Bit of pottering about today, the steering has got a lot more vague in a short space of time so after seeing all the play in every joint I ordered a few standard bits and started with the drop arm ball joint
Manky old ball joint
The tool was well worth having
Now the original top cup is on the left, new one on right. The shoulder on the original is much wider, the new one wouldn't press in to the drop arm, just slid in all the way to the seat. Probably need a new arm tbh but that ain't happening on the drive so I pressed the old one back in. It wasn't in bad shape at all, there was a lot of heat discolouring on the original ball though.
It all went back together nicely, had to nip out for a g clamp to get the circlip in but it's not a bad job to do at all.
Started on the drag link, original joint was looser than Gemma Collins on the ice and really notchy, boot split in a few places
This bad boy came out easy peasy, few knocks with the BFH and a squirt of plusgas and it came off, bear in mind I haven't got a vice.
Qualityyyyyyy
The new drag link tube didn't come with pinch clamps so I used the originals with the new nylock nuts from the new track rod assembly I bought. Need to get some m6 nylocks now to finish track rod but old ones off and new ones set to length to get me to garage for tracking
So I got bored and started poking around the engine bay. Towing the van back the other week, it started with that whooshing intake noise and down on power again! Can't see any delamination or splits in all the hoses but they are original so prob won't hurt to replace them. I did notice oil pooling from the intercooler to intake pipe and on the top of the engine from the breather pipe....so I took the intercooler off for cleaning, hoping it's just normal oil mist from turbo building up, there's just a film of oil in all the hoses so not too worried yet lol
Looks a bit sorry for itself now