Urgent assistance with car mechanics terminology needed.

[Bambiagain]

Help! I am doing a translation into German for a friend (don't panic, I'm not asking for help with the German unless you know it) who had an big American Ford and has bought parts from America. The car is in the garage awaiting my translation as nobody can read the instructions. I am having a lot of difficulty myself as I am no mechanic. Could anybody please explain the following for me, to help me to make sense of it before I translate:

1.Use worm drive clamps... what are these? I don't know how to explain and they aren't in my dictionary.

2. Remove bolts at exhaust manifold to up pipe connections... Is an up pipe connection an entity, or is it saying something about upping the pipe connection?

3. Remove manifold to turbo y pipe... Need the sentence explaining.4.

4. Similar to above . Reinstall manifold to turbo y pipe... Taken together, these suggest the sentence in 3 could read "Remove manifold from y pipe." Or am I barking up completely the wrong tree?

Thanks very much in advance. These are only 4 out of 32 instructions, so I think I'm not doing too badly so far.

[Mamyalynne]

Worm drive clamps are also known as screw drive clamps.

Screw/band (Worm Gear) clamps

Screw clamps consist of a band (usually stainless steel in the USA) into which a screw thread pattern has been cut or pressed. One end of the band contains a captive screw. The clamp is put around the hose or tube to be connected, with the loose end being fed into a narrow space between the band and the captive screw. When the screw is turned, it acts as a worm drive pulling the threads of the band, causing the band to tighten around the hose (or when screwed the opposite direction, to loosen). Screw clamps are normally used for hoses 1/2 in diameter and up, with other clamps used for smaller hoses.


Read more: http://www.answers.co...e-clamp#ixzz22IU5T9HV

http://normapacific.c...amp_quick_release.jpg

[Baldric]

http://uk.farnell..co...ings&gross_price=true

[tonyav]

1 = Jubilee clip ( I think ). 2 = The up pipe will be the actual exhaust pipe, where it joins ( usually held by bolts ) the exhaust manifold. 3 The turbo y pipe will be the pipe that goes from the exhaust manifold to the turbo charger. Hope that makes sense to you.

[Baldric]

don't know what happened there, but mamyas got it.

[firewatch]

Jubliee clip! thats what we call them mamya!
Perhaps put pcitures with your translations, sometimes diagrams speak thousands of words, what make and model? Can see if i can find the german translation online

[jake-the-peg]

2/ an exhaust manifold is a connected set of tube like this that bolts to the engine
http://www.bulletproo...ems/header%20dc2t.jpg
The up pipe is the end of the exhaust tube that connects to this by bolts

3/ a turbocharger is a spinning tubine that is spun by the exhaust gasses on one side and compresses the air going into the engine on the other side and so there will be a y shaped pipe between the turbo and the exhaust manifold so that the exhaust gasses can spin the turbine.


Does that help or do you need a bit more?

[Bambiagain]

Thank you so much all.

Tony, should sentence 3 read 'remove manifold from turbo y pipe' or is it correctly worded?

[Bambiagain]

It's a Ford F350. I'm not sure an German translation exists - they're as rare as hens' teeth here.

[tonyav]

Yep, remove from.

[tonyav]

What year is it and is it an 8 or 6 cylinder turbo diesel ?

[Bambiagain]

Don't know the exact year, but 2003-2007 model. It's 6 cylinder.

[HowardKennitby]

This is what I understand by 'worm drive clamps'

http://www.screwfix.c...rs-4.1/&company=ae235

[tonyav]

Ok really I was hoping you were going to say it was a late 60's or early 70's V8 petrol, although I knew it was a diesel going on your discription lol.

[Bambiagain]

Sorry to disappoint you! But it's a great vehicle for what my friend needs it for, driving across fields, carrying water, saddles, hay and all manner of horse equipment, towing and as a general work vehicle. It's been out of service too long, hence the urgency for the translation.

[tonyav]

Righto bambi.

[firewatch]

If yo look up F350 tuning on google.de comes up with some useful sites i havnt read german in years and this has been quite an entertaining search :)

[Graham-W]

If you need a picture for 3 & 4 look here: http://image.off-road...ra_3000_turbo_kit.jpg
The Y shaped piece at top left connects one side to the exhaust manifold and the other side to the exhaust system.

[Graham-W]

To make it clearer, the pipe top left, with a flange and two holes, connects to the exhaust manifold.
The pipe at the top with a plate separating the inlet and outlet connects to the turbo, and the pipe bottom right connects to the exhaust system.

[Bambiagain]

Thanks again. Translation now finished and about to be delivered. I'll let the garage take it from there (although I have added a disclaimer).

[tonyav]

Well done, Bambi.