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Final leg of stripping the donor tomorrow me thinks
andrews_45 - 22/8/05 at 12:01 AM

Right then,

I am booked off work tomorrow (hence why I am still up geeking at one in the morning) and plan to finally get the front hubs off. Both of the bolts had well and truly siezed and sheared off when I turned them.

So, I plan to use spring clamps to retain the springs, then drill a small hole in the suspension dampers to drain off any fluid.
Once that is done I can chop the damper in half using an angle grinder and take the hub into work and use a pillar drill, do make a decent job of drilling out the 'sheared off bolt'. - Unless that is... that someone else knows a better way...


violentblue - 22/8/05 at 03:19 AM

sheared off bolts? drill it and use an "easy out" if its really stubborn, heat it up then douce with water it should pop free easily at that point.


andrews_45 - 22/8/05 at 01:10 PM

awsome!, done it but of brute force and both suspesion units come out. now i'll take em to work and get the hubs off