[DeTomaso] FW: Rear Suspension

Charles McCall charlesmccall at gmail.com
Fri May 9 05:23:39 EDT 2008


I recently disassembled my rear A-arms and greased the shaft through
the lower upright. My recommendation is not to try to hammer the shaft out.
I removed both nuts and then first stacked large washers over one end
and then reinstalled a standard nut (not a nylok) and then

 tightened
the nut to pull the shaft out of the upright. Once it was out as
far as the stack of washers, I used progressively longer PVC pipe fittings
over the end of the shaft and one big washer for the nut to bear against.
This allowed me to pull the shaft out easily without a lot of banging
with the hammer. Steve Freeman suggested this to me and it worked a
lot better than the hammer (I know because I tried the hammer first!)

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That's a great idea for various reasons. I tried a hammer and ended up
mushrooming the shaft just enough so that you couldn't get the nut back on.
I ended up buying a die set to rethread the shaft. 

This may be a case where brains is far superior to brawn. 




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