Was going to fit me new wheel bearings and bronze bushes friday but it was drizzling so didn't bother.....
Had a whizz round local breakers, found a black 2.4, boy they look small when you rip the suspension off, hardly recognised it.....
Anyway when i got home had a look under mine only to find the nearside outer cv boot split and the grease all over the place....bugger
Well weren't going to fit new stuff with out doing boot so phoned local parts place and lo and behold they had one on the shelf.....
This morning was dry so started to do nearside first.....
Managed to get inner boot off and slide shaft out, popped new boot on and put shaft back in.... simples.....messy but simples....
Started to tackle the bronze bushes, well what ever little yts kid designed them he needs a good shoeing....
how the hell are they supposed to get them out........
ended up using small dremel and slice though the bush to enable it to be tapped out....
Small one was easy just a long bar and whacked it out....
As for the bearings they got that sorted by having cut outs that let you get to the rear of the bearing to whack it.....
must have been about a gallon of grease in between the bearings sat there doing nothing......
Got that side back on, circlip was a bugger to get on but i read in one of tony's posts that it shoudn't be easy......
Got it on as far as i could then put the drive flange on in reverse and slide a big socket over the end of the drive shaft.
Passed a bolt down thru the socket into the thread in drive shaft and tightened it up to pull the shaft thru and push the clip back at the same time.
Tightened wheel bearings to give 6kg of pull on wheel stud, but found that it went up to 10kg+ when drive flange was put on....
Span fairly freely when wheel was on so happy with that....
started to do offside and gave up after getting the bronze bushes in and the big metal bit back on (cannot think what its called) circlip fitted and all ready to take hub with new bearings, but that can wait till the morning......
Watching starwars and waiting for my wifey to cook a nice ham joint...mmmmmm....
Had a whizz round local breakers, found a black 2.4, boy they look small when you rip the suspension off, hardly recognised it.....
Anyway when i got home had a look under mine only to find the nearside outer cv boot split and the grease all over the place....bugger
Well weren't going to fit new stuff with out doing boot so phoned local parts place and lo and behold they had one on the shelf.....
This morning was dry so started to do nearside first.....
Managed to get inner boot off and slide shaft out, popped new boot on and put shaft back in.... simples.....messy but simples....
Started to tackle the bronze bushes, well what ever little yts kid designed them he needs a good shoeing....
how the hell are they supposed to get them out........
ended up using small dremel and slice though the bush to enable it to be tapped out....
Small one was easy just a long bar and whacked it out....
As for the bearings they got that sorted by having cut outs that let you get to the rear of the bearing to whack it.....
must have been about a gallon of grease in between the bearings sat there doing nothing......
Got that side back on, circlip was a bugger to get on but i read in one of tony's posts that it shoudn't be easy......
Got it on as far as i could then put the drive flange on in reverse and slide a big socket over the end of the drive shaft.
Passed a bolt down thru the socket into the thread in drive shaft and tightened it up to pull the shaft thru and push the clip back at the same time.
Tightened wheel bearings to give 6kg of pull on wheel stud, but found that it went up to 10kg+ when drive flange was put on....
Span fairly freely when wheel was on so happy with that....
started to do offside and gave up after getting the bronze bushes in and the big metal bit back on (cannot think what its called) circlip fitted and all ready to take hub with new bearings, but that can wait till the morning......
Watching starwars and waiting for my wifey to cook a nice ham joint...mmmmmm....
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