Did something spectacularly stupid today.

Originally Posted by moto748

Presumably it was a flanged bolt-head, the type with a kind of integral washer?

Otherwise couldn't you have slid the ratchet spanner down the bolt and off the head, and then screwed it in a little with an open-ended?

You presume right. Even if it wasn't, it still wouldn't have screwed back in. In retrospect, I don't think the bolt is meant to come right out anyway because it has bleed holes round the edge that the oil comes out of when partially unscrewed.

Originally Posted by Zanx

I don't think the bolt is meant to come right out anyway because it has bleed holes round the edge that the oil comes out of when partially unscrewed.

That's quite clever, when you know about it.

Originally Posted by ink ink

That's quite clever, when you know about it.

*wonders if the manual made mention*

Originally Posted by Bwana

*wonders if the manual made mention*

What is this "Man hew well" of which you speak? Is it part of man world or woman world?