A little knoweledge is definatly dangerous
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I have often heard that saying over the last 50 years off and on but not fully understanding why that would ever apply to me. I DO NOW.
I had a little off in my Tuscan and it needs a new lower suspension arm .While I was replacing the arm I thought I would replace the rose joints as well as they had taken quite a shock through them. I bought a new arm and spent several hours sanding and painting it up and it looked superb even if I say so myself. Feeling rather buoyed by how well it was all going I thought I would put in the new top of the line rose joints and get the arm etc back on so the car could have all the geo set up on it at my local garage.That's where it all went horribly wrong, first rose joint just screwed in ok into the arm, end socket and I thought how easy was that so I started screwing in the second rose joint. It was a little stiff to start with no more so than the first then it got a little harder so I thought I would just use a spanner to help screw it in a bit further. The enlightened of you will now be saying what a plonker and the unenlightened such as myself will be thinking so what just give it a little more persuasion.I thought to myself this don't feel right so I will take it back out and see what's what. As I tried to unscrew it, it just would not budge any which way not in a vice with a huge spanner on it not forward or back. I have never come across this phenomenon before it's called cold welded. I had basically cold welded my shiny new rose joint into my shiny new lower arm. Off to my local garage who had to put heat onto my lovely shiny lower arm with an acetylene torch, that's burning off my paintwork, to a lay man. As they were unscrewing the joint out it decided to break half the threaded shaft off in the arm socket. Now it is at my local engineering company to see if they can drill it out at £50 an hour labour, he thinks it will be about an hours job.If it won't drill out ok, I will have to buy another new arm at £190 because he won't Helicoil a suspension arm and a new rose joint at £12 total £202 repaint it all add that to the initial purchase of £202.That all adds up to me just going out side now to open my wallet in the high street pull my trousers down and just throw the whole contents of my wallet into the gail force wind to see what that feels like instead. Cold welding WTF !!!!!
My new arm having heat added.....
The remains of the rose joint shaft in the socket...........
I had a little off in my Tuscan and it needs a new lower suspension arm .While I was replacing the arm I thought I would replace the rose joints as well as they had taken quite a shock through them. I bought a new arm and spent several hours sanding and painting it up and it looked superb even if I say so myself. Feeling rather buoyed by how well it was all going I thought I would put in the new top of the line rose joints and get the arm etc back on so the car could have all the geo set up on it at my local garage.That's where it all went horribly wrong, first rose joint just screwed in ok into the arm, end socket and I thought how easy was that so I started screwing in the second rose joint. It was a little stiff to start with no more so than the first then it got a little harder so I thought I would just use a spanner to help screw it in a bit further. The enlightened of you will now be saying what a plonker and the unenlightened such as myself will be thinking so what just give it a little more persuasion.I thought to myself this don't feel right so I will take it back out and see what's what. As I tried to unscrew it, it just would not budge any which way not in a vice with a huge spanner on it not forward or back. I have never come across this phenomenon before it's called cold welded. I had basically cold welded my shiny new rose joint into my shiny new lower arm. Off to my local garage who had to put heat onto my lovely shiny lower arm with an acetylene torch, that's burning off my paintwork, to a lay man. As they were unscrewing the joint out it decided to break half the threaded shaft off in the arm socket. Now it is at my local engineering company to see if they can drill it out at £50 an hour labour, he thinks it will be about an hours job.If it won't drill out ok, I will have to buy another new arm at £190 because he won't Helicoil a suspension arm and a new rose joint at £12 total £202 repaint it all add that to the initial purchase of £202.That all adds up to me just going out side now to open my wallet in the high street pull my trousers down and just throw the whole contents of my wallet into the gail force wind to see what that feels like instead. Cold welding WTF !!!!!
My new arm having heat added.....
The remains of the rose joint shaft in the socket...........
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