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Originally Posted by JeffD
That sounds great - I was going to buy a bearing puller. Take some photos and let me know how you get on - not sure whether I'm doing mine today - might let you be the guinnea pig! LOL
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Job done. I started out well, taking photos as I went but as I work alone this soon became impossible. There is barely room to get a spanner on the rear bush bolts let alone get a camera in as well
There were no difficulties apart from the main bolt in to the subframe which needed a lot of hammering to free it. My sequence of jobs was:
1. Turned the wheels on full lock, still on the ground to take the nut off the drop link and disconnect it from the roll bar.
2. Jacked it up and took the wheel off
3. Got a 6 sided socket on either side of the hub ball joint and unfastened the nut. Turned the bolt head 45 degrees to crack the rust off it then tapped the both out.
4. Crow bar under the hub to lever the ball joint out of the hub
5. Big breaker bar and an impact socket to take the big nut off the ball joint in the sub frame, then popped the nut on the end of the thread and started hammering on it to free it, but it wouldnt come
6. 18mm ring spanner on the front bolt of the rear bush, cracked it loose then slid the 18mm ratchet spanner on for easier loosening. Access from under the arch.
7. Same for the back bolt except access from under the car.
8. With the rear bush un-bolted had a few more whacks at the ball joint in the sub frame and this time it came out.
9. Wrestled the lower arm out from under the car. That was a bit tricky because the drive shaft seemed to be sitting a bit low restricting how high I could lift the arm to free the end of the ball joint, so I took a bit of weight off the hub with the jack to raise it a few inches, then it came out.
10. Used a bearing puller to start the rear bush mioving off the old lower arm then pulled it the rest of the way by hand
11. Lubricated the rear bush with fairy liquid but manouvered the new arm in to place under the car first to avoid difficulties getting it in like i had getting the old one out
12. With the lower arm in roughly the right place I went under the car again and slid on the rear bush. I re-used the old bush as I only changed it last year.
13. With the ball joints still loose enough to move around a bit I wrestled the bush bolts until I got the front one started. Then I returned to the ratchet spanner to nip the front one down, then tapped the bush around until the back bolt would start
14. Once the bush was in the right position with the bolts fairly well in I nipped up the ball joints in the sub frame and the hub.
15. After that it was just a case of going round all the bolts and tightening them all up properly. Couldn't get a torque wrench on the bush bolts but I could with all the rest.
16. Last job was to put the car back on its wheels, to manouver the anti roll drop link back in to the anti roll bar and torque it up.
Dont think I missed anything. All the rattles gone now when on rough roads, and no play at all at the wheel, so Quite satisfied with my mornings work.