13-06-2011, 10:18 AM
fido
Both of my ancient Leyland EAs and an FG I had are/were like that, although I hadn't realised that they still did it in the LDV era.
Many moons ago I arranged to borrow a friend's FG. When I went to pick it I found one of the rear tyres was flat. No problem, there's a spare and a jack. However, I couldn't undo the nuts. I summoned up a friend and more tols and we set to. We put so much force on one of the nuts using a half inch extention bar that we twisted it like barley sugar. I've still got it. In the end I decided to drive it with one tyre flat as it was double wheeler and empty. When we got to the (lorry) tyre place the young lad fetched quite a short bar and undid all the nuts while we looked on. Of course we'd spent a couple of hours tightening them up. So, don't lose any as I suspect they're pretty thin on the ground now.
Alan
Both of my ancient Leyland EAs and an FG I had are/were like that, although I hadn't realised that they still did it in the LDV era.
Many moons ago I arranged to borrow a friend's FG. When I went to pick it I found one of the rear tyres was flat. No problem, there's a spare and a jack. However, I couldn't undo the nuts. I summoned up a friend and more tols and we set to. We put so much force on one of the nuts using a half inch extention bar that we twisted it like barley sugar. I've still got it. In the end I decided to drive it with one tyre flat as it was double wheeler and empty. When we got to the (lorry) tyre place the young lad fetched quite a short bar and undid all the nuts while we looked on. Of course we'd spent a couple of hours tightening them up. So, don't lose any as I suspect they're pretty thin on the ground now.
Alan
