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I have a set of spanners that i ground down back in 2012 to do the drop links, and also cut of 5mm of thread on the drop links, i have used several types of drop links over the years, i have only this week bought a set for £12.95 The best ones i have found were Unipart, then the next from a seller D2P but with all drop links always add extra grease. 1 2 3 4 The middle drop link is what i have just purchased to see how they perform. 5 I have not dressed these yet or added any grease job for today. 6 fitting drop links should take no more than 40 minutes as for torque it to 60nm i always tighten them up by feel tight then a 1/4 turn more, never had no trouble, not one as sheered off. Always do the top first turn the drop link until it stops then use the flat to up, after fit the bottom do the same nip up, then go back to the top nut and use ground down ring spanner on the nut and ground down open spanner on the flat then tighten them up until you can not turn anymore. 6 Do the same to remove the old ones. 7 If the nut will not budge once you have a gap use a new sharp hacksaw to cut through the thread, usually once half way through you can bend the drop link and it will snap. 8 9 10 Clean the area for new drop link. 11 12 13 Arctic
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I'm certainly not proud of this but can't resist sharing... when I did my droplinks I found on one side the hole in the strut for my droplink was no longer a hole. It was just a gap. First pic shows the solution at the time. I drove like that for over a month with no problems. I'm not advocating the solution but there you go! Fast forward to the second pic. I had a broken spring and knew I needed to sort the droplink situation so new struts and springs for both sides. So if you're inclined to torque the nut, I can confirm it's much easier torquing it with the spring off. Also perfectly possible to do all of this job on the floor. I did put the strut (with droplink) in a bench but decided the floor was easier. I have a flexible crows foot and I think I tried using this (for the first time when strut was on the car) and I found it was not suitable. I also tried the ground down spanner but my spanner snapped almost straight away. I had chosen a crappy old cheap one to grind down though Next time I am going to buy a split ring spanner. |
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I have these crow feet spanners but never tried them i will do next time i do a droplink.
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I believe they can just about be used but might depend on whether or not the nut is sitting favourably. I couldn't use one on removal due to the position the nut had been tightened to by the last person. I was able to get one on for refitting though as the positioning was then up to me. Hope that makes sense...! Ps the last person also put the droplinks on backwards at the bottom end which I duly copied until I saw your picture guide. Went back out and fixed the next morning so thank you |
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yes i have seen that be also Correct way so peoples know 1
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I've seen others like that described as crow's feet Steve. They're really just open ended jaws with a ratchet handle drive on the end. Proper crow's feet have a hexagon or bi-hexagon profile and pincer shaped jaws. Simon
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Thanks for your thoughts. Simon
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That's a droplink from DMGRs - unmodified. Not sure what's happened with the gap but the whole setup was in a sorry state anyway. All in the past now
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