Recent content by mattfoz

Thanks for all your responses, I'll be seeing my neighbor in the morning and pass this info onto him.

Good morning chaps, my neighbor asked me if I knew what oils go into his tedder's gearboxes. He doesn't want to buy a drum of it, he just wants a small top up, but when he showed this to the local oil/grease guy, he wasn't sure either. TIA

I strongly believe that all rights should be brought back to how it was pre-1997 when you could drive upto and including 7500kgs on a normal car license. I didn't get my license until mid 2000 and had always towed more than the maximum permissable without the E part of the license and it would...

You get what you pay for with plasma cutters, I made the mistake 10 year's ago when semi-decent brand's were selling them for £2k+, I stupidly bought an SWPcut-40 for £500 and it was a terrible machine with very expensive consumables which never seemed to last longer than 5 minutes each. Was...

It was fixed last Friday, but the service technician couldn't get the engine management light to go out.... It's only gone and done it again, limp mode activated, lit up like a Christmas tree, load indicator is flashing red orange green simultaneously with a constant beep.

The load indicator was functioning as normal, the service engineer was called over the issue but still not arrived yet. It's now in limp mode! 0.00001mph!

Can anyone shed some light on our problem? It's a manitou mlt625-75H and the engine management light has come on, the error code say's 171, and theirs nothing in the manual corresponding it other than contact the main agent. I'm not being tight but I only ring them when it's absolutely necessary.