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Re:Re:Drop link removal?
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I have tried tilting, twisting in every direction but it would need an extra 5-10mm which is simply not achiveable!
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As to how to get that off there has to be a way, it cannot have grown there. I certainly don't remember having that issue when I had to replace mine. Good luck.
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This does leave the puzzle unanswered unfortunately.
Something has to give, shorted the thread or bend the tab?
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However you appear to have had a welded repair done to the panhard mount which also affects the drop link, there is a piece of heavy duty metal in that's taking up the room.
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I was thinking that's a wierd bracket! Now I know why it looks wierd...I guess it's been done when my car was fixed after a minor accident in 2017. They possibly have welded the extra piece after fitted the new link otherwise I could take it out later. Would it be wise to cut/grind out a gap on the side of the bracket so the drop link could be shifted sideways, instead of through the hole? MOT failure?
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Alternatively leaving the bracket as it is, cutting-off the link then replace with a new one externally as Lambert said?
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Drive it steady till you get used to how it feels
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Lambert wrote: OK so it did grow there. If you have a dremmel tool or proper die grinder then you could very carefully manipulate the hole in the bracket to allow the thread to clear. The thread is acting in tension clamping against the flat of the bracket rather than having a shank and acting as a dowel on the hole in the bracket so from an engineering point of view the hole could just as easily be a slot so long as it retains the same locating feature relative to the axle. In other words if you extend the hole forward slightly away from the axle and keep the edge of the hole near the axle untouched you will be able to get the link out and still put it back in the same place.
I was going to say similar, but a bit more hill-billy... drill sideways into the existing hole at an angle so the thread will go through (having cut the old one off)
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So maybe some axle changes over the years mines 2004
Not that it matters to me no arb fitted
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