The grumpy thread

[Rusty_Rocket]

You'll really need an imperial socket and spanner set for working on a Mini.  Otherwise you'll round everything off and your life will be misery!!

 

Halfords do good AF tools.  You'll only need the most basic set of their expert spanners, which last well.

 

For oddball stuff, get 2nd hand sockets on ebay.  Google the sizes for-

Steering wheel nut

Balljoint socket

Hub nuts.

 

If I get a minute, I'll put a list up!

[SiC]

Anyone done any car stuff today? Radical I know.

 

I was gonna crack my nut off earlier and drain my stale fluid. It’s been a while (20 years). Then I remembered that, for some inexplicable reason, I would need a socket the size of Dundee just to do the job.

 

BLARG: ytho?

 

Why is the sump plug on a Mini TWENTY FOUR MM?? It looks like a fucking bath plug. Am I missing something? Is it so bits of the gearbox come out in the fluid?

 

Considered Pela but thought better of it.

 

Best order one.

This will be pretty much all you ever need for the majority of jobs on it or any other older British classic car you may buy in the future:

https://www.machinemart.co.uk/p/clarke-pro365-10-piece--drive-af-socket-set/

https://www.machinemart.co.uk/p/pro363-9-pce-38in-drive-af-socket-set/

https://www.machinemart.co.uk/p/clarke-pro367-8-pce-14-dr-deep-af-socket-set/

https://www.machinemart.co.uk/p/cht142-9-pce-38in-dr-af-deep-socket-set/

https://www.machinemart.co.uk/p/clarke-pro361-9-piece-14-drive-af-socket-set/

https://www.machinemart.co.uk/p/pro21-9-pce-af-combination-wrench-set/

 

I have a Machine Mart VAT free voucher that will knock off 20% if you want to stock up. Voucher expires on the 26th Feb. My calculation is just under 62 quid with the VAT free voucher.

[SiC]

You'll really need an imperial socket and spanner set for working on a Mini.  Otherwise you'll round everything off and your life will be misery!!

 

Halfords do good AF tools.  You'll only need the most basic set of their expert spanners, which last well.

 

For oddball stuff, get 2nd hand sockets on ebay.  Google the sizes for-

Steering wheel nut

Balljoint socket

Hub nuts.

 

If I get a minute, I'll put a list up!

I can't see on Halfords website anymore their Imperial sized spanners.

I have a set and they're incredibly useful!

 

Hence my links to Machine Mart stuff. I prefer Halfords tools if I can but the "PRO" Machine Mart stuff has been pretty decent for me when I've used them.

[dollywobbler]

I'm pretty sure I've (fittingly) got a Mini HubNut socket somewhere. Wonder if it fits the Reliant?

[red5]

You'll really need an imperial socket and spanner set for working on a Mini.  Otherwise you'll round everything off and your life will be misery!!

 

Halfords do good AF tools.  You'll only need the most basic set of their expert spanners, which last well.

 

For oddball stuff, get 2nd hand sockets on ebay.  Google the sizes for-

Steering wheel nut

Balljoint socket

Hub nuts.

 

If I get a minute, I'll put a list up!

 

Halford stuff is good. We have 24 toolboxes full of it.

 

I may or may not be on the back of the trade publication extolling the virtues.

 

I can ask if 'we' can get it at the same trade rate we got before...?

[SiC]

These are the other special sockets you may need in the future on the Mini:

1 1/2"   - Swivel Pin/Ball Joints
1 1/8'   - Drum Brake Hub Nut, Crank Pulley Bolt 
1 5/16'  - Disc Brake Hub Nut, Steering Wheel Boss, Flywheel Bolt 

https://www.moss-europe.co.uk/tools-equipment/hand-tools/socketry/single-sockets-af.html

 

1 1/2" you can get away with 38mm as its close enough. Infact I had to go 38mm to find any sort of modern Impact rated socket in that size.

[captain_cal]

dont drink tea   ( what !!  )

 

dont drink coffee   ( I dont anyway )

 

Cover your chin in Yorkshire toffee?

[wuvvum]

I have a mixed metric / imperial socket set which goes up to about 15mm / 5/8".  Anything larger than that I find that the nearest metric equivalent does the job OK - my metric socket set goes up to 36mm.  It's rare I'll find a job that isn't enough for (hub nut on a Citroën Relay is the only example which springs to mind).

[The Moog]

Cover your chin in Yorkshire toffee?

I was literally listening to that 10 mins ago ...

 

Bumper to bumper .

[John F]

Throwing the baby out with the bathwater that. There's some great thread in there about household DIY, vacuum cleaners, electroinics, etc.

 

I am getting really fucking sick of the Professionally Offended getting illuviated man-cunts about stuff they could just fucking ignore.

 

Simply put, these perennially-whining tossers are ruining the forum. If it's got to the point where we can't even discuss an automotive factory closure (ffs!) because it might stray too close to the strictly forbidden subject of politics, then this place has run its course.

 

Mods, can you start naming & shaming these hand-wringing CUNTS so we can post them many, many Argos catalogues please? Ta muchly.

[John F]

OK then, I have a suggestion.

