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came to do the rear discs on my fender and found what appears to be the later hub nut, no lock nut needed, fine thought I, but where the hell's the torque figure for this type of nut, cos it aintin any of the workshop manuals I've got. Anyone got any ideas?

Bearing Man aka BML Hayley, Shrewsbury and Newtown and Oswestry. but as the man said; check the local phone book under engineering supplies. most of the good ones are really helpful

BFG, ive got the insa's and they dont take the punishment like my old BFG's used to

Uncle Gwyn in llanfair Gwyn Lewis 4x4 specialises in the design and fitting of off road equipment and preparation

corn flakes box, pizza box, pair of scissors, sellotape and then get all blue peter on it

stuff jane austen, Mick Aston for the new tenner!

solder/heat shrink if its possible to do so, bullet connectors (:eek:) if not. mind you I did use a scotch blok when I was 19, so apologies for that

wouldnt worry to much though, seen MUCH worse ( as he looks out of the window in the general direction of.....) but it is time to start factoring in the time required before the mot.

wouldnt worry about the bubbling on the ally skin - mines been less places than yours and is much worse.

my fender may be slow, noisy, rusty as an old gate, uncomfortably hot in the summer and dont get me going on winter tempretures, badly built ( lets be honest here most car companies manage to get better over time) and generally just a bit manky; BUT I would rather have to push it than drive (or...

just unscrew the bugger and replace it with nice shiny push fit connectors from rs :-)

not so much can as will in my experience, yet I still poke around looking for new crusty bits:mad:

old asus eepc running memmap on winxp and a garmin etrex gps, coupled with a 500w inverter in the fender to provide power. all old tech so no worries about smashing it up, and all a updated as it will ever be so nice and stable

if you give me a tenner i'll take it off your hands, ya can keep the ****e winch though.

mmmmmm straight 8, that'd be good

time to dig out the welder

thoughts so, ta

am i right in assuming that a bulkhead from a v8 is the same as one from a tdi, or if there are diffrerences they are negligable.

I had to do one some years ago after a Cat C, takes about 2 minutes, all they do is a quick look at the VIN and check engine number, theys just looking for ringers.

oh, yeh forgot a feckin big steam cleaner and some ramps