What Have You Done to Your Cougar Today?

Took her for MOT this morning.
















Failed! :(















On 2 front droplinks! :LOL:

Already have the parts to fit, so may have a go myself, gonna check the 'how to' first (garage want £90 to fit otherwise)
Very happy with that result. Advisories were 1 rear drop link and front brakepipes slightly corroded, though he did say he'd but some grease on them already, and they should clean up ok.
Buzzing.... :angel:
 
Cheers all, I can't take any of the credit though.
That's all down to Claus being very well behaved today, the previous owner, and everyone else here that did lots of work the last couple of years.

Thanks for advising to have both wheels up, I was gonna do one wheel at a time (fail)
I've sprayed the nuts and will have a go when the weather stops being so daft.
I don't want a repeat of problems with my nuts. No thanks.
 
spjmorris said:
...just get both sides in the air so the ARB doesn't fight you
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Definately second this!

Also, it's worth being careful, when I did mine it took a fair bit of effort to free off the nuts - when they finally went I whacked my thumb so hard that the nail went a funny colour, I think I was lucky not to lose it :sick:
 
The old ones can be a swine sometimes...this was me doing mine before she was mine....if you follow :D

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Hmmm, think I might get the garage to do it.
Don't want to make a colossal arse of myself again.
Cheers (y)
 
Definitely have a go first, most of the ones I've done have come off really easily it's only if they're exceptionally stubborn you'll have to get the grinder out, and I think then it was only because it was faster!
 
spjmorris said:
The old ones can be a swine sometimes...this was me doing mine before she was mine....if you follow :D

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I had to do the exact same thing with the rear bolts on mine...its not as bad as the picture makes out just need to slice though the nut...Its always fun to get the angle grinder out :devilish:

Just make sure you do it with both sides level in the air..if not youll find it hard to line em up and when you drop it back down you might find one side loose
£90 to fit is a bit of a p!!! take IMO
 
dandamano said:
I had to do the exact same thing with the rear bolts on mine...its not as bad as the picture makes out just need to slice though the nut...Its always fun to get the angle grinder out :devilish:

Just make sure you do it with both sides level in the air..if not youll find it hard to line em up and when you drop it back down you might find one side loose
£90 to fit is a bit of a p!!! take IMO
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Some of them have an 8mm allen-key hole in the end of them, which stops everything from spinning when you try to undo the ny-locks. So by the time you come to replace them, you can fit a 7mm one in there with a hammer. :cautious:

Top tip - if you push back the seal, there are flat spots back there. They won't take an ordinary spanner on them - the gap is too narrow - but they will take a bicycle spanner. The job becomes 100% stress-free if you have a 17mm one...

And yes, £90 is absolutely absurd. That's two hours. We amateurs can get an engine out in that time.
 
Can't go wrong with that advice, thanks a lot.

Gonna celebrate with a bottle of malbec I reckon (any excuse etc) :D
Cheers
 
Mako said:
Top tip - if you push back the seal, there are flat spots back there. They won't take an ordinary spanner on them - the gap is too narrow - but they will take a bicycle spanner. The job becomes 100% stress-free if you have a 17mm one....
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This is exactly how I did mine (no bicycle spanner though, I got a normal one to fit) - oddly, I thought at the time that this was how you were supposed to do it, I didn't notice until afterwards that the allen-key hole was there...
 
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