Paddocks .. good and bad ...

Paul - xxx wrote:


Delivered another front shock today, all is well.  Big up to Paddocks
for putting it right.

Would've been even better if it'd been right first time thobut ... ;)

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Paul - xxx

'96/'97 Landrover Discovery 300 Tdi 'Big and Butch'
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Are they in a blue and Yellow box? Can't recall the Brand but I've had that
as well with a different supplier... they are still on the shelf.. I haven't
a clue what the odd one is!

Lee D

Lee_D wrote:


Yup.  Armstrong.

Cheap stuff ... enough to tide us over till I get a full lifted setup.

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Paul - xxx

'96/'97 Landrover Discovery 300 Tdi 'Big and Butch'
Dyna Tech Cro-Mo comp "When I feel fit enough'

Thats the ones! It's armstrong at fault - they are a bunch of Muppets! You
are the third person I'm aware of this happening to. Unfortunately for me
when I bought mine I didn't get around to fitting them for yonks and lost
the invoice.

Good of paddocks all the same!

I reckon we could probably make a pair! ;-)

Lee D

GbH wrote:


Nah, other times the van and lorry were all serviced by 'mechanics', we
weren't allowed to touch them!

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Paul - xxx

'96/'97 Landrover Discovery 300 Tdi 'Big and Butch'
Dyna Tech Cro-Mo comp "When I feel fit enough'

Nige wrote:


Don't I know it.  

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Paul - xxx

'96/'97 Landrover Discovery 300 Tdi 'Big and Butch'
Dyna Tech Cro-Mo comp "When I feel fit enough'

In my days of hair, I drove around in a Beetle for a good few miles thinking
the gearbox had lost a tooth on reverse... Only time it made any noise. Me
and My Dad were on the way to the then local specialist and the penny
dropped for him.

Only other time I've had loose nuts was on the last Disco with alloys on..
that was front nearside wheel. I'm certain they were torqued up right and
hadn't worked on that corner for some time. Still not convinced it wasn't an
unhappy customer. Made me very concious of my nuts / mortality at speed for
quite some time I'll tell you.


Lee D

Lee_D wrote:


I've been thinking back, and Juliets also said she saw me do them, and
I'm absolutely certain that I tightened them up .. properly with the
torque wrench.

Shit happens sometimes, I guess, if I start thinking about it too much
I'll go daft(er).  ;)

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Paul - xxx

'96/'97 Landrover Discovery 300 Tdi 'Big and Butch'
Dyna Tech Cro-Mo comp "When I feel fit enough'

Everybody has forgotten to tighten their wheel nuts on one wheel
atleast once havent they?

Tom Woods wrote:


.. and despite what some may think it _is_ only the once that I've done
it.  ;)

... Further to an earlier post ... The wheel that fell off the lorry
was a sheared hub, the wheel that fell off a van was a broken rim,
split between the rim and webbing.  Nothing I could do or have
influence over in either case as both were on long journeys and both
looked fine before setting off.    ;)

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Paul - xxx

'96/'97 Landrover Discovery 300 Tdi 'Big and Butch'
Dyna Tech Cro-Mo comp "When I feel fit enough'

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:19:08 +0100, Paul - xxx  


if you say so me ol' mate :)

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William Tasso

Land Rover - 110 V8
Discovery - V8

On or around Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:13:02 +0100, "William Tasso"


It happens, on commercials.  specially the big ones.

new ideas include those yellow pointers to do visual wheel nut checks - the
old technique of putting the wheelbrace on them and going around jumping on
it was prone to cause more problems than it solved...  They don't loosen
often if properly tight to start with, and the pointers show it instantly
with a quick glance.

sheared hubs and broken wheels are another problem, and almost impossible to
spot in a pre-journey check anyway.


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Austin Shackles wrote:


I've been driving for roughly 31 years or so and feel I've been
particularly unlucky in this respect.  I know, personally not from 'the
news', of only one other driver who's lost a wheel, but that was when
we were racing sidecars, and the whole sidecar fell off with the wheel
... ;)

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Paul - xxx

'96/'97 Landrover Discovery 300 Tdi 'Big and Butch'
Dyna Tech Cro-Mo comp "When I feel fit enough'

A 4-foot diameter spinning cast iron flywheel lazilly inched its way
off the side of my dad's vintage diesel road roller and shot off down
the road, I'll bet that caused some muscular tension!  It didn't hit
anyone but did hit a stone and shattered.

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Ian Rawlings wrote:

When I was about 10 years old I was helping unload a delivery of tyres
at the local garage when I managed to let a truck tyre (no rim) roll
down the main street of the village.  It didn't hit anyone but it
demolished the public telephone :-)

"Ian Rawlings"  wrote............


Just as a matter of interest; what was the roller, Aveling?

Martin

Yep, Aveling Barford, and that's about all I know, and he's in no fit
state to supply any more details.  It was a very early diesel, one big
cylinder, redlined at something close to 80 RPM IIRC.

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In fact, now I do a quick check, it was an Aveling Barford DX8, the
one in the top left of this page, there's not much about them on the
internet, they're very rare.

http://waltonhallmuseum.com/_wsn/page3.html  

You can see one flywheel but that one's got a cover on it that covers
the drive chain, the other side has another flywheel on it that's not
covered or held on by anything other than a pin, which it seems didn't
do its job!

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It's nearly as old as me. You've not got it now I take it?  Insurance
wouldn't like it now I suppose. Did he work it or was it just a hobby?
Probably fitted with a Field Marshal engine, but I wouldn't really know.

Martin