Hey All, I need some help. :help
My afternoon project was to replace all of the bottom idler wheels and bearings in the rear suspension of my '93 Jag. I believe this is what was called the Fasttrack suspenstion, and it has 6000 miles on all stock parts, so I figure it was due. I have the skid out anyways to replace the stock shocks with some Fox shocks and rear torsion springs out of a '95 ZR.
Here is a pic of the skid: [attachment=61454:IMG_0608.jpg]
I got everything pulled off the the pretty trashed ZR suspension without any problems! Cat happy
But then I started trying to pull the idler wheels off of the Jas suspension and ran into my first problem. The allen nut in the lock collar on the upper axel that the torsion spring mounts around is stuck tight. I have sprayed a lot of WD-40 on it and they still aren't budging. bang your head I am very paranoid about striping out the allen nut, so am taking it a bit easy, hopefully it will come eventually. Do any of you know of any better loosening sprays?
But my real question is, I don't see how to remove the 4 idler wheels that are inside the rails. On the middle set, shown here: [attachment=61455:IMG_0611.jpg]
I can only manage to get 1 of the bolts mounting the axel loose, cause once the blue loctite broke loose on one of the bolts the axel just spins when trying to loosen the other bolt. So then I thought I could just unbolt the mounting plate from the rails, pull the whole thing out and pull everything off from one side. But the lip on the bottom and top of the rails prevents this. So, how do I approach this?
Then on the most forward set of center idler wheels, pic here: [attachment=61456:IMG_0613.jpg]
I removed the bold that holds the lower torsion spring mount, but I can't see for the life of me how to proceed from here with getting at these idler wheels.
I have a Clymer's manual, but it doesn't give detailed instuctions on this.
Obviously this is my first attempt at this, and I am clueless, but I am sure a lot of you have done this and will know some tricks. Thanks in advance for the advice!!! :site:
Wayne
My afternoon project was to replace all of the bottom idler wheels and bearings in the rear suspension of my '93 Jag. I believe this is what was called the Fasttrack suspenstion, and it has 6000 miles on all stock parts, so I figure it was due. I have the skid out anyways to replace the stock shocks with some Fox shocks and rear torsion springs out of a '95 ZR.
Here is a pic of the skid: [attachment=61454:IMG_0608.jpg]
I got everything pulled off the the pretty trashed ZR suspension without any problems! Cat happy
But then I started trying to pull the idler wheels off of the Jas suspension and ran into my first problem. The allen nut in the lock collar on the upper axel that the torsion spring mounts around is stuck tight. I have sprayed a lot of WD-40 on it and they still aren't budging. bang your head I am very paranoid about striping out the allen nut, so am taking it a bit easy, hopefully it will come eventually. Do any of you know of any better loosening sprays?
But my real question is, I don't see how to remove the 4 idler wheels that are inside the rails. On the middle set, shown here: [attachment=61455:IMG_0611.jpg]
I can only manage to get 1 of the bolts mounting the axel loose, cause once the blue loctite broke loose on one of the bolts the axel just spins when trying to loosen the other bolt. So then I thought I could just unbolt the mounting plate from the rails, pull the whole thing out and pull everything off from one side. But the lip on the bottom and top of the rails prevents this. So, how do I approach this?
Then on the most forward set of center idler wheels, pic here: [attachment=61456:IMG_0613.jpg]
I removed the bold that holds the lower torsion spring mount, but I can't see for the life of me how to proceed from here with getting at these idler wheels.
I have a Clymer's manual, but it doesn't give detailed instuctions on this.
Obviously this is my first attempt at this, and I am clueless, but I am sure a lot of you have done this and will know some tricks. Thanks in advance for the advice!!! :site:
Wayne
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