ady014
Active Member
Well Rangie sailed through another MOT couple of days ago, strangely missing the two advisories I had last year on track rod play and corroded brake pipe, guess they must have fixed themselves....
However, what is unlikely to fix itself is the perished lower ball joint covers. Advisory only this year but as there is no wear apparent in them I'm thinking of just replacing the rubbers having read the potential nightmare that joint replacement could bring.
Labour isn't an issue because I'll do it myself, so does anyone know where I can get the rubbers from or advise if ball joint replacement isn't the disaster waiting to happen that seems to be described everywhere? Rave talks about set up tools etc which will probably be unobtainable/expensive, is there a way of doing them without the set up tools?
Part of me would prefer to replace the joints as it obviously the best thing to do but if it isn't possible without tools or garage intervention then covers it is!
Thanks.
However, what is unlikely to fix itself is the perished lower ball joint covers. Advisory only this year but as there is no wear apparent in them I'm thinking of just replacing the rubbers having read the potential nightmare that joint replacement could bring.
Labour isn't an issue because I'll do it myself, so does anyone know where I can get the rubbers from or advise if ball joint replacement isn't the disaster waiting to happen that seems to be described everywhere? Rave talks about set up tools etc which will probably be unobtainable/expensive, is there a way of doing them without the set up tools?
Part of me would prefer to replace the joints as it obviously the best thing to do but if it isn't possible without tools or garage intervention then covers it is!
Thanks.