Wanna see my 6/7 month old front droplinks

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Re: Wanna see my 6/7 month old front droplinks

Post by mikeonb4c » Thu Dec 25, 2008 12:23 pm

bigdaddycain wrote:
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Bongoplod wrote:Forgive my ignorance gang,i can only change a battery,but,are drop link bushes the same thing as anti roll bar bushes?

Brian
I'll help old Franco out then Brian.

Droplinks are rods with connectors at either end. They connect the end of the antiroll bar to the wheel hub, allowing for any necessary rotational movement. The antiroll bar itself has to be held in place and on the Bongo this is done with 2 x u-shape clamps at roughly 1/3 and 2/3 positions along the bar. These clamps have rubber bushes that hold the bar firmly whilst absorbing shock movements and allowing the bar to do the small bit of limited rotation it might make when the suspension dips.

I think that is how it all goes but no doubt I'l be corrected if I've got that wrong.

Changing your own links and bushes is simple and satisfying PROVIDED you don't have trouble undoing nuts that have rusted into place over many years. With a six sided socket (not a star one) to give good purchase, and an extension bar to attach to it, I had no problems. 8)
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Re: Wanna see my 6/7 month old front droplinks

Post by Bongoplod » Fri Dec 26, 2008 10:43 pm

Thats quite clear Mike,cheers

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Re: Wanna see my 6/7 month old front droplinks

Post by helen&tony » Sat Dec 27, 2008 2:02 pm

Hi
Reading this thread demonstrates that it must just have been my droplinks that were a devil to remove....We used nearly every trick in the book....eventually resorting to a nut splitter, and cold chisel/ 4pound hammer to drift it round.....we had a blowtorch on it, angle grinder, and so on, and having thoroughly DEVASTATED the nuts, got an engineer in the village to turn some new ones up. I think the old ones must be "ovalised" nuts, which are cheaper and nastier than good old'fashioned castellated nuts and a split pin, or PROPER wired nuts a la Jaguar.
Whatever.....they were blinkin' unfriendly little beggars
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Re: Wanna see my 6/7 month old front droplinks

Post by bigdaddycain » Sat Dec 27, 2008 3:53 pm

helen&tony wrote:they were blinkin' unfriendly little beggars
I bet that's exactly what you were calling them at the time too eh? :lol:
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Re: Wanna see my 6/7 month old front droplinks

Post by missfixit70 » Sat Dec 27, 2008 6:19 pm

H&T, mine didn't want to come off the first time, I had it up on hydraulic ramps, eventually got them shifted with a big extension bar, hoping they'll be a bit easier next time [-o<
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Re: Wanna see my 6/7 month old front droplinks

Post by lizard » Sat Dec 27, 2008 7:12 pm

As it all has all been explained exceptionaly well, there is nothing left to say, except if some one came up to me and asked if I wanted to see their (drop links) I would be a bit worried :lol:
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