Well I've had quite a busy evening, "Foosty" the Rover as he will now officially be known (since a car that has been through what he has been through and survived so well really does deserve an official name even if he isn't actually all that foosty any more) was delivered back home earlier today so i got properly cracking on getting him back to health after the lower ball joint failure detailed in my previous thread.... http://www.classicroverforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=9340
Has been one of those hard work challenging evenings but a good few hours of thoroughly enjoyable work to remind me why I do this for a hobby as I've got that rosy feeling of having genuinely made good progress.
Anyway, some pics of the work so far to tell the story....
Arrived back and in the garage -very glad of my positioning jacks to get it up the driveway-, not looking any different than just after the incident - strange knocking noise and not steering quite right...
Bit of a look at the damage - thankfully very little to be seen..
Looks like the steering as taken a good bit of a clunk - will be replacing the arm as well as the ball joints.
Think i might just need to get a new tyre, not convinced it is road legal any more.. Will also replace the wheel even though it doesn't look to have sustained major damage.
Ok, starting to get things stripped, thankfully ball joints come apart very easily since the car has only done about 500km on them.
Temporary pillar and very crusty spare hub/bearings/disc on and loosly connected up, just enough to allow the car to roll around the garage for the moment. It's actually the wrong side pillar but not making any difference for its temporary purpose.
Hmmmm, steering very very not right - wheels at a very interesting angle.... Something tells me the main steering rod should not be curving down here...
Heater box out to get access to the steering rod joints. Came out quite easily with only minor serations to my arms reaching into the dash to disconnect the rods. Will be good to give this a bit of a refurb while it's out.
Yeah, very not right and explains why the accelerator jammed to the floor when the joint popped out as it has forced the pedal linkage fully down. Joints on the steering rod took quite a bit of persuasion to release and then getting the rod out required similar challenging maneuvering.
Think i might just need a new one of these too then ehh....... :shock:
And finally, Foosty rolls again with disconnected steering and a temporary false leg...
Will post more of the process putting it back together again and any of the other work i do whilst i've got the heater box etc out. Anyone able to suggest any other jobs it's worth doing while i have it all out of the way?
Cheers,
Al
Has been one of those hard work challenging evenings but a good few hours of thoroughly enjoyable work to remind me why I do this for a hobby as I've got that rosy feeling of having genuinely made good progress.
Anyway, some pics of the work so far to tell the story....
Arrived back and in the garage -very glad of my positioning jacks to get it up the driveway-, not looking any different than just after the incident - strange knocking noise and not steering quite right...
Bit of a look at the damage - thankfully very little to be seen..
Looks like the steering as taken a good bit of a clunk - will be replacing the arm as well as the ball joints.
Think i might just need to get a new tyre, not convinced it is road legal any more.. Will also replace the wheel even though it doesn't look to have sustained major damage.
Ok, starting to get things stripped, thankfully ball joints come apart very easily since the car has only done about 500km on them.
Temporary pillar and very crusty spare hub/bearings/disc on and loosly connected up, just enough to allow the car to roll around the garage for the moment. It's actually the wrong side pillar but not making any difference for its temporary purpose.
Hmmmm, steering very very not right - wheels at a very interesting angle.... Something tells me the main steering rod should not be curving down here...
Heater box out to get access to the steering rod joints. Came out quite easily with only minor serations to my arms reaching into the dash to disconnect the rods. Will be good to give this a bit of a refurb while it's out.
Yeah, very not right and explains why the accelerator jammed to the floor when the joint popped out as it has forced the pedal linkage fully down. Joints on the steering rod took quite a bit of persuasion to release and then getting the rod out required similar challenging maneuvering.
Think i might just need a new one of these too then ehh....... :shock:
And finally, Foosty rolls again with disconnected steering and a temporary false leg...
Will post more of the process putting it back together again and any of the other work i do whilst i've got the heater box etc out. Anyone able to suggest any other jobs it's worth doing while i have it all out of the way?
Cheers,
Al
