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[berserkerboy]

One further thing. Should I get a couple of people to sit in the front seats whilst I tighten, or it the weight of the car enough?

[05omegav6]

Weight of the car is fine

[berserkerboy]

Cheers!

[berserkerboy]

Passenger side wishbone went in a lot easier as I was able to get it in much more level by jacking the shock up a bit and out of the way. Only slight concern is that the little blanking plate with the rubber centre fitted to the wishbone keeps falling out. It had fallen out on arrival and I just tapped it in thinking that would be okay. Am thinking that I will need to use some gripfil to hold it in.

[05omegav6]

That's the steering bump stop iirc so probably best fitted

Where were the wishbones from? Any idea of make?

[Terbs]

Okay. I have lemforder from car parts 4 less. Are these polybushed? Also, I know front bolt has a special sequence of tightening with the weight of the car on it, but what about the rear?

I assume he has these, Al

[05omegav6]

I would be quite disappointed if that's the case, especially given their price

[berserkerboy]

Yep definitely Lemforder. Gonna let Car parts 4 less know and will email lemforder as well if they have a customer service department. For the time being will glue them in with gripfill after I have taken some pictures. After all the bother of fitting them I'm reluctant to send them back and the MOT retest is tomorrow.

[05omegav6]

Yep definitely Lemforder. Gonna let Car parts 4 less know and will email lemforder as well if they have a customer service department. For the time being will glue them in with gripfill after I have taken some pictures. After all the bother of fitting them I'm reluctant to send them back and the MOT retest is tomorrow.

That be the issue then

Report back with what they say on the subject...

[berserkerboy]

Shit! Trying to get the broken bleed nipple out. Tried to cut a slot with dremel to get a screwdriver on. Wouldn't work even using top torque on lecky driver. Easy out, broke tool in hole. Can't now drill out as easy out will be too hard. New caliper then, should have ordered one up in the first place I guess.

[Nick W]

You have a Dremel? Then the tiny milling cutters might enable you to grind around the easy out if you're careful, lucky and have several of them. If you already have such tools then you have nothing to lose trying them.

I don't own easyouts as I've only ever seen the make the problem worse.

If you have this again then use the Dremel to grind away the inside of the nipple until you just start to see the thread appear. That should loosen what's left enough for you to remove it.

[omegod]

Got some rear calipers in the shed but think they may be the solid disc variety 

[Marks DTM Calib]

Bleed it via the brake pipe union as a stop gap with the calliper pistons fully retracted

[berserkerboy]

Thanks all for your advice. Recon calliper off ebay should be here Tuesday. Struggled to find one initially with everyone wanting over £100 or not available. Found a company that had bought redundant stock and don't need mine back £57.20 delivered.
Rock auto co uk had some for about the same price but I had problems with their website when trying to buy the wishbones. Would have tried them otherwise.
Have new bleed nipples for the other callipers from brakes international which I will put on when I bleed the system.

[terry paget]

Passenger side wishbone went in a lot easier as I was able to get it in much more level by jacking the shock up a bit and out of the way. Only slight concern is that the little blanking plate with the rubber centre fitted to the wishbone keeps falling out. It had fallen out on arrival and I just tapped it in thinking that would be okay. Am thinking that I will need to use some gripfil to hold it in.

Well done. I always struggle a bit replacing wishbones, in particular getting in the vertical bolt and popping the ball joint pin into the hub. I found it helped unbolting the drop link and the steering arm from the hub and compressing the spring. Is this normal practice?