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Chalkysuper7

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Wishbones !
« on: 01 June 2008, 23:39:23 »
Spent saturday morning down the car club with the intention of replacing my wishbones, First side I tackled had only one problem and that was after I removed the Pinch bolt, the Ball joint stalky thing was an absolute bugger to shift, I used one of those screw up type ball joint splitters and it eventually shifted.

The otherside was less of a problem, until i realised that I had put the long bolt in the short hole and the short bolt in the long hole !!!! Oh dear !!! , time to swap them over  !!

All in all took 3 hours and now No clunks !!!!

If there is anyone in the hampshire area that needs a hand doing this I have the tools and the know how too fresh in my mind and for a few beers would be happy to carry it out again.


Cheers
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Re: Wishbones !
« Reply #1 on: 02 June 2008, 11:05:38 »
i think mine need doing, not looking forward to it  :(
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Re: Wishbones !
« Reply #2 on: 02 June 2008, 11:57:48 »
Its really not that hard if you have the right tools, pre- soak the bolts with wd40 or simular a few days before.

The hardest part is gettin the ball joint free from the hub and then getting the new one back in.

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Re: Wishbones !
« Reply #3 on: 02 June 2008, 12:34:58 »
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Spent saturday morning down the car club with the intention of replacing my wishbones, First side I tackled had only one problem and that was after I removed the Pinch bolt, the Ball joint stalky thing was an absolute bugger to shift, I used one of those screw up type ball joint splitters and it eventually shifted.

The otherside was less of a problem, until i realised that I had put the long bolt in the short hole and the short bolt in the long hole !!!! Oh dear !!! , time to swap them over  !!

All in all took 3 hours and now No clunks !!!!

If there is anyone in the hampshire area that needs a hand doing this I have the tools and the know how too fresh in my mind and for a few beers would be happy to carry it out again.


Cheers

That's a very generous offer there...

Can't comment on the actual job though, I got the wishbones in but sold the car before actually tackling the job so Mikedundee now has my new wishbones.... I am sure they will be put to good use somewhere.



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Re: Wishbones !
« Reply #4 on: 02 June 2008, 13:16:22 »
Having just got a quote on wishbones from andyc he has listed prices for the various associated bolts.

Did you need to purchase any for this job, or were you able to re-use them all?

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Re: Wishbones !
« Reply #5 on: 02 June 2008, 13:25:41 »
You can re-use the bolts for this job as although they are angle tightened, they are not stretched.
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