What have you done to your Landie today.

Fell off the bonnet of my 110 after standing on it to tie stuff to the roof rack. Think I hit the winch on the way down. Split my elbow open and I think it may be broken too, bad left leg limp but can but a bit of weight on it. I don't bounce like I used to at 61. Leg has gone rock hard around the painful bit but no bruise there after 5 hrs, dunno what that means.
12 hr waits at a&e at least so I'll see how it goes tomorrow.

Oooh that sounds painful, , yes wait till they dispatch the Friday night drunks first.
watch out for skin going warm and shiny and perhaps a bit black then it’s time for a&e

steve2286w said:

Does your brake brakeplate have the adjuster post to square up the shoe, may be worth checking the squareness of shoes to hub, also mine was binding after putting on new adjusters which where making hard contact with shoe web when wheel was on, they needed to be removed and a washer put on outside of backplate to give some clearance, brakes hit hot now

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Ah, my brakes hit hot all of the time. At least i think they must be getting hot

I haven't looked at the adjusters beyond ensuring they were all backed fully off. To be honest, i bought it with binding brakes. I had to get it recovered from the seller to mine. I was hoping someone else had fitted the shoes upside down/back to front. Hell, inside out. Just some way that when i put the new ones in it would cure it. But no. Next step is new flexible pipes and wheel cylinders and probably at the same time brake pipes from the master cylinder back. I intended to do that when i bought it but had fingers crossed that new shoes would cure the initial binding problen. It looks like i'l have to go with Plan A after all. It's just a bit annoying as i wanted to take it to Stoneleigh on Sunday as it will be 46 years old on that day.

Flossie said:

Fell off the bonnet of my 110 after standing on it to tie stuff to the roof rack. Think I hit the winch on the way down. Split my elbow open and I think it may be broken too, bad left leg limp but can but a bit of weight on it. I don't bounce like I used to at 61. Leg has gone rock hard around the painful bit but no bruise there after 5 hrs, dunno what that means.
12 hr waits at a&e at least so I'll see how it goes tomorrow.

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Fingers crossed nothing is broken! Hopefully it's just bruising.
I haven't 'bounced' for a while, but at 58 and after several hours over a couple of days on my knees 'praying' to my brakes, i'm discovering i have bum muscles that are aching like hell!
This is why i like to drive my vehicles the ten miles to my cousin's garage and throw money at him until he throws the keys back at me and tells me "job done, now bugger off!" Sadly i don't think the 101 would make it without having to call the fire brigade to put the brakes out.

Flossie said:

Fell off the bonnet of my 110 after standing on it to tie stuff to the roof rack. Think I hit the winch on the way down. Split my elbow open and I think it may be broken too, bad left leg limp but can but a bit of weight on it. I don't bounce like I used to at 61. Leg has gone rock hard around the painful bit but no bruise there after 5 hrs, dunno what that means.
12 hr waits at a&e at least so I'll see how it goes tomorrow.

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Sorry to hear of the injuries you've sustained & wish you a speedy recovery & remember elf n safety, always have three points of contact but in true B A Baracus style "you crazy fool" .
Take it easy (us oldies need to think more of the 'self preservation' a bit more), all the best.

I didn't fix myself as hoped so went off to a&e 8.30am this morning so nearly 24 hrs after my mishap.
It's now 4.20pm and I've just come out of x Ray. A dose of morphine made the x Ray procedure more bareable.
Just waiting on results now.

Nowt wrong with my leg that time won't heal. Broke the pointy bone in my elbow, waiting on a tetanus jab and a sling, got fracture clinic Monday morning.

Flossie said:

Nowt wrong with my leg that time won't heal. Broke the pointy bone in my elbow, waiting on a tetanus jab and a sling, got fracture clinic Monday morning.

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I also had a falling down incident earlier this year, caught the threshold in a clients gaff and unwittingly auditioned for a bit part part in The Professionals.

Minder? That's gay.
I did the full sliding along the bonnet starsky and huchie style.
I even landed in a puddle but wasn't wearing a 3/4 knitted cardi.

Bet you felt a bit of a Doyle

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Minder?

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I suppose you're going to highlight my edit Daley now... prick.