Camshaft & Stage Two Head
Posted 23 February 2023 - 01:04 PM
Hi all, doing a bit of preventative maintenance on the car. Its not had an mot for a while, and last one was commented the steering ball joint rubbers are a bit perished.
The Haynes manual says to remove the whole hub to service any of these ball joints. I'm not replacing the joints, since they were new on and have covered aprox 1000 miles, but will replace only the rubbers. Surely this can be done in situ one at a time without removing the whole thing?
One Carb Or Two?
Posted 23 February 2023 - 01:14 PM
Yes you can, just split one ball joint at a time and remove the damaged rubber and slip the new one. I had the same thing the new rubbers lasted about a year and I found some old ones in the garage with MOWOG on them which shows their age cleaned them up and they were fine and are still on the car! Just make sure you don't dislocate the pot joint whilst doing this.
Camshaft & Stage Two Head
Posted 23 February 2023 - 01:15 PM
Yes you can, just split one ball joint at a time and remove the damaged rubber and slip the new one. I had the same thing the new rubbers lasted about a year and I found some old ones in the garage with MOWOG on them which shows their age cleaned them up and they were fine and are still on the car! Just make sure you don't dislocate the pot joint whilst doing this.
Great, thanks for that. I did think its possible and its not such a huge torque for the nut on the end of the pin that holds it to the upper and lower suspension joint. Fun weekend planned!!!!
One Carb Or Two?
Posted 23 February 2023 - 02:40 PM
Yes you can, just split one ball joint at a time and remove the damaged rubber and slip the new one. I had the same thing the new rubbers lasted about a year and I found some old ones in the garage with MOWOG on them which shows their age cleaned them up and they were fine and are still on the car! Just make sure you don't dislocate the pot joint whilst doing this.
Great, thanks for that. I did think its possible and its not such a huge torque for the nut on the end of the pin that holds it to the upper and lower suspension joint. Fun weekend planned!!!!
Good luck with the job
..is NOT a girl!
Posted 24 February 2023 - 10:39 AM
Crack top & bottom before you replace any. It'd be a pain to do one, then decide a ball needs doing too, though it is possible to do either on the car.
... in fact it's a pretty good place, if you can rotate the hub & use the bottom arm to hold either ball while you tinker with the other - brake hose permitting.
Camshaft & Stage Two Head
Posted 26 February 2023 - 01:55 PM
they also feel good too as in not too worn, no snagging when wiggle them around and nice feel when full of grease.
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