You gotta laugh - I tried heat, hitting, heat and hitting, a puller complete with heat and hitting etc etc, liberal doses of plus gas, you name it !!!
Eventually out came the angle grinder and this happened -
Still, looks much nicer and shiny shiny now, thanks to a pair of stainless backplates and CV joint protectors from Brickwerks...
And now complete with a newly minted MOT certificate - just too late for all the fun and games in Wales at the weekend
five easy pieces - or how to remove a Syncro front disk.....
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Re: five easy pieces - or how to remove a Syncro front disk.....
In 40 odd years of fecking about with cars, I've never seen that.
Shiny looks good!
Shiny looks good!
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Re: five easy pieces - or how to remove a Syncro front disk.....
Syncropaddy did you make your new avatar using your web cam?
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Re: five easy pieces - or how to remove a Syncro front disk.....
sandwedge wrote:Syncropaddy did you make your new avatar using your web cam?
No, I nicked it from your digicam .....
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Re: five easy pieces - or how to remove a Syncro front disk.....
cant be me its far too good looking
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Re: five easy pieces - or how to remove a Syncro front disk.....
syncropaddy wrote:In 40 odd years of fecking about with cars, I've never seen that.
Shiny looks good!
Obviously not had the missfortune of working on a Mondeo then.
Syncro do it fairly regularly also, Larry* normally sorts if for me though.
*Larry is my 4lb lump hammer with a foot long shaft, lucky boy.
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Re: five easy pieces - or how to remove a Syncro front disk.....
Simon Baxter wrote:Syncro do it fairly regularly also, Larry* normally sorts if for me though.syncropaddy wrote:In 40 odd years of fecking about with cars, I've never seen that.
Shiny looks good!
*Larry is my 4lb lump hammer with a foot long shaft, lucky boy.
I have one of those too. Her name is Bertha and commands respect .....
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Re: five easy pieces - or how to remove a Syncro front disk.....
Yep mine is called Madam Tutsie, strange how we have a name for our big hammers.
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Re: five easy pieces - or how to remove a Syncro front disk.....
I did try the big hammer route - mine is called "f*ing big hammer"
It worked for one side with a bit (well a lot) of heat and a 3-leg puller but nothing was moving the other side - it was still stuck on even when I cut the front off the disk. It was the ring of rust around the edge that did it, not on the face. I actually broke chunks off the disk lip with the puller twice before i resorted to the angle grinder...
It worked for one side with a bit (well a lot) of heat and a 3-leg puller but nothing was moving the other side - it was still stuck on even when I cut the front off the disk. It was the ring of rust around the edge that did it, not on the face. I actually broke chunks off the disk lip with the puller twice before i resorted to the angle grinder...