So what have you done to your car today?

[TheBoy]

Hi The Boy

Thx for your interlingual friendly words.

I mean these bearings:

In German we say "Tonnenlager". Tonnen = tons, Lager = bearings. What is the English word for that?

Rolf with a smile in his face - after the sandstorm.

As Andy H says, we tend to call them "doughnut bushes".

They are cheap to buy (about £15GBP for reasonable quality, each), though many of us have use polybushes here, available approx. £90GBP the pair from Pedders/Monkfish in the UK.


The old ones can sometimes be a bugger to remove, as 20yrs of metal on metal corrosion has made them stick together.

[Zirfeld]

Hi The Boy

No problems to press out the old ones. Some adjustments, pressing and plob, the old one is out. Both in 10 minutes. My old press is worth gold. By the way, it is an historic tool. All Thorens high end platter spindles are pressed in with this tool during the 80s.

Rolf

[TheBoy]

Hi The Boy

No problems to press out the old ones. Some adjustments, pressing and plob, the old one is out. Both in 10 minutes. My old press is worth gold. By the way, it is an historic tool. All Thorens high end platter spindles are pressed in with this tool during the 80s.

Rolf

Ah, yes, as its off the car, a press is an option

[TheBoy]

Washed and vac'd TBE and the jag this morning. Got bad streaks though, as it was just drying too quickly

[Viral_Jim]

Waved her off this evening to the parents.  I actually tried to give the car away, but they were having none of it and gave us £400 in the end.

Either way you look at it a good result. Fully working car, 11.5months MOT with a boot full of oil and spares, plus brand new tow bar. Probably about what I would have got for it after fees etc and I didn't have to deal with any morons.

Happy days 

[Zirfeld]

Hi The Boy

I have a problem. All offers of donut bushes in the i-net shows bushes with cylindrical rubber body. But mine is conical. Down 90 mm, up 70 mm.

I called up the local Opel dealer. I was told, there are 3 spare part numbers, but nothing is available.

I think my old bushes are Lemfoerder (logo) part no. 132 107

Any idear? Question also to Doc Gollum.

bild hochladen

Rolf

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Washed it again. A squadron of albatross are making their way in from the east to cover it again, as I type.

[Doctor Gollum]

Rolf, you haven't removed to old bush completely.

TheBoy comment about rusting in was slightly misleading.

There is still a metal collar stuck in the subframe. This collar is rubber coated on the outside, this splits allowing moisture in causing the rubber core to delamination, resulting in what you see...

From underneath, wedge a chisel under the lip and smash ten bells of shit out of it... Once it starts to deform, it should simply tap out from above

[Zirfeld]

THX very much Doc!

I will check it tomorrow, because today it is impossible to work on my garage yard. Still over 30°C...

Does it mean, I can order normal cylindrical Febi bushes?

Rolf

[Andy H]

Rolf, you haven't removed to old bush completely.

TheBoy comment about rusting in was slightly misleading.

There is still a metal collar stuck in the subframe. This collar is rubber coated on the outside, this splits allowing moisture in causing the rubber core to delamination, resulting in what you see...

From underneath, wedge a chisel under the lip and smash ten bells of shit out of it... Once it starts to deform, it should simply tap out from above

This^

With the subframe off the car, and a suitable press, the metal outer collar should almost fall out with the correct size spacers in the press.

[Zirfeld]

Thanks Andy

I will do it tomorrow afternoon. The Febis are ordered.

Rolf

[EMD]

Broke the con rod  . On the air compressor   
New shocks on the boot lid and debadged.

[Zirfeld]

Hi Doc Gollum

So I did and I have the bearings out. The new ones are ordered (Febi) and I hope to get them until the weekend.

So the rear suspension can be reassembled with new rear brake pipes over the weekend. Maybe I do some cosmetic before. Cleaning, painting...

Shit, it is only my winter caravan, but he looks dammed good  in some hidden places.....

Rolf

[TheBoy]

Put 76l of lorry juice in it.

How much does it hold, as the handbook is just 'dangle berries':

Usable capacity: 77l
Capacity down to empty on guage: 68l
Reserve capacity once on empty: 4l


Now I know I'm just the stupid kid from the local comprehensive, and my maths is rudimentary, but I can't make those figures add up.

[TD]

Put 76l of lorry juice in it.

How much does it hold, as the handbook is just 'dangle berries':

Usable capacity: 77l
Capacity down to empty on guage: 68l
Reserve capacity once on empty: 4l


Now I know I'm just the stupid kid from the local comprehensive, and my maths is rudimentary, but I can't make those figures add up.

Its easy...do the sums and your left with 5l still in the tank....which is probably enough left if you park on a slope and the fuel ends up the wrong end of the tank to the pickup pipe for the pickup pipe still to be submerged, if you see what I mean.....

The gauge on my Mondeo....is very prone to slopes and probably the pick up pipe as well....the camber on my road is quite great....park outside my house and in the morning the gauge can read empty....park on opposite side where the camber goes the other way, in the morning gauge can read 1/4 full