Spend te last few evenings and last saturday daytime lowering the super rust bucket that is the 1984 360 GLEI Saloon.
First the rear, which was easy barring one one huge issue, getting the bastid driveshafts off the hubs.
Not only are were they held on with normal bolts rather than allen key ones as expected, but they were shagged, rusty n worn, so had a day of angle grinding and pissing about with rounded nuts.
Barring getting them out it wouldve been a 1hour job, but took all day, lol.
The fronts were just as much of a pain, if not worse, and again because every bolt was old n fooked.
One thing i found to do (handy hint time chaps) is to replace the 2 nuts n bolts that hold the hub to the arm with new ones about twice as long.
They dont catch on anything and make it tons easier to line up with minimum grief.
Even drilling the spring cups so i could put jubilees thru em to hold the springs was a nightmare as the bloody shocker on one wide had been welded too!
Badly, dead messy, but made drilling thru the cup next to impossible, very vey long job.
After all the grief i had (drivers side front took nigh on 8hours for whats potentially a 1hours job if all goes well!) i was just about to finish, putting the final bolt on the passenger side track rod end and...
Its fooked
I hammered it too much to get it out (before i found the pullers and did it easy, doh) and squashed the end a bit it seems, meaning the bolt wont catch the thread.
Went n wasted 30quid on a rethreading kit n was no good as couldnt even get them to catch.
Looks like i need a new track/tie rod end now, and they always been a complete get to remove on every other car ive tried it on, so im expecting the worst on this pile of iron oxide...
I take it they still available?
Get the thing very very hot, like 2 minutes with a blowlamp on the track rod end itself. then it should undo nice and easy. There should be a squarey end which you should be able to hold with a spanner whilst you undo break the locknut free. A pair of long spanners should do it fine if you've got it hot enough. Once you get it moving, spray some WD-40 carefully into the threads as they undo, but be careful, because there will be a LOT of smoke if you've got it hot properly.
Driving part is much better in your job of course