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Especially since you can spec it with stock bumpers. Too bad the wheels look comically large.

No, luckily

Glad I wasn't alone

That looks very similar, yeah. Finding an EU source would be nice, as even from the UK it's an expensive hassle to get stuff shipped these days I had found stuff like this: https://valkenpower.com/losse-onderdelen-lasapparaten/draaddoorvoer-motor-voor-mg200.html But that's very light on details. True. Probably should replace the whole torch at some point. Or a whole new welder, but it's always a little bit too expensive to just splurge on, sadly. How do I "check" my liner? Just cut the wire at the spool and feel if it feeds through manually smoothly?

Hi guys, I have an Einhell SGA 175 Turbo that I got for free off a friend years ago. It had wire feed issues, that were improved by tightening the roller spring some more. But lately the wire feed hasn't always been smooth, and I think the whole mechanism/motor is just worn out and needs to be replaced. I can't seem to find any decent source of spare parts for this welder, so I'm wondering, will any generic wire feed motor work?

I've been carrying my CTek charger around when out camping. Realised that I didn't carry a blue plug though, so that was moderately useless 😛

Indeed. I think the longer days will make up for the angle of the sun. And as Mike says, you can try to angle your panels when parked.

Scandinavia in summer has more sun, not less. Winter would be a bigger issue.

Replaced the lambda sensor on bank 2 as well now, and the drive home everything looked ok. Still very strange...

I think Daan is confused by the custom nut in the OP.

Ah yeah, must be the guard. Good score then. I do get them, grinders with a slider on the side are annoying and even a little bit dangerous to use. You always have to change your grip to operate it.

That right grinder looks like the spindle is a bit wonky?

Hi guys, Weird things going on, as always. Coming home from Seven Sisters with the loaded trailer, the engine started running worse and worse. Getting off the channel train, we hooked up the OBD reader, and saw Bank 1's fuel trims maxed out (long-term +25%, short-term +25%). Stopped to unplug the lambda sensor, and then at least it was only the long-term trims affecting us. Over the past few weeks I've been trying to make sense of things. I drove for a while with the sensor unplugged and the trims reset, and that seemed fine (and I really, really didn't feel like finding out wtf had broken this time ). Plugged the sensor back in, and immediately the same problem. And seemingly worse with every restart, so I think the Motronic ECU adds the STFT to the LTFT on every shutdown or something, even though OBD says 25% is max, I'm pretty sure it's going well past that. At startup the lambda would be switching until a few minutes into the drive, then it started trailing off towards 0v, and staying there. Bank 2 working normally. So on Friday decided to have a proper look at it. Started by tracing wiring and grounds, all good. Replaced the sensor, same thing. Ok, there must be a massive exhaust leak upstream then. Found one of the manifold gaskets with a small leak, replaced both with a slathering of exhaust paste, looks good. Drive home with the OBD tool attached, bank 1 is switching fine... And now bank 2 does nothing. Same symptoms. Lambda is switching fine on startup, then trails off towards 0v when under load.. Very strange that it switched banks, but ok, the same problem must be on the other bank as well then? Weird, but I had a fix for bank 1, so do the same. All gaskets look fine, somehow wiggle out the manifold without taking off anything but spark plug leads, and find a few tiny cracks in the manifold. Weld those up as best I can (one ran between the tubes...), refit everything with exhaust paste and new gaskets. Switching fine on idle, start driving home, once on the motorway... trailing back off to 0v. And switching between 0v and 0.120v. Get off the motorway at home, back to switching normally. So, err... what? How on earth could what now can only at best be a pinhole leak in the manifold where I couldn't reach with the welder, cause that big an issue with the lambda? All I can think of is there must be a blockage downstream in the exhaust. I don't think it's a plugged cat, as the problem switched banks. I went around with a small hammer while she was on the lift yesterday and couldn't hear anything rattling. And could an exhaust blockage that isn't bad enough to feel power loss really lead to a lambda sensor reading lean? All help appreciated, I'm about ready for a can of petrol and some matches.

Are they actually 55W, or 55W-equivalent? Because a 55W LED is very, very bright.

That looks very nice! The little bit of wonkiness even adds to it, almost looks half like a wire grille at first glance.

Might be better to make a cradle that bolts into the crossmember holes?

Sounds to me like an ideal use case for a small pneumatic cylinder. Low pressure to not overload the synchro.

How difficult would it be to make the OD air or solenoid operated? Then you could put a button on the main gear lever as well.

I would think the inclines where you have to downshift probably have more impact on the temperature than motorway cruising. I would think it's probably worth shifting out of OD before downshifting. The stickers are nice, but a thermocouple logger might give more insight into when and for how long it runs hot.

Too much preload definitely seems worse, as you run the risk of hitting the end of the lifter and maybe bending pushrods.

I've always ran 10W40 in mine.

I think in the original post the guy said that they're stackable to do just that, yes.

Ludicrously huge door club unite! My E Coupé requires parking next to a column in underground parking garages, really. Only way to get in and out.

Very bad cut/paste job done on a picture stolen from the interwebs. Looks... interesting but not quite right

A Classic body is a fair bit narrower, and there are some honking big chassis rails coming right up to the side of the P38. But the wheelbase should be about the same as an LSE, so might be worth a shot.