Quick anti roll bar linkage question.

[Cosmic Bus]

Bah, MOT failure (1st) on the upper anti-roll bar linkage ball joint dust cover and excessive play in near/offside anti-roll bar linkages. I've searched and I think just a set of new drop links for the front will cure all the above faults.

Have I got that right, and is it those that the vectra ones are a compatible fit? Or should I source something different?

Cheers.

[rhino-wayne]

From these forums I can recall several using Vectra links, but seem to be plenty of "Bongo" link on feebay. Should be a quick & easy change over.

[teenmal]

2 for under a tenner.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VAUXHALL-VECT ... 0753057225

[Cosmic Bus]

I forgot to ask, I don't suppose anyone has some torque figures for the nuts at all? Going to ring local motor factors and as have some time off might give it a bash. Quite literally going by some of the things I read

[Northern Bongolow]

have a grinder on standby if you have go, sometimes they need cutting off.

nuts----75-104 (7.6-10.7) in brackets is metric.

keep these figures safe, cos if you use cheap ones you may be doing it again in 6 months, im not saying this is wrong we are all on a budget and this way can be more cost effective if you like lying under your own bongo.

[Diplomat]

See my comments about drop link quality on this recent thread:

http://www.igmaynard.co.uk/bongo/forum/ ... 33#p571733


Mine came via, but not directly from, the Bongo Shop. I was under the impression from previous discussions going back several years that better ones had been sourced but I must have been sent some of the remnants.They weren't that cheap to buy!

It wasn't just failing rubber, there was play after only a year whereas the originals (judging by the state of the threads, which had to be ground off) lasted over ten years.

Frank

[mikeonb4c]

I've never torqued mine. The front ones are nylocks on the vectra ones I bought, the rears I can't remember. But i just do them sensibly tight and they've not come loose.