I would just like to say

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The time I spent in college studying mechanical engineering was wasted I'm afraid, thought I'd done well sorting the steering out on the project but turns out my reconing is flawed 🤔☺️☺️
 

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Bin busier than usual today. spent a bit of time this a.m. helping W int garding, tieing up the grapevine back to the south facing wall. Took me longer than it should. Flipping green plastic wire seems to slip in my old fingers today.
Then got onto the main business, changing the track rod.

This started off with a nigthmare. Simply taking the wheels off! The nuts were SOOOOOO tight.
Bust this first!
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Which annoyed me somewhat as I have had it for about 30 years. A normal "granny's wheel nut removing tool" as I sure many of us have. (Obviously used with the correct socket for a Disco's nuts!)
So got out my trusty 2 foot Drapers breaker bar and extension ( very long thin box spanner bought to do the plugs on a Renault 17, which dates me somewhat!)
Tried heaving on it, pushing on it, standing on it. Jumping on it. (Kept slipping off!)
No dice.
So went for the wheelbrace that comes with the Disco, why not?
This time put a long scaffold pole over it, and this happened!
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Bent like a bownana! OK the tool is pretty useless at the best of times but still, as I have the whole kit in its bag this made me well upset! :(
So back to my breaker bar but this time with the scaffold tube.
Worried it might break and leave me with having to replace it and then buy a 3/4" breaker bar and a socket to match. Bonkers!

BUT it worked. Phew!!

Took the track rod off, no bother, but was surprised to find that my "complete" track rod kit did not contain the adjuster! So took it all in the garage to strip down and reuse the adjuster, after measuring up all the bits to try and get the new one's tracking as accurate as possible.
Put the new one on and dived into thinking about the wheels. Why were the nuts so hard to get off? Have to confess didn't think as clearly as I should have. Was convinced it was neither me, as I always use a torque wrench, nor my tyre place as I hadn't been there for ages with it, or so I thought, and I'd never had this trouble after going there before. So imagined it must have been corrosion between the different metals,
So I set about greasing up the nuts and the wheels where the surfaces touched, even behind the built in washers on the nuts. Refitted the wheels after having torqued up the ball joints, torqued up the wheel nuts and lowered the car to the ground. As I had the torque wrench I then decided to check the rear wheels. Guess what? They all undid as they should, not too tight at all!

So I am forced to the conclusion that there is some flipping idiot working, or who used to work, at my fave tyre place who should not be let anywhere near a windy gun! :mad::mad::mad:
I'll be seeing them tomoz when I take it there for tracking. Wonder if they will have held on to the 8 wheel nut covers that went missing after W's Pluriel had the pain-in-the-rear episode getting new tyres, either they or the Blandford lot lost 'em.:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
Hey ho!
Enjoy what is left of the evening folks!
:):):):)
 
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landowner said:
Ooh that would be great mate
Height of grill panel at sides and middle ignoring cut outs for steering.
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landowner said:
Height of bonnet from wings
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landowner said:
Bonnet to top of bulkhead
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landowner said:
Bottom of door to top of door at roof line
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landowner said:
And very important, depth of that panel above the door, I've got the width.
And bottom of wing(not bulkhead) to top of bulkhead, I have windscreen measurements to put on top of bulkhead.

I would be very grateful and owe you a pint 🙂
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Hope these are ok. If you need any redone just say
 
Evening all had a 1/2 day, as I went for for a MRI scan, mrs said I was in for ages but fink I kinda floated away somewhere.

Got to the hospital & used the wrong key to lock the van, as id not long changed the ignition barrel so that key only locks the van, it wont unlock it & the other key was in the dookit AHHHGGGGG FFS Van locked just about to go into for the scan.
It clicked that I had a key in the work so one of the lads brought it up which was a superb or id be getting trains n busses home
then have to drive back to Glasgow to collect it.
 
kevstar said:
Evening all had a 1/2 day, as I went for for a MRI scan, mrs said I was in for ages but fink I kinda floated away somewhere.

Got to the hospital & used the wrong key to lock the van, as id not long changed the ignition barrel so that key only locks the van, it wont unlock it & the other key was in the dookit AHHHGGGGG FFS Van locked just about to go into for the scan.
It clicked that I had a key in the work so one of the lads brought it up which was a superb or id be getting trains n busses home
then have to drive back to Glasgow to collect it.
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Bet that flipped your lid!!
Hope it don't show up on the scan!!
Glad it turned out OK!:):)
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Bin busier than usual today. spent a bit of time this a.m. helping W int garding, tieing up the grapevine back to the south facing wall. Took me longer than it should. Flipping green plastic wire seems to slip in my old fingers today.
Then got onto the main business, changing the track rod.

This started off with a nigthmare. Simply taking the wheels off! The nuts were SOOOOOO tight.
Bust this first!
View attachment 312435
Which annoyed me somewhat as I have had it for about 30 years. A normal "granny's wheel nut removing tool" as I sure many of us have. (Obviously used with the correct socket for a Disco's nuts!)
So got out my trusty 2 foot Drapers breaker bar and extension ( very long thin box spanner bought to do the plugs on a Renault 17, which dates me somewhat!)
Tried heaving on it, pushing on it, standing on it. Jumping on it. (Kept slipping off!)
No dice.
So went for the wheelbrace that comes with the Disco, why not?
This time put a long scaffold pole over it, and this happened!
View attachment 312436

Bent like a bownana! OK the tool is pretty useless at the best of times but still, as I have the whole kit in its bag this made me well upset! :(
So back to my breaker bar but this time with the scaffold tube.
Worried it might break and leave me with having to replace it and then buy a 3/4" breaker bar and a socket to match. Bonkers!

BUT it worked. Phew!!

Took the track rod off, no bother, but was surprised to find that my "complete" track rod kit did not contain the adjuster! So took it all in the garage to strip down and reuse the adjuster, after measuring up all the bits to try and get the new one's tracking as accurate as possible.
Put the new one on and dived into thinking about the wheels. Why were the nuts so hard to get off? Have to confess didn't think as clearly as I should have. Was convinced it was neither me, as I always use a torque wrench, nor my tyre place as I hadn't been there for ages with it, or so I thought, and I'd never had this trouble after going there before. So imagined it must have been corrosion between the different metals,
So I set about greasing up the nuts and the wheels where the surfaces touched, even behind the built in washers on the nuts. Refitted the wheels after having torqued up the ball joints, torqued up the wheel nuts and lowered the car to the ground. As I had the torque wrench I then decided to check the rear wheels. Guess what? They all undid as they should, not too tight at all!

So I am forced to the conclusion that there is some flipping idiot working, or who used to work, at my fave tyre place who should not be let anywhere near a windy gun! :mad::mad::mad:
I'll be seeing them tomoz when I take it there for tracking. Wonder if they will have held on to the 8 wheel nut covers that went missing after W's Pluriel had the pain-in-the-rear episode getting new tyres, either they or the Blandford lot lost 'em.:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
Hey ho!
Enjoy what is left of the evening folks!
:):):):)
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Ive busted god knows how many bars & braces even snap on ones which aint too bad as they just replace them.
Got a replacement leaver last week cause the end snapped off, well I did skelp it with a hammer a few times.
 
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