No prizes for guessing who won this war

[Dean Lofthouse]

Landrover drop arm and weapon of choice

[Tom D]

Could you not get the bottles on it dean? I take it you tried.. although it doesn't look scorched enough for me. You can't beat a bit of oxy..

[Dean Lofthouse]

Could you not get the bottles on it dean? I take it you tried.. although it doesn't look scorched enough for me. You can't beat a bit of oxy..

 

It knackers the seals on the steering box output shaft Tom, although I very nearly thought "to hell with it"

[Shane]

Last time I had one of those stuck (on a knackered steering box) I removed the box/arm together. Padded out around the drop arm and then needed 5 full hits (17 stone tree surgeon in a bad mood type hits) with a sledge hammer to separate the two .

By then the old steering box (especially the thread) wasn't repairable.

 

I still love my landrovers though

[Dean Lofthouse]

The new drop arm has gone onto the splines with a very liberal dose of copper ease, next time it will just fall off

[Shane]

The new drop arm has gone onto the splines with a very liberal dose of copper ease, next time it will just fall off

 

Hahahahahaha

Good luck Dean

[woody paul]

Last time I did a drop arm broke a 15 ton hydraulic puller from a local farmer landed up chain drilled it and then took a kango to it no problem apart from ringing in ears.

[david]

what was the reason for taking the arm off?

[Dean Lofthouse]

I took the arm off because last time the ball joint went I used a kit, but couldn't change the inner part because it needed pressing out and to do that I needed to take the arm off. the price difference between the complete arm and a kit was very little so I have just changed the whole lot this time

[Tom D]

I did one once, but got it off with the bottles, I had the whole thing out and in a vice though and was canny with the heat...