Lower Wishbone play - what bit wears?

[ianrm]

I've just taken off my upper wishbones to replace the track rod ends, as I thought I could detect a bit of wear, but in fact it seems that the wear is coming from the bottom, where the upright meets the lower wishbone.

 

If I apply up and down pressure I can feel movement in that joint. What do I have to replace? There doesn't seem to be anything replaceable - is it new lower wishbones or a replacement upright or is there a bush somewhere that can be replaced?

 

The car is a 94 1.4K SS without trunions!!

 

 

 

 

I intend to live forever - so far so good!

[Bare]

Presumably it's yer lower Ball joint thing. . You get to replace it :-)

Don't gloat too much over the lack of Trunnions.. the Spherical joint is not a genuine improvement.. It was necessitated by the adoption of the Antidive Geometry.. but sphericals wear quickly. as you may have discovered.

But it's neither a Large nor difficult job.. no need to worry.

[ianrm]

Bare -

 

thanks for the info, I wasn't gloating it was a bit of an obscure reference to a previous post where I had been sold trunnion repair kits by Caterham and couldn't find my trunnions!! (don't have any) - hence the comment.

 

How do you get the spherical joint out - does it need a press or anything?

 

I intend to live forever - so far so good!

[Rob Walker]

Its held in place by a circlip, You can remove the circlip witha small screwdriver the sperical joint can be be withdrawn from the wishbone after the removal of the nut at the bottom of the upright. The joints cost £30 from Catreham.

[Gridgway]

the joint may well be quite tough to get out if it is help in the bearing compound and/or rust and gunge.

 

Careful patient effort with a hammer and punch going all the way round worked for me.

 

Graham

[Nifty]

Ian,

 

Slightly in the wrong place but it may help.

 

I have a full set of standard track wishbones from a 1.4 SS that are now surplus to requirement. The top ones are brand spanking new (due to a little confusion with Arch) and the lower ones have just been blasted and repowder coated by Arch. All ball joints and spherical joints are obviously new and unused.

 

I am going widetrack and so no longer need to put these back on my car.

 

Not sure of the value but if you're interested drop me a line to niftys@btopenworld.com and we can come to a mutual agreement *thumbup*

 

Keep off the straight and narrow 😬

 

Edited by - Nifty on 1 Mar 2004 08:22:53

[stevefoster]

I found I had to use bearing fix to get the new sphericals to sit tight.

 

They last about 5 yrs of average 7'ing so are not that weak a link.

 

Some 7's around 1996 era used a nasty bit of wire instead of the a proper circlip.

Bin that and fit a proper on.

 

Be careful with the nut/thread on the upright. the thread is ali.

 

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[ianrm]

Nifty, sounds good, YHM

 

Ian

[Nifty]

Ian,

 

Got your mail.

My car is a '95 1.4 SS, so the same chassis, so they will fit.

 

I'll mail back, but possibly not tonight...off to monthly meeting very shortly.

 

Cheers,

 

Nifty.

 

Keep off the straight and narrow 😬