I realise this is the french CAR forum, but I've looked high and low for info and can't find it anywhere, so I'm hoping one of you will know.
I've had to replace the NS strut for the MOT on the above van. I'm at the point of rebolting the hub up to the ball joint and putting it back on the ground. I just cannot, for the life of me depress the wishbone enough to slide the hub onto the top of the ball joint. I've got a hefty breaker bar, (at least 4' long and an inch thick), but even with my 205 lbs on the end of it, it just says "NON!"
Without the use of Citroen Service, finding the bolt part number took a short while, and the only part # I could get is 1349926080 and that came back as a Fiat number
My thinking is to just undo said bolt, pull the wishbone out of the subframe, bolt the hub up to the ball joint and slide the wishbone back into the subframe, but, I don't have an etorx socket big enough and I really don't want to spend ANOTHER anount of money on something I will use only once, i.e, a set of etorx sockets, (I have already purchased a smaller set of these to remove the pinch bolt), and this set only goes up to E22. It's bigger than that, but I don't know what size. If I phone Citroen they'll only want to sell me a new bolt and I don't need that, just the damned size of the socket, which they won't give me, (I've tried before for another part and got short shrift from the parts dept).
I've tried measuring the etorx sockets I purchased earlier to try see if the E "size" on the socket had any baring on the dimensions but I'm damned if the size bore any correlation at all.
I've attached a workshop image with the bolt "arrowed". If anyone knows the size of this socket I'd be most appreciative of the info. Failing that, if anyone knows a different method to depress the wishbone further and saving removing it, (I don't do this for a living, but I'm no idiot, nor one for not wanting to do the job myself), then I'd love to hear it.
Thanks in advance.
). I've read that the usual way to refill the fluid is through the reverse switch, but I had a clutch fitted by Drydens many years ago and they ripped the reverse switch wiring out when they dropped the box. I ran w/o a reverse light for several years after, (not knowing they'd done this), but when the MOT made a reverse light mandatory, I had to cobble the wiring back together having found the fault, so I'd rather not disturb it as it was a bloody norse trying to get 1/2" of wire to accept a spade connector to repair it.