Carnivore
Race Dog
Why is it that when I see something has broken, I get into a flat spin??? ???
I removed the toasted Conti Escape, with 13400 km on it, fitted in Clocolan last year at the BMW thing, and casually felt the swing arm for play.
EISH!!!!!!!!!
:eek7:
Closer inspection reveals that the head of the lower shock bolt is missing, gone, voetsek!
This bolt has been doing one-sided double duty for... how long? Scary thought, but let's just move on, shall we?
So, while I fitted a 2nd hand T63 (knuckle-breaker - stiffest sidewalls in the universe) I pondered removing all the paraphernalia to get the shock out... ahhhhhhgggghhhhhhhhh!! Perish the thought.
I fitted an ultra-thin disc to my angle grinder, and with the patience and skill of a neuro-surgeon, and the eyesight of a doddery old fart with Pince-nez from some Dickens' novel, I deftly cut a slot into the end of the protruding bolt, without cutting any vital organs out of Redd's underbelly. James Herriot would have been proud of me.
I used the impact driver I got from Noah after the Flood, and remembering to use the tightening direction, because I am working from the opposite end, gave it a whack...
Turned out the stub with a flat screwdriver. Painless exercise in the end... why the panic button, still lying in splinters on the emergency console, next to Captain Kirk's bleeding palm.
(Sorry, I am blessed with a vivid imagination and an exasperating memory of bad TV programs from the 80's.)
This is not a standard bolt, I don't think. The thread-shank junction sheared, and it is halfway inside the shock bush, The original bolt on Horse (my white Funduro) ran out of thread just as the head bore against the opposite clevis face, which means that the shank shoulder was beginning to bear the shear-load, and not just the thread root, as in this case.
In any event, I am so relieved it is out! I can get a new one tomorrow and maybe still go for a ride somewhere. We were planning to go to the Baviaans, but plans came unstuck and I dunno if my partners are still contemplating the ride.
Maybe I'll head north-east... see where I end up. Stutterheim sounds good... only 400 odd km... and 400 back again...
:ricky:
I removed the toasted Conti Escape, with 13400 km on it, fitted in Clocolan last year at the BMW thing, and casually felt the swing arm for play.
EISH!!!!!!!!!
:eek7:
Closer inspection reveals that the head of the lower shock bolt is missing, gone, voetsek!
This bolt has been doing one-sided double duty for... how long? Scary thought, but let's just move on, shall we?
So, while I fitted a 2nd hand T63 (knuckle-breaker - stiffest sidewalls in the universe) I pondered removing all the paraphernalia to get the shock out... ahhhhhhgggghhhhhhhhh!! Perish the thought.
I fitted an ultra-thin disc to my angle grinder, and with the patience and skill of a neuro-surgeon, and the eyesight of a doddery old fart with Pince-nez from some Dickens' novel, I deftly cut a slot into the end of the protruding bolt, without cutting any vital organs out of Redd's underbelly. James Herriot would have been proud of me.
I used the impact driver I got from Noah after the Flood, and remembering to use the tightening direction, because I am working from the opposite end, gave it a whack...
Turned out the stub with a flat screwdriver. Painless exercise in the end... why the panic button, still lying in splinters on the emergency console, next to Captain Kirk's bleeding palm.
(Sorry, I am blessed with a vivid imagination and an exasperating memory of bad TV programs from the 80's.)
This is not a standard bolt, I don't think. The thread-shank junction sheared, and it is halfway inside the shock bush, The original bolt on Horse (my white Funduro) ran out of thread just as the head bore against the opposite clevis face, which means that the shank shoulder was beginning to bear the shear-load, and not just the thread root, as in this case.
In any event, I am so relieved it is out! I can get a new one tomorrow and maybe still go for a ride somewhere. We were planning to go to the Baviaans, but plans came unstuck and I dunno if my partners are still contemplating the ride.
Maybe I'll head north-east... see where I end up. Stutterheim sounds good... only 400 odd km... and 400 back again...
:ricky:
