A warning for all faulty new parts.

[stevie]

(I posted this on BSC but this is for the non bsc members)

 

Faulty new parts...we just wont have it!!!!!!!

 

Ill keep the story as short as possible.

Some of you may already know that on a saturday i help a mate with his Zodiac at his lockup. The past few weeks have been hell. Weve replaced the head gasket only to have major water leaks from a previous owners bodge on a connector pipe. We fix that to have the car run like poop. Then the water leaks again, its been a cow. Weve had head on, head off. Head on, head off. We can remove the head off a Zody with our eyes shut in 15 seconds flat. Anyway....once we finally fixed the leak we reassembled and started it up. It ran ok for a few seconds then died. Checked for sparks...fine. So we stripped the carb. It was caked with ghunk and gum inside so we stripped it and cleaned it all out. Carb clean and replaced, we started and held our breath. It started...ran really well then died again. We cheked again for a spark....fine, so we removed the fuel line and turned the key. It was pumping fine but there were some tiny "debris" in the petrol. We changed the fuel filter which was new last week in case it was faulty, cleaned the carb out again, reassembled and just for peace of mind we repalced the fuel lines. Wouldnt start...FFS!!!! we were really getting pi55ed off by now. After much faffing about and general moaning we checked once more for a spark....nothing!!! WTF???? We replaced the points...no spark. Dizzy cap next....nothing. Rotor arm....nothing. So we replaced the condenser that was bought only a week ago....SPARKS!!! Cleaned fuel off plugs, reassembled everything....ran like a peach.

After all the hassle we decided to torture the offending item.

First I blindfolded it and hung it

 

Then hung heavy weights from it

 

I thought a grinder would be painful

 

Smashed its face in with a hammer

 

Electrocuted it

 

And finally for this week we tarred and feathered it

 

New parts that dont work will not be tolerated. DONT MESS WIV DA BIG BOYZ

[filicapri]

[Stu_B]

[Vista]

................but I think I'd have rather had my money back

[baz105e]

thats funny

[bortaf]

I'd say every 5th condensor i've had has beem faulty but TBH it's allways been that way with em, even back in the 80s they were crap