anti rollbar drop link.£45!!!!!gsf...sorted

[oldiguana]

yo dudes...the drop link snapped on her bus.....rung GS wank to check they had a ll the bits in stock......got there this mornin n the lil gimp didnt have all the rubbers"sorry sir they must have been numbered up wrong.............them wanted to charge me £45 for the pleasure.gggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[R0B]

hey now come on now.its the company this guy works for who dictate prices,not the poor guy behind the counter.hes just trying to earn a living like the rest of us..

F**K OFF YOU YOU LTTLE T**T!!!!!!!

[fix]

Yep thats abit harsh mistakes happen.

GS wank? I find them pretty damn good, not always high quality but generally reasonably priced.

A good start would be to put an ad in the wanted section

[oldiguana]

might sound a lil harsh guys but i was soundin off a bit as id rung up the day before to check they had all the bits and they did....so battled threw the traffic to gsf and came away empty handed...again!!!!..its happened more than once before and noone at gsf seems to think its a big deal.........
but i didnt tell said geezer to go forth...that was just me soundin off in my own little space............im far far far too nice to do that!!!.....just a bit p****d off thats all.......apologies to all who thought i had verbally attacked said lapdog..........infact he bought the parts out to me and i had to inform him that the rubber bushes he gave me were wrong....some turd had numbered them up wrong........
just seems to me that whenever i go there..theres always some problem,somethin inna right,something didnt come in,somethins numbered up wrong..............must just be me n mar f****n luck if noone else has any probs....................mumble mumble mumble

[dj biz r]

im sure my drop links were £16 each @ same place did get two right rubbers an two wrong though!they had exhaust valves but not inlet!?oh and i tried to blag disscount but they wernt aware of 80/90!some staff are muppets but a couple of them know it all which is handy.

[Oldjets]

Unfortunately, these vehicles 'aint Fords and parts prices mostly reflect it. Had my first dealings with GSF at weekend - for exhaust bits. Parts look to be ok and reasonable quality. Did make a nuisance of myself by ringing up three days on the trot to make sure bits were in though as its a 50 mile round trip. Worth asking for the discount - parts guy had never heard of 80-90, but showed him a print out of my details from website and he knocked off 10% no problem.

Oldjets

[VWCamperfan]

These tend to break at the top of the thread. If you can level off where it has snapped, drill and tap an 8mm threaded hole and screw a small length of threaded bar into the new threaded hole running up through the arm, then you can give the old broken lump a new lease of life!

[oldiguana]

These tend to break at the top of the thread. If you can level off where it has snapped, drill and tap an 8mm threaded hole and screw a small length of threaded bar into the new threaded hole running up through the arm, then you can give the old broken lump a new lease of life!

arl ava go tomorra....cheerz lads....................and all please dunna ow moan at me lil rant.....i dont do eet very often but when ah do ah make a good job on eet!!!!!!

[oldiguana]

cheerz tata.....drilled n tapped an 8mm thread int said arm n made mesen a new insert cause that was shagged...found a couple a suitable washers n bought new rubbers £8 n 3 hours work......much better than £48 n 2 hours work........................and incidentally i found that droppin the droplink into boilin water for 5 mins warmed the big anti roll bar rubber enough to go on a lil' easier...it was still a pig loadsa grease but helped the last bit by leverin off the top of the hub with a big bar...ggggrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[VWCamperfan]

Yippee! Well done!
Yeah, a lot cheaper. Did this on mine a few years ago and still going strong.
If the insert you mention is that short metal tube that sits around the thread then that is the main culprit for the droplink breaking. They rust and jam up instead of moving around slightly and this causes the threaded section to bend instead. Needless to say, they snap!
Made sure mine was well greased and protected between the rubbers this time. Seems to have worked!