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Sir Tigger KC

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Rear Track Rods
« on: 30 March 2015, 18:48:32 »
Mine are seized solid!  ::)

Any tips on freeing them up? I've soaked them with WD40 and applied heat but I can't shift them.  :( 

Maybe I should use more welly but I tend to break things when I get brutal!  :o  ;D
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Re: Rear Track Rods
« Reply #1 on: 30 March 2015, 18:51:56 »
Cherry red with a blow torch, but remember that the petrol tank is plastic :-X

They are available new from Vx, Allgerman/Lemforder and also ATP for reasonable money, better to fit new than bend the current ones which are probably the original ones :-\
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Re: Rear Track Rods
« Reply #2 on: 30 March 2015, 18:52:52 »
Quote from: Sir Tigger on 30 March 2015, 18:48:32
Mine are seized solid!  ::)

Any tips on freeing them up? I've soaked them with WD40 and applied heat but I can't shift them.  :( 

Maybe I should use more welly but I tend to break things when I get brutal!  :o ;D


Steel parts that are seized like that need to be heated to red hot to achieve anything useful. You're only going to do that with a welding torch; even a large propane or butane torch won't put enough heat in.
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Re: Rear Track Rods
« Reply #3 on: 30 March 2015, 20:32:03 »
I struggled with mine and changed to Lemforder from ECP in the end. Have managed to free the old ones only once off the car.

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« Reply #4 on: 30 March 2015, 21:21:54 »
Quote from: steve6367 on 30 March 2015, 20:32:03
I struggled with mine and changed to Lemforder from ECP in the end. Have managed to free the old ones only once off the car.

Steve
Probably the most effective way of dealing with them... Can then be greased and rebuilt and kept as spares or sold as exchange items :y
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Re: Rear Track Rods
« Reply #5 on: 30 March 2015, 22:22:02 »
Usually remove, heat up, dismantle, grease thoroughly, refit. But then there's the set up to consider.
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« Reply #6 on: 30 March 2015, 22:22:14 »
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Re: Rear Track Rods
« Reply #7 on: 30 March 2015, 22:32:12 »
Quote from: Taxi Al on 30 March 2015, 21:21:54
Quote from: steve6367 on 30 March 2015, 20:32:03
I struggled with mine and changed to Lemforder from ECP in the end. Have managed to free the old ones only once off the car.

Steve
Probably the most effective way of dealing with them... Can then be greased and rebuilt and kept as spares or sold as exchange items :y

In my case onto the 2.5 and then repeat with what I remove from there  :y
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Re: Rear Track Rods
« Reply #8 on: 30 March 2015, 22:59:22 »
Quote from: chrisgixer on 30 March 2015, 22:22:02
Usually remove, heat up, dismantle, grease thoroughly, refit. But then there's the set up to consider.

Believe it or not that's what I'm considering!  :o  Hence.......  ::)   ;)
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Re: Rear Track Rods
« Reply #9 on: 31 March 2015, 01:18:19 »
Quote from: Sir Tigger on 30 March 2015, 22:59:22
Quote from: chrisgixer on 30 March 2015, 22:22:02
Usually remove, heat up, dismantle, grease thoroughly, refit. But then there's the set up to consider.

Believe it or not that's what I'm considering!  :o  Hence.......  ::)   ;)

NO! Don't believe a word of it. Lies lies lies ;D

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Re: Rear Track Rods
« Reply #10 on: 02 April 2015, 20:56:52 »
On scrapping a car I take RTRs off the car, heat them up, free them off, grease and store. Running 6 Omegas for 8 years, I have occasionally had MOT advisory notes on play in rear track rod ball joints, never a failure. The same MOT tester who advised slight play one year ignored it the next. I have never changed a rear track rod on an Omega.
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Re: Rear Track Rods
« Reply #11 on: 02 April 2015, 22:24:42 »
I'm wondering whether to get a set off a scrapper, free them up and then I've got them ready to go on when I sort out the back end.  :-\
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Re: Rear Track Rods
« Reply #12 on: 02 April 2015, 22:28:57 »
I got a set of new ones from ECP and took them with me to WiM and got them to fit and set up with the rest of it :y :y
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Re: Rear Track Rods
« Reply #13 on: 02 April 2015, 23:14:06 »
That's a good idea!  :y  I'm thinking about my rear doughnuts, so was thinking of having a set ready to whack on at the same time.  :-\

My tyres are near the end anyway and I'll get it set up soon after, so it won't matter if it's not quite right.  ;)
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« Reply #14 on: 03 April 2015, 07:32:53 »
Mine came from ECP too, not expensive and seem fine. I have then overhauled the one that came off  :y
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