Re: Paddocks .. good and bad ...

Lee_D wrote:

> "Paul - xxx" <notcheckedever@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:6ds4jcF40lotU2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Nige wrote:
> > 
> > > Fool!
> > 
> > Don't I know it.
> > 
> > --  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.

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.

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

-- 
Paul - xxx

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