resistance is futile

[Karan]

was looking thru some old pics and found this funny one of how i managed to remove a rear wheel bearing



got the bastid out in the end, but bent about 6 tools/slanners etc in the process

[billgatese30]

are you too tight to buy axle stands or summat mate

[Karan]

couldnt get the inner race of the bearing of the half shaft though

note to self- get a good puller

[Karan]

are you too tight to buy axle stands or summat mate

in a word YES!!,2.7s are pricey enough to run dude!

well i have loadsa bricks so i thought id use em, i mean loadsa them!

they are very stable surprisingly

i will be purchasing axle stands shortly for the project, and also cos i need to change my gbox on the sport

[Jos]

http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/pro ... 8&ts=89607

And for those tight nuts and bolts:

http://www.justoffbase.co.uk/s.nl/sc.9/ ... id.5529/.f

Nice effort with the spanners lol

[Toby_Unna]

at least they're nice new bricks! i've used much worse things to balance cars on!

[Demlotcrew]

at least they're nice new bricks! i've used much worse things to balance cars on!

[E30Mark]

ummm, nice bricks! I've done worse, even living on a hill !!!

Seriously, bricks are not the best things to use under that sort of compresive load, if you accidentally knocked/hit one of them, they do have a tendancy to explode under such conditions..... wood ain't much use either!

[Toby_Unna]

so what type of load goes on bricks near the bottom of multi storey buildings then?

[E30Mark]

so what type of load goes on bricks near the bottom of multi storey buildings then?

I knew that question was coming!

Bricks when fixed together with mortar evenly distribute any weight through out the brick, when they are stacked together like in the picture, the highest point of each brick will be carrying the load, causing uneven loading through the brick. If you’re unlucky to tap the brick in the wrong place and chip off the 'high point' it will have catastrophic effects IMHO.

I'm sure any brickies here will be able to elaborate...

[Simon13]

Mark as a thickie brickie. Those bricks Karan has there are class A engineering bricks used for below ground stuff, bridges, car parks etc. They are very very strong and are possibly the worst brick to use ever.

Oh and what you just said mark is sort of true but the load will be spread evenly to the ground. As Karan has stacked them properly.

I never thought i'd talk about bricks on here!

[Karan]

note there is a piece of wood onto the subframe area, so there is no metal to brick contact

i knew this would stir sumfink up

why are my top class engineering bricks the worst to use ever??

[Geeman]

Karan... what's that red cable that looks to be wrapped around the spring...?

Giles.

[Karan]

just a cable to hold the caliper up and not strain the brake hose


did u think it was some kind of mod to make it faster lol

[johnl320]

when i was a kid the bus driver didn't turn up one morning to take us to school. when we asked the replacement driver ,who was running late where the regular driver was he said that he had been squashed under his car!! we all laughed thinking he was messing around. Turns out he wasn't ,the bricks he had his car on had given away and he had taken about half an hour to die. they estimated him taking that long to croak by the amount of underseal he had managed to remove with his finger nails(and his lack of nails). nice! I still use bricks though, christ i'd use tins of beans if thats all i had!! mmm not a bad idea, does anyone know the SWL of a tin of heinz??

[6potWil6pot]

Jesus what a nasty bedtime story!

[billgatese30]

simon, is it correct that engineering bricks are a pain in the arse to lay next to or in the same wall as normal standard bricks as they are a different size? not sure where i learnt that but i'm sure i heard it somewhere

[Guest]

Hehehe....

I remember trying to get a hub nut off another car using a torque wrench (cos it was longer than my normal ratchet) and when that wouldn't shift it I stuck a handy 10ft washing line pole over the end of it.....result was a broken torque wrench and a slightly bent pole!!! Eventually got it off using an air impact wrench, took a few goes though. I now have a battery one (like tyre fitter monkeys use), best tool I have ever bought, saves a hell of lot of time and bent/broken tools!!!

[billgatese30]

in my garage is a 5ft piece of scaffholding bar with a socket wekded to the end for this very prupose. the socket is for vw hub nuts though.

[Toby_Unna]

Karan Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 6:56 am Post subject:

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i knew this would stir sumfink up

don't worry karan! it really doesn't bother me what you or anyone use to hold your car up or for that matter which bricks are the hardest to lay!

i can't see those bricks collapsing somehow.

[Toby_Unna]

did u think it was some kind of mod to make it faster lol

well there's got to be something you're not telling use about to account for the performance

[Simon13]

I meant engineerings are horrible to use! for me. They are baked very hard in the kiln and have razor sharp edges, they smudge too easily, heavy, you can't cut them easily. No one likes laying them! sorry

[Karan]

i agree they are sharp and heavy

this has to be the most random thread in the tech section ever LOL

and after that stury im gonna get me some stands asap!!!!

[Simon13]

yes reading it made me cringe, minging

[E30Mark]

I really can't remember what i was doing with a enginering brick, but it landed me in A&E for a couple of hours whilst the doc's tried to fathom out how to remove the 'spike' of brick that had punctured through my finger nail... in the end they sent me home saying there was nothingthey could do. Spent the next two days cutting open my finger nail to remove the 'spike' Oh such fun....

Thank God i don't do that much brick laying anymore! Leave it to the likes of Simon from now on

[Demlotcrew]

not even going to attempt to read this whole thread.

[Richy325iTouring]

not even going to attempt to read this whole thread.

Do its interesting reading