Re: Re: French You Tube Seies

Hi David,
sorry, delayed response due to work-based distractions.
I take your point. I haven’t done this job so much kudos to you.
I just watched this again. Tutorials 18 and 19 show the more or less the same thing but 18 has english subtitles which I missed first time around.
If you do it the way you did, do I assume you have to push the splined shaft out of both silentbolocks and the arm all at the same time? Or at least out of one of the silentblocks and the arm?
I think their strategy is, having trashed the rubber bits of the silent blocks, by taking the remaining inner parts off one at a time they avoid the need for a 30 ton press and just use their 3 legged puller (and a couple of blow torches and a big breaker bar). This then leaves the splined shaft in the arm which cannot be removed from the cradle – and here is where the subtitles come in for me. They are saying that there is no need to withdraw the splined shaft, because, I guess, it would only need to be pressed back in again. Do the splines wear on that bit? If not, I see their point.

The guys call themselves Sunday Mechanics – do you get the impression they do this in the afternoon after a good lunch?
Chris