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I have a lot of play on the diff input video here: This is with the handbrake on and so no output movement. This diff has a castellated nut with split pin, so shims on the input. Is there anything I can do or is it just on its way out? -
This was the response: My father was in the Western desert ( he was in operation Compass and in Tobruk during the second siege ) but he didn't get as far as Italy. He was on battlefield ordnance-clearance but he didn't talk much about that - it included having to enter knocked-out tanks to dispose of unstable and unexploded ammo and you can guess what else might be in there. His luck ran out in 1942 when some dodgy Italian shells he was dealing with exploded prematurely. He spent a long time in hospital while they put him back together. Stlll, he fared better than his elder brother who was lost on HMS Barham when it was torpedoed and blew up in 1941. -
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Hi Nicky T, Thanks so much for sharing your story. I truly appreciate learning and hearing historical stories told by those who have lived them. I also enjoyed being enlightened about actual changes made to the movie. I'll have to watch both again. I only wish the 35% of my "fellow " Americans who are ignorant and want to stay that way, deny the past and seek to rewrite it. The orange ape wants to remove long time historical texts from our educational syllabus. He says SLAVERY was a good thing, it taught them so much about ???????. The Governors of Florida and Texas have removed textbooks from schools and libraries. The USA is becoming a very dark country. I thank our European Allies ! Steve -
Today I discovered a few useful things, in a non-useful order. 1- the rear trunnion bush bolt is a pain to get out, and really need the driveshaft off the car if you don't have a really good clamp to press the bolt out. 2- front and rear trunnion bush kits are not the same. 3- the spare trunion bush I have in stock is a front one. Spitfire is now stranded on 3 wheels on the drive looking a bit like a dog about to mark it's territory!
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I think it was officially announced yesterday that the US has completely pulled out of the WHO. Because one country's doctors and scientists are apparently better than the entire rest of the worlds?
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Operation Dynamo. It was considered a miracle that they managed to evacuate 338,000 British and French Troops. My dad was in West Africa initially and then ended up critically injured in Operation Husky. (Sicily, 1943.) He was riding motorcycle when a personnel carrier beside him hit a land mine. (He was trying to catch up to the lead vehicle as he'd been given info there were mines ahead. Was flown back to England with a "hole" in his skull, and taken to Park Prewett Hospital N/W of Basingstoke. It had been repurposed from a psychiatric hospital to treat injured soldiers during the war. Operated on by the "father of plastic surgery" Sir Harold Gillies. After a stainless steel plate repair failed (constant headaches) he he came up with a method for my dad, of making a mould of the opening in his skull, and then crafted an acrylic plug for the opening. He was flown back to Canada some time later and that patch was in his head - and worked well - for the rest of his life. Trivia: The solders at Sicily were the ones called "The D-Day Dodgers" by those that served in Normandy. Special mention: Husky was preceded by Operation Mincemeat. Brits managed to fool Hitler into thinking the allies were going to hit Greece instead of Italy. Hitler pulled most of his troops out Italy and moved them to Greece. Made the job easier but it was still no cakewalk. The movie: "The Man Who Never Was" (1956) is Operation Mincemeat. The 2021 version (Operation Mincemeat) is historically more accurate as much more of Montagu's memoirs had been declassified by then. Sorry for rambling....
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It's official, due to the mistake by a Triumph Exp member who posted on the With Open Eyes thread and gave a political link ... we've been scrubbed from the site
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By Escadrille Ecosse · Posted
Ouch! Hope that heals up swiftly. Range Rover into the breach. Something to be said for (relative) simplicity
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