Paddocks .. good and bad ...

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 ... ;)

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

Yup. Armstrong.

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

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

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

Don't I know it.

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

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). ;)

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

.. 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. ;)

if you say so me ol' mate :)

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

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.

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 ... ;)

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.

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.

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.

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!

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