melinamotor
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Right,
441 is back in my care with a few issues to attend to, after suffering bad judder on acceleration on the way home last Saturday the car went into Ford on Tuesday. After various conversations back and forwards they invited me in today to look over the car with them. The senior techy had been given the FRP job to do as he was around during its launch.
Both shafts were of the car with the following being evident:
1) Inner shaft bearing had gone n/s
2) both tri cup bearing housings were showing signs of bearing rub inside (indicative of dry housings, not enough grease.
3)Both tri cup bearings were showing signs of movement with one bearing bronzed where it has been rubbing the dry cup.
4)Tri bearing on the n/s drive shaft moved slightly on the shaft, with the shaft showing signs of wear.
5)Small hole in the Cat, circumvented by putting the bypass pipe on.
6)Brake discs showing signs of track use and pads 85% worn.
Also the CV boots had been cable tied on not clipped hence the grease escape.
At present my budget wont allow the replacement of the shaft and tricups and bearings so the new inner shaft bearing is going on and both tri bearings packed with grease secured properly in new boots and the correct clips. This should give me a few thousand miles more out of them.Brake discs should be good for another few thousand as the car wont be used much and definately not tracked in its current condition.
The dilemma I now have is whether to postpone the bodyshop work on the exterior and buy shafts from pb and get the brakes sorted. Not quite how I planned things but hey thats the way it goes sometimes. It only passed an MOT two weeks ago
441 is back in my care with a few issues to attend to, after suffering bad judder on acceleration on the way home last Saturday the car went into Ford on Tuesday. After various conversations back and forwards they invited me in today to look over the car with them. The senior techy had been given the FRP job to do as he was around during its launch.
Both shafts were of the car with the following being evident:
1) Inner shaft bearing had gone n/s
2) both tri cup bearing housings were showing signs of bearing rub inside (indicative of dry housings, not enough grease.
3)Both tri cup bearings were showing signs of movement with one bearing bronzed where it has been rubbing the dry cup.
4)Tri bearing on the n/s drive shaft moved slightly on the shaft, with the shaft showing signs of wear.
5)Small hole in the Cat, circumvented by putting the bypass pipe on.
6)Brake discs showing signs of track use and pads 85% worn.
Also the CV boots had been cable tied on not clipped hence the grease escape.
At present my budget wont allow the replacement of the shaft and tricups and bearings so the new inner shaft bearing is going on and both tri bearings packed with grease secured properly in new boots and the correct clips. This should give me a few thousand miles more out of them.Brake discs should be good for another few thousand as the car wont be used much and definately not tracked in its current condition.
The dilemma I now have is whether to postpone the bodyshop work on the exterior and buy shafts from pb and get the brakes sorted. Not quite how I planned things but hey thats the way it goes sometimes. It only passed an MOT two weeks ago
