oldmate wrote:Hi guys, this is two seperate question but thought id ask them together... Firstly, what do people think about changing your own windscreen. I imagine there are alot of expense tools involved and could be quite easy to stuff up?? Any thoughts?
Secondly, i want to change the CV joints at the front of my 86 Leone. Can anyone recommend a good place to find a walk through of the job? I hear its pretty straight forward.
cheers.
I'm almost incapable mechanically and I changed out a CV (after some fuss with custom parts) it was fairly easy. Haven't hunted this site with the search tool to find any threads on it, but I did youtube how to do it and there's a lot of videos on the subject.
My suggestions for a beginner on what is already talked of on youtube and here:
- Be 1000% sure you've all you need for the task before you get under and get dirty.
- Get more CV joint steel ties than you think you need, I stuffed up a few learning to get them properly tight.
- Have enough retaining pins, in-case you break some like I did.
- Get the CV tie tool - you can get them much, much tighter than simple pliers will ever do it. It's worth it.
- Remember to have enough grease on hand
- Have tonnes of rags, damn I got greasy hands doing it. A bit of Barrier Cream before hand would probs have helped with the grease.
- The drive pin will only fit into the hub one way, if you've gotta force it hard with a hammer initially then it's not in right, muck about with it and it should go 80% of the way in by hand easily enough.
- I found it easier to pull the whole hub assembly off, completely detaching it from the shocky, otherwise I couldn't get the new it to re-mount easily. Might be more work initially, but it saved some hard yacker later.
