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Well everyone, after the weekend joy of dragging veggie mux four ish hours home and within five mins getting him running again with a clear head and daylight Recovery no two took place today.
I went to the building suppliers for a few bits that i needed for a job im doing at dave b bosses garrage (dave is the lad who dragged trailer to me at wales and is fast becoming my full time recovery guy
)
Anyway i set off back to work and noticed that something felt funny on V mux. Thought tyre pressures were low on front end or somthing just needed looking at. I thought i may as well get to the garage and lift it on the fork truck and give it a once over.
Anyway, i drove another mile out of the two i had left to cover went round a left hand bend slowly as its sharp then goes up hill. Got round the bend then a big crash bang wallop and im driving up the hill with veggie muxes arse on the floor and the driver rear wheel going uphill toward the cars waiting at the lights on the other side of the road.
Lucky for me the wheel didnt hit the cars but stopped and started rolling downhill at speed where there is a crossroads with lights and people walking.
I pulled veggie mux onto the pavement leaving a dragline up the road and gave chase on foot for the rooling at speed wheel. Got quite close to it and fell over. as i feel i dived for the wheel. (Think all the rugby playing came in there)
Dont know how i managed to stop it so but i did. They get some speed up when rolling like that.
Rang dave and his boss and they came to the rescue again. Spent half hour getting him on trailer with no rear wheel.
I run cheep spacers on him and the origonal Hub studs had all snapped. Maybe when my man did the breacks he tightend them to much???
Anyway swaped the parts as had them on the shelf and away we go again. Hes abit dinted as the fall caught the rear arch and bottom of quarter.
Im hurting due to the superman dive.
But knowbody was hurt and no insurence claims so all good.
karl
I went to the building suppliers for a few bits that i needed for a job im doing at dave b bosses garrage (dave is the lad who dragged trailer to me at wales and is fast becoming my full time recovery guy
)Anyway i set off back to work and noticed that something felt funny on V mux. Thought tyre pressures were low on front end or somthing just needed looking at. I thought i may as well get to the garage and lift it on the fork truck and give it a once over.
Anyway, i drove another mile out of the two i had left to cover went round a left hand bend slowly as its sharp then goes up hill. Got round the bend then a big crash bang wallop and im driving up the hill with veggie muxes arse on the floor and the driver rear wheel going uphill toward the cars waiting at the lights on the other side of the road.
Lucky for me the wheel didnt hit the cars but stopped and started rolling downhill at speed where there is a crossroads with lights and people walking.
I pulled veggie mux onto the pavement leaving a dragline up the road and gave chase on foot for the rooling at speed wheel. Got quite close to it and fell over. as i feel i dived for the wheel. (Think all the rugby playing came in there)
Dont know how i managed to stop it so but i did. They get some speed up when rolling like that.
Rang dave and his boss and they came to the rescue again. Spent half hour getting him on trailer with no rear wheel.
I run cheep spacers on him and the origonal Hub studs had all snapped. Maybe when my man did the breacks he tightend them to much???
Anyway swaped the parts as had them on the shelf and away we go again. Hes abit dinted as the fall caught the rear arch and bottom of quarter.
Im hurting due to the superman dive.
But knowbody was hurt and no insurence claims so all good.
karl
, wheel spacers are a no go as far as I'm concerned 
. In my case the studs stayed attached, the whole hub came off 
