Re: Paddocks .. good and bad ...

Paul - xxx wrote:
> Lee_D wrote:
>
>> "Paul - xxx" <notcheckedever@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> news:6dpt5dF3ltb9U1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>> 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! ;-)
>
> As it all turned out, I didn't need any shockers or spring retainers
> or anything ... took left side off, eventually, found it to be a
> broken spring.  With a bit of effort and creative jacking we got the
> springs and shocks off and replaced them with no hassle.
>
> So ... if anyone wants a pair of front and one rear shock for a Disco
> 300 ... or a pair of spring turret retainer rings + nuts ... ;)
>
> All wennt well ... right up until i took it for a test drive, and the
> front nearside wheel bloody fell off!  Can't have done the nuts up at
> all.  Offside was fine.
>
> Bounced up, broke mirror and mount, broke a lamppost at side of road
> (31 x 10.50 BFG AT's so pretty hefty wheel/tyre combo when rolling
> along at ~15mph).  Disco fell onto the disc, but low speed so coasted
> to a stop and apart from some scuffing it's all sound.  Could only
> find three wheel nuts.
>
> Feel like such a twat now ... ;)
>
> Can't understand it, I'm usually so careful, having driven lorries and
> vans before where wheels have fell off .. twice ... :(

So edivence suggests you have a history of shedding wheels, not of being 
careful!

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