10 minute drop link change

[Doggy]

Prepping my bro's car for the MOT today, we set about changing a noisy nsf drop link. I almost got the grinder out as a matter of course, but the voice of eternal optimism prompted me to try undoing it first, (you never know)....

More in hope than expectation, I wiped the mass of road dirt off the nut at the damper end, to find is was a large dollop of dust-encrusted copper slip. Hexagon key in the centre of the stud, ratchet spanner on the nut, quick tug and it undid like it had been fitted yesterday.
Mildly impressed, I tried the same at the a/r bar end, it was just as easy.
Like an F1 pitstop it was.....

Amazingly enough, another half hour had the wheels swapped over, (for some with tread) and the handbrake holding firmly on 5 clicks.

Seems you can't lose them all. I commend the copper slip initiative to the house.

[Welly]

Nice bit of luck there, it coulda been a whole lot worst.

The garage what opened next door to where I do my work routinely apply a dollop of something similar on all regular customers' sussy parts, they said it makes their job easier next time around.

[dirtydirtydiesel]

+2 I've been copersliping these kind of fixings for the last twenty years or so because as said it's loads easyer next time round
& your everso glad you did

[markw]

+3!
It certainly makes it easier for the next bod who comes along . Which in my case is me.