Nuts!! (On the rear anti roll bar)
Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 6:08 pm
To all my fellow nut and bolt demolishers, I have some advice.
When you have mullahed the nut on the broken bracket, it is something of a challenge to find a replacement nut that fits the thread. After turning the garage upside down and visiting the local ironmonger, car spares shop, bicycle shop and agricultural engineers, out of desperation I called at a Mazda dealership a few miles away. Spoke to 'The Mazda Man' and he disappeared and came back with some diamond encrusted nuts (they weren't actually diamond encrusted, just seemed like it when it came to paying!). They have a specific thread. Fortunately they are still fitted to the MX8. I did leave the bag next to the computer so that I could supply the part number, but She Who Constantly Tidys has filed it!
So moral of this story is
a) Try to avoid mullahing the nuts
b) If you do, trot along to your local Mazda dealer
c) Don't leave anything out that you want to keep when my missus is around!
When you have mullahed the nut on the broken bracket, it is something of a challenge to find a replacement nut that fits the thread. After turning the garage upside down and visiting the local ironmonger, car spares shop, bicycle shop and agricultural engineers, out of desperation I called at a Mazda dealership a few miles away. Spoke to 'The Mazda Man' and he disappeared and came back with some diamond encrusted nuts (they weren't actually diamond encrusted, just seemed like it when it came to paying!). They have a specific thread. Fortunately they are still fitted to the MX8. I did leave the bag next to the computer so that I could supply the part number, but She Who Constantly Tidys has filed it!
So moral of this story is
a) Try to avoid mullahing the nuts
b) If you do, trot along to your local Mazda dealer
c) Don't leave anything out that you want to keep when my missus is around!
