It gets one better than that John, I have the other side to do as well......
What do you recon, £30 a side these days, plus parts at triple cost....be about that.....
Then there is this bit, the hub.
The problem centres around the red circle. The clamp just won't quite clamp tight enough to the pin. It's ok when new, but come the next MOT it fails. I have had at least one side changed if not both for every MOT for the last 4yrs since I've owned this car. To add insult the mot station sometimes failed the pin as well to be on the safe side. These are very expensive parts, the pin is in fact the whole lower arm assembly.
I decided this year if I couldn't fix this myself then I was going to scrap the car. Year on year it was getting just plain silly.
You can see the top of the gap is wider then the bottom, the bottom was closing too early.
The fix was quite simple, run a three bladed hacksaw through the slot....
It looks like I've taken a huge chunk out, but it's no wider that the original size of the top and is about 3mm wide.
On another note, why does rust always come out showing it's best in photo's......I mean, things always look worse than they really are don't they.
Would you believe that hub was new last year, no neither would I, but I have the bill to prove it so it must be.......
Anyway here's that CV joint Ralph told me to beat.....
Cleaned up, re-greased, re-booted and re-fitted.....can't be bad, just need to trim the excess boot off tomorrow.
