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Over time you get wear in the valve gear & with the 2.7 engine being OHV like the old for cross flow engines etc they need a little adjustment from time to time, if the gaps are to large then the valves don't open up as much as they should be which can lead to a tiny drop in performance but the...

We got snow at around 1am this morning:clap but sadly it started chucking it down with rain about 2.30am & it was all gone by 5am when the Son got up to go to work:doh but the wind got up really high & dumped shopping trolleys were drag racing up the street:lol:lol

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Just took a pic of the AC rad

I got given them:D off an old member (Cosmic) when he stripped a few bits off his T2 before it was scrapped. They have made in Oz on them:eek: makes a change from China:lol

Yes mines a 2.7TDI:thumb2 my mates T2 AC pump seized up when he was on the motorway & had smoke pouring out the bonnet at first he thought it was on fire until he opened the bonnet & saw the state of the belt so cut it off there & then:lol

Had a feeling that was the case & don't fancy spending around a £100 on a new one, wouldn't care it's only 2.5 years old:doh now the next question is the AC pump likely to seize up now:nenau if so i'll cut the belt off

Had water over the bonnet on my MK2 T2 a few times without any problems mut on the MK3&4's i've noticed water can pass between the headlight & the indicator straight into the intake unlike the older ones luckily my headlight protectors cover the gap by about 90%

Last week when I was fitting my spotlights I caught the air con rad slightly with my ratchet & very slightly bent a couple of the fins:doh been out today to adjust the aim of the spotlights & noticed the sleeve of my jacket was soaking wet & when I touched the air con rad it was soaking wet...

Have seen that video a few times totally unfair as you say the dodge was only RWD if it had been a 4WD version it would have pulled the back of the LR off:lol:lol That T2 looked are if it had just road tyres on so no wonder it got dragged as it had no grip might have been a different story if it...

Problem is the roof is only single skinned as far as I know & the rivnuts only go through some of the cross braces. Hmm maybe it is time to scrap this idea totally :(

Understand where the spacers are meant to go but the feet of the bars sit flush to the roof without the rubbers on:augie Cheers Mav96 but not wanting to spend that much on a tool i'll probably only use once:doh

I thought that was just the under side of the rivnuts with the bolts showing:confused: Will alloy rivnuts be ok & this tool http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PROFESSIONAL-4mm-8mm-THREADED-RIVET-NUT-NUTSERT-RIVNUT-INSERT-SETTING-TOOL-NEW-/361416834381?hash=item54261f3d4d:g:6yAAAOSw5VFWLlco

Got you now Rick:thumbs you haven't just sold a get of roof bars by any chance have you ? as my Son phoned the seller asking about the spacers & he's seen me asking questions on fitting them:augie

The TDI's have a white one with a little black top Rustic or at least my 1999 MK2 & this 2005 MK4 have there are markings on the side max & min

The reservoir is next to the coolant header tank which is next to the battery P/S fluid is Dexron II IIRC

So I take it the spacers are held in place by the rivnuts then ? Do the spacers fit on the outside of the body or on the inside:confused: tried them up to the roof earlier & the centre mounting point seems to be 4 mm above the roof skin but does flex down when you push on it starting to think...

Fantastic pic:thumbs if the others are as easy to get to then could just fit nice repair washers & lock nuts instead of rivnuts:augie

At the bottom of the rails legs there are these bit which secure the rails to the body but can't see any marks on them where a spacer would have been:confused:

No there is concaved washers for the bolts so they fit nicely inside the mounting points, only other things apart from the bar which i've just noticed that are shaped at the bottom for the grooves in the roof are the rubber pads