Practically Classics Forum

when i met mrs wifey i had 26 cars.. from good condition to wrecks... they were mostly of the latter.. wifey & my mum conspired to get rid of a few.. now i dont have any can someone tell me what happened

you got married Rich..fatal to any hobby or enjoyable pastime...lol

Kev

is that where all the money went too? or can i blame the kids for that??

That depends how many handbags and pairs of shoes your other half has

wifey is very frugal when it comes to things like that..

I have a deal, whatever I buy for cars etc I transfer the same to her "spends" account.

Keeps her quiet!

Big graunching noise has started from rear. Checked the pads and discs , all seems ok.

But wiggling the wheels (one hand at top and other at bottom) I have a fair amount of movement on the drivers rear.

So a wheel bearing is needed, I guess this could make the noise, yes?

From the Alfa Manual it seems I need an array of specialist Alfa tools to pull and lock etc. Would like to do it myself ideally.

Or the slop is allowing the pads or disks rub the backplates?

The slop will need taking out, either by adjustment or replacement of the bearing so most likely that'll cure the moise

Got the latest purchase round from the back today and gave her a serious clean up.

She seems mechanically sound and the multitude electrics work. Interior is in great condition. Came with a ton of history and seems to of had pretty much one owner from new and spent a lot of her life in France. Money does not seem to have been an issue as the bills on the receipts are big and frequent!

Lacquer is shot and she is very pinks so a respray is on the cards.

Before -





To be fair it got brighter outside so its not all polish!

Ok so found a good inch or so of wobble in the rear drivers wheel on the 75.

The car is graunching when breaking and in reverse gear so figured it was time to change a bearing (after checking there where no obvious brake issues).

You need specialist tools but I'm keen to learn as much as I can so ordered them up and the bearing.

So ordered all the tools -



Got the manual the wife kindly laminated for me, which stated you had to remove the A Frame to do the job. I wanted to see if you could without.



Disconnected the drive I decided to use a rounded bolt remover rather than a hex head after nightmares of rounding on my last fix. Worked a treat they all came right out.



I used a long screwdriver threaded into the top of the spring to hold the shaft up and out of the way to allow access to the rear.

Then used the locking tool wedged against the a frame to undo the centre nut after removing the split pin, this is a massive 41mm, I had to pop down my farmer mates to get his tractor socket set and use a scaffolding pole as a lever.



Next up use the locking tool that stops the drive shaft popping out and instead forces the wheel hub to pop off instead.



Big crunch and because I had not tightened it enough the drive shaft did popped out.



So try number 2 and the wheel hub came out but with half the bearing on it! It must be seized on and would not let go




So I need to try and get this off somehow!

Next up tried to get the locking ring out. After much heating and lubing, I used the tool which was not budging it. So I went for the scaffold pole again and the tool promptly broke in half!

I have to admit I had looked at it and thought the welding was a bit poor and thought of adding another bead inside. But I not and paid for it. I guess its designed for un seized locking rings.




So that is where I currently am , seized half a bearing on the shaft and seized locking ring in the hub.

Do people think I can **** the ring out with a dremel if I cut straight across should the new ring still be ok on the thread?

Otherwise I plan to re weld the tool and have another go with the scaffolding pole![/code]

75nut wrote:Do people think I can **** the ring out with a dremel if I cut straight across should the new ring still be ok on the thread?

That's exactly what I did with a Renault Clio bearing a while back, worked fine - I managed to be precise and careful with the dremel and hardly touched the shaft underneath at all, a final crack with a cold chisel and off it came. Mind you, I'd weld up that tool too - no use having broken tools around.

Cheers