Andrew Prince
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I am in the early stages of installing my new suspension - so I figured that as I had a couple of hours free tonight I would make a gentle start and remove the old damper and install the new one. And spray more penetrating oil on the shock bolts
So I remove the nut on the O/S end of the damper where it attaches to the tie-rod. But the bolt through the tie-rod bracket is not budging - even a couple of well-aimed taps with a hammer just made noise and did nothing useful. A glance through the FSM (pg SR-72) suggests that a SST is needed to split the damper bolt from the tie-rod bracket. The SST in question looks a lot like a bearing puller.
So 2 questions:
1. Is there an easy knack to getting the O/S end of the damper off that I'm missing?
2. Will a bearing puller do the job of the SST in this case?
I'm a bit frustrated to be stuck on the simplest part of the suspension swap
But my day won't be ruined, I got my MOT today with only the holed exhaust as an advisory
So I remove the nut on the O/S end of the damper where it attaches to the tie-rod. But the bolt through the tie-rod bracket is not budging - even a couple of well-aimed taps with a hammer just made noise and did nothing useful. A glance through the FSM (pg SR-72) suggests that a SST is needed to split the damper bolt from the tie-rod bracket. The SST in question looks a lot like a bearing puller.
So 2 questions:
1. Is there an easy knack to getting the O/S end of the damper off that I'm missing?
2. Will a bearing puller do the job of the SST in this case?
I'm a bit frustrated to be stuck on the simplest part of the suspension swap
But my day won't be ruined, I got my MOT today with only the holed exhaust as an advisory