Ivvie , no problem you know your stuff as well. Are you an automotive engineer/designer ?, where are you based ?

When the head gasket is no longer sealing as it is supposed to you  may get less compression in your cylinders, you get oil leaking into your water path ways  which results in both mixing giving you a brownish / milky substance,  you can also confirm this by  checking your oil filler cap, you'll see a milkish deposit on it.

When you have a a leaking gasket you will be down on power and it will be noticeable  BEFORE the engine reaches operating temp.

By "heat sink" I suspect you meant "heat soak",  that is mostly true with turbo charged cars, the reason why they heat up so quickly is because the exhaust gases are used to keep the turbo spinning, the turbo in turn forces cool air into the engine via the intake manifold . Because it is so hot in the engine bay of a turbo charged car there is a tendency for the air  being drawn into the  engine to be warmer thus producing less power when combustion occours plus you'll get less air in to the combustion chambers if its warm pre combustion, to get round this turbocharged cars have intercoolers which lower the temp of the incoming air but then their proximity to heat sources such as exhaust manifold e.t.c in the engine bay lends them to heat soak.

There are ways of getting round thisbut I wil not be discussing them here.


I know all this becasue I have owned and done a lot of work on turbo charged cars as a hobby for the last 10 years.

Ivvie:

@Digiman

<sup>In response to some of the answers other have given I need to clarify a few of them

1. Blown head gasket - A sure sign of a blown head gasket is the color of your coolant, when you open the expansion tank you'll see a mixture of oil and water in most cases also you'll notice that the car does not pull very well, it will lack power and also your engine will reach hogh temperatures very quickly 5-10 minutes.
You can also get a compression test done, this will surely tell you if your gasket is blown.</sup>

A brown colour is a sign of a radiator that has oil mixed into it. It also a result of mixing coolants. If your car is a bit louder than what it usually sounded and acceleration or driving is hard, then you have a leaking exhaust manifold (could also be a leaking intake manifold). A huge chunk of the heat generated in the engine bay is not from the engine alone but the exhaust manifold and tubes. This is also particular with turbocharged engines. In the case of a car with a blown head gasket, it doesn't affect your performance till the engine gets extremely hot. Heat robs any car off torque. This is why you experience sluggish performance when you want to take off immediately after heavy traffic. It's called heat sink. One of my cars heats up to operating temperature within 5 minutes at idle. It doesn't have a gasket issue.

If your engine is over heating check the following:

1. Coolong fan, if belt driven check the belt, if its intact check for slack, if its too slack it will not turn efficiently. If its electric does it come on when the it is supposed to ?, if not the electrics need to be checked i.e. fuses and relays also get the radiator thermostat switch checked, its a switch which is screwed in to the radiator, its poupose is to turn on the elctric fan when the temperature of the water in the radiator reaches a certain point typically between 85-98 degree centigrade.


In response to some of the answers other have given I need to clarify a few of them

1. Blown head gasket - A sure sign of a blown head gasket is the color of your coolant, when you open the expansion tank you'll see a mixture of oil and water in most cases also you'll notice that the car does not pull very well, it will lack power and also your engine will reach hogh temperatures very quickly 5-10 minutes.
You can also get a compression test done, this will surely tell you if your gasket is blown.


2. Removing the thermostat can certainly help , its purpose is to enabe the engine to reach optimal operating temperature about 80 degrees centigrate or so, at this point it opens fully to allwo coolant to flow to the radiator to be cooled down. In Nigera where the ambient temperature can be as high as 28 degrees centigrade in the morning plus the fact that you are bound to get stuck in traffic or dirve slowly for some miles due to the state of the roads, removing the themostat will do no harm, worst state senario is you'll have high fuel consumption if the engine runs cold for a few miles.

I hve run cars without thermostats in the Uk and its never caused engine failure.


Regarding antifreez or coolant - its important to use coolant because they have a special formula which prevents the mixture from boling at the normal boiling point of water which is 100 degrees centigrade, and also they often have rust inhibitors which reduce rust. If you put water on its own basically the water will start to boil more quickly also water on its own promotes rust.

If possible use a mixture of summer coolant and distilled water in a 50-50 mixture.

Gosh ! I spent almost 3 hours reading the posts on that site 
http://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=99584&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 and
came to the conclusion ,  Is  this what we have been reduced to ?, its  a case of a desperate situaion requiring a desperate solution, the poor chap is trying to find a way out.

The question we need to ask is WHY is this happening, surely if the scammers were gainfuly employed they would not be scamming others.

