10 minute drop link change
Posted: Sat May 17, 2014 11:59 pm
Prepping my bro's car for the MOT today, we set about changing a noisy nsf drop link. I almost got the grinder out as a matter of course, but the voice of eternal optimism prompted me to try undoing it first, (you never know)....
More in hope than expectation, I wiped the mass of road dirt off the nut at the damper end, to find is was a large dollop of dust-encrusted copper slip. Hexagon key in the centre of the stud, ratchet spanner on the nut, quick tug and it undid like it had been fitted yesterday.
Mildly impressed, I tried the same at the a/r bar end, it was just as easy.
Like an F1 pitstop it was.....
Amazingly enough, another half hour had the wheels swapped over, (for some with tread) and the handbrake holding firmly on 5 clicks.![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
Seems you can't lose them all. I commend the copper slip initiative to the house.
More in hope than expectation, I wiped the mass of road dirt off the nut at the damper end, to find is was a large dollop of dust-encrusted copper slip. Hexagon key in the centre of the stud, ratchet spanner on the nut, quick tug and it undid like it had been fitted yesterday.
![Cool 8)](./images/smilies/icon_cool.gif)
Mildly impressed, I tried the same at the a/r bar end, it was just as easy.
![Shocked :shock:](./images/smilies/icon_eek.gif)
Like an F1 pitstop it was.....
Amazingly enough, another half hour had the wheels swapped over, (for some with tread) and the handbrake holding firmly on 5 clicks.
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
Seems you can't lose them all. I commend the copper slip initiative to the house.