Yard repair: is it possible to find a competent car service?
- April 25, 2022
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It seems: what could be easier for a handy car owner than to replace a fuel filter? Especially if it is not located in the gas tank, but
It seems: what could be easier for a handy car owner than to replace a fuel filter? Especially if it is not located in the gas tank, but is attached under the bottom of the car. However, a simple repair with a high degree of probability can provide an unexpected surprise. What makes it necessary to enlist the help of professionals, even if the car owner has such skills, the AvtoVzglyad portal warns.
So the fuel filter. Things would look a lot more interesting if this damn filter element once lost its tightness and after a few days of parking in the yard, a quarter of the tank’s contents leaked through it onto the asphalt. I discovered the source of the astonishingly potent multi-day gas stench in the yard of an apartment building when I decided to go into business on Saturday – a few days ago.
The burning “lamp” of the fuel supply and a sizable patch of asphalt dissolved in atoms under the rear axle of my old SUV became a necessary and sufficient condition for a forced excursion under the car to assess the magnitude of the tragedy. Thanks also that the filter was leaking, and not a rusty gas tank – which I was afraid of. I will probably leave out the plot of the epic that later broke out with a painfully long order and delivery of a new filter (due to the constantly increasing price in the process): if only because I have no intention of making a comparable work in scale and internal drama to Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”.
When the new filter finally landed in my hands, I decided to fix my own car on my own – it would hardly be able to get into the service center with an empty tank. I was all set for the independent replacement of the “consumables” – with a lot of different wrenches, a “Vedashki” pshikalka (to deal with rusty wires), a headlight and other necessary equipment … Even spare hoses (suddenly the old ones which will burst during disassembly) were also in stock.
Although I have a frame car with high ground clearance, the initial hope of doing it without a jack did not materialize: my carcass refused to crawl under the rear axle, above which the filter is located. I also had to suffer from goats – so as not to climb under the car, hanging from only one jack.
He lifted the car, crawled under it, aimed at the rusty filter with the “headband” bar, poured WD-40 warmly over all the clamp bolts holding the leaking device to the body, and began to press the rusted clamps off the body. to fetch. the rubber pipes. After half an hour of torment, under the grime constantly pouring into the face from the underside of the car, the clamps were defeated and I grabbed a “ratchet” wrench to loosen the bolt that held the filter in the clamp.
He was rusting so bad that all the edges of his head were “licked off” after the first round of my sparring with a stubborn piece of iron. A technical stalemate forced the pros to call for help. I started calling specialized sites that offer mobile car service. After about an hour of researching this market, I did not “call” the cheapest “office” specializing in this area, the representative of which gave the impression of a competent person.
A few hours later, a frail farmer arrived and deftly ducked “without preludes” under the car with a powerful LED light at the ready—without lifting the jack at all. He asked me to give him his ratchet wrench. Then a pair of pliers. And then from under the car they asked phlegmatically: They say, what’s going on when the bolt is miraculously loosened?
After another 20 minutes, the new filter was in place. In total, the guy spent no more than 40 minutes on all the manipulations, as a result of which my car finally started moving. And before that I killed almost half a day without success, ripped clothes in the trash and halved a kilo of dirt in my hair with dried anti-corrosion and rust. And you know what: I don’t feel sorry for the 6,000 rubles I paid for communicating with these particular field workers. The master’s “filled” hand is worth it.
But he probably doesn’t know how to “work under Shakespeare” like I do…
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So the fuel filter. Things would look a lot more interesting if this damn filter element once lost its tightness and after a few days of parking in the yard, a quarter of the tank’s contents leaked through it onto the asphalt. I discovered the source of the astonishingly potent multi-day gas stench in the yard of an apartment building when I decided to go into business on Saturday – a few days ago.
The burning “lamp” of the fuel supply and a sizable patch of asphalt dissolved in atoms under the rear axle of my old SUV became a necessary and sufficient condition for a forced excursion under the car to assess the magnitude of the tragedy. Thanks also that the filter was leaking, and not a rusty gas tank – which I was afraid of. I will probably leave out the plot of the epic that later broke out with a painfully long order and delivery of a new filter (due to the constantly increasing price in the process): if only because I have no intention of making a comparable work in scale and internal drama to Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”.
When the new filter finally landed in my hands, I decided to fix my own car on my own – it would hardly be able to get into the service center with an empty tank. I was all set for the independent replacement of the “consumables” – with a lot of different wrenches, a “Vedashki” pshikalka (to deal with rusty wires), a headlight and other necessary equipment … Even spare hoses (suddenly the old ones which will burst during disassembly) were also in stock.
Although I have a frame car with high ground clearance, the initial hope of doing it without a jack did not materialize: my carcass refused to crawl under the rear axle, above which the filter is located. I also had to suffer from goats – so as not to climb under the car, hanging from only one jack.
He lifted the car, crawled under it, aimed at the rusty filter with the “headband” bar, poured WD-40 warmly over all the clamp bolts holding the leaking device to the body, and began to press the rusted clamps off the body. to fetch. the rubber pipes. After half an hour of torment, under the grime constantly pouring into the face from the underside of the car, the clamps were defeated and I grabbed a “ratchet” wrench to loosen the bolt that held the filter in the clamp.
He was rusting so bad that all the edges of his head were “licked off” after the first round of my sparring with a stubborn piece of iron. A technical stalemate forced the pros to call for help. I started calling specialized sites that offer mobile car service. After about an hour of researching this market, I did not “call” the cheapest “office” specializing in this area, the representative of which gave the impression of a competent person.
A few hours later, a frail farmer arrived and deftly ducked “without preludes” under the car with a powerful LED light at the ready—without lifting the jack at all. He asked me to give him his ratchet wrench. Then a pair of pliers. And then from under the car they asked phlegmatically: They say, what’s going on when the bolt is miraculously loosened?
After another 20 minutes, the new filter was in place. In total, the guy spent no more than 40 minutes on all the manipulations, as a result of which my car finally started moving. And before that I killed almost half a day without success, ripped clothes in the trash and halved a kilo of dirt in my hair with dried anti-corrosion and rust. And you know what: I don’t feel sorry for the 6,000 rubles I paid for communicating with these particular field workers. The master’s “filled” hand is worth it.
But he probably doesn’t know how to “work under Shakespeare” like I do…
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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