So my reverse lights started to flicker or not work the other day. No big deal, just a new reverse switch.
Put in a new reverse switch but couldn't get the plug on it, so whiped it back out to notice the pins where wonky and one was even moving slightly, a few seconds later:



Bit of a pain, but no big deal I'll just get another one tomorrow.
Get the old one back in finger tight, put a ring spanner on it to just nip it up, before it even started to turn the ring spanner fell off. I look to the floor to find this inside the ring spanner:





Does anyone have any good ideas from trying to unscrew the hollow threaded tube that is now stuck in my gearbox?!