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hasaad when I did mine the other month I jacked the car up by placing the jack under the engine (as per pelican), once it was at max extenison I placed axle stands under the rear torsion bars this as it turns out was no way high enough, so as i have a bunch of dense concrete blocks in the garage, I ...

ian
nice one, will investigate
ta
jp

ian
brilliant, simple ideas often the best, I'll give it a go over the weekend, so long as I can get a big socket, not sure my local Halfords have such a big socket.....will find out

thanks a lot

jp

hi all

according to my bently manual, to remove the rear wheel hubs I need porsche tool P297, or other suitable drift

at £60 from porsche thats a bit expensive, does anyone know if a cheaper tool or other supplier could do the job

many thanks
Jp

andy

thanks for that, just to confirm then the torsion bars have to come out of the front hole....its just that the bentley manual says pull torsion out from rear of car, but there again it is written for an SC........?

don't have a copper hamer so I'll try a bit of wood !

ta

jp

hi, me again after a weekend of removing (nearly) the last few major pieces of kit from the car comes the torsion bars, see picture.... http://www.muchos.co.uk/members/jtparr/torsionfront-copy.gif as the notes on the picture hopefuly explain, I am assuming the front bracket (with the 2 holes) will c...

david partial success, I bought one of the simple forked type splitters from halfords and with a bit of penetrating oil and a few hefy blows both the axles came free for what its worth it seemed to be better to leave the assembly on the car to limit the number of bits to have to hold whilst weilding...

david at the moment all the strut and torsion assembly is still on the car, as I thought it might be better to keep as much of the assembly clamped in place whilst I hit things :shock: , mind you as soon as I take it off, then when its upside down I can soak the bits properly, so i think I'll do tha...

as it implies.... front suspension, strut balljoint :evil: CANNOT get the balljoint to seperate from the bottom of the strut.....the double wedge bolt was pretty solid but a few heft blows did the job, but the ball joint is just plain stuck I also cannot undo the castellated nut at the bottom of the...

pretty sure I'll be there, looking out for wings and bonnets, oh yeh and front panels, grp bumpers and more... guess it will be the daily SAAB driver then.....