Looking to borrow a 'Steering Dropped link Puller'

suzig123 · Jun 9, 2015

Hi chaps,

I am new to Landyzone, though I saw you all at Stanford Hall recently!
Just asking this on behalf of my son, who has limited access to a computer.

He lives in Marlborough, Wiltshire.
He's rebuilt quite a lot on his Landy and had it since he started driving at 17 (he's 20 now!) He's mad on Landys' and green lane-ing!
However he needs to sort his steering, but needs the proper tool to do the job.
Apparantly, A Steering, Dropped Link Puller??? He has a a P reg Defender 90, dont know if that makes any difference? He's tried doing it without it, but not happy with the end result.

So if anyone in the Marlborough, Wiltshire area, could lend him this tool, he would be very grateful. He would love to get involved with meeting up with other Landy enthusiasts and going off roading!
Thanks for reading,

Suzig.

blue beasty · Jun 9, 2015

:welcome: is he trying to remove the drop arm or replace the ball joint?

The drop arm is a bit infamous for being a pig and many resort to cutting it off and replacing though leverage with a crow bar and hefty belts with a hammer on the side often do the trick.

This might help http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f41/drop-arm-ball-joint-renewal-63811.html

suzig123 · Jun 11, 2015

Oooow,

you've got me there, I'd have to check and ask my son? but thanks for your advise Blue Beasty!

suziG

warrior · Jun 11, 2015

I had to remove the arm to replace the ball joint but broke my puller and it still dint budge, ended up cutting it off and buying a new one

trax · Jun 11, 2015

cut mine off and went with a disco tre setup

Turboman · Jun 11, 2015

suzig123 said:
Hi chaps,

I am new to Landyzone, though I saw you all at Stanford Hall recently!
Just asking this on behalf of my son, who has limited access to a computer.

He lives in Marlborough, Wiltshire.
He's rebuilt quite a lot on his Landy and had it since he started driving at 17 (he's 20 now!) He's mad on Landys' and green lane-ing!
However he needs to sort his steering, but needs the proper tool to do the job.
Apparantly, A Steering, Dropped Link Puller??? He has a a P reg Defender 90, dont know if that makes any difference? He's tried doing it without it, but not happy with the end result.

So if anyone in the Marlborough, Wiltshire area, could lend him this tool, he would be very grateful. He would love to get involved with meeting up with other Landy enthusiasts and going off roading!
Thanks for reading,
Suzig.

A big rigid puller, sized for the drop arm is good, but they are hard to find, you will always need a bit of technique to get it off, plenty of hammering down through the top with a big drift and hammer.

Or cut it off carefully and get another arm complete, thay are not dear.

If he has done the job in situ and is not happy, maybe he has used a cheap drop arm kit, some of them are such poor quality they don't work.
We recently put a cheapie on a friends def., and we ended up throwing it away and getting a genuine one!

trax · Jun 11, 2015

Turboman said:
A big rigid puller, sized for the drop arm is good, but they are hard to find, you will always need a bit of technique to get it off, plenty of hammering down through the top with a big drift and hammer. Or cut it off carefully and get another arm complete, thay are not dear.

If he has done the job in situ and is not happy, maybe he has used a cheap drop arm kit, some of them are such poor quality they don't work.
We recently put a cheapie on a friends def., and we ended up throwing it away and getting a genuine one!

before i changed to the disco setup i stuck a bearmach one on iirc.. it fell off in a field and err it was fun driving back!

Turboman · Jun 12, 2015

trax said:
before i changed to the disco setup i stuck a bearmach one on iirc.. it fell off in a field and err it was fun driving back!

Broadly similar to what happened to us, only we never got as far as the field.

Managed to assemble the cheapie by grinding a dish in the bottom plate to allow the spring to fit, but when we realised there was no movement on the spring, and it might pop out, we chucked it and got another!

The genuine kit was visibly better in every way, packaging, contents, precision and quality!

Looking to borrow a 'Steering Dropped link Puller'

suzig123

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blue beasty

Leaks an prone to bits dropping off

suzig123

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warrior

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trax

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Turboman

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trax

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