 

Revoke the no politics, no religion, etc. rule - it doesn't work, and forces people into a deeply unrealistic minefield of self-policing with no strictly-defined borders... then we mention the naughty subject matter in the thread title, e.g. "CAUTION contains politics" so that these egregious perma-huffers don't get hot under their collars? You know, then they could just IGNORE THE FUCKING THREAD.

 

Then we could get back to dealing with stuff like we used to do, without having these pathetic, dripping-wet petals constantly sighing and tutting and demanding that we all conform to their peevish Victorian social standards.

 

Or maybe we could create an entirely new part of the forum for them, with nice primary-colour pictures of Red cars, and Blue cars, and with all the edges covered in strips of foam so they don't bang their little heads when having a tantrum? Oh, and there'll be strictly no naughty words in there, of course. They must be protected.

 

[John F]

Seriously, though... two of the most important social issues in Britain today are B****t and the Shamima Begum citizenship debate.

 

And we're not allowed to have an opinion of either of them on the "Open forum", because they involve politics. And possibly religion, maybe even race. So what's better? To disagree about currrent issues, perhaps, or to be BANNED FROM EVEN DISCUSSING THEM?

 

For fuck's sake.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

[warren t claim]

Seriously, though... two of the most important social issues in Britain today are B****t and the Shamima Begum citizenship debate.

 

And we're not allowed to have an opinion of either of them on the "Open forum", because they involve politics. And possibly religion, maybe even race. So what's better? To disagree about currrent issues, perhaps, or to be BANNED FROM EVEN DISCUSSING THEM?

 

For fuck's sake.

All topics being discussed without shit fits on our grown ups forum.

[dollywobbler]

Given the utter shite on social media about those two topics, a ban on discussing them is very sensible.

[Captain Furious]

I stand with you John F!

 

Only, a couple of paces behind and crouching down because I’m already on a warning

[garbaldy]

Seriously, though... two of the most important social issues in Britain today are B****t and the Shamima Begum citizenship debate.

 

And we're not allowed to have an opinion of either of them on the "Open forum", because they involve politics. And possibly religion, maybe even race. So what's better? To disagree about currrent issues, perhaps, or to be BANNED FROM EVEN DISCUSSING THEM?

 

For fuck's sake.

So if we are 100% no politics does that make the forum a dictatorship ?

[John F]

warren t claim, on 20 Feb 2019 - 10:12 PM, said:

All topics being discussed without shit fits on our grown ups forum.

 

Which proves that it can be done, if people behave like adults.

 

I've been a member of this community for about 8 years now, I'd much prefer to stay here. Also, I feel morally obliged to give the whining cunts both barrels...

 

 

garbaldy, on 20 Feb 2019 - 10:14 PM, said:

So if we are 100% no politics does that make the forum a dictatorship ?

 

It's certainly not a democracy at the moment. I'm not blaming the mods for this, but if they organised A POLL about how people wanted the site to be run then they wouldn't have to worry about people whining to them all the time... the majority will have spoken.

 

Unless it ends up like a certain word beginning with B, of course... lol

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Seriously, though... two of the most important social issues in Britain today are B****t and the Shamima Begum citizenship debate.

 

And we're not allowed to have an opinion of either of them on the "Open forum", because they involve politics. And possibly religion, maybe even race. So what's better? To disagree about currrent issues, perhaps, or to be BANNED FROM EVEN DISCUSSING THEM?

 

For fuck's sake.

 

 

[John F]

^ Soz, I gave up on that after 27 seconds (that I won't get back) because I can't see how it's applicable to the issue at all. Also, it's unpleasantly cheesy in a transatlantic way that doesn't gel with me at all.

 

Do you not think that people ignoring threads that may offend them is a good idea, especially since it doesn't impose social constraints on others that might not be so thin-skinned?

[GrumpiusMaximus]

[John F]

OK then, looks like you aren't prepared to actually debate this issue.

 

Here's a video for YOU then...

 

 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

OK then, looks like you aren't prepared to actually debate this issue.

 

Here's a video for YOU then...

 

 

 

 

[myglaren]

A couple of (non-car) forums I visit have subforums - "The Pit"  where anything goes including blatant flaming - but it stays there and is not permitted to be mentioned anywhere else on the forum on pain of exclusion.

Never felt the need to enter those areas but they must fill a need.

[New POD]

I'm pretty sure I've (fittingly) got a Mini HubNut socket somewhere. Wonder if it fits the Reliant?

I believe I have mini and metro ball joint sockets somewhere. Fecking massive.

[John F]

Sorry Grumpius, I'm not going to watch random yank videos. I've already tried explaining that.

If you want to actually discuss this matter feel free to post your opinion.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

[GrumpiusMaximus]

I'm just trying to cheer you all up.  Posting clips of one of the funniest films ever made.

 

You don't have to reply or read this thread if you don't want to.

[garbaldy]

I'm just trying to cheer you all up. Posting clips of one of the funniest films ever made.

 

You don't have to reply or read this thread if you don't want to.

If that's the case your in the wrong thread this is the grumpy old man thread.

[John F]

If that's the case your in the wrong thread this is the grumpy old man thread.

 

He's a little monkey, isn't he? A benefit to the community, I'm sure.

 

I'd added him to 'ignore' though, I wouldn't have noticed his amusing little cabaret if you hadn't quoted him