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Lawrence Tilly (L_Tilly)
| | Posted on Saturday, August 10, 2002 - 06:34 pm: | 
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Well, this afternoon I started the installation of my new OME HD setup and in the first hour I had two pieces of Rover joy come up.
First, two of my lug nuts no longer fit inside my tire iron. I was told the actual nut inside the pretty silver casing has probably rusted and swelled. Does anyone know the best place to get these seperately or at the most a set of five? I do not want to spend $130+ for 20 when I only need two.
The second was I found if you let your shock tower bolts rust enough they are REALLY easy to remove. And I don't mean the nuts...I mean the whole bolt.  Out of eight bolts six of them sheared right off. Two of those took so little effort to break that I could thought the socket wasn't even in place. So I also need to replace those for both front shocks. I found a "Shock Tower Securing Ring" at AB (#572087) for ~ $14 each. I was wondering if anyone else has had to replace these before? Is that the right part (AB's closed right now so I can't call them)? Do they just drop in or is it more involved?
Of course, the reason I'm asking these questions instead of checking it out on the truck is that while taking out bolt #8 I managed to slip a tool and sliced the palm of my hand open.  So, I'm doing the hunt-and-peck one-handed typing thing right now while the pain fades. <insert beer>
Thanks for listening to my adventure so far. If anyone has info on the above questions, please let me know. If anyone else has bad Rover-work stories, feel free to share...misery loves company!!!
Lawrence [email protected]
96 Disco "Beowulf"
NH, USA |
alhang
| | Posted on Saturday, August 10, 2002 - 09:14 pm: |
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you can buy them individually at the dealer ($10-$12) each I think or people usually have them for sale when they switch to steel rims. If you can't find any locally, let me know I have some used ones I can sell for real cheap. |
Ron
| | Posted on Saturday, August 10, 2002 - 09:19 pm: |
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I replaced the rings. BUY GENUINE!
just a tip.
RN has them for about what AB has.
Ron |
bender2033
| | Posted on Saturday, August 10, 2002 - 11:45 pm: |
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Dude, I was installing my RoverTym springs and new OME shocks today too! I found the rear to be fairly easy (needed a spring compressor for the right rear though) but the fronts are a cast iron biatch. I will have to finish them tomorrow.
Good luck! |
E Snyder
| | Posted on Monday, August 12, 2002 - 12:40 am: |
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Pretty common to break the shock tower nuts. I even broke on of the new ones when replacing the rings! Oh well...
Try a junkyard. I got a rim and 5 lug nuts there.
If you change tires on your own much (from trail to street, etc.) it's a good idea to WD-40 your lug nuts in between.
Something sounds wierd about that last statement... |
Mike
| | Posted on Monday, August 12, 2002 - 02:52 pm: |
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Lawrence WHen you done I'd like to hear any pointers or advise as I am about to start doing the same. How long did it take and did you have to use a spring compressor? |
Lawrence Tilly (L_Tilly)
| | Posted on Monday, August 12, 2002 - 03:50 pm: |
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Hi, Mike.
I'm only about 20% done after two days of work, but not because it's a difficult process...
The first piece of advice I would offer would be to be sure you're not in a rush. The next piece would be to go thru in advance and be sure you can break the lock on all bolts. You don't need to remove them, just make sure you can turn them. If not, start the penetrating oil, rust-eater, whatever and keep applying it daily until you're able to turn all of them. A great thing about the Disco is that you can access and test all these bolts without really having to tear much apart (maybe jack it up or take a wheel off if you need to). This way you won't have any surprises once you start tearing things apart.
I was all set to get this done in 4-6 hours and dedicated a full day to do it, expecting some problems. It turned out (as you may have seen from other threads) that every one of the bolts that needs to be removed for this process were a block of rust. I spent the better part of two days trying one corner of the truck and then the next with a combination of methods and this afternoon I'm finally just cutting the nuts off (no pun intended).
I did rent a pair of spring compressors, and I own a 3 ton floor jack and tall jack-stands. So, if it wasn't for the siezure problem I expect it would have been completed in an afternoon. I will be finishing up this week (I have a Rover event to attend Fri - Sun!!!) and will post here of any other surprises / tips that may come up.
Lawrence [email protected]
96 Disco "Beowulf"
NH, USA |
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