the wall and the cable from the cooker together, and electrical taping over. Earths cut off "otherwise it blows..." , live cables just shoved into a hole on a wooden staircase....

The entire consumer unit was wired with reverse polarity in our flat in Moscow. That made for some fun fault-finding until I sorted it. :roll:


Cars? I knew someone who made sills from phone directories Cataloy'ed over, and put sawdust in the oil filler to quieten down knocking engines..

He also sprayed cars in thinned-down household gloss. I'm sure they looked great after a while... :roll:


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Defender110 wrote: Thats Bad, I once bought a Mini Metro :?
was that a metrocity :roll: :wink: :lol:

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bloody hell its crazy isnt it. i was talking to the meter reader the oher day and he said he had seen a nail knocked into the live wire and crocodile clip before the meter so the people could get free power. bugger that.
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I found a T40 Torx bit as a fuse last week when testing cables.


I once lagged all my copper pipes under the wooden floor of my old house starting where all the pipes started underneath where the boiler was. There was just enough room to crawl along near each pipe lagging them as I went. It was only when I got to the end of one particular pipe that I realised I had lagged the gas feed pipe to the gas fire in the front room :oops:
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well liquid gas (LPG) does freeze :wink:


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yeah rather than find the fault they up the fuse, then just forget to find the fault as there is no smoke coming out of the dash they dont worry.

well you did say you lagged all the copper pipes under the house.lol.
it would not make a lot of difference would it? it would be more like protection from the elements.
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