Thread: Waste of a day - rear a frame ball pivot.

Originally Posted by fraser130

anyone know what size they are on a 130?? 28m? 29mm?

Just did a quick measure for you, mine is 27mm for an 01 130.
By the looks of it you will need a shifter or spanner AND the socket - there is no way you will get a socket onto the outside parts

Hopefully helpful mate have fun

Fraz

edit: thats a measurement with a shifter and my measuring tape, not a real socket!!

Thanks Fraz,

Fraz.

I'm struggleing to see how, spending a day playing with your Landy, finding things that will improve it and now having an excuse to buy more tools is a waste of a day?

Oh, you'll likely need a decent spanner, although I usually use a Bahco 12" and a socket with 2' bar to undo these, they can be a mongrel

I can think of a bloody hard way of pressing in the actual rubber or poly bushes into the A frame but how are you going to correctly press the new metal sleeves into the bushes without a press?

Originally Posted by dobbo

I can think of a bloody hard way of pressing in the actual rubber or poly bushes into the A frame but how are you going to correctly press the new metal sleeves into the bushes without a press?

I see where you are comming from, but I'm currently kinda broke, and we are heading away camping in the beast on Friday!

Fraser

Originally Posted by rovercare

Oh, you'll likely need a decent spanner, although I usually use a Bahco 12" and a socket with 2' bar to undo these, they can be a mongrel

I'm pretty sure the bushes are recent, the rubber is excellent, the B@#$#@ds who replaced them just didn't tighten them enough. (was before I bought the car).

I think tomorrow I'll just tighten them as far as I can without doing further damage, and see if that grabs the central tube on the bush, failing that it will have to wait till I get back, after all, it's just a clunk I guess.
Fraser

Make sure you put some oil on the threads of the bolts before you put it back together,if the threads are dry the nut will get tight on the thread before the centre tube has been nipped up and tighten them with the suspension at normal road height You could get 1/2" longer bolts and then cut 1/2" off so there is more shank in the centre tube.