Like TonyDEE said

TonyDEE:

I feel sorry for the guy and the desperation he feels, that the penny hasn't dropped shows how deluded he is.
That our citizens are forced to humiliate themselves this way is a sad reflection of the state of our nation.

Gosh ! I spend almost 3 hours reading the posts on that site
http://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=99584&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 and
came to the conclusion , Is this what we have been reduced to ?, its a case of a desperate situaion requiring a desperate solution, the poor chap is trying to find a way out.

Like TonyDEE said

TonyDEE:

I feel sorry for the guy and the desperation he feels, that the penny hasn't dropped shows how deluded he is.
That our citizens are forced to humiliate themselves this way is a sad reflection of the state of our nation.

Here are some pictures & videos I took during my visit in April this year, sorry  for the poor quality of some of the pictures.



http://s185.photobucket.com/albums/x239/digiman_album/


Best viewed in slide show mode when you are not in a hurry

E be Naija, my advice to you is to go for fairly new brand names HP, Compaq, Dell, Toishiba.

Under no circumstances should you go for scrap, they are useless and dangerous to the  enviroment in fact these countries that most of these computers and parts are being imported from consider them to be rubbish so why sholud Africa become a dumping ground for such dangerous waste ?

Please follow these links and read the articles:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/24/technology/24junk.html?ex=1287806400&en=59b8642bb6f7fc16&ei=5088


http://www.dancewithshadows.com/computer_recycle.asp


The nigerian Goverment needs to do something fast before we find ourselves sitting on  a toxic time bomb.

Do your bit to keep our enviroment safe.

"I am not rich but not too poor"  - I guess you are poor and looking for a sugar mummy on the side  


"Anyone who meet tis requirement and is interested in this arrangement should please send profile, telephone number and recent full-size photgragh to : philidees@yahoo.com and then call 08036000323"  - proves my point !, why don't you do the calling if you are really interested in the sugar mummy ?  

O!G!  I got your email. I was away for a few days hence the delay in replying. I will reply here for the nbenefit of other interested parties as well.

First I congratulate you on taking the first step.
Regards the sponsorship letter,  its basically a letter requesting tarining sponsorship from the organisation, you will have to formally request it, and also state why you want/need sponsor ship, also use it as an opportunity to show that you are serious about a becaoming a pilot, what you have done so far (knowledge / skills) and what your aspirations are if sucessful.

Below are a few links I would like you to visit:

http://www.jetcareers.com/content/view/28/50/

http://www.pprune.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-65343.html

http://www.easyjet.com/EN/Jobs/Pilot/pilotrecruitment_cadetsponsorshipscheme.html


http://www.futureairlinepilot.com/tips.html

This link has a sample applicaton (on page 4) of course you will made to amend it to suit you requiremens and also beef it up:

http://www.liv.ac.uk/studentsupport/ist/pdfs/trust_charities2004.pdf


Do you have any access to any aviation books / magazines, it will help if you can read up on some of the basic stuff like the PPL course modules, there are some web site which actually have the course contents, better still if you can get your hands on a flight simulator as well. Armed wityh this knowledge you'll look good at an interview.

peteroby:


we are neither Ex- police or military people,therefore we look like the average businessman who happens to be in the business of security.

http://bushido.cc/bodyguard%20requirements.htm


The training program seems fine but are you serious ?, no ex-military? and you want to stop bullets with your bare chest , in theory it sounds easy but wait till the s**t hits the fan and knives and bullets start flying, grown up men will need a change of underwear.

O!G!:

Hello Again Digiman ,
Actually i want to be a commercial pilot.
So yo have said i need 7,8,9,10 & 12, which are[Private Pilot Licence (Ground School),Private Pilot Licence (Flight Training),Commercial Pilots License (Ground School),Commercial Pilot Licence (Flight Training),Airline Transport Pilot Licence (ATPL)]but doesn't 1 which is [Standard Pilot (SP) (PPL, CPL, IR, ME)]cover for all this?

The Standard Pilot course (SP) (PPL, CPL, IR, ME), does not not include ATPL, you can do your ATPL after a few years if you do not have the money to do it straight after you obtain your CPL.
The CPL is enough to get you into the flight deck as a first officer/co-pilot.

