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i cant remember last time last time i set any tappets

None of the fully qualified "mechanics" in our place knows how to adjust tappets or set points, we had a commer camper van in a while back and trying to adjust the drum brakes all round nearly hospitalised two of them with stress.

I am getting used to them saying "ere your old enough to remember these how do you do this"

I haven't admitted that I used to PDI some of the cars that were about before they were born ! 

thats why im fearfull of the MOT SCHEME once apon a time it ment some thing being a tester you had to be qualified to go on course

flexi allen key for the stillborn v8/slant 4 Vauxhall anyone?

I got them..........somewhere !

Wish i had known all that , Will give you a shout if i get trouble
setting up the next one that comes in 😂

back then we repaired things not replace them

I wouldn't even suggest getting you, or anyone else in the trade, started on modern diesels!
People buy them because "Oh, they're so cheap to run!"
Right up until they need a turbo, or a set of injectors or whatever other faults the evil brutes choose to develop.
If they're so cheap to run how do I make so much money out of them?
And around 70% of my diesel customers only do around 5,000 miles a year so why chase the increasingly marginal fuel consumption advantage?