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[quote author=baby_123]Maybe your absence is not making things easy for her. And it will only get harder with a pregnancy and an overactive baby.Next time you are transferring take your family with you. If she's working, try to encourage her to take a federal job so she can transfer easily.

The baby is probably traumatized from his experience. He should be eating solids by now. They need to be careful about the water he drinks. There is a thread in the health section that talks about these issues, am sure your wife can get good advice from mums who have gone through this. Its the newborn thread.

https://www.nairaland.com/971395/new-born-babies-u-new[/quote]Absence is always a big problem for couples living apart.

She has help with the boy. Since my parents house is 10mins from ours, she moved there when i left 8mnths ago. My two cousins take care of him while she goes to work. He's not a burden on her now.

I cannot move with my family, its just not possible. Her job is a permanent appointment. How would you like to be moved after every 1.5 - 2 years. My last station i could go home every weekend. Besides my employers take responsibility for my 2way trip home once every month.

Is a federal job so easy to get? Even if she had, would we be requesting for a transfer every time i move (sometimes after just a year)?

Am going through the thread. He has been weaned effectively since last week. He takes solids once a while. Just that he will not consume any reasonable quantity. He never rejects water, meat, cheese balls (my mums handiwork) or things he does not know. Readily accepts pap and beverage (milo) when hungry both served with milk only. Accepts solids like semo and rice when in very good mood. Does not accept any kind of drugs. Giving him drugs is war.

Jonwesley: But if you ask me, why are this couple living apart or are they not in the same country?

Coz i work in the south south and she works in the northwest.

I am to work here for only 2 yrs. Should she quit and join me knowing in a year i may be moving again?

Am sure u are nt married.

sultaan: I guess I was very wrong with everything but the good thing is that you kept looking now you understand what you are spending money on .You getting under to see what you are dealing with has given you the experience to diagnose next issue.Check for owners manual online for LSD information.

A couple of years with this drama would turn you into expert in Prado

I have looked back on your posts but cant find were u were wrong. All i see is information which should make the next reader of this thread conscious of a cars maintenance. Believe me, at the beginning of this thread, all i knew was gear oil. As long as i saw gear oil written on the can, it was going to be ok with me.

Yesterday i had the audacity to go to a Total service station and request for a specific grade of transmission oil. They all looked at me interestingly while i lectured them on the type of oil my car requires.

While the mechanic was using the name 'release bearing' i was using throwout bearing, thanks to you Sultaan. I knew only of clutch disc, but i now know pressure plate, thanks to Ikenna. I am not the same person i was before this thread, i am more educated now.

bukatyne: Your son needs to shed some weight so that his legs can support his body.

It not his weight.

He lost so much weight in November when he fell sick from Diarrhea. We almost lost him.

He lost interest in food that he still doesnt like other most foods till today. Since that time till now he has refused everything but breast milk and ocassionally pap. The cerelac we bought since March is there. We tried every kind of baby food but that strong baby will seal his lips with all his strenght that no 1 can feed him. Me, i do not attempt to feed him, one time we both bath with the cerelac i tried. Sometimes he rejects feeding bottle and accepts serving cup, sometimes the other way round. The open cup is disastrous though if he rejects coz he will just punch the cup with a big fist.

Even my mum has raised the white flag and given kudos to my wife.

I wonder where he gets the energy to do all the things he does.

About walking my mum said it runs in the family. Recently, my female coz delayed walking till she was 3. She walks and dances very well now at 6.

Am typing from inside the car. Am guaging its tyre pressure now.

The car is even better. 25k did all, clutch plate/disc, throw out bearing and labour. Am so relieved of the thought of buying gear box 200k.

Eureka!!!

At last, the problem has been discovered. Pheeew!

What a relief!

I was the cheap good for nothing clutch plate! It was looking ok. It took a careful mechanic to realise it.

Thank God i didnt buy another gear box. Thank God i dumped the initial mechanic. It would have been a disaster.

Something in my gut told me there was a problem somewhere. Now am just left to think, what if i bought the gear box to later discover this. My office will pass a vote of no confidence on me.

There are so many lessons to be learnt here. I realised that a person cannot be a driver and not be his own mechanic. A mechanic is just a technical hand with historical experience.

Dont know hw to discribe the problem so i did a short video. I hope it will upload. The pic below will not show the problem.

