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H:
well 4 swivel housing bearings and 2 cv joints later she back running again lucky didnt need new pins, although one of my cv was a bit worn and the other ummm best described as smashed to bits! I'm off now to find the person who decided to use torques csk bolts to hold in the lower swivel pin and make him (or her) eat the stripped and knacked bolts that held me up for at least 2 hours this afternoon.

H

Jim-Willy:
Glad its fixed Howard!

Budgie:

--- Quote from: "H" ---I'm off now to find the person who decided to use torques csk bolts to hold in the lower swivel pin and make him (or her) eat the stripped and knacked bolts that held me up for at least 2 hours this afternoon.

H
--- End quote ---
You think that's bad, try getting the swivle housing away from the axle on a 300 Series Disco! They put 8 of the things on it!!!  :evil:


Good to hear your back on the road though H.  :wink:

H:
one was bad enough after eventually getting one off on the near side (bending my mole grips in the process) had to drill most of the head off the 2nd and then hammer the ballast bar over the rest of the remaining head as the head from the drill had tempered the steel and it would drill anymore. had to hammer the ballast bar straight again.... then trip up to the local engineering factors and guess what they didnt have any 11/16 ufc 1 1/4" csk socket screws so I had to get hex heads and acouple of washers to bodge the job for the time being, only reason I can soo for the bolts needing to be counter sunk is so that the brake sheild can fit over them unless I missed something seems daft to engineer somethign so crutial to constraingts of a small 1.2mm thick metal sheild that they could have easly added a bit to and had normal bolts in there...... Rant over. but anyway shes running again and unless anyone can show me anythign crutially wrong with my bodge of using hex nuts instead of the  counter suk she'll do until I can get my hands on the proper bults (preferably with a allen head rather than an torques)

H
ps wouldnt have minded so much if it had been a cheap torques biut that didnt fit well but it was a snap on one, the hole in the head of that bolt is just too shallow!

Budgie:
Sorry H, we were talking about different things.  :oops:

The bolts on the swivel housings are normal bolts, just that they have a Torx head instead of a hex head, and they're Locktighted in there!  :roll:

I know what you went through though, nothign worse that spending two hours getting one bolt undone!!  :?

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