disco1 removing track rod ends

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Paul

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• Sep 19, 2005

• #1

is there a trick to getting the track rod ends off. in the process of doing
the swivel on mine i split the boot on the one that goes to the steering
box. local supplier does not sell just the boots so i got a new track end,
undid the clamp and tried to undo the ball joint but it was stuck solid.
applied some heat to it an it still would not move, in the end i took the
boot of the new track rod and fitted it to the old. never had any problems
before on the euroboxes i have owned, they just had a lock nut securing the
track end. looking at how landrover do it, it looks like water can get in
where the clamp is so its no wonder i can not move it.

paul

 

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Austin Shackles

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• Sep 19, 2005

• #2

On or around Mon, 19 Sep 2005 16:20:16 +0100, "Paul"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>is there a trick to getting the track rod ends off. in the process of doing
>the swivel on mine i split the boot on the one that goes to the steering
>box. local supplier does not sell just the boots so i got a new track end,
>undid the clamp and tried to undo the ball joint but it was stuck solid.
>applied some heat to it an it still would not move, in the end i took the
>boot of the new track rod and fitted it to the old. never had any problems
>before on the euroboxes i have owned, they just had a lock nut securing the
>track end. looking at how landrover do it, it looks like water can get in
>where the clamp is so its no wonder i can not move it.

loosen clamps, spray releasing agent (plugas, ferexample on the bit where
the slot is. best bet is a big pipe wrench with the TRE still secured in
the arm.

if it won't go (and you can apply quite a lot of force without damaging it)
then you have in the end to heat it. Oxy-acetylene, get it seriously hot...
Take it apart, clean threads, use copper grease on threads when
re-assembling.
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Niamh Holding

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• Sep 20, 2005

• #3

In article <[email protected]>, [email protected]
(Paul) wrote:

> is there a trick to getting the track rod ends off.

Fit new track rods

Never seen a straight track rod come off anyway.

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Niamh
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Austin Shackles

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• Sep 20, 2005

• #4

On or around Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:08 +0100 (BST),
[email protected] (Niamh Holding) enlightened us thusly:

>In article <[email protected]>, [email protected]
>(Paul) wrote:
>
>> is there a trick to getting the track rod ends off.
>
>Fit new track rods
>
>Never seen a straight track rod come off anyway.

that's another option, of course - they're not that pricey and at least you
can do what LR never did and lube the bugger properly with copper grease on
assembly.
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Satisfying: Satisfy your inner child by eating ten tubes of Smarties
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Jack

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• Sep 21, 2005

• #5

"Austin Shackles" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On or around Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:08 +0100 (BST),
> [email protected] (Niamh Holding) enlightened us thusly:
>
>>In article <[email protected]>, [email protected]
>>(Paul) wrote:
>>
>>> is there a trick to getting the track rod ends off.
>>
>>Fit new track rods
>>
>>Never seen a straight track rod come off anyway.
>
> that's another option, of course - they're not that pricey and at least
> you
> can do what LR never did and lube the bugger properly with copper grease
> on
> assembly.
> --
> Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
> Satisfying: Satisfy your inner child by eating ten tubes of Smarties
> from the Little Book of Complete B***ocks by Alistair Beaton.

When else is a good time to use copper grease? I typically use anti-seize
with good results.

 

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Austin Shackles

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• Sep 21, 2005

• #6

On or around Tue, 20 Sep 2005 23:21:07 GMT, "Jack" <[email protected]>
enlightened us thusly:

>
>"Austin Shackles" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>>
>> that's another option, of course - they're not that pricey and at least
>> you
>> can do what LR never did and lube the bugger properly with copper grease
>> on
>> assembly.
>
>When else is a good time to use copper grease? I typically use anti-seize
>with good results.
>

well, any sort of anti-sieze. and I spose, yes, you only use it on
assmebly...
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I shall attack. - Marshal Foch (1851 - 1929)

 

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Niamh Holding

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• Sep 22, 2005

• #7

In article <DP0Ye.12233$%i1.9986@trnddc09>, [email protected] (Jack)
wrote:

> When else is a good time to use copper grease?

As & when appropriate

--
Niamh
4x4 Cymru
http://www.4x4cymru.co.uk