What size bottle Jack do I need

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Dunno if they are like the ones for Discos, but the one for my Disco 2 leaks for a pastime. I can't trust it even once topped up with hydraulic oil so i take a trolley jack with me just in case. AND I store the original one vertical in the rear pannier, rather than under the bonnet on its side next to the batt.
Must get around to stripping it down and changing the seals.:rolleyes:
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Dunno if they are like the ones for Discos, but the one for my Disco 2 leaks for a pastime. I can't trust it even once topped up with hydraulic oil so i take a trolley jack with me just in case. AND I store the original one vertical in the rear pannier, rather than under the bonnet on its side next to the batt.
Must get around to stripping it down and changing the seals.:rolleyes:
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Stored vertical in the Classic, together with the 2 section handle & a couple of wheel chocks ;)
 
Grrrrrr said:
Razzle was one of a number of specialised magazines for the gentleman before the internet existed. Guaranteed to have you standing to attention.
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I can remember the drivers bringing a stack of porn mags into the workshop sat morning, then taking another pile from the huge stack we had in there!
 
lynall said:
I can remember the drivers bringing a stack of porn mags into the workshop sat morning, then taking another pile from the huge stack we had in there!
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Many years ago I used to cut the grass along the verges. Along A-roads and motorways it would be a constant shower of tits and arse as the flail went along. I figured most truck drivers drove oee-handed.
 
Grrrrrr said:
Many years ago I used to cut the grass along the verges. Along A-roads and motorways it would be a constant shower of tits and arse as the flail went along. I figured most truck drivers drove oee-handed.
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Not just truck drivers mate I remember passing Scratchwood services and looking down into a car and the driver had a girlie mag open on the steering wheel and was trying to get something out of his trousers, I think, He sh1t himself when I gave him a long blast on the air horns.:eek::D:D
 
Turboman said:
I have changed hundreds of wheels, including many tractor rears.

But I wouldn't change one of the hard shoulder of a motorway, plenty of people have been killed doing that.
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Had to do it on the M25 when I had a blowout. Fortunately it was as I was coming to a junction and I managed to get right across before the motoway proper but it was still scary (OSF). Ideally you need a lookout and you face the onxoming traffic and stand-up / get out the way if anyone isn't paying attention. I have to say the truck-drivers were great in deliberately going wide and giving me space. Get all passengers up the bank behind the arnco. Still not an experience I want to repeat.

Incidentally, the blowout was from Kumho tyre 3 years and 1 month old. If you have Kumho older than 3 years I would replace the lot. Their quality really dropped when production moved to China.
 
oakey said:
I would be soooo embarrassed to call the AA for to change a wheel
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oakey said:
I accept totally that there can be valid reasons for calling in help, but not knowing how to change a wheel is not one of them lol
2 years ago civpol stopped when my brother broke down close to a bend. They stopped then sent him a bill for their time as they waited for a recovery truck
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Colthebrummie said:
Not as embarassed as you feel as the fire brigade are lifting the car off your mangled body. That sort of thing gets in the local papers.

Col
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Stu63 said:
I might get one from the bay and no 37cm isn't high enough from the ground.

I think I'd be embarrassed to get AA or rac out for that, never had to do it and don't intend to.
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Pride goes before many a fall.....


norseman said:
After 57 years of driving everything from cars to heavy trucks I am fully conversant in wheel changing, however age takes it's toll & these days it's the breakdown services for me ... highly unlikely for that to be the case, pensioners are rarely in a rush :rolleyes:
I do carry the manuf. full kit though, just in case.
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:)
 
I was coming off the M25 heading to Gilford with a full load of reels of news print, luckily the lane to my nearside was empty because a young child was standing in my lane waving his arms and I managed to swerve to avoid him. Further down the lane was a group of children standing at the back of a car watching grandad change a rear wheel they would have had to hose them off the road if I'd have hit them. Still haunts me about what could have happened.:eek: edited because I forgot where I was going.:eek:
 
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Grrrrrr said:
Had to do it on the M25 when I had a blowout. Fortunately it was as I was coming to a junction and I managed to get right across before the motoway proper but it was still scary (OSF). Ideally you need a lookout and you face the onxoming traffic and stand-up / get out the way if anyone isn't paying attention. I have to say the truck-drivers were great in deliberately going wide and giving me space. Get all passengers up the bank behind the arnco. Still not an experience I want to repeat.

Incidentally, the blowout was from Kumho tyre 3 years and 1 month old. If you have Kumho older than 3 years I would replace the lot. Their quality really dropped when production moved to China.
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I was held up on the M5 for about an hour, while the road was closed because a chap had been killed changing his wheel on the hard shoulder.
Another driver swerved on to the hard shoulder, and hit him while he was jacking up the car.

No Kumhos.
 
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