Pegs update

[Ed Townend]

Pegs is still very much a work in progress, and I've not got photos of most of it, so here's some high and low-lights from the last year.

Good: LPG out, saving something like 60Kg. Have since made a box to cover the empty space, making more boot space and creating a  parcel shelf for the soft top.

Good: Going places

Good: more age appropriate wheels. Bad - sanding them down first.

[Ed Townend]

Bad: ball joint detachment causes kerb-wheel interference. It looked like the nyloc holding upper wishbone to ball joint parted company, because that was nowhere to be found and the threads remarkably undamaged.

Very bad: The now loose wishbone and tyre connect. Since this the wishbone has been sleeved for strength, and new ball joints fitted with extra tightness and a locking nut on top for good measure. This is also marks the death of the new wheels.

[Ed Townend]

The work in progress - possibly looks bad right next to the previous post but it is part of a much longer project of improving every other part of the car.

Positioning.

Ready and waiting.

[Paul Sheridan]

Hello Ed, all looking good!!  I have a reccomendation with respect to the stainless steel tubular manifold. Having had a lot of experience with them ...... mount the turbo so the manifold is not supporting the wieght of the turbo, or taking any stress from engine movement. Thin walled stailess steel manifolds tend to easily crack around the welds on the cylinder head plate if the turbo is not well and truly bolted to the block so there is no flexing of the manifold.

[Ed Townend]

Thanks Paul, will bear that in mind. I was thinking of making a brace between an engine and turbo stud? I'm not 100% sure yet whether we'll put the turbo upwards or hanging down. Upwards, the bonnet is close and the downpipe has to be quite complicated to bend around the bulkhead, but downwards the alternator is in the way of the inlet.

[Adrian Southgate]

Ball joint separation is always going to end in tears.

I lost a lower ball joint on a 105E Anglia once @60ish on the M60/M61 junction. Wheel under car not good, taking the strut and inner wing with it even worse. That wheel can be straightened if its worth doing.... mind you i think you may need a new tyre...

[Ed Townend]

Ouch. Annoyingly, not very long before that the ball joints had been changed by an MOT station after it failed for too much play. I needed the car back quickly and had to work so I told them to do it. In the end it's not saved any time at all! I've since rebuilt both front corners with all new fasteners.

I was wondering if the wheel is saveable - the inner lip has ground away a bit.

[Ed Townend]

Thanks guys!

[Dave Adams]

If the work was carried out by a professional outfit a matter of weeks ago and the nuts have "fell" off you should be able to claim if they fob you off go to trading standards.

[Ed Townend]

Yeah I guess, but I think it would have been difficult to prove. It was months ago now anyway, so it's just been chalked up as a tough lesson.

[Adrian Southgate]

It does make you wonder if they refitted the old nylocs and if they did them up tight... Most nylocs are a one use item especially if the bolt has any corrosion on the exposed thread when removed.

[1midz0wwbl268]

unless they used the wrong nuts, ,are the maxi ball joints metric,or imp? because if they fitted the  wrong nyloc would have only held on the insert and would have come adrift after a few miles.

[Ed Townend]

M12 1.25 pitch 'cos we just got some for the Melos, but the garage had reused the old nuts on the other side which was ridiculous since they even came with new.