I listed the courses individually because it appears the Aviation college allows the courses do be done individually, this may be to your advantage especially if you do not have the funds to go for the packaged ab-initio courses. My advice will be do to the PPL, IR, ME and hopefuly before your CPL you will find and airline to sponsor you, if you are still struggling to find sponsorship i'd suggest try getting a job part time maybe working at the college or an airfield and save up for your CPL and also do an Instructors course, once qualified as a Flight instructor you may be able to get a job with the college or elsewhere this will not only enable you to start earning money it will also enable you to build up your flying hours which will come in handy when to apply for a job as an airline pilot.

Believe me a good quality 8 mp camera will be miles ahead from a 5 mp one, apart from the extra functions you get the images will be much clearer, you may not notice it untill you blow up your images to say A3 size or larger.

Always go for a camera with an optical zoom if you want reasonably good photographs.

If you can afford it go for a Digital SLR Canon & Nikon make some very good ones.

It's nice to read about peoples encounters with nigerian Police, its even nicer hearing how people stand up to them, those guys are theiving bastards.


You guys are lucky not to have been shot at by those idiots during those encounters, I had two occasions when the those idiots could have taken my life, these happened in the 80's, the first one happened somewhere around Ikoyi we got stopped at a road block manned by a couple of policemen, I don't remember what transpired but I remember flaring up because the policeman was being stupid, suddely he corked his gun and fired on shot in my direction at close range fortunately the nozzle was pointing downwards at an angle so all I got was bit of loose gravel which was disturbed by the bullet, I suspect he was expecting us to run away when he started coking the gun so he could have a excuse to murder us, the idiot also reeked of alcohol.


On the second occasion we were near MMIA on the road leading to the domestic airport when we got stopped at a road block, again silly questions were being asked and I flared up, next thing I know guns were cocked ,it took the intervention by my Dad and someone else to ease the situation they just asked us to go.

Other than those two occasions I have never had to deal with Nigerian Policemen because Soja no get bizness with police, just flash your ID card or have your NA sticker on your car and they dare not dream of bothering you.

I hear that these days they don't have bullets so that may explain why the incidents of accidental discharge are a thing of the past.

O!G!:


Because i applied to a scholl in the US year 2006 to stuty Proffesional Flight , but when i got the complete course fees , In Naira it came to about 14,000,000 .Which is a no go area.Far more expensive than here at Zaira.
But her you have said that if one does not have the money he should apply toa flight training school in the US.
***AND ALSO you wrote "If you do not have the funds to sponsor yourself your best bet is the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT), once you get in try to get an airline to sponsor you throught the course.
"
Please expound on both that of US AND how one will get an airline to sponsor him through out the course at NCAT.

Sorry that was a typo, Flight training in the US of A is not free. If  you want free training, the Nigerian Airforce is your only choice but then there is no guarantee that you will be eventually selected for pilot training after your basic military training and even if you did you might end up flying helcopters rather than air planes  which is also split into jet or turbo prop planes.


For flight training in the US  you WILL need to have the funds for the course plus your living expenses  since  its, most likely the  flight school would only accept you on the basis that you enrol for an "ab-inito" course since you are not resident in the US. This course takes you from PPL to ATPL hence the reason why its so expensive.

In order to save you the hassle of having to find  the full funds for your course up front you could look for a school that will allow you to do each training course bit by bit i.e.  Private Pilots - PPL  then Instrument rating - IR,  then Commercial Pilots  License - CPL and  Flight Instructor rating (FIR), you might find one that will allow you to do each course on a pay as you go basis, once you get your CPL and your Flight instructor rating you can work as a flight instructor  to build up your hours while at the same time save money towards your Multi engine rating and ATPL, you will still have to find the initial funds to start the basic courses.

Now looking at the NCAT web site it looks like you can do the courses bit by bit as I listed it the paragraph above
see list and prices   http://www.ncatz-ng.org/Fees.htm
7, 8 , 9, 10 & 12 is what you want ,  you will have to contact them and confirm.

Once you are in you can look around for an outfit willing to sponsor you through the rest of the course, you will have to be pro active in this area, see these links for examples

http://www.virginnigeria.com/en/ng/press/pr2007-3-13.html

http://www.arikair.com/ARIKAIR/racine_site/news.asp

Contact airline operators in Nigeria to seek sponsorship.


Finally if you still cannot raise funds to train to a professional level you could join a flying club and get your PPL, NCAT have a flying club -   http://www.ncatz-ng.org/Other%20services.htm


Remember where  there is a will there is a way !

I hope this makes it a lot clearer.

If you do not have the funds to sponsor yourself your best bet is the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT), once you get in try to get an airline to sponsor you throught the course.

