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Praise the lord its dropped off
Catpuss - 15/1/07 at 01:35 PM

Thankfully after 3 weekends and about 6 cutting disks I have manged to get the diff to drop off. Sort of looked like a huge snake trying to swallow a greased pig lying on the floor after lowering it down.

Soddin rounded bolts. Ended up having to cut the bottom of the boot off in the end to get access to the final bits. Then to add insult to injury the drift I used to drive out the top diff bolt got stuck and I had to cut/grind it away.

Still thats he back end strip 90% complete. Just the drum back plates to go and the handbrake.

Then its just pulling off the uprights & front wheels.

Oh and clearing the credit card and getting the cash saved up for the MK kit

mcerd1 - 15/1/07 at 02:08 PM

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Originally posted by Catpuss
Then its just pulling off the uprights & front wheels.


Ha, if life were that easy

I've done 3 sets of front uprights now
1 set fell off once the pinch bolt was out (but they where granada ones), the other two sets took 2 hours a strut to dismantle (on the bench, with hamers, saws, grinders and a 30 ton press )

Still at least my back axle wasn't as bad, all the nuts came off with little more than pulled muscles - rear beam still didn't want to let go but my dad (110kg) bouncing on an 8ft bar sorted that.
and I only broke 5 torx bits geting the driveshafts off

I shouldn't speak too soon though, I've still got two more back axles to strip


[Edited on 15/1/07 by mcerd1]

macnab - 15/1/07 at 03:12 PM

there is a quicker way... Rescued attachment dismantling donor.jpg
Rescued attachment dismantling donor.jpg

ReMan - 15/1/07 at 08:08 PM

"Soddin rounded bolts. Ended up having to cut the bottom of the boot off in the end to get access to the final bits. Then to add insult to injury the drift I used to drive out the top diff bolt got stuck and I had to cut/grind it away.

My sympathies, this should be an eay job, but I like yourself struggled like a tw*t to get the diff out, with the assosiated pains as you describe, and all whilst lying uinder a ton weight that could fall and kill you at any moment!

Catpuss - 16/1/07 at 07:16 PM

quote:
Originally posted by ReMan
"Soddin rounded bolts. Ended up having to cut the bottom of the boot off in the end to get access to the final bits. Then to add insult to injury the drift I used to drive out the top diff bolt got stuck and I had to cut/grind it away.

My sympathies, this should be an eay job, but I like yourself struggled like a tw*t to get the diff out, with the assosiated pains as you describe, and all whilst lying uinder a ton weight that could fall and kill you at any moment!


Yep, I *really* don't like getting under cars. Hence I just cut the whole boot out so I could lean in with an angle grinder where I couldn't reach from the edge.

I kept just enough of the boot to keep my tools in .