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Originally Posted by geraintthomas
cleaning up the things you wouldn't see, it's a pleasure knowing that they're spotless.
Keep it going buddy, really enjoying the thread so far.
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thanks man! yeah i get some funny comments from people but its worth doing!
so i managed to get a little more work done to the car!
the cv joint was removed from the ends of each drive shaft, along with the inner boots. the inner cv joints don't look brilliant but to replace them you need brand new driveshafts at a couple hundred pounds each at the very least! i think with a healthy amount of grease and a new boot they'll be fine though! i do however need to buy a second pair of cv boots as i wasn't expecting to be replacing the inner ones till i pulled everything off and found one split!
and after ALOT of persuasion i managed to free the hubs of the lower control arms... one side was an absolute ball ache to do, needed hacksawing, cutting, hitting, smashing etc etc, the other just needed a good old hit with a ball (joint) breaker! you can see from the photo the one that needed the most work actually removed the insert from the hub with the taper bush still in it, i am going to have to take this bit into work and drill it out...
the new ones should go back in a lot easier than those ones came out haha!
also whilst under the car yesterday i had a look at figuring out why the exhaust was blowing... found a loose bolt in one of the manifolds, removed it only to find the bolt whole was ****************ed! a bolt has obviously snapped in there previously and someone has bodged it up bad! need to get a 10mm tap and hope for the best! hopefully thats all the issue is with the exhaust!