tombate911
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Another little update while i'm still chasing the leak coming from the clutch now the slave and gearbox are back in. I've got a suspicion that the join on the edge of the gearbox where it meets the engine bay pipework is leaking and causing it to run through into the box. I've placed paper in various places tonight to leave till tomorrow to see where is wet when I get back to it.
Tonights progress.... Two steps forward, one back....
All started with fitting new bushes to the wishbones while they were off the car while the subframe hasn't been refitted yet.
I bought my self my own 12t press a while ago, used it for fitting black series into my mates clio.
Start off removing the old bushes using a socket and the press, makes light work of removing the old ones.
In the process of pushing the new mushroom bushes through the wishbone, this takes a fair amount of force with the bush on a slight angle to push it through the hole. I remember how difficult it was fitting the last set we did.
It wasn't long before disaster stuck again, I've had a lot of bad luck in the past few weeks with things in general. As you can see in the image below part of the wishbone decided It was going to sheer of while pushing the new bushing through.
As luck would have it I knew where someone was breaking a Clio only half hour drive from me so jumped in the van at 6:30 to go and pick up another wish bone.
Luckily out of the two wishbones I had the one that has snapped as the ball joint in it which has a damaged boot and was slightly leaking grease out of it so managed to replace that with the replacement wishbone too.
Finally. Two solid wishbones with black series poly bushes fitted ready to go into the subframe tomorrow evening and back onto the car.
The instruction say just add fairy liquid, what they don't mention is the amount of force required to get them in!
Tonights progress.... Two steps forward, one back....
All started with fitting new bushes to the wishbones while they were off the car while the subframe hasn't been refitted yet.
I bought my self my own 12t press a while ago, used it for fitting black series into my mates clio.
Start off removing the old bushes using a socket and the press, makes light work of removing the old ones.
In the process of pushing the new mushroom bushes through the wishbone, this takes a fair amount of force with the bush on a slight angle to push it through the hole. I remember how difficult it was fitting the last set we did.
It wasn't long before disaster stuck again, I've had a lot of bad luck in the past few weeks with things in general. As you can see in the image below part of the wishbone decided It was going to sheer of while pushing the new bushing through.
As luck would have it I knew where someone was breaking a Clio only half hour drive from me so jumped in the van at 6:30 to go and pick up another wish bone.
Luckily out of the two wishbones I had the one that has snapped as the ball joint in it which has a damaged boot and was slightly leaking grease out of it so managed to replace that with the replacement wishbone too.
Finally. Two solid wishbones with black series poly bushes fitted ready to go into the subframe tomorrow evening and back onto the car.
The instruction say just add fairy liquid, what they don't mention is the amount of force required to get them in!
