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Can you make outbound tcp port 25 connections? If so, find out the mail server responsible for the recipient's domain (nslookup; set type=mx; example.com), note down the server with the highest priority (lowest number). Create an account in outlook, with that server set as the outgoing mail server. Don't worry about incoming servers, user/pass etc. Set your email address to whatever you want - [email protected] send the email. Provided the receiving smtp server doesn't perform any validation checks on the email address or you'll be ok. If it does, then it'd only be the domain part that's checked, so do something like '[email protected]' if you want. They might check against a DNS blacklist for 'dialup users' (actually just end users), in which case you'd want to do the following... Alternatively, if you know your ISP, find out the address of their SMTP relay - i.e the SMTP server that they provide to you for exactly this use. That'll be the server that the Exchange server is forwarding to.

Paid £9,750 for the UK TT Auto in April 2004 with 59,000 miles. Paid £6,995 for the Import Gunmetal TT Facelift Auto in November 2006 with 103,000 miles.

Thanks mate. I'm going to be very busy tomorrow, but I have to come to give Dodgy his brake pads, so yep, see you then

Thanks guys Spent the afternoon in the skidcar, learning a bit of car control and some J-turns afterwards for added fun It was great Week after next I have a novice day at Oulton park with a pro driver helping me through my nervous first time

oops I just haven't had a moment where I could take everything out of my boot and have a look. I'll get right onto it. Promise.

Wow. You wouldn't beleive how loose they all were.

Awesome, thanks

I'm struggling to find some torque ratings for them. All I can see is people saying "they're done up really loose - something like 5.4ft/lbs, which is almost finger tight" and "they break really easily if you do them too tight".

All great help, thanks everyone. I saw the sandwiched gasket, and it is this that I feared, but I didn't know they were the cam cover gaskets. I need to spend more time learning about what's what in an engine I should know what/where the head and its gaskets are - it's not that hard is it I'll re-torque cam cover bolts once I find out the correct torque settings. Super. Thanks again guys.

Ah, now y'see I wouldn't have thought about pulling the fuses & plugs. I thought I'd just have a spluttering engine Coke bottles are awesome, honestly! Cut the bottom off of course, but the little plastic ring around the collar (the bit that breaks away from the cap when you open for the first time) compresses slightly giving the best fit ever

Ah, I see. So the compression tester has a sort of 'peak hold' so you can see what compression was reached, even after the piston carries on back down? Oil spillage. I didn't think of that one I find a small (500ml) coke bottle fits like it was designed for the job of filling with oil. Try it one day thanks

That's what I was hoping to hear then. Thanks guys What of the compression test - straightforward to do or what? I know what the tool looks like and how it works, just not sure how to turn the engine over to get to TDC on the particular cylinder. and the broken hoses - what problems would they have caused?

I only get paid £400 / month! but I get another ~£10,000/year to cover my motoring expenses (which is tax free of course) and some dividends, which are taxed at 10%

Hadn't really thought of doing one. I don't think anything is wrong with the car - was kind of expecting one of you guys to say "yeah, it does get oily in there", or "yeah it'll get a bit oily if the hose has a leak in it". Honestly the car seems fine. But if you think I should do a compression check, then I don't dread the idea at all. I'm a little unsure how to do it though - I'd have to crank the engine over by hand wouldn't I, which surely can't be done without removing belts and what not, can it?

If you click on the little arrow after his name, it'll take you to the thread, but there doesn't seem to be anything else of relevance in there to read. I suppose I should have spoke up in that thread really, but I thought it might be a known weak spot in the engine. I asked because... I noticed some things about my engine when doing the plugs the other week. I suspect it was caused by the breather hoses being broken. They had been split around the ends, and therefore had been fixed in place with zip-ties, done up very tight, but I suspect there was still leakage (of whatever goes through them - air? oily air?) around the split ends. Anyway, near no.6 spark plug was a noticable amount of gunky dusty shit - y'know oily dirt - in the 'valley' between the cams - where the plugs are. I spent some time cleaning it out with engine/machine degreaser, a paint brush, vacuum cleaner etc. (while the plugs were still in of course). Then I took the plugs out, and the thread around the plug was quite oily dirty too. I started thinking "uhh. head gasket problems?" but I carried on and the car runs sweetly anyway, and it of course has new breather hoses and the plugs are torqued up to the correct 13ft/lbs. Anything to worry about do you think?

Could be. I'm sure I'd heard something before, but I just noticed this:

Good luck! You could do what I did, and just drive around without the nut in place. If you're lucky one day it'll get spat out of the exhaust when you're least expecting it (although I must admit to having not pushed it in *all* the way)

Can somebody please enlighten me, or give me some links to threads on here or Supraforums which talk about the "common no. 6 problems" that I have heard referred to? I can't search for "no." or "6" because they are too short for our forum's search engine.

They should make a tool for the job. Something which opens out like an umbrella once slotted inside. I suspect a crowbar won't work. It'll try to pull it to one side.

You must be if you're in the 40% tax band.. ? Or am I missing something?

It's a lot of money to just 'give' away, but if you were a low earner you'd be saying "They should tax the rich more, and the low earners less!" Which is what they are doing. Obviously you earn over £33,300 p/a! Which to me is a high earner, although I do accept that living costs in some parts of the country are very high.. Still, I agree it's sickening, but money has to come from somewhere. It would be best overall if there was a real hard look at where the money is being spent, and a massive shakeup.

How odd. I was thinking about doing exactly the same thing a while ago. He's obviously got bigger balls or more time than me. Top man

Somebody needs to offer up a PDF template of these. We could make our own then - they don't need to be perfectly oval-cut or anything..

Surely serious injury claims go into the millions sometimes ?