Car goes into garage tomorrow for U/V joints on front prop shaft 'cos they got power tools and if necessary oxy acetylene torches!!.. Job is F***in' impossible without removing cross chassis member, and its F***in' impossible to undo the flange nuts and bolts holding it to the chassis rails.
Sorry to offend but I have all right spanners open ended and ring ones, and wads of sockets yet 10 years of power wrenched nuts & bolts being in situ have defeated me, I could only get three out of the eight chassis rail fixing bolts undone in two evenings work and that has left me with knackered biceps.. and a foul temper
Invested in a nut splitter (!!?) no good as nuts are flanged. Invested in bolt remover, no good, no room to get spanner or socket wrench in at right angle, tried blow torch to heat nuts and bolts up, no joy. Penetrating oil overnight.......waste of space all of it..
Tried to get at prop shaft rear joint bolts without taking cross member out..no chance!!!. Last straw was spanner slipping off prop shaft bolt and rounding it off, a badly skinned knuckle and a black eye.. the dog learned a whole new set of swear words, and if anybody had offered me £2 for the vehicle I'd have taken it at 11.00 pm last night..
I've put my hand up to the garage for butchering one of the nuts so badly so they are going to burn it off.
Frustrating part is that they agree whole job is two hours tops ..but at least at £48 an hour labour they ain't robbing me on dealer rates and they are happy to use my supplied new u/v joints and bolts .
Will post results tommorrow,,good or bad???!!gggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr if it gets done for under £120 I'll be back in love with the old bus again, but she's gonna have to be good to me for while.
Sorry to offend but I have all right spanners open ended and ring ones, and wads of sockets yet 10 years of power wrenched nuts & bolts being in situ have defeated me, I could only get three out of the eight chassis rail fixing bolts undone in two evenings work and that has left me with knackered biceps.. and a foul temper
Invested in a nut splitter (!!?) no good as nuts are flanged. Invested in bolt remover, no good, no room to get spanner or socket wrench in at right angle, tried blow torch to heat nuts and bolts up, no joy. Penetrating oil overnight.......waste of space all of it..
Tried to get at prop shaft rear joint bolts without taking cross member out..no chance!!!. Last straw was spanner slipping off prop shaft bolt and rounding it off, a badly skinned knuckle and a black eye.. the dog learned a whole new set of swear words, and if anybody had offered me £2 for the vehicle I'd have taken it at 11.00 pm last night..
I've put my hand up to the garage for butchering one of the nuts so badly so they are going to burn it off.
Frustrating part is that they agree whole job is two hours tops
..but at least at £48 an hour labour they ain't robbing me on dealer rates and they are happy to use my supplied new u/v joints and bolts .Will post results tommorrow,,good or bad???!!gggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr if it gets done for under £120 I'll be back in love with the old bus again, but she's gonna have to be good to me for while.
