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Well it was a bit drier yesterday, so I decided to tackle the ABS rings. Got down to the ball joint and could I get the little 5hit off? Could I 8ollocks!!
I had a fairly short fork splitter but it looks like I need the scissor type. Just annoying really but on the plus side I now know what I doing so shouldn't take too long to do now. The hub nut didn't give me much problems, had to chock the rear wheels tho as I was pulling that hard the car was moving backwards lol |
I feel your pain...when I did the ABS rings on my old 180 I could not get my joint splitter to work - I had one of those cup type, in the end I had to purchase a scissor type.
Another tip too - I heated the ring in an old saucepan on the hob, get 2 pairs of pliers ready to pop the ring on quickly before it cools too much |
Cheers Deano, may well do that, ordered a splitter so will attempt it (AGAIN) next week when I'm off.
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If the ball joint won't split simply undo the inner bush bolts and leave the wishbone connected to the upright!! I know it leaves the arm in the way a bit but the job is still possible with less chance of damaging the ball joint boot !!
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Did you hit it with a hammer to pop it off?
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I hit the ball joint splitter (which was quite short) but I didn't hit the arm. Am I meant to give that a whack? I tried to lever it of with the splitter (and tapping it) but it couldn't get any grip really and didn't want to split that little boot around the joint.
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Hit the knuckle itself... I think I remember having to do that
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I've ordered a scissor type splitter so will give it a go with that when it arrives. Now I know what i'm doing it should be a lot easier than last time. I may even take some pics whilst doing it and try and get 'em on here!
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