Also, i saw something about LSD axles. I went to check on the car's axle. I saw the sticker but so dirty to comprehend. In an attempt to clean off with water, the paper rubbed off into shreds.

I did a research on wikipedia when he told me which i confirmed the name throw out bearing.

I quickly recollected that before i refill the gear box, there used to be a sound at the same location this one occured. The sound can only be heard when the car is idling. If i so much as touch the clutch the sound will fade and resume if i take off foot from the clutch.

When he told me, i knew the part producing that sound finally gave up.

On the transmission oils, i just check Total's website and have seen they have GL 5 of both 75-90w and 80-90w. I shall go out today in search for it locally. If i get i will require 4litres of 75-90w and 3 litres of 80-90w.

Will use 75-90w for gear box and trasfer case which u said takes 2.2 and 1.4 litres making 3.6litres. Then the axles will both get 80-90w 2.8litres.

I didnt see transmission oils on mobil's site but i will search for it too.

bankyblue: U be don jazz? why send in just .(Dot), can u pay 100000naira

Just trying to type and accidentally hit Submit

magaliyu: Abi GHANA MUST GO no dey circulate?

Who knows?

I wonder all this show of power. This 1 wey the entire legislative arm of government want to piss off the executive.

1st, it was SEIC & LG autonomy now its Presidential impeachment.

Hmmmmm

I got another mechanic, the other whom i didnt trust to know his onion. This guy works for a transport company and maintains a fleet of Toyota Hiace (Hummer) buses.

He started the car, went under and told me from the sounds, he's sure the gear box is not the problem. He mentioned release bearing and another bearing that he needs to check.

Tomorrow, he will work the car.

Using my imagination to picture ur situation. Major sounds that an engine produces comes from the movements of the camshaft, valves and associated parts in the head cylinder(aside combustion). Another is the joint between connecting rod and crankshaft.

Any of the above will make huge noise before engine oil gets to it after draining down overnight. The latter takes few seconds to lubricate while the former can take longer. For the latter, at high rpms the engine will still make noise.

If i were to pick, i would say the problem lies in the crankshaft/connecting rod joint. I can remember long back when mechanics worked on my dads crank shaft, they changed somethings on the connecting rod. Cant quite remember its name but i think its called bushings. If worned out, it leaves a gap that makes the noise. It may also reduce engine compression.

@Charllay
would you advice me to go for the phone? Have you upgraded it to jellybean and how?
Thanks in advance

I would have advised you to go for it but time has far gone.

SGS III now cost exactly the amount i bought my SGS II last year.

My advise now is to go for SGS III.

No upgrade for me o. Its not available OTA but you can do manually which i didnt because of the risks involved.

Below are the pictures of the gear box.

The thing is too long to be taken close in a single picture.

I shall do tomorrow.

They actually went under, removed the clutch plate/disc and reinstalled after finding no fault. They inspected the fly wheel but no strange thing. Yet, no movement, just the chattering. Clutch was adjusted to the limit, yet no response or change in the situation.

The only notable thing is that, when gear is engaged and clutch released, additional chattering is heard. Though difference is not much.

Thanks sultaan for you contributions so far.

I have taken note of the oil spec, i shall make neccesary changes when the car is back on the road.

My main concern now is getting the car moving again. As it is now, no gear including reverse. The day it broke down, all front moving gears didnt work, i was able to reverse a hundred meters while the was serious irregular chattering sounds coming from under the car. Though the reverse was slipping if i attempt to accelerate, it later stopped moving.

Now the sound is regular chattering at constant rpm. The slippage of the reverse made me to initialy conclude its the clutch plate which i later discovered in good condition.

I want to make all efforts to get it moving next week. But my location complicates it. I have to travel to a neighbouring state to purchase a new gear box. If i do that, and after installation the car still doesnt moving, then i am in deep trouble as my office is takin up the bill. I may not be able to defend some expences incured from buying the gear box and returning same assuming thr part seller recieves back the gear box.

I have to be 100% sure the gear box is damaged. I recorded the sound of the car but unfortunately is larger than 200kb which cannot be upload here.

This Prado is a full time four wheel drive.

So, if the problem were to be the spline of rear, the front should be able to drive.

Now, i believe since the noise increases with higher engine rev, while gear is disengaged, the problem is outside the gear box. The gear box should not be working with no gear.

