ok, so here goes.....
did start at the back and work forwards, but botophucket's mixed em' all up.
what started as an inspection ended up in a bit of a safety fixing frenzy, these are the pics I took prior to all this happening.
sue was honorary photographer for works in progress so yer'l have to wait for them shots.
some shots are workmanship and quality issues, others are purely downright dangerous.
all I can say is shocking.
spring turret bolt retaining plate missing, putting bolt head stress point on spring.
rear shot of dodgy bush installed, nearside.
track rod end that fell off while pulling rearward to show play in rear buch on radius arm.
lack of washer on radius arm allowing bush to push over arm.
front prop to diff, one of the things that was "just noticed" while messing with radius arm play......
another of front prop. 2 bolts left, and they were well on the way for making a bid for freedom.
its a patch. not fully welded. on a supposedly brand new galvy chassis.
nearside footwell repair.
cant remember, but think its a bit of insecure inner wing.
insecure spat.
offside bulkhead / radius arm bracket inadequate weld.
another chassis plate not fully welded.
cant remember again. think its a bulkhead outrigger split.
insecure inner wing and a leak that I think is from oil cooler on automatic gearbox. needs further investigation.
inside the nice new galvy chassis.
offside radius arm to chassis, missing its washer.
a straight bracket on the new crossmember.
a bent bracket on the other side of the new crossmember.
nearside rear bump stop missing.
offside king pin rear bolt loose.
as above. theres a hand there somewhere, toggle between this and previous pic.
offside rear, missing bump stop and quality repair to crossmember.
offside chrome swivel ball without its chrome.
nearside swivel.
not my scene, but photo'd it anyway. bent bodywork.
another chromeless chrome ball.
atf fluid from gearbox cooler somewhere. needs further investigation.
insecure inner wing, think its offside but cant remember again.
random shot of front axle breather we tied up last weekend cos it were dangling onto wheel.
more rough inner wing.
atf leak onto the nice galvy chassis
offside gearbox mount strained.
fell over the dog.
not sure again. might have been the strained mount, might have been the floor pan not bolted in.
nice new galvy chassis.
gearbox crossmember missing bolts offside.
galvy chassis or insecure brake pipe.
fell over sue.
quality repair to drivers footwell.
think its under passenger seat.
drivers footwell and a sneak shot of the wiring quality. we didn't even get onto that!
gearbox nearside missing bolts.
dunno, but there must have been a reason I took it.
front prop again.
remnants of the anti roll bar bushing.
same but on other side.
one of the issues that started this, seen last weekend.
insecure brake pipe on rear, should be a bulhead union on the bracket.
ooh, another pic of that front prop.
insecure brake pipe to rear, and a cheeky shot of the donut.
rear brake pipe again.
hmmm....?
must have been to make the nearside pic not feel left out.
dunno, really.
rear donut.
more insecure inner wing.
floorpan.
cause of the "knocking noise"
nearside radius arm to chassis bush.
have I posted this at the start? cant remember.
same bush.
rear flexi brake pipe.
offside crossmember attachment, and missing bump stop.
split pin missing.
rear brake pipe. (we put the tie on last weekend)
chuckled at this last weekend. cable tie on brake line, just where bump stop should clout it. if it had bump stops.
after the short inspection (oh, come down to the shop, i'll have a look. be about an hour or so.....) we addressed the critical bits and sorted the radious arm bushes and king pin wobble. just waiting on youtube for the vid.
then nipped the steering uj's prior to steering box.
then nipped all prop uj bolts.
then I think we went home after a quick road test.
king pin wobble. apologies for the camera operator wobble.
king pin wobble - YouTube
that's it for now, look out for the next instalment!
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