DaveH

Well, having checked all suggestions, I’ve come to the conclusion it’s not from the Spit. Still, good game for a while eh! 🤪

😂 And now I find myself tea in hand, leafing through the workshop manual. Must be the novelty of it all.

Oh, not many, 2k spirited miles per year. Im not definitely doing it, just researching. My mind often wanders off down deep rabbit holes! 🤪

Oh, I don’t, was just thinking ahead if I ever do a trunionless conversion. I’d either have to reuse the stubs I have or get new. Cheers Dave

It was the ‘don’t really know what I’m doing, so get everything in bits on the workbench’ method! Apart from the shock, didn’t touch that in the end.

Not sure why I picked this as my first newbie job, but after several hours spannering hammering and swearing, I managed to get to one of the trunnions. Packed solid with black grease, which might explain the stiffness. Cleaned it out, inspected the vertical link (looks good), and shoved it all back with a new grease nipple & big dose of ep90. Other side will have to wait as I noticed a few things I wasn’t prepared for (mostly bushes), plus looks like the inner hubs need some tlc as I think there’s a rubber or felt seal missing. Will likely go trunnionless if I rebuild all this properly, but how do you remove / install the stub axle? Seems a solid bugger.

Oh maybe! I did fold it down last weekend! I’ll go look.

Cheers chaps, I’ll rest easy knowing it’s likely not from the Spit. I had my doubts, especially as it’s Alu.

Spitty part or not. Wifey found it on the drive, now it’s got me worried that something has dropped off the Spit! Or maybe she put it there to drive me nuts. its light, so must be Aluminium. What the heck is it?! 🤔

Righto, thanks chief!

Mileage is a bit of an unknown. Speedo states 13k, but that could easily be a replacement speedo. Not many historical MOTs to give the real truth. Ball joints & TREs only being replaced as the boots flagged as an advisory, so I thought I’d replace the lot just to be safe. Shock bushes may be okay, no issues driving, they just look grimey, so swapping them out for SupaFlex ones. I suppose I’m quite risk adverse (comes from working in insurance) so just playing safe. May just go trunnionless at this rate! 😂

I have TRE’s, upper ball joints & lower shock bushes to change out at the same time, but is there anything else worth doing whilst I’m at that level of disassembly?

Righto, cheers!

Do we have a preferred choice of trunnion / supplier, or are they all much of a muchness?

Busted out the EP90 to oil the trunnions as first port of call. No joy, couldn’t get anything through the grease nipples so took them off. Gunged solid with grease. Couldn’t get anything in the trunnions with the nips off either, so I’m guessing they are packed too. looks like I’ll be stripping or replacing those then when I do the TRE’s.