Thread: Happens In Threes

Originally Posted by Ralph1Malph

Well blow me down if I don't have three of the most unsavoury jobs to do on a TD5 all at the same time

Ball joints
Steering Box replacement/fix
Aircon leak/fix.

Actually I bit the bullet and did the ball joints over the last two days. Sweaty skinned knuckles job but a productive 12 hours as they are all nice and new!

Soon to begin the diagnosis and probable replacement of the steering box. Yay, another 6-8 hour task

Then, and only then will I get to diagnosing the aircon. Please let it not be the evaporator!

After all this the biggest task will be hiding the bill from the missus!

Cheers
Ralph

Hi Ralf, i need my ball joints done, I have bben putting it off, I have the same kit as SSK tutorial, but haven't seen the modded adapter needed to use the kit. Any tips
Cheers,
Mario

Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares

Hi Ralf, i need my ball joints done, I have bben putting it off, I have the same kit as SSK tutorial, but haven't seen the modded adapter needed to use the kit. Any tips
Cheers,
Mario

No real tips. I borrowed a ball joint kit like this off a fellow clubber.
He had already modified one of the press rings by removing a section to enable it to fit the uppers.
Even with the kit, it was slow and annoying as they are in real real tight. Take the time to line up the press as square as you can.
I removed the uppers first so the press thready bit could go up through the upper hole.

I actually removed the taper tension nuts as I couldn't break the tapers otherwise. Used a 3/4" impact air wrench for this.

One came straight out and the other ended up needing to be muscled out with a 36" pair of stilsons. Doing that sacrificed the taper tension nuts so I replaced those.

Lemforder ball joints didn't come with nuts so get replacements before hand. As well as new nyloc nuts, make sure you use loctite as well. I have heard they can wriggle loose.

Other than that it's just a tedious slow job.

Cheers
Ralph

Okies,
Removed the steering box without problem.
Lots of oil and grime so hard to tell where leaking from.
As it's out, I'll throw an input and sector shaft seal kit in.
Here's where the fun began. Tried to remove the drop arm from the sector shaft with a 3 jaw puller. No dice!
So onto the 60 ton press with it. Dial got to 10tons before it popped.

Lucky I didn't decide to do it in my home garage!

I may have dodged a bullet with this one!
The input and sector shafts were in real good nick! No visible rust pitting or aberrations. Seal kits were fitted and box back on the car.
I took the opportunity to fit another steering pump. The one on it was secondhand and I never really liked it, didn't leak, but very noisy. All back together now and so far so good. Flushed and filled it up with this stuff...
seems to meet LR specs according to the label.
Day two and no visible leaks. Seals may have fixed the problem.