mjheathcote
Centenary Club
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Job you wished you never started.
Trying to eliminate the knock/rumble on my front offside on the Pinin, which is annoying me, thought I would change the anti-roll bar droplink, even though it appeared okay, they aren't expensive.
How hard can it be? just a couple of M10 nuts....just a job for a lunchtime break.
Rusted solid, and the hexagon key slot in the end to hold the stud from rotating appeared to be a odd size that I didn't have, or rusted out. Anyway the bottom nut you can't easily get a spanner on the nut anyway being recessed, and holding a hex key at the same time!
Had to angle grind one end off, and hacksaw off the other, assembling the hack saw around the front drive shaft and steering arm, with no room for error with drive shaft boots and brake lines very close.
Youngest came home from school, saw the car up on a jack, wheel off, the drive covered in tools, socket sets, spanners, angle grinder, impact wrench, large hammer (very important) it did look rather serious, and simply said "you are a bit of a car mechanic aren't you daddy" and continued walking off into the house!
Did it, a job that should have been 30 minutes took me over 2 hours, an extended lunchbreak.
Did it make any difference? Not one little bit.
Trying to eliminate the knock/rumble on my front offside on the Pinin, which is annoying me, thought I would change the anti-roll bar droplink, even though it appeared okay, they aren't expensive.
How hard can it be? just a couple of M10 nuts....just a job for a lunchtime break.
Rusted solid, and the hexagon key slot in the end to hold the stud from rotating appeared to be a odd size that I didn't have, or rusted out. Anyway the bottom nut you can't easily get a spanner on the nut anyway being recessed, and holding a hex key at the same time!
Had to angle grind one end off, and hacksaw off the other, assembling the hack saw around the front drive shaft and steering arm, with no room for error with drive shaft boots and brake lines very close.
Youngest came home from school, saw the car up on a jack, wheel off, the drive covered in tools, socket sets, spanners, angle grinder, impact wrench, large hammer (very important) it did look rather serious, and simply said "you are a bit of a car mechanic aren't you daddy" and continued walking off into the house!
Did it, a job that should have been 30 minutes took me over 2 hours, an extended lunchbreak.
Did it make any difference? Not one little bit.
