Trying to replace the upper rear suspension bushes and A frame ball joint. Spent three hours removing the upper right suspension arm nut! Haven’t removed the bolt. Can’t even move the left one yet :-( The four 13mm bolts securing the ball joint won’t move either...
Back into it tomorrow.
Might be a good place to pop this....got a bang in the left rear of 2002 defender.......also ripped two bilsteins apart ...left rear.... I’m reconing bushes a frame bushes and ball joint........sticking in superpros so I don’t have to burn bushes out in the side of the road some where inconvenient ......trailing arms done snd dusted and 2 of 3 a frame mounts lossened hand tight...one half of then my mate gets sconed[close to no clarret]. By thishttps://www.aulro.com/mobile-gallery...7c2ed28b98.jpghttps://www.aulro.com/mobile-gallery...8c17832a3e.jpghttps://www.aulro.com/mobile-gallery...f0d8cff246.jpg,
Anyone had it happen ? ...and if you can’t find a bang look there lol
A mate had it happen. Drove home (about 200kms) with it all held together with fencing wire.
Yours is only the second I've heard of, will be interesting to see if you get any other responses.
What is it? Sorry I don’t recognise the part
Aren't they the mounts for the front of one of the A-frame arms?
Yes with a section of chassis atached with remaining boltQuote:
Originally Posted by JDNSW
Yea I kinda don’t expect to get manyQuote:
Originally Posted by Xtreme
I have managed to get the upper suspension arms and the old ball joint removed but am unable to undo the castellated nut.
I have heated it several times with a propane torch, drowned it with deep creep, tried moving with a 600mm long bar on the end of the socket but the slippery little sucker moved around in the vice. I just can’t get it tight enough not to slip. Have also attacked with an impact hammer. Nothing...
At least the old bushes pushed out with no issues let’s hope the new ones go in as easily!
I did mine yesterday arvo. I loosened the castellated nut before I removed the ball joint from the vehicle, it took my long 3/4" breaker bar and my foot on the diff, tight little bugger!Quote:
Originally Posted by travelrover
You could try drilling a couple of holes in your bench and bolting it down or bolting it back onto the diff.
Good luck.
Cheers,
Stan.
Thanks Stan
Yeah I thought of that after I had it off! I will give it a go with the air gun but suspect that won’t have enough guts. Plan B is to take it to KLR and get the boys to do it for me.
Cheers Simon