Well after fitting the rear shocks lat night and "attempting" to fit the fronts at silly o'clock last night. We got started on the car around lunchtime today. Still faced with the issues of removing the stabiliser bars. Anyway we got there in the end, it's been a lot of effort to get the front apart and back together but it's near enough there now. Few pictures from along the way,
first up up was to remove the drop link that connects the anti roll bar to the shock, easy enough with an Allen key and a 16mm spanner.
then removed the three 13mm topmounts bolts
We then removed the stabiliser bar by using the buzz gun and a pair of grips as they were a total nightmare to remove. Then removed the track rod end, and ball joint nut, removed the pinch bolt from the hub and slid the hub off the shock and off the car.
the standard shock vs the AST coilover unit
then just assembled in reverse order, put the shock upto the strut to and tightened up the three m8 bolts
then re-fitted the hub, stabiliser bar and track rod end
the drivers side seemed to come apart very easy once we got going, so we thought happy days, only take an hour or so to do the other side, as with all Renaults nothing is ever that simple lol. After finally removing all the stabiliser bar from the other side, disc, calliper, track rod end ect, we were unable to remove the driveshaft from the hub whilst it was in the car. So we decided to drop the gearbox oil and remove the shaft from the box with the hub all in one go.....
with everything removed
and then after many hours messing about we finally got everything together. Still need to replace the two stabiliser bars which I've ordered from ktec and re-fill the gearbox oil with this
http://www.opieoils.co.uk/p-981-fuc...w-80-synthetic-manual-transmission-fluid.aspx
then it's all ready to be setup on Friday at Blink Motorsport.