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Picture this...
muddyjames:
that doesnt look good at all. How can a axle snap though? Is it just down to the axle rusting away?
Disco_Stu:
Ill be bringing it home in a little while and will have a better pic for you.
If you look at your axle, underneath are the brackets where the trailing arm attaches, a swing bracket.
Mine still has the bracket attached to the arm, but the axle is no longer attached to the bracket, and I would guess at corrosion, the axle is pretty bad allover. Hole in diff pan, both spring mounts, generally scabby.
Stu.
SEDDEY:
Glad to know I am not the only one this has happened to.
I was on the way home from work and it felt just like a tyre going flat. Got out had a look.... nothing seemed wrong! Set off again, next thing I know is the truck is doing a great impression of a crab with the back end heading across the road.
I was lucky, no damage to any body work. Oh, and isn't that blue BT rope bill for getting home in an emergency!!
Great this was £11 a piece for the new brackets..... fitted 2.
suggs:
blimey, i only lost a trailing arm bush and that turned the Disco into a rollercoaster, god knows what yours must have been like..
Disco_Stu:
Well, its been a long evening. Managed to make a start about 8'oclock and just got tidied up and showered now.
The axles off, close ups of broken area and general job below.
Job was pretty staraight forward but the top link balljoint was a bitch to split, managed it without damage in the end thankfully.
My replacement axle is now going to cost £100 apparently. Dont you hate it when people talk tall? Get it you for £40 mate, yeh right :evil:
Might aswell rebush the rear end while I'm at it. So, deflex, OE, or polys? :shock:
Stu
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