16-03-18, 06:44 PM
It put up a good fight but I'm relieved to say I won! The spring pressure wasn't enough even with me putting all my weight on it. To go the broom handle route as I said I had to cut the bent part of the stanchion off which I would've had to do anyway to get the spring and hopefully damper rod out.
Broom handle didn't work to bite into the damper so I tried a cricket post which fits up into the damping rod top and gripped good but then the whole thing span as one...
In the end I put an 8mm Allen key through the top brake calliper mounting hole and used a ratchet strap round that and the cricket post to exhert more force than I could using my body and used as you say a battery impact driver and after maybe a minute of that it finally gave in!
Thanks for the petrol tip I'll make sure to give it all a good wash out. Right now one of the damping rods which had a slight bit of corrosion I'm guessing because the stanchion was so bent it split and was already drained of oil is having a little soak with some acf 50 and tomorrow I'll give it a gentle rub with some wire wool. For today though I've got a bottle of 10% abv wheat wine from the brewery at the end of my road to celebrate my victory with :lol
Broom handle didn't work to bite into the damper so I tried a cricket post which fits up into the damping rod top and gripped good but then the whole thing span as one...
In the end I put an 8mm Allen key through the top brake calliper mounting hole and used a ratchet strap round that and the cricket post to exhert more force than I could using my body and used as you say a battery impact driver and after maybe a minute of that it finally gave in!
Thanks for the petrol tip I'll make sure to give it all a good wash out. Right now one of the damping rods which had a slight bit of corrosion I'm guessing because the stanchion was so bent it split and was already drained of oil is having a little soak with some acf 50 and tomorrow I'll give it a gentle rub with some wire wool. For today though I've got a bottle of 10% abv wheat wine from the brewery at the end of my road to celebrate my victory with :lol