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Old 23rd April 2011, 22:15
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Originally Posted by GreatOldOne View Post

I think I may have inadvertently caused it to come loose as I smeared the thread with a little copper grease, in an effort to stop corrosion. In retrospect, not a very clever idea, as I guess it eased it's rotation back out of the socket.
I think British Leyland design them to rust in and that stops them rotating on a metro

My MOT man always seems to take a very keen interest in my ball joints? I think he is just of a very suspicious nature or maybe he recognised them as BL bin ends? But he did completely miss that my fuel tank was leaking!
My third MOT is next month so we'll see what he finds this time....
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