Eddie Honda wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2024 8:21 pm

Drum wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2024 7:42 pm

Eddie Honda wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2024 4:59 pm

Could've just got the welder out at that point if it isn't buried.

I'm not convinced!

Sorry was looking at that outer race in that brown housing. I see now you have a new bit of housing there to replace it with.

Yep, it was getting the housing out of the knuckle that was the problem

Eddie Honda wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2024 4:59 pm

Drum wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2024 3:07 pm I'd almost resigned myself to having to replace the whole knuckle but as it had budged a couple of mm, some liberal use of the big hammer and chisel and a bit more heat finally got the bastard out.

Could've just got the welder out at that point if it isn't buried.

I'm not convinced!

I've done the weld thing when the outer tube of a land rover chassis bush was stuck in the chassis but couldn't see how it would work with this hub. I had an old disc off the x trail in the scrap pile which fitted the Rav hub so used it as a puller along with some sockets as spacers. With a gap betw...

I'll try some heat next and see what happens.

Half way through replacing a front wheel bearing on the Rav.
Should be easy because it's a bolt on job but the fucker is stuck in the hub.

It started pishing down so I called it a day. Will attack it with more force tomorrow.

Jag MK2 for me

Eddie Honda wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 7:56 pm

Drum wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 7:53 pm Do yourself a favour and the get the scrappy to collect that 106

Fuck off! I'll get it done!

You said that 12 years ago ye fud

Do yourself a favour and the get the scrappy to collect that 106

Ice/snow scraper for mornings like today.

Pity she didn't wear a cardigan so I could ignore the tats. I do wonder at those algorithms though, I keep getting recommendations featuring variously clad women cranking reluctant European vehicles over. Perhaps I should stop watching them for a bit...... Distracted by her tats did you say?