Crank bolt torque for timing belt change (10v)

Phil Payne quattro at isham-research.com
Tue Dec 2 07:37:21 EST 2003


> Well, no, not a scrawny runt like you.  But most
> people can lift more than their body weight. They
> just don't know it.  Then there's my ex -- she
> couldn't lift a finger. :-)

I got picked up in my local pub a few months ago.  Sunday evening, minding my own business,
sitting at the bar, staring at the floor.  And this woman arrived.

After about an hour's chat, I went to the toilet.  When I returned, the room was full of silly
smirks and one lady had a very red face.  It turned out that she'd taken one of my earlier
comments - that I knew everyone in the room - quite literally, and when one of them went up to
the bar for a drink, she asked him about me.  Nigel Stokes.  Nigel, being Nigel, just turned
around to the room (about 20 locals I've known for an average of three decades) and said: "She
wants to know what we think of Phil".

Apparently there was a storm of bawdy, ribald and risque comments - all of which I missed.

Anyway - she's 6'  1 1/2", 240 lbs, built like an outhouse and could probably lift a corner of
an ur-quattro while I changed the wheel.

Unmoved by a trip in an ur-quattro, but likes the Type 44 wagon.

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  Phil Payne
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