Hey Graham lets be honest - we'll never catch him up!! He is our inspiration and our master!!! Great to see this moving along. Thanks again Deathrow for making this information available to us. I used to read your post anonymously thinking I could never do that! I was just so impressed. That sounds bad - still am most impressed!! Keep up the great work.
Hugh
Cheers Hugh, but I wouldn't call me a master! The work of others on this forum is always what inspires me to have a go and then better my work
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Been to the garage the past few days but it seems I'm putting alot of effort in and not really getting anywhere
. I'm hoping I can make a change to that pattern tomorrow and get some proper work done.
Anyway, here are the pictures:
Got the holes drilled for the front plate. It looks wonky because the holes in the plate were drilled in the wrong place by whoever fitted it before me. I'll replace it at some point.
Had to grind a bit of metal away here in order to provide clearance for the spot brackets on my grille.
Om nom nom.
The mounting holes for the grille didn't quite tally with each other and they were slightly to one side. So welded them up.
Neatly.
Dressed the weld.
Redrilled the holes where they should have been (I was probably just being picky, but I'm like that!).
I then set about stripping the remainder of the front subframe down.
Bottom arm bushes were seized on the shaft so I had to cut the end of the bush and persuade the arm off the rubber instead.
Those sleeves are going to be a joy to remove.
Then I began dismantling the other hub and found...
Great. I'm relatively sure that means this CV is scrap. £30.
And the other side. Super, that's £60 then and I imagine I'll need to do both sets of bearings too, £160
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Just when you think you've replaced every part imaginable, she throws more scrap at me. I'll be asking in technical about those shafts and if they're reusable. I'll pull the bearings as soon as my new punch set shows up and check them out.
Thanks for looking
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