Thursday, March 22, 2007

An early finish

An early finish for beer in Northampton tonight. The steering drop arm is mostly done - the last few operations need to be carried out a little closer than 115miles from the car.
I dismantled the drag link ball socket and found all the parts to be in serviceable condition. I then attempted to remove the old broken drag link from the socket, it appears that aswell as the pinning it was brazed. Despite numerous attempts at heating and numerous small fires (its always amazing how much old oil is held inside these things) it wouldn't come out - a job for the lathe. Conviently the drag link is 7/8" outside diameter which I believe is the same as the new one that has been made at Bigenor earlier today.

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