PAE .... Sleipnir???

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That's not meant to happen! My one has a finer thread and a larger diameter bolt, I remember it wasn't cheap. It's also adjustable for depth, not fixed like that one. Does the bolt head have any marking on it, maybe putting a higher grade bolt in would help and rescue the tool?
 
corazon said:
Good luck, it will likely pop off and surprise when you least expect it.
Intimidate it :LOL:
Jim
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It will indeed surprise the stuffing out of you when it finally lets go, and it certainly looks like it's in need of further intimidation.
Your tool does look like it has a problem inasmuch as it's possibly not very well made/designed. It should have an area for the bolt
to press into so it can't slip out like that, and as stated, a finer thread," Pressure, for the application of" in Army-speak. :mrgreen:
 
There is a slight movement around the pin through the middle of the tool. It's certainly not precision... I'm not sure rescuing the tool is going to help as I think it will do exactly the same thing again. I think I need to find an identical tool which is precision made with, as you say an indentation where the bolt goes would really help.
 
It certainly is proving to be recalcitrant, isn't it? Hopefully it will go on the next try and
you won't have to resort to violence to get it off.
You could try a combination of the splitter and thumping the stuffing out of it, after a goodly
squirt of 50:50 ATF/thinners has soaked into it for a while to penetrate the stubbornness.

Good luck! :!:
 
It's only gone and come off!

Had the ball joint splitter on it as tight as it would go overnight and it still wouldnt move. So this morning, I managed to get half a turn extra on it, Still nothing. So i heated it with the splitter still on... and bang it shot out upwards and the splitter shot off the other way... fortunately not towards me...


So now just the bottom of the turret and the cover on the other side to go!

Woohoo! :) (I did a little victory dance to celebrate i'll admit...)
 
Yes - it went with a bang....

The end of the steering rod that failed the MOT
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The end which wouldnt come out... you can see how much pressure the bolt took!
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The new rod in situe
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On this last pic you can see that the arm wont go down on the ball joint. It actually caused the nut to strip it's thread... so is there a trick to this, or if it wont go down, does that mean i need a new ball joint?

Thanks for all your support :)

Rich
 
rockdemon said:
On this last pic you can see that the arm wont go down on the ball joint. It actually caused the nut to strip it's thread... so is there a trick to this, or if it wont go down, does that mean i need a new ball joint?
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The top arm will only go down so far, the damper stops further travel, you need to jack the leg up into it, but that said, the nut should pull it up as the only load is the weight of the pillar and hub assembly, and I just used to lift the lot upwards, pushing the joint into the top arm, and the taper stops the pin spinning as you tighten the nut. If you've stripped the thread you'll have to change the joint.
 
Okey dokey... The thread on the ball joint is fine, but if the nut wont do it up and stripped the thread rather than doing so I guess it means the taper must be too far out of shape? I'll get one ordered anyhow...

Rich
 
Geoff at wins is doing a set of all 4 big ball joints for £80 so i've gone for that... means i can swap the bottom one off while it's apart and if the one on the other side has any issues i can change that too.
 
Well done Rich,

Dont you wish the previous guy had put a smear of copper grease on, I often had that thought in these situations.

Colin
 
OK - I give up. the bottom ball joint wont move despite trying everything I've done on the others. The top one I cant see how I'm going to remove the actual ball joint as it doesn't seem to respond either.

All I've succeeded in doing is making it so the car is not drivable.

Does anybody know anywhere in Loughborough or north Leicestershire that would be able to help? Or do any of you more seasoned stalwarts fancy making a trip here with a selection of tools for beer money + train fare/petrol money?

I'm going to do some phoning round tomorrow as I really don't know what to do with it.

Rich
 
rockdemon said:
OK - i give up. the bottom balljoint wont move despite trying everything i've done on the others.
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You mean you can't split the taper? With the top joint still fitted, lever the bottom arms down while using a hammer to free the taper.


rockdemon said:
The top one i cant see how i'm going to remove the actual ball joint as it doesnt seem to respond either.
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The taper, or removing the joint from the pillar? If it's the latter remove the 3 retaining bolts, and then tap the joint out under the flange using the blunt chisel.
 
You mean you can't split the taper? With the top joint still fitted, lever the bottom arms down while using a hammer to free the taper.
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Yup that old chestnut, except of course I've stripped the thread on the top joint...


rockdemon wrote:The top one i cant see how i'm going to remove the actual ball joint as it doesnt seem to respond either.

The taper, or removing the joint from the pillar? If it's the latter remove the 3 retaining bolts, and then tap the joint out under the flange using the blunt chisel.
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Removing the joint from the pillar... I suppose if i managed to do this i could then use this to then split the taper on the bottom joint?

I need to come back to it another day don't I. I've just got to the end of my tether with it.
 
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