Lazy-Ferret
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Had a chance in this milder weather to pop out and have a look round the truck. Started off by fitting the new front Anti-Roll bar I got off of Rick, and the new Rose Drop links from BigBunny.
When I took the old bar off, I found that the Anti-roll bar had worn away badly where the N/S drop link bolts through, and only had about 2mm of metal left before it would have worn right through.
Anyway, everything fitted perfectly, and I am now very happy things are as they should be.
That's the last time they will look that shiny, all greased up now.
Oh and the best bit, I actually remembered to grease the steering stops while doing it, so no more granching when I accidentally hit full lock.
Next I decided to re-index the N/S front suspension, I had done the drivers side not long after I got the car, as it was against the stop, with front very low, but there was enough on the passenger side to bring her up level then. Now, after the suspension lift, the N/S was wound right up to the end of the thread, and was still not quite level. Some jobs should be easy, but this was not to be. Firstly, the circlip was in the wrong groove, it was in the one closest to the cross bar, which made it very hard to remove. I then as mentioned in the Workshop download, marked the front of the torsion bar, to aid me in turning it correctly... forgetting that last time I did it, it was not the front that came apart, but the bit where the adjuster is. Because of this, again, I had not marked the right end... We need Banshee to amend the workshop download to say to mark both ends, just in case.
Anyway, the car is now nice and level, and knock/rattle free at the front end. I still have the Bong at the back, but I ran out of daylight, to look any further into that, so finished the day doing a bit of tidying in the garage.
When I took the old bar off, I found that the Anti-roll bar had worn away badly where the N/S drop link bolts through, and only had about 2mm of metal left before it would have worn right through.
Anyway, everything fitted perfectly, and I am now very happy things are as they should be.
That's the last time they will look that shiny, all greased up now.
Oh and the best bit, I actually remembered to grease the steering stops while doing it, so no more granching when I accidentally hit full lock.
Next I decided to re-index the N/S front suspension, I had done the drivers side not long after I got the car, as it was against the stop, with front very low, but there was enough on the passenger side to bring her up level then. Now, after the suspension lift, the N/S was wound right up to the end of the thread, and was still not quite level. Some jobs should be easy, but this was not to be. Firstly, the circlip was in the wrong groove, it was in the one closest to the cross bar, which made it very hard to remove. I then as mentioned in the Workshop download, marked the front of the torsion bar, to aid me in turning it correctly... forgetting that last time I did it, it was not the front that came apart, but the bit where the adjuster is. Because of this, again, I had not marked the right end... We need Banshee to amend the workshop download to say to mark both ends, just in case.
Anyway, the car is now nice and level, and knock/rattle free at the front end. I still have the Bong at the back, but I ran out of daylight, to look any further into that, so finished the day doing a bit of tidying in the garage.
