fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
All done. Lads popped out to get a square socket for the gear box sump - finally ended up at Machine Mart and £20 lighter for a set, but it fitted. Drained, and re-filled with the correct amount of gearbox oil as there is no way of telling what they lost. Car re-assembled, tools put away. His car looks quite good, only 45mm lower, so nothing stupid.
They discovered the driver side CV gaitor strap had snapped at some point as my son's mate got a handful of CV grease - looks like it broke some time ago. Temporary repair with a jubilee clip, but you can get the correct straps and a fitting tool for not too much.
One of their mates took a look on Saturday and told them not to use the impact spanner tightening up the struts - big torque wrench used !
I gave them a spark plug socket with a 'hole' in the top, so they could use a 7mm allen key (from my bike tool chest) to hold the strut still, whilst the other one tightened up the nut using an open spanner on the socket. Worked a treat.
They discovered the driver side CV gaitor strap had snapped at some point as my son's mate got a handful of CV grease - looks like it broke some time ago. Temporary repair with a jubilee clip, but you can get the correct straps and a fitting tool for not too much.
One of their mates took a look on Saturday and told them not to use the impact spanner tightening up the struts - big torque wrench used !
I gave them a spark plug socket with a 'hole' in the top, so they could use a 7mm allen key (from my bike tool chest) to hold the strut still, whilst the other one tightened up the nut using an open spanner on the socket. Worked a treat.
