changing windscreen and cv joints

oldmate · Post by **oldmate** » Wed May 15, 2013 7:31 pm

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.

60766244 · Post by **60766244** » Wed May 15, 2013 8:16 pm

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.

Silverbullet · Post by **Silverbullet** » Wed May 15, 2013 9:14 pm

Since your car is an 86' I'm assuming it's an "L series" which have a bonded windscreen. Not like the earlier "MY" model that had a rubber seal. The bonded screens are difficult to remove yourself without breaking it. If you're not worried about breaking it go for your life, you just have to scrape off all of the old glass/bonding agent from the windscreen frame. Installing a new one shouldn't be very hard, just lay a bead of new bonding agent around the frame and lower the glass in (probably need 2 people) put a couple of spacers at the bottom and sides to keep the gap even and let it go off, then seal up the outside edges with more sealer and/or weatherstripping.

I almost got to this stage with my piece of scrap L series...then got a Brumby