I donot fully understand the clutching system, since its not my profession. I still want to believe that while an engine is idling with no gear engaged, the last moving part is the fly wheel or clutch plate or both. With clutch plate in good condition, gear box is isolated from the loud noise which is actually the problem.

What is that thing making the noise then?

Am also doubtfull that the gear box gave up so early at 130,000km. I wonder if a fault external of the gear box can lead to what am experiencing. The sound its making doesnt seem to come from inside the gear box itself but from between the engine and gear. I've had gear box failure b4 but not like this one. What i expect is for some gears to disengage while driving or to refuse to enter entirely.

In this case, it just stop driving. Its not like it disengages of refuse to enter, it just wont respond on clutch.

What if there is another fault causing the problem? From where i hear sounds, i was thinking, what if the fly wheel has a problem or any form of gear that transmits engine output to gear box. In that case there wil be no input to the gear box. If true, the even a new gear box will not solve the problem.

I will the be at lost. Even if the purchased gear box is accepted back by the spare part dealer, i would have lost in transportation and cost of labour.

Pls auto gurus, is there any gear or any other mechanism that can result to loss of engine output or gear box input? Is there diagnostics for manual gear?

Note that the clutch plate and disc were found in good condition. Also, while the car is in neutral gear, reviving the engine amplifies the noise in direct proportion. My guts tells me there is more to it than has been discovered.

Reading all ur post (except 1) gave me big smiles and a feeling that all will be well.

On my son, i believe all will be well. Reason being that a strong adult gets tired of hm in less than 10 mins. The boy jumps like crazy without getting tired and can go on for hours. He dances to all songs played. Old and fragile ppl cannot hold him. Our house help, a woman in her mid 40's prefer any kind of household chore all day than to be alone with him for 2hrs.

Besides, he walks but not by himself. He walks while his hand is held and can walk holding furniture. Just not enough confidence and balance to let go off anything he's holding.

1st of all, we live apart. I visited three weeks ago. We have a 14month old son who is not walking yet and still suckling. Though i have begged her to wean him but she refused on the grounds that he's not walking yet.

We agreed to use only natural family planning till we have at least 2 children. We broke the 'rules of natural family planning' thrice during my previous visit. By our calculations she was ovulating during this visit. She took postinor 2 twice in two months during my previous visits. This time around, i told her using too much of it is bad, so she didnt take any.

Her period got delayed so she got a PT strip and tested today which came in +ve.

She is so so depressed from the shame and guilt of conceiving while our 1st son is not walking yet (he's just too scared i believe). Her friends had been warning her not to get pregant again so early. In fact, she asked me to allow our son to be 3 before we conceive again. She has boasted to her friends that she is not giving birth till our son is 4. Our neighbour her friend boasted like that while pregant unknowingly. She didnt want it to happen the same way her friend did.

I am comfortable and welcome the development. In fact, i pray for twins which her immediate younger sis just discovered she is pregnant with. After all, our son will be almost 2 when she gives birth. It is just a month shy of the ideal child spacing of 2. Nothing i said has lifted her spirits. We are both not getting any younger at 32.

What more can i say than 'THANK YOU LORD FOR ANOTHER BLESSING'. I would be even happier if its a girl or in d case of twins or BG.

Though it has happened, friends and family talking behind you is embarassing. Any words of encouragement from NL?

I dished out 8k this morning to put my generator back to order. Last month i spent 6k on repairs only. I spend at least 2k on fuel every week!

If PHCN works well there is no way i would consume electricty worth more than 5k in a month.

If Badluck knows onions, he would have focused his government on 1 thing making sure it works perfect b4 d end of his tenure.

Governor Akpabio fucused on roads and i hail him for that, if not anything else.

Corruption should be the point of interest/focus for any responsible Nigerian president.

When i checked last, there was no leakage. I entered the lube bay myself. However, the transmission oil was a little short a month later which i topped again.

I am pretty sure that they never changed or guaged the transmission oils since the car was bought brand new in 2006. I know the kind of oyibo i work for. They know all but dont know anything, an irony.

See what i used.

I will not embarass myself the way Jang has done. Goodluck dug a big hole for him and he fell right down with all his limbs broken. No coming out of this one Jang, its being converted to your grave.

