Okay, so we suck at keeping the BLOG updated, but we promise we will improve.

Anyway, we left you at the point where we discovered that we had gotten the wrong replacement CV joints for our car. We have since been trying to return those CV joints to the reseller in the UK, but everything is just going so f***ing slow.
So after getting a tip about a local reseller that might have what we needed at a reasonable price we ended up with even another pair of CV joints.

Saturday 19.09.2009 – Changing the outer CV joints on a 1993 Opel/Vauxhall Frontera part 4

With new CV joints in the backseat and my day free I enlisted the help of our trusted hobby mechanic Eirik. Installing the new joints went like a breeze until we started mounting the wheel hubs. Turns out there there was a about half a millimeter in difference on the end of the shaft stopping the hubs from sliding fully onto the spline. Well, nothing you can´t fix with a file…

• New CV joints – check
• CV joint boots – check
• Wheel hubs – check

Nothing left to do but connect the steering links. Only one small challenge left; removing the steering links was not an easy task. So we ended up having to bank on the bolts with a sledge hammer. Turns out the threads on the bolts were not that happy about this. The suggested plan was to acquire a die to rethread the bolts.

Wednesday 23.09.2009 – Changing the outer CV joints on a 1993 Opel/Vauxhall Frontera part 5

Today I managed to take some time off my day job to finish up the car. Started the day by visiting every hardware shop I know to acquire the much needed die for the bolts on the steering links. Naturally I started with the lower price range shops, but none of them carried anything above M12 threads. Finally I ended up at RIS where they could happily inform me that what I was looking for was not standard threads, but they could charge me a small furtune and order the die I needed if I was 100% sure of the specification.. It became clear that I would have to go back to basics, a hacksaw blade, a strong wire cutter and a miniature file would have to do. After only four hours of fiddling with the bolts I finally managed to get all of the nuts to mate..