The second option is to go through an airline, Virgin Nigeria for instance, they were recruiting sometime last year but be warned competition is stiff because you will be competing with people who are already comercial pilots with minimum flying hours.

Another option is to join the Nigerian Airforce but you'll have to gain admission to NDA, after a couple of years you'll begin you flight training thats if you make the standards to become a military pilot, believe me its not for the faint hearted, i've seen guys quit after a week at NDA (wimps !).
Be warned though military aviation is very different from civil aviation so when you quit the airforce you'll have to retrain for civil flying but your previously gained skills and knowledge will not be wasted.

If you do have the money just  apply to a flight training school in the US. You'ss start with attaining your private pilots license, then instrument rating & multi engine rating, i'd also advise you to get you flight instructor rating so you can build up your hours while at the same time earning some money, next go for your comercial pilots license and finally Airline Transport Pilots license but it does not stop there, you also need to be type rated in the types of aircraft you'll be flying but don't worry whichever ailine employs you after your taining will usually cover the cost.

Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT) web site:
http://www.ncatz-ng.org/index.htm


Nigerian Defence Academy website:
http://nigeriandefenceacademy.org/

Virgin Nigeria pilot recruitment:
www.virginnigeria.com/en/ng/jobs/Virgin%20Nigeria%20Pilot%20Application%

Professional Pilots Forum discussion on Virgin Nigeria recruitment:

http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=234419







I hope this helps

ricadelide:

As for me, i'd come from a Christian point of view, the Bible is very clear; "in the beginning, he made them Man and Woman" "therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be united to his wife (not wives), and the two (not three nor four nor five) shall become one flesh" "the husband of one wife" 1Tim.3:2, and many other scriptures,

If you understand what true marriage is about then you'd appreciate why it has to be one man with one woman.

And as for those comparing polygamy, or polyandry with homosexuality; they are all evils. There is no point in looking for the lesser of two evils; wrong is wrong. Neither is right and both are frowned at in God's eyes.

By the way, its not even easy to nurture a marriage of two people, why try to complicate matters?

Yeah but many of the great men in the bible had more than one wife, how do you explain that ? No where in the bilble does it condem polygamy.

I hope you have a crimping tool and cable tester to hand.



how to make your cable:

http://www.ertyu.org/steven_nikkel/ethernetcables.html

, and if you are feeling brave you can make your own cable tester:

http://www.southwest.com.au/~jfuller/rj45/rj45.htm

It will make you go blind and you hand will develop an involuntary tremble, you have been warned !

They certainly are, the police were able to trace them because of the registration number of the vehicle they used for the robbery. The fools did'nt ditch the vehicle !

Thanks busygirl, they'll both go on my list of things to get when I visit Nija next month.

Guys I first heard this song about a year ago at a party, the DJ then played another song which had the same sound track but the singer was female and she was singing in yoruba what appeared to be a gospel song , could you help me identify the artist /album id like to purchase both

link to the song


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJMpeYwifEU

This is Premiere Gaou by Magic System

I need the details of the yoruba song which used the same sound track


Thanks

ov:

as a waffi guy make i yarn my mind. pidgeon na the way forward o. scrap queens english. pidgeon was made for us black human beings,. afterall even though hawk and owl de fly for sky na only one de see for night

If they do make it official please drop phrases such as "ace sobey" its degrading !!!!

Two London students who robbed a bank to pay their university tuition fees have been sent to prison. Raymond Ogidi, 22 and Oluwakayode Salawu 21, admitted stealing almost 5000 from a Bradford and Bingley branch. Salawu from Peckham was studying business at London Metropolitan University and Ogidi from Plumstead was to start a computer course at Leicester University when they carried out the raid in August last year.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/6482041.stm

Have you wondered how much they have contributed to the coun

Orikinla:

Over 1 million Nigerians live in the UK.
But what contributions are they making in the nation building of a New Nigeria in the leadership of Africa among the comity of nations?

Are they useful to Nigeria?

try's economy ?


1. If they were in Naija they would be competing for the few jobs available
2. They send or bring money home, surely that must have some positive impact on the ecomony
if they build houses or start busniesses they create employment in the process
3. They send / give relatives at home money, this may not have a massive impact but will still alleviate their
suffering to some extent - what support does the Nigerian government give to its citizens ?


As far as building the nation is concerned there must first be a revolution, get rid of the Military men who think ruling Nigeria is their birth right, purge the nation of the vermin that inhabit every fabric of its society.

Only then can you think of rebuilding the nation.

Call it "Fine boy" !