Help! me nuts are yellow

slowly finding my way around my recently purchased 90TDi, and I have noticed that some of the nuts underneath and the drain plug on the front diff have some yellow paint marks on them, there is quite a few, the most recent one is on the front brake union where it meet the flexi hose.
Any ideas?

previous owner had a surplus of yella paint.

not scrapyard marks are they when you buy something from the breakers they tend to mark it up so they can recognise it if you take it back and also so you can't take bits off then try to take it back.

might have just marked them so he could find them easy when he was next looking for them... some of those plugs are hard to find!

G

when i used to build overland trucks we used to paint all the drain and fill plugs in bright yellow so that people who were not mechanics could identify them and check them with ease.

I occasionally, more on my bike that owt else mark the nuts and wotever there bolted up against with a blob of white paint so I've got an easy visual check to see if they are working loose. Comes from years of riding owld British bikes!!!

not anything to do with torque settings is it. army have a tendancy to paint bolts different colous for different torque settings.

they're not really yella!! he just wanted to see how many stupid answer he would get

Daftest answer I ever got was "A bucket under the table". Fer fook sake wot was he on!!

obviously not the bucket, unless he was short like a ................... erm!............................mmm...... A MING!

cause tht how tight they should be thn if u take thm off u should thighting thm bck soo they can macth up

GRUNT said:

Comes from years of riding owld British bikes!!!

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I likes an owld bike anaw...

ah think busman fancies you grunt

GRUNT said:

WOT

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ah think ee means that the mark is there so you can tighten it back so the marks align and there fore have the same tighteness.. wot a load of bollocks for too many reasons to go into reet now

slob said:

ah think busman fancies you grunt

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in yer dreams

thts wht i ment but he must b a bite slow

I agree wiv Grunt - its common practice in the '40 crowd to mark up nuts n bolts with a drop of paint so its easy to see if they are working loose, without going around and checking them all. Of course the paint needs to be on 2 adjacent items to detect if one has moved against another.

I always mark bolts/nuts that I have tightened up whilst working on vehicles as I am forever getting called away by the phone or people coming in and it is a way of remembering where I was up to (getting on a bit in years so every bit helps).

If thats Busters bike then I fancy him. It's an owld sprung hub BSA dunno wot model though.