On 12 Jul 2008 12:17:37 GMT, "Paul - xxx" <notcheckedever@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote this gibberish:
>Lee_D wrote:
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>> "Paul - xxx" <notcheckedever@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> news:6dpt5dF3ltb9U1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > 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 ... :(
I had a similar thing once, I'd had all the wheels off and the whole
thing up on axle stands (110), finished what I was doing, put the
wheels back on, off the stands, went round final-tightening the nuts
and must have missed the osf one as 4 miles later, stopped to poke
around as was getting a definate clunking from that side and noticed
the nuts were about 1/4 inch off the rims, tightened them sharpish,
only sheep to see what was what but still felt like a plonker.
--
Mark Varley
www.MarkVarleyPhoto.co.uk
www.TwistedPhotography.co.uk
London, England.
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