My 88" Series 3

**Gordie** · 15th November 2016, 04:31 PM

I think I could live in your workshop! Enviiiiiiiiiioussss.

**Dark61** · 15th November 2016, 07:05 PM

I've lived in a lot worse!
cheers,
D

**TimNZ** · 15th November 2016, 09:17 PM

Originally Posted by Dark61

I've lived in a lot worse!
cheers,
D

I hate to say it, but my workshop is considerably cleaner than my house!

Cheers,

**TimNZ** · 15th November 2016, 09:22 PM

So, I decided to attack the steering relay this evening, bring on the Mk1 Steering Relay Remover Thing:

Just started moving with an impressive bang! The poor little jack was very close to its limit:

On its way!

And out

In other news I had a delivery from Ashcrofts today

Part of project (r)overkill, which will come later

Cheers,

**JDNSW** · 16th November 2016, 05:29 AM

Congratulations on a successful demonstration of a new and effective* way of removing the relay.

John

*Or were you lucky?

**TimNZ** · 16th November 2016, 08:31 AM

Lucky I think John! I was fortunate to have the pieces of angle, (with the holes in them already!), they are transport brackets for some of our machinery. I don't think the 12mm threaded bar would have taken much more, maybe 4t max? But they can be easily "scaled up"

Cheers,

**Gordie** · 16th November 2016, 03:12 PM

Good ol' kiwi-ingenuity alive and kicking. Nice manoeuvre.

**Dinty** · 16th November 2016, 06:32 PM

I have done the same thing in the past, this was the last time, it ripped out the whole assembly

and left this almighty hole, which required the X member to be removed n replaced

anyway you can be lucky sometimes cheers Dennis

**OneOff** · 17th November 2016, 09:09 PM

Ooh... what's in the box???

Nice work with the relay too.

**TimNZ** · 19th November 2016, 08:06 PM

Got a bit done today, (sorry, left the camera at the workshop and it has the memory card in it, so no pics today).

Finally got the bushes out of the chassis, managed to mark one of the tubes in the chassis with my saw blade, but it is quite minor, (still a bit ****ed about it though

). Then gave the chassis a go over with the wire brush on the grinder. I was going to sand blast it myself, but it quickly became apparent the el-cheapo unit I have is going to cost me more in grit and power than paying someone else to do it!

Springs came off the axles, I was hoping to refurbish these, but the wear step on the front springs is about half the leaf thickness. I'll probably end up going the parabolic route, however I've already sourced the standard dampers, so a bit of research is in order.

Both front swivel hubs were also dismantled, no major worries, however both chalices were dry, the unis were just packed with grease..... They are fine fortunately, however the railco bushes and bottom swivel bearings are ruined.

I've a bit more to get on with tomorrow afternoon, with a bit of luck I'll remember the cameras memory card!

Cheers,

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