RIALTO UPDATE AGAIN!
Kingpin time.
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This being a Rialto, it has a couple of needle roller bearings rather than bushes to rotate the hub on. Also rather than hammered-in welch plugs top and bottom, the end caps are held in with internal circlips. (Circlip can be seen if you can zoom.)
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Look in toolbox to find the only circlip pliers you have in the correct size are external ones. Then use them anyway with two hands to remove the circlips and end discs.
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First idea was to remove the shock from the arm. Gave up on that idea very quickly as the metal bush is seized on the bolt (to the left of mounting eye).
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Locate the taper pin and hammer it back out with a suitably sized punch.
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Then remembered I should have had the steering straight and used the access holes through the hub
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Find something to extract the now bent-over taper pin. Remove grease nipples with the now useful 9/32" spanner from the set.
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Peel off the radius arm bushes
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Then sit back and marvel at the incredibly shit repair job done before you bought the car.
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Originally it would have been a folded sheet piece of sheet steel for the diagonal, but someone obviously had loads of ⅛" bar lying around.
Finally, do a bit of hammering and give up because work.