How to damage yourself servicing cars.
This happened to me as I was changing the front discs on my renault megane.
The first set of discs and pads had been changed with no problems. so I confidently went over to the other side of the car with my axle stand and wheel nut spanner. Unfortunately the last time the tyre was changed the car mechanic, who must of been a 20 stone gorilla had done the wheel nuts up so tight I couldn't budge them. Not to be beaten I really leant into it and put my full weight on the spanner, this was to be my downfall. The spanner slipped and I fell nose first onto my axle stand. I was lucky I'd not broken it, but it did swell up and the bleeding took most of the day to stop. Hey you live and learn.
Well, other people live and learn, you'ld of thought that I'd make an effort to look after the nose after that. I went back to the car the following day to finish the job off. My wife had piled the tools into the boot the day before so I opened the boot to get the stuff out again. Sadly my nose got in the way again, and collided with the corner of the boot as I was closing it, reopening the wound.
Personally I blame my genes, the Tyrrell family are renowned for the size of our noses, rivalling concordes. I guess it shouldn't be a surprise
when it gets involved in an accident!
What's been going on the last couple of months
I've not posted for a while so here's a quick catch up on what's been going on with my mini's.
Sadly I've not found time to even go near mini number 2. It's still sitting on the drive looking sorry for itself. Hopefully it will get looked at before the summer. I'm not too worried about the challenge of getting it MOT'd before Steve's Herald and Chris's A35 as neither has made any progress. Chris has infact managed to go backwards as his A35 is currently being used as a log store!
The MOT was due for E232 WMA at the beginning of January. This is totally the wrong time of the year to be working on cars, way too cold. I knew that I had to replace the track rod ends so I decided to get that sorted and put it in for it's test.
No real problems were encountered changing the ends. As I was replacing them I didn't need to worry about protecting the thread as I was splitting the ball joint. I counted the number of turns it took to remove them to make live easier when putting the new ones back on. I should get my tracking checked but the handling has not been affected.
The car passed it's MOT on the second attempt. I needed to replace a tyre. I consider myself lucky. There were quite a few advisory items to get checked out over the next couple of months. I'll post about them another time. I've now got a 12 month ticket so I'm happy.
Apoplogies for any spelling mistakes. I'm posting this from my pocket pc wth my 6 month old daughter asleep on my lap.
