i fitted a new battery, even tho it didnt need it. It was just a bad ground, but the new battery sure is bigger and better, and way newer.. Check your ground cable good, and if it has electric tape around somewhere, take that off, most likely coroded. If not it might be the TC ecu maybe? I...

Check your minus cable on battery, mine were much corroded and gave abs/traction failure and such. i also did my brake fluid, dont know if that helped the faultcode but it sure brakes better and no squeeshy pedal! i dont know if your car has this, but my 97 p38 has a split in the middle of...

@Andy Burrell You must, or should either buy the special tool for the balljoints, or as the others say, the c clamps with the most press tubes. C clamp would probably be the best as u can use it for many other things i suppose. This is the one i've got, weird thing is that i got it with a red...

im struggling to find the item on Ebay, there are no items with such numbers. the one i got can open 5cm and take 2cm in diameter joints.. but i just cant manage to get it inbetween the joint..

well ive used a sledge hammer and swivel wont pop off the ball joints... Neither does the trackrod.. it does not want to pop out... Anyhow, the seal did indeed get totally destroyed..

well i got my parts new seal and collet, sadly i got shift at saturday, so might not handle it before sunday.. time will show I just hope the balljoints will go off the swivel easily.. i dont see why they shall be stuck............ neither tthe hub...

good suggestion thanks :) will do this. I am very thankfull for all the help on here :) Without this page, i would not have kept my p38… not everything is on googele :rolleyes:

Hmm, we did angle grind the ball joint off. Is it possible some of the collar said bye bye in the process? By looking at other youtube videos, it looks like mine is screwed abit more into the knuckle. I suppose its the angle grinders fault. I guess the collet has been cut equivelent to a grind...

If you see my attachment here, that roundy thing is what im talking about. Is it not just to adjust the collar in order to make that roundy bit central. As that is what i've seen youtubers done. What im trying to explain here, is that my roundy bit (flange????) is saggy.

yes, ball joints are fully seated. Is it not possible to adjust it by the axle flange? As by now, the flange barely touches the lower part of the axle, and its a bigger gap from. I saw that p38 guy on youtube, who is from Norway adjusted his axle just by the flange on the axle, to get it...

nay, its not overfilled. It started leaking the first drive after new seal installment. TBH it wasnt a huge, huge leak, not dripping. it just looks huge due to it being spread out at speed. The axle looks miss aligned, but im having a huge trouble getting the collar to even move.. even tho ive...

Yes the one to the right goes out

I did as work on p38 did, and many else. The large suction cuppy thing outwards. The metal part pointikg in toward diff

Im pretty sure it was pressed far enough in and flush with the axle, so i guess its the aligmnent which've killed the seal. I'm unsure if i should buy the tool. I've asked a fellow p38 owner in my whereabouts if he has the tool, and possibly another seal. I suppose it really isn't that time...

No roughness on the half shaft I did not align it, as i didn't touch the collar, someone said if i didn't move the collar i wouldn't need to adjust aligmnent.. but i guess its off due to the leak. I also think my collet is pretty much stuck where it sits, unsure if i can even move it... I...

Well, i fitted everything and took it for a run, it leaks from the halfshaft :( I pushed it in gently with a 36mm socket as others have, and it has the lip facing the wheel :oops: seal is genuine LR Even changed my discs and pads on front but the seal is leaking :(

Well, im bearing better news. It finally gave up. The remains of the balljoint got out. i had a tube going from the upper to lower balljoint (inside swivel) and took it in the press. Applied 1 by 1 ton pressure, heated up the outside of the joint, and when i was at 6tons i said geez, i turned...

just a car workshop. Anyhow, Would it help loosing the adjustment collar for the centralizing of the axle? Maybe not taking it completly off, but just making it move freely atleast? as long as i take it back to the same old position? The collar does not stop it from moving at any way right?

' heated it with a torch, but it does not buldge nay.

Hammering away all day, with two hammers, 1 sledge hammer, 1 hammer… Am i using the wrong hammer?? Bugger wont move :eek::eek: im blasting it with all the juices