It has been run with the pinchbolt slack, new bolt and a good tighten might hold it as per the pics aboveI wiped off the strut and found the ball joint is good but has play in the housing around the ball joint pin ,
It is not rare, I see quite a few problem is, people over open them with a chisel (which is Normal) but they go too far because the joint is sometimes a struggle to come out, then the pinch bolt doesnt clamp the ball again sometimes a few taps with a hammer help it reclamp sometimes have to use a cap head bolt to get the extra clamping effect but usually can get them back into shape.so its either the ball joint pin worn or the hub housing has worn, rare as that may be
Crikey I know Berlingo's aren't particularly well made but just reading about problems causes them to happen that's terrible, they are even more unreliable than I had previously thought.I reckon reading about it has caused it.
It has been run with the pinchbolt slack, new bolt and a good tighten might hold it as per the pics above
It is not rare, I see quite a few problem is, people over open them with a chisel (which is Normal) but they go too far because the joint is sometimes a struggle to come out, then the pinch bolt doesnt clamp the ball again sometimes a few taps with a hammer help it reclamp sometimes have to use a cap head bolt to get the extra clamping effect but usually can get them back into shape.
Make sure when you take the calliper bolts out you knock the Torx wrench in well. They have a very shallow recess and are threadlocked so the heads strip out easily.
And the funds dwindle, need new drop links now, had to cut them off.....£10 to replace
If buying from www.eurocarparts.com also check their other site www.carparts4less.co.uk the same items are usually cheaper.
I had to cut The drop link on mine, cost £7 and the spring was £23. The springs are long and have to compress a helluvalot to fit them.
Tell me. The compressor I have are no where near enough. Lucky though mate down the road has a gud one I can use tomoz afternoon
I used the Machine Mart SC1000, took me a few goes to get the strut to stay centred and you have to compress it from 18" down to about 10" to get the bearing and top on. I've got it all back together now and can look at the exhaust which is what I was going to do when the spring broke
I do like the Berlingo, cheap to run and goes for ever on fuel, good to be back on 50mpg as to the FTO neing < 25mpg.
My springs have arrived now so this weekend, not tonight i cant be bothered. i will have a go at