206cc to a 308cc How ? Why ? Everything 308cc

[myglaren]

I have just taken my Mazda to the car doctor. Oil and filter change (six-monthly with this thing), handbrake adjustment and fix the unholy clatter that started when driving over speed bumps last Friday, not fast either. I am expecting it to be an exhaust bracket, haven't looked.
Also a five mile walk, first back from the garage s missed the bus by a minute, was on the opposite side of the road, then a walk to a cash machine, heating engineer coming first thing tomorrow.
All fun and games

[Huskyxantia]

Always comes at once. Not a spring broken is it my 308 made a rattle clatter sound not long after it got it, spring broken on passenger side front, that was my first repair on it.,hope yours turns out ok and not to expensive

[myglaren]

I don't think it is a spring, the noise sounds like the exhaust on the offside clattering on the bottom of the boot.

[Huskyxantia]

What a day, ive serviced the car and replaced the passenger side lower ball joint split dust cover , I then found the upper tie rod dust cover was split so shnahed that too , here's how I handled the coiled clip


After all this I was told off by the wife because I wasn't meant to of been doing what I did , so im now suffering not only ear ache but I can't move my legs properly and it feels like ive got a jumbo jet sitting on my lower back, on the plus side the car is mot ready ! Where's me pain killers

[Huskyxantia]

Well im happy to of read the above as I'd forgot that , how ever I recall the car slide on some ice a while back and I hit a kerb with the driver front wheel , didn't hit it at any hard speed as I was aiming to park up then it just slid and hit the kerb. After I noticed the steering angle was a bit off but only a tad , bloody annoying... so now I've inner wear on the driver wheel and I reckon the lower ball joint possibly naff ,

Lower ball joint 42 mm ?

Anyways 2 punctures thanks to a incompetent gen z moving furniture and dropping lose screws everywhere then denied everything after, dont you love people like that , there even on cctv .... oh well that's a lower ball joint thanks to the cold snap a while back and 2 punctual repairs that need doing , when I took the car to my mot garage last autumn 2025, the chap pulled out a big beach pebble hidden between lower stablizer bar and car body he said the wheel with inner wear wasn't to bab and it would pass as its not the full fave of the tire. So I am in march going to get this car back on the road ... watch this space. Reason I took the car to the garage, I needed it up on a ramp as it was making a rattling noise and I couldn't find it .

[Huskyxantia]

For a 307 but the set up is the same


Plus he's old school

[Huskyxantia]

On order us pro 41mm deep impact socket plus a 42mm spanner sealey brand both will arrive Saturday (fingers crossed) I went for both options size and tool . Update will follow, however my old health gremlins as starting up again ,flipping annoying too.

[MattBLancs]

Lower ball joint 42 mm ?

Yep, deep socket needed for it (and big breaker bar - chuffing tight!!!)

EDIT just watched some of the video - must be 41 not 42

Spoiler: show

obviously I was getting mixed up with the meaning of life

Spoiler: show

as per Douglas Adams

[MattBLancs]

Have a read here:
viewtopic.php?p=805394#p805394

I can't spot the conclusion, but short version is:
Bought a set of various 1/2" drive deep impact sockets, including the needed 41mm,
Turns out it's not deep enough, long thread of the ball joint stud reaching too far into the socket. Thread size is bigger than the half inch square recess (which is deeper than needed for the breaker bar to connect its square into) so I did look at trying to machine inside the socket out a touch.
I bought a 3/4" breaker bar and a set of deep sockets for that (triggered by the Blue 308 overtight hub nut) and the 3/4" deep socket 41mm did the job

[MattBLancs]

Did that 307 get the jack under the (not reinforced bit of the) sill!
(axle stand on the correct bit)

[Huskyxantia]

Did that 307 get the jack under the (not reinforced bit of the) sill!
(axle stand on the correct bit)

I did have a hands over the eyes moment myself , waiting for the jack to slowly sink into the cars metal like a knife in butter

[Huskyxantia]

Have a read here:
viewtopic.php?p=805394#p805394

I can't spot the conclusion, but short version is:
Bought a set of various 1/2" drive deep impact sockets, including the needed 41mm,
Turns out it's not deep enough, long thread of the ball joint stud reaching too far into the socket. Thread size is bigger than the half inch square recess (which is deeper than needed for the breaker bar to connect its square into) so I did look at trying to machine inside the socket out a touch.
I bought a 3/4" breaker bar and a set of deep sockets for that (triggered by the Blue 308 overtight hub nut) and the 3/4" deep socket 41mm did the job

I've seen 41mm mentioned then 42mm I got a 42 mm spanner and 41mm 85mm deep socket so ones going to work , all else fails I've an inner tie rod socket which will fit , plus the new rattle gun, pr spanner and 3 foot scaffolding tube , im prepared for all forms of getting these off

[Huskyxantia]

Pr spanner is a typo dont no where pr come from

[RichardW]

It's def 41mm, but I imagine 42 would do. I've got a Laser (I think) socket, 1/2" drive, which is just deep enough. These can be very difficult to get out - largely due to the thread in the hub often being poorly cut. Last one I did on my 3008 came out very hard, and then I couldn't screw the new one back in - had to get a thread file and spend half an hour working at the thread to recover it. Working on the floor, I wouldn't attempt it on the car - it's much easier in the vice, and copious heat may be required. Although you are down south where there is less salt.... TBH, you have probably bent the track rod a bit, so you could probably just get the tracking adjusted.

[Huskyxantia]

Thanks Richard, I didn't think of the track rod , that makes sense will check that when before hand seeing as many parts now havnt really got the build quality like the old days its worth me checking it out , tracking is easy I use my old string method and tape measures