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Originally Posted by aerosam
A while back a mate of mine was doing the Redex cylinder treatment on a Fiesta XR2i, removed the plugs, poured in the Redex, left it a little while so stuffed a bit of rag into each plug hole.
Turned it over to clear the redex, decided to leave the rags in place to stop it spraying everywhere. 2 get blown off and land on the floor, 2 vanish completely. He thinks nothing of it and re-assembles it, but it won't start. At this point he calls me to come have a look at it.
I managed to lend a borescope off a local garage, had a look inside the cylinders, and sure enough, 2 of them contained some very mashed rags. Absolutely had to take the head off to get them out.
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i know that feeling Sam
i got called into our local shipyard once to have a look at an 8 cylinder gardner standby set that would not run right in a survey ship
Several guys had had a look done filters/lift pump/injectors the usual sort of thing then out of desperation we were called.
i stood scratching me nuts and me mate rubbin his chin totally flummoxed after checkin what had already been checked and going a bit more in depth
and goin nowhere for ages.
until i found a teatowel had been sucked up the front air intake
never ever found out how a tea towel ended there
but it caused a blooming great bill and a lot of embarrassment all round
how do you justify a bill for two blokes 8 hours etc to pull a teatowel out of an engine ..........doh
cheers les g