luckygti
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I need to try harder!
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 Right. Decided to go a bit further while I'm swapping engines so took both front suspension units and hubs off. No great dramas (well, no more than usual!!  ) Got some new springs so started to dismantle the unit. Its basically a threaded end that has an allen key insert in the end with a nut on it! Started off by snapping my allen key!!!. Broke out the air grinder/hacksaw combination and lopped about 5mm off the end of the damper thread so I could get at the broken bit. Removed that, but still can't get the nut undone. Now, short of sawing the damper bit in half, any one got any ideas??
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stealthstylz
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Take it to a local garage and get them to use an air gun on it.
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luckygti
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Got one myself! Problem is the only way to hold the shaft (ie. the top part of the damper) still is by using an allen key which actually fits in the end of the thread! This means a standard socket won't work so its a ring spanner, or one of those fancy ratchets that has a hole through the spindle bit! Thinking of trying it with mole grips around the shaft. Chances are it'll curse word it up, but I'll just have to get some new ones!!! (curse word, more bloody money!!)
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stealthstylz
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Use an air impact wrench they will usually crack it without needed to hold the allen key. If it just spins bolt the unit back into the car and put it on the ground with wheels on and try it.
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luckygti
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Yep, I'll give that a go when I get back in the garage!! Hopefully tomorrow!
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lae
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Yeah I'm soon facing that same problem. I'm planning on slipping some extension tubes over my spanner and allen key (lifetime guarantee, I can do what the hell I like to them, I work in Halfords anyway!). Hell, I can't pay for garage fees!
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Currently:
Mk1 Focus blandmobile
Formerly:
1969 MG Midget
1972 Avenger GT
1981 Datsun Cherry
1989 Corolla
1979 Mercedes W123 200D
1995 Ford Falcon
1996 Ford Telstar (bet you had to google that one)
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Dez
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And I won't sit down. And I won't shut up. And most of all I will not grow up.
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chammy leather and molegrips/stilsons.
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BiAS
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Front shock absorber - removal!BiAS
@cheeqi
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^^^Yeah exactly that^^^ then airgun on the nut.
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Right. Decided to go a bit further while I'm swapping engines so took both front suspension units and hubs off. No great dramas (well, no more than usual!! 
) Got some new springs so started to dismantle the unit. Its basically a threaded end that has an allen key insert in the end with a nut on it! Started off by snapping my allen key!!!. Broke out the air grinder/hacksaw combination and lopped about 5mm off the end of the damper thread so I could get at the broken bit. Removed that, but still can't get the nut undone. Now, short of sawing the damper bit in half, any one got any ideas??
