Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[mark.adams]

Well there's your problem, it's obvious now, you have a small child wedged under the front of your car.

[car-nut]

I have now ordered a joint splutter from Ebay. But am now biting my nails and can't wait for next weekend to come so I can get that part of the car done!

[car-nut]

Well there's your problem, it's obvious now, you have a small child wedged under the front of your car.

LOL.

That's my mates son and he wants to grow up to be my mechanic 

[dbug]

Two hammers mate 

[Osprey]

Hammer and chisel method here:

http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1268602974

 

[Jimbob]

iirc, you may not get a splitter in there, hence the hammer method.

[2woody]

two hammers is by far the best method. It's the shock that you're after not the weight of the blow, so use lighter hammers than you might think.

[TheBoy]

You won't get a splitter in on the tie rod ball joint. Hence the guide uses hammers

[car-nut]

We tried the hammer method with no joy. But I came across another issue. The ball joint on the middle metal arm thing has a tiny bit of play but play enough to be to just touch it to make it move. It moves less than 1mm either side. Could this be the actual cause of my tramlining?

I am very close to getting rid of this Omega now and am already half heartedly looking at other cars.

[Broomies Mate]

We tried the hammer method with no joy. But I came across another issue. The ball joint on the middle metal arm thing has a tiny bit of play but play enough to be to just touch it to make it move. It moves less than 1mm either side. Could this be the actual cause of my tramlining?

I am very close to getting rid of this Omega now and am already half heartedly looking at other cars.

Any joint with 'play' in it through the force caused by a Human Hand means the joint is pretty dead IME.

Think about it this way;

Force you can apply by hand = Reasonable
Force a 1.7Tonne car can apply whilst cornering at speed = Exponentially more!