@ ckkris

Atiku left PDP
Orji Uzor Kalu left PDP
Femi Fani Kayode left PDP
Rotimi Amechi may leave PDP
The people of Abia State will never vote for another party. Rivers State will never vote another party and Amechi knows that no one will follow him to anywhere. Atiku found out. Orji Uzor Kalu now knows.
They all over-rated their political and electoral relevance, based on over-hyped paid-up Lagos Newspaper reports. PDP managers are not talking, but quietly planning how to wax stronger and win elections. That is REALPOLITIK, not noise politics.

May be u didnt understand me or Nigerians need to understand politics better.

In 2011, i collected a ballot paper, i used my finger to thumb print on the box for PDP. When the results were announced, i knew that among the numbers PDP had, my single vote was there. Less it and the number will change.

I intend to less their vote in 2015 by 1. So that i will not feel as guilty as i am at this moment, that i voted for the person who is dragging Nigeria's political system and the office of the President through the mud.

For as many Nigerians that will do or think like me, PDP will have a problem in 2015.

Think about this for a minute, if every Nigerian collects his/her ballot paper and duly votes for a party other than PDP. It shall be counted. If the PDP have access to my ballot paper, they can only invalidate it. I dont know for your location, but where i come from we make sure our votes are protected and announced at ward and LG levels and taken to state with our protection making sure the correct numbers are entered each time.

That PDP will rig elections doesnt bother me at all. All i want is my ballot paper.

With these actions of Jonathan, if he has not lost millions of votes yet, he for sure has lost mine.

This should have been done a long time ago.

By the way, the credibility of Sahara reporters is increasing day by day with unfolding events.

Some days ago, i had already retired home just to find out i didnt have some supplies. I thought, run to a closeby supermarket and grab sum stuff. Taking the 1st bend onto the main street, changed from gear 2 to 3, pressed the accelerator, then it happened!

The gear disengaged and the engine revved high. Hearing some serious sounds i depressed the clutch and stopped. I listened carefully turning off the stereo, the rattling sounds i was hearing was now too loud for even a novice to ignore. It downed on me that a serious breakdown just happened and possibly this car willnot move itself anymore.

I engaged gear 1, released the clutch, no movements whatsoever except more noise coming for the gear box. Tried 2 but nothing. I then tried R, this time it was moving slowly. I was backing up slowly back to the house but it eventually stopped too.

I called my friend in the house who help me push it back to the house.

My 1st thought was, since i changed the clutch plate and disc in December last year when the clutch plate got burnt, the new plate or disc had broken. Thinking that the plate and disc i used were substandard (i changed in d village) it could actually break and the springs of the plate can easily loose, flying over the flywheel making the noise i was hearing.
I call my mechanic, described what happened, he shared my point of view and set out to change the plate and disc. I took off to buy the disc, but when i came bck, woalaa, the disc and plate were discovered in perfect condition.

They were returned and the problem of the car still persist. My fear was confirmed that the gear box has crashed.

Being my company car, i inherited it from my boss. Two months after i started using the car, the clutch plate burnt. After fixing it, i decided to visit he lube bay to guage gear and axle oils. The gear box was found empty! Rear axle was almost empty! Front axle, very low! Auxillary gear box almost empty!

I guaged them with Total gear oil. Two months later i bought another 4litres of Total gear oil changed the aux gear oil and topped all others. 3months later gear box crashed.

Am at lost on how to get it and how expensive it would be. Gosh i should have checked the gear oil earlier. Some1 told me the gear box is 250k.

Pls friends, service your cars regularly and properly. Meanwhile, na keke things and i lost my breath walking in the hot friday sun, kai e no easy, no A/C.

Some days ago, i had already retired home just to find out i didnt have some supplies. I thought, run to a closeby supermarket and grab sum stuff. Taking the 1st bend onto the main street, changed from gear 2 to 3, pressed the accelerator, then it happened!

The gear disengaged and the engine revved high. Hearing some serious sounds i depressed the clutch and stopped. I listened carefully turning off the stereo, the rattling sounds i was hearing was now too loud for even a novice to ignore. It downed on me that a serious breakdown just happened and possibly this car willnot move itself anymore.

I engaged gear 1, released the clutch, no movements whatsoever except more noise coming for the gear box. Tried 2 but nothing. I then tried R, this time it was moving slowly. I was backing up slowly back to the house but it eventually stopped too.

I called my friend in the house who help me push it back to the house.

