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Steering drop arm replacement
Saffy:
--- Quote from: Range Rover Blues on January 18, 2010, 00:53:05 ---Not too bad a job provided the race isn't worn away. You have to push the old race out of the arm using a shoulder inside the top of the arm. Mine had worm badly becasue it wasn't lined up properly, I had to grind the arm a little to expose the race and then drift it out.
I use a G-Clamp and 2 sockets to hold it together whilst I fight the circlip back in.
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i recall doing something along those line, thought I posted on here about it can't find though. Think I used trolley jack and extension bar to push the plate up to get circlip in. Small sharp chisel taps on the rim crushed/split the race inward and was not so bad too remove once things moved so I could identify what was race and what was casting.
OOHHH burgerman my advice is not to get a cheap paddocks one but get a genuine/OEM from lrseries.com or somewhere as the cheap ones the bottom plate are poor to fit, the ball is not chromed and worst of all the rubber boot is cheap and thin and if it doesn't forever keep popping off its mount it will split and the bare its goodly juices (use your old boot if you bought one already).
burgerman:
--- Quote from: Saffy on January 18, 2010, 08:18:27 ---
--- Quote from: Range Rover Blues on January 18, 2010, 00:53:05 ---Not too bad a job provided the race isn't worn away. You have to push the old race out of the arm using a shoulder inside the top of the arm. Mine had worm badly becasue it wasn't lined up properly, I had to grind the arm a little to expose the race and then drift it out.
I use a G-Clamp and 2 sockets to hold it together whilst I fight the circlip back in.
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i recall doing something along those line, thought I posted on here about it can't find though. Think I used trolley jack and extension bar to push the plate up to get circlip in. Small sharp chisel taps on the rim crushed/split the race inward and was not so bad too remove once things moved so I could identify what was race and what was casting.
OOHHH burgerman my advice is not to get a cheap paddocks one but get a genuine/OEM from lrseries.com or somewhere as the cheap ones the bottom plate are poor to fit, the ball is not chromed and worst of all the rubber boot is cheap and thin and if it doesn't forever keep popping off its mount it will split and the bare its goodly juices (use your old boot if you bought one already).
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When you coming by our way next ?? i make great tea and always have biccys ;)
Saffy:
--- Quote from: burgerman on January 18, 2010, 18:06:24 ---
--- Quote from: Saffy on January 18, 2010, 08:18:27 ---
--- Quote from: Range Rover Blues on January 18, 2010, 00:53:05 ---Not too bad a job provided the race isn't worn away. You have to push the old race out of the arm using a shoulder inside the top of the arm. Mine had worm badly becasue it wasn't lined up properly, I had to grind the arm a little to expose the race and then drift it out.
I use a G-Clamp and 2 sockets to hold it together whilst I fight the circlip back in.
--- End quote ---
i recall doing something along those line, thought I posted on here about it can't find though. Think I used trolley jack and extension bar to push the plate up to get circlip in. Small sharp chisel taps on the rim crushed/split the race inward and was not so bad too remove once things moved so I could identify what was race and what was casting.
OOHHH burgerman my advice is not to get a cheap paddocks one but get a genuine/OEM from lrseries.com or somewhere as the cheap ones the bottom plate are poor to fit, the ball is not chromed and worst of all the rubber boot is cheap and thin and if it doesn't forever keep popping off its mount it will split and the bare its goodly juices (use your old boot if you bought one already).
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When you coming by our way next ?? i make great tea and always have biccys ;)
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:) again ? The last time I been East of Swindon I was thin and handsome. you'll be fine you know your way around a spanner and a hammer.
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