Post by martin42006 on Mar 19, 2021 17:07:26 GMT
Stuck bolts, what do we do with them.
After trying the breaker bar, impact gun, blowtorch and as a final resort I tried drilling a hole in the top of the casting to fill it with penetrating fluid.
It still wont budge, so we are just about out of ideas except removing the subframe.
This weekend then we will make up a frame to support the engine, remove the aluminium cross member in the hope that we can drill out the center of the bolt and get it out with the press. Fingers crossed we can save the cross member.
In the meantime we started stripping the front hubs and arms.
According to jaguar the front arms are to be discarded if you need to change the ball joint. You can buy the joints though so we pressed out the old ones
We will have to make a jig to refit them however since the back of the arm is slanted there is no way to hold it in the press to refit the new joints
The front struts also got stripped down and you can see what might have been causing us some problems.
On the left you can see the spring that was on the passengers side compared to the sagged drivers side one in the middle and the new one on the right.
The one that was on the passenger's side is a couple of mm thicker than the other 2 so someone fitted a lowering spring to that side at some point. Quite why we have no idea.
Onto the main part of this job which was changing out the front wheel bearings.
Utilising an old brake disk, 2 m10 bolts and a bit of 40x40 box I made a jig to hold the hub in place.
The abs rings that hold the front bearings in were tighter than a scotsman's wallet but after alot of fighting, swearing and getting a 4ft tube involved with 2 people hanging off one end we finally got the bastard rings loose.
You can see the setup we had to go with here. The special jaguar tool likes to pop off while trying to turn it so drastic measures had to be taken
As you can see they are very tight.
But eventually they came loose.
The circlips were just as bad and totally seized up. With a big hammer and a drift punch they came around to my way of thinking.
Next challenge is removing the dust shields, they are in decent condition so might aswell be saved.
Unfortunately the wheel flange gets in the way and stops you from getting a socket on.
Always keep cheap tools on hand i guess, its handy for when you need to press a torx bit into a 6mm spanner.
All the screws undid though so i cant complain about that, it just took a lot longer than it would have done if there was access to them.
Hubs now pretty much stripped except for the bearings.
Going to have to make a jig for holding them in the press so thats going to take a bit of pondering over a pint or two.
After trying the breaker bar, impact gun, blowtorch and as a final resort I tried drilling a hole in the top of the casting to fill it with penetrating fluid.
It still wont budge, so we are just about out of ideas except removing the subframe.
This weekend then we will make up a frame to support the engine, remove the aluminium cross member in the hope that we can drill out the center of the bolt and get it out with the press. Fingers crossed we can save the cross member.
In the meantime we started stripping the front hubs and arms.
According to jaguar the front arms are to be discarded if you need to change the ball joint. You can buy the joints though so we pressed out the old ones
We will have to make a jig to refit them however since the back of the arm is slanted there is no way to hold it in the press to refit the new joints
The front struts also got stripped down and you can see what might have been causing us some problems.
On the left you can see the spring that was on the passengers side compared to the sagged drivers side one in the middle and the new one on the right.
The one that was on the passenger's side is a couple of mm thicker than the other 2 so someone fitted a lowering spring to that side at some point. Quite why we have no idea.
Onto the main part of this job which was changing out the front wheel bearings.
Utilising an old brake disk, 2 m10 bolts and a bit of 40x40 box I made a jig to hold the hub in place.
The abs rings that hold the front bearings in were tighter than a scotsman's wallet but after alot of fighting, swearing and getting a 4ft tube involved with 2 people hanging off one end we finally got the bastard rings loose.
You can see the setup we had to go with here. The special jaguar tool likes to pop off while trying to turn it so drastic measures had to be taken
As you can see they are very tight.
But eventually they came loose.
The circlips were just as bad and totally seized up. With a big hammer and a drift punch they came around to my way of thinking.
Next challenge is removing the dust shields, they are in decent condition so might aswell be saved.
Unfortunately the wheel flange gets in the way and stops you from getting a socket on.
Always keep cheap tools on hand i guess, its handy for when you need to press a torx bit into a 6mm spanner.
All the screws undid though so i cant complain about that, it just took a lot longer than it would have done if there was access to them.
Hubs now pretty much stripped except for the bearings.
Going to have to make a jig for holding them in the press so thats going to take a bit of pondering over a pint or two.