06-12-2012, 10:57 PM
Changed the wishbones today...or at least tried to 
What a fail that turned out to be, although it was in a way fairly lucky. First off, massive thanks to Sam for all of his help today, I hope my bacon and egg rolls, and proscuitto pasta made up for it! Anyway, when fitting the wishbone Sam noticed that one of the pbushes on the Meyle HD wishbone had come apart and literally pulled off of the suspension arm. This meant we had to go and get a new one as temporary fix, but I'll be sending those back to Meyle for a replacement as they're only 2 months old! We got the wishbone fitted, but failed to notice a pretty vital component...that the ball joint was 16mm instead of 18mm. Massive fail on our part not noticing when we fitted it, but also I didn't even ask Dum-dum when I bought them, I just presumed that Meyle only made 18mm wishbone/balljoints. I drove about 30 yards down the road to turn around, and luckily was taking it extremely easy and noticed something was wrong straight away. Turned around, and the hub fell off the balljoint! Again, luckily as I was going slowly the only damage was that the bumper has been knocked slightly out of line. We ended up having to jack the car up in the middle of the road on a junction and change the wishbone!
It's going to need some overnight parts from Japan for the MOT tomorrow. Okay, I tell a lie, they're coming from Bournemouth. Fooby's had a set of Meyle HDs for some time now but not fitted them, and they're actually 18mm though he needed 16mm. He's being awesome and bringing them up tomorrow as he's working nearby, so we'll get them fitted hopefully and get it MOTd tomorrow afternoon. He's having the 16mm ones once I've had the broken one replaced under warranty.
What a fail that turned out to be, although it was in a way fairly lucky. First off, massive thanks to Sam for all of his help today, I hope my bacon and egg rolls, and proscuitto pasta made up for it! Anyway, when fitting the wishbone Sam noticed that one of the pbushes on the Meyle HD wishbone had come apart and literally pulled off of the suspension arm. This meant we had to go and get a new one as temporary fix, but I'll be sending those back to Meyle for a replacement as they're only 2 months old! We got the wishbone fitted, but failed to notice a pretty vital component...that the ball joint was 16mm instead of 18mm. Massive fail on our part not noticing when we fitted it, but also I didn't even ask Dum-dum when I bought them, I just presumed that Meyle only made 18mm wishbone/balljoints. I drove about 30 yards down the road to turn around, and luckily was taking it extremely easy and noticed something was wrong straight away. Turned around, and the hub fell off the balljoint! Again, luckily as I was going slowly the only damage was that the bumper has been knocked slightly out of line. We ended up having to jack the car up in the middle of the road on a junction and change the wishbone!It's going to need some overnight parts from Japan for the MOT tomorrow. Okay, I tell a lie, they're coming from Bournemouth. Fooby's had a set of Meyle HDs for some time now but not fitted them, and they're actually 18mm though he needed 16mm. He's being awesome and bringing them up tomorrow as he's working nearby, so we'll get them fitted hopefully and get it MOTd tomorrow afternoon. He's having the 16mm ones once I've had the broken one replaced under warranty.