Recent content by mginty

Some good stories :) In the end my friendly local garage peeps came out and sorted it all out. I was on a work call at home when they arrived and finished just as they were finishing. I checked the outside cams and they got the van up, wheels off (it's lowered so they needed to pry the...

would an impact gun do the same thing? Annoying about the 1/2 vs 3/4" as I've now got a redundant 1/2" 46mm socket 😁

Thanks @Graham L for keeping us sane 😁 At least I was attempting to loosen! I was using a 1/2" with the bar also inside my jack handle for extra leverage. Do you think that slugger would fit inside a jack handle, looks quite big?

looked into it further and the nearside bearing clamp nut/ front hub lock nut is left threaded by the looks of it? Reason I ask is I was trying to remove the nearside rear castle nut and managed to break my breaker bar and wondering if I was going the wrong way - anti-clockwise to loosen?

thanks @davidoft , I could have sworn I read that they were threaded opposite 😁 but guess not!

maybe should be posting this in technical but...on a UK RHD van, is the offside front and rear hub threaded left? thanks!

Thanks @sunnyside , that's huge! We are going through planning at the moment & I've just had our first plans rejected which was for an approx 12m x 7m garage with an office on top rejected (not much of surprise there really) which is why I'm now scaling it down to a single story garage only...

Thanks @sunnyside, those are good prices! Can I ask how big the garage will be and how you are managing the roof joists? I'm just in the planning stages of doing this but am in an AONB which makes life a bit harder!

I'm thinking of getting a lift fitted and was wondering whether anyone had any experience? I've seen this post but not much else. Not sure wether to look at a 2 post lift or something more like a quickjack?

Hi there, just wanted to say thanks for posting this as I've just been crawling under my van and noticed the very same! I've seen this tubing which I'm guessing is the right piece? Attached are my pics, the sealed bit came off in my hands yesterday!

Thanks Ozzie, where do you get your stuff from? I've managed to figure out that I need a track / tie rod end boot courtesy of the Heritage diagram (#9): https://www.heritagepartscentre.com/uk/volkswagen/t2-bay/steering/tie-rods-ends.html

I'm trying to figure out which part the rubber bit is highlighted below. Do I need a new track-rod end or is it a track rod end boot or a replacement boot for ball joint? Also should I replace both? Looking through my MOT/ service history i seem to have gone through a lot of track rod ends and...

or this: https://www.onegarden.co.uk/garden-buildings/garages/plastic-garages/shelterlogic-round-top-auto-shelter-10x15?gclid=CjwKCAiA65iBBhB-EiwAW253W_gHn1HY2_pbTQwjhZclTDQoJPFL7UiFPPFQB0TQhoCKBZCVcIRoRxoCRe4QAvD_BwE note it doesn't include anchors

Thanks ozziedog, So the bore is the hole in the backplate I'm trying to get the cylinder through like the pics below. The old backplates seem to take the cylinder but the new backplates from JK don't

you thought about digging an inspection pit? I'm looking at plans for a new double garage and thinking about having one rather than installing a lift.