My 1st thought was, since i changed the clutch plate and disc in December last year when the clutch plate got burnt, the new plate or disc had broken. Thinking that the plate and disc i used were substandard (i changed in d village) it could actually break and the springs of the plate can easily loose, flying over the flywheel making the noise i was hearing.
I call my mechanic, described what happened, he shared my point of view and set out to change the plate and disc. I took off to buy the disc, but when i came bck, woalaa, the disc and plate were discovered in perfect condition.

They were returned and the problem of the car still persist. My fear was confirmed that the gear box has crashed.

Being my company car, i inherited it from my boss. Two months after i started using the car, the clutch plate burnt. After fixing it, i decided to visit he lube bay to guage gear and axle oils. The gear box was found empty! Rear axle was almost empty! Front axle, very low! Auxillary gear box almost empty!

I guaged them with Total gear oil. Two months later i bought another 4litres of Total gear oil changed the aux gear oil and topped all others. 3months later gear box crashed.

Am at lost on how to get it and how expensive it would be. Gosh i should have checked the gear oil earlier. Some1 told me the gear box is 250k.

Pls friends, service your cars regularly and properly. Meanwhile, na keke things and i lost my breath walking in the hot friday sun, kai e no easy, no A/C.

The only sure thing in Uyo Ewet housing is that we always sleep with light. But not yesternight.

My refrigerator has lost its usefulness. Mtchewwwww (@PHCN)

NEPAAAA! LIGHT JUST GOT RESTORED

Most comments here are out of context.

The real issue here is the fate of the Southern Kaduna people. With the current political status, this group of people are once again on the path of experiencing a long period of power drought to last atleast a decade. Accepting that fate after coming out of a dark tunnel they were in for more than 4 decades, is a huge demoralizer.

Permit me to expanciate.

Since, and before the creation of the old Kaduna state to the reduction of Kaduna state to what it is now, no Christian or person from the southern part of the state has become the governor of the state. Pls note that these people in reference are predominantly Christians and not of Hausa/Fulani ethnicity. They a group of small tribes with origins related to people of Abuja FCT, Plateau, Nassarawa and Niger states. By population, its roughly a 50-50 distribution of Christians-Muslim or Hausa/Fulani-tribes of southern kaduna. It is believed by the southern Kaduna people that the population figures are manipulated to favour the more influential Northern Kaduna.

With this background information, i hope people who sit in the South South and use their laptops to say on what they donot know, will rethink before posting.

By Gods design, and the assistance of GEJ a Christian from this part of the state, became the Governor. Not quite two years into his 1st term, he died in a questionable circumstance. Power returned to the North of the state, into the hands of a young and ambitious Hausa man who will complete the Southern man's mandate and has the chance for two more tenures using the power of incumbency. This process is to last 10 years!

An arrangement which allowed a Hausa man to win re-election in 2003, made to give southern part power in 2007 was reneged upon.

With the recent turn of events, it is evident that the only offer the Southern Kaduna man will get is that of 2023. Any offer better than this is a big unbelievable lie!

Two options are left for the southern Kaduna man; to take it (2023) or join the opposition and fight for 2015.

Note again: the previous arrangement didnt work!

This is divine intervention for me.

I got furious with keystone then left for First bank. I got furious with First bank last week.

I had planed to reactivate my Diamond acc today which i have not used for more than a year and have my office use it for some funds which i always keep.
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That will not happen. I wouldnt want to cause a problem like this to my office.

I was also going to open a kiddies acc in Diamond for my 1yr son on the insistance of my wife. I saw their advert on this acc last yr. I dont want any stories. I cant deal with this kind of problems.

This is a ball joint issue. It is particularly the steering ball joint.

The situation results to as in the picture when its bad and driver keeps driving without replacement.

The driver has to be experienced to prevent this mishap.

Few signs that a Honda's steering ball joint is failing are;

Loss of wheel alignment,
A little more of steering play,
Roughness of steering especially off road.

Above all, there is no harm to take ur car periodically to mechanic asking him to check all ball joints.

I do check always. In 18yrs of driving i was lucky not to have steering balll joint failure. I had failure of rear uppper arm ball jnt and front lower arm ball joint which are not so deadly like steering ball joint.

In conclusion, anytime i see a honda in d middle of the road with such a problem, i blame the car owner for not maintaining his car.