Borked and The Skittle !

by **Regie** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 12:14 pm

bloody hell man...lets hope your luck gets better soon!

by **Borked** » Sun Jun 27, 2010 12:48 pm

Damage is a right rear bent lower control arm/bolt...
Anyone got one I can "yoink" or borrow ?

by **RG.net** » Sun Jun 27, 2010 1:37 pm

Borked wrote:Damage is a right rear bent lower control arm/bolt...
Anyone got one I can "yoink" or borrow ?

Contact Boyracer on this forum, He normally has a stack of spares lying around.

by **Borked** » Sun Jun 27, 2010 3:55 pm

Thank you.
Will drop a PM and see what eventuates

by **Borked** » Sat Jul 31, 2010 12:54 am

Got home to find delivery of second hand right rear hub today.
Got to work disassembling everything to install it.
Went to test fit the hub as previous exploratory work has suggested it's the hub that's bent (along with the original bent high tensile bolt I hand sawed through).
Hub has a broken blood wheel stud !
Can't figure out how to remove it, so Skittles sitting on 3 wheels, a trolley jack, a stand and a stocker under the lower control arm over night.

Anyone feeling generous enough to lend a hand tomorrow ?

Oh and Skittle must be female, as if wheels are equivalent to shoes, she's obsessed with them (see NA show us your wheels thread) !

by **Regie** » Sat Jul 31, 2010 11:50 am

just remove the stud by putting a nut on it then giving it a smack with the hammer. The end of the stud is tapered and will pop out

by **Mr Morlock** » Sat Jul 31, 2010 12:25 pm

regie's plan sounds good. If it does not work your local friendly brake repairer should be able to press it out and supply a replacement stud.

by **Borked** » Sat Jul 31, 2010 1:11 pm

Able to loosen the stud easy as.
Problem is there is not enough clearance (even after bashing flat the heat/dirt shield) to remove the stud without stripping it.
I'm sooo ropeable atm.
Fancy supplying a hub and housing full well knowing that the only way to remove and replace the broken stud is pressing it out of it's housing, which means expensive and time consuming labour and a new bearing :evil:

I wanted to go on the cruise tomorrow with you lot :cry:

by **dmaccc** » Sun Aug 08, 2010 6:32 pm

I saw skittle out of the garage today! Does that mean she's ready soon

by **Borked** » Sun Aug 08, 2010 8:32 pm

dmaccc wrote:I saw skittle out of the garage today! Does that mean she's ready soon

She's copped a pink slip, CTP, another year of rego and a plethora of work on the right rear.
Will take her to get an alignment and safety check soon to ensure I didn't bork anything else as well.

Pity the gold Simmons are split into pairs atm.
Will have to address that asap, or just put on one of the other sets

Loving being back on the road

by **Borked** » Tue Aug 17, 2010 11:01 pm

Skittles run of bad luck continues.

Seriously considering selling her before this bad streak bites me in the arse (Could of swore I was going into a house tonight).