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Be a shame to take the car out on the road when the weather is crap
P38A Duchess is in the garage!
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Once I've got an MOT my plan was to get back under and smother the shiney bits with grease to slow down corrosion, some of the old bolt heads were in a shocking state and it wasn't cheap for new ones.
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Had a stroke of luck! The garter spring around the inside of the axle seal that I thought I'd knocked off during installation turned out to be the spring off the old seal and the new one was all good still
. It's a bit gloomy working on the driver's side and I never saw it laying inside the axle tube when I removed the old one until I got a lamp looking for a dropped bolt and there it was, about 3" in.
Meant I didn't have a wasted day waiting for the dealer to open Monday morning
So, apart from fetching 2 nuts for the top swivel ball joints tomorrow, repairing, somehow, the front mudflaps and improving how they are held on, fitting the new drag and track rods, the front is done and I can start on the back stuff. To recap, New axle oil seals, new Abs sensors and cages, new flexies, new discs, pads and calipers, top and bottom swivel ball joints, new dampers,new drop links and all new nuts and bolts/screws.
Some bizarre/annoying things I've come across are no nuts on anything new and a front hose having all new brackets, and banjos ( passenger side) but the driver's side, some brackets but not all. Abs sensors with the rubber grommets in totally the wrong place.
. It's a bit gloomy working on the driver's side and I never saw it laying inside the axle tube when I removed the old one until I got a lamp looking for a dropped bolt and there it was, about 3" in.Meant I didn't have a wasted day waiting for the dealer to open Monday morning
So, apart from fetching 2 nuts for the top swivel ball joints tomorrow, repairing, somehow, the front mudflaps and improving how they are held on, fitting the new drag and track rods, the front is done and I can start on the back stuff. To recap, New axle oil seals, new Abs sensors and cages, new flexies, new discs, pads and calipers, top and bottom swivel ball joints, new dampers,new drop links and all new nuts and bolts/screws.
Some bizarre/annoying things I've come across are no nuts on anything new and a front hose having all new brackets, and banjos ( passenger side) but the driver's side, some brackets but not all. Abs sensors with the rubber grommets in totally the wrong place.
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Oooh crikey Chris it looks too nice to go driving about and getting dirty
I'd want to put it on display for everyone to look at and be envious
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Just hope I'm not putting lipstick on a pig! First trip down the road and find out the engine blows up or the gearbox is duff, fingers crossed...Oooh crikey Chris it looks too nice to go driving about and getting dirty
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You'll be fine mate you'll be fine. When you are cruising down the road looking down on the peasants you will feel like a king
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Great work..
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The front end is looking very nice there
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Oooh, snazzy
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Fitted the new lemforder drag and track tubes, top swivel balljoint nuts and refitted the arch liners with new clips, struggled with them, the holes just wouldn't line up easily, the top ones mainly but they are in now.
Torqued up the hub nuts after I converted lbs to nm as my teng wrench doesn't do lbs, 260 something iirc, worryingly it 'clicked' earlier than expected, wonder if it's gone faulty on me...
Anyway, decided to do something with the front mudflaps, originally held on with self tappers but they had rotted and were unmovable so out came the grinder, the bottom of the flap is supported by a 'Z' ish spaced plate which was rusty but sound so these had the two plastic plugs removed, got new ones coming- same as my tratter bulkhead/floor plastic 'nuts', and derusted and painted. All the holes in the mudflaps had rotted away and refitting them using the original type fittings was a no go.
So I cut out some aluminium shapes and drilled 6mm holes through them enligned with the 5 original screw holes. These will clamp the mudflap in place and I'm using stainless steel Tek screws to hold them to the replacement spire clips(two on each arch lip) and 3 into the new plastic 'nuts' when they arrive.
Torqued up the hub nuts after I converted lbs to nm as my teng wrench doesn't do lbs, 260 something iirc, worryingly it 'clicked' earlier than expected, wonder if it's gone faulty on me...
Anyway, decided to do something with the front mudflaps, originally held on with self tappers but they had rotted and were unmovable so out came the grinder, the bottom of the flap is supported by a 'Z' ish spaced plate which was rusty but sound so these had the two plastic plugs removed, got new ones coming- same as my tratter bulkhead/floor plastic 'nuts', and derusted and painted. All the holes in the mudflaps had rotted away and refitting them using the original type fittings was a no go.
So I cut out some aluminium shapes and drilled 6mm holes through them enligned with the 5 original screw holes. These will clamp the mudflap in place and I'm using stainless steel Tek screws to hold them to the replacement spire clips(two on each arch lip) and 3 into the new plastic 'nuts' when they arrive.
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So they'll look summit like this, should get a few more years out of 'em.
The Ali plate is 3mm thick.
The Ali plate is 3mm thick.
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Started on the back end..
Another fight with the mudflap screws which also hold on the plastic closing panel for the lower rear quarter panel, wheel liner out, lots of rusty stuff as the front but much to my surprise the ABS sensor came out with little effort.
Another fight with the mudflap screws which also hold on the plastic closing panel for the lower rear quarter panel, wheel liner out, lots of rusty stuff as the front but much to my surprise the ABS sensor came out with little effort.
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Hub pulled off easily with my 3 leg puller, even the hub nut came undone easily. Disc brake shield bolts , 8mm head(what was left of them anyway) m6 thread, were seized solid and crumbled to bits when attempted to undo so ground them off, I'll have to drill them out on the bench from the back now the hub is off.
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Has it been wading?
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Dunno, no history at all. I feel like I'm the first to ever pull it apart, everything seems original thus rusty and buggered.
The bill will be a lot smaller for the backend though hopefully...
The bill will be a lot smaller for the backend though hopefully...
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Disc guard and hub bolts drilled out and retapped.
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I used some stainless domed allen bolts from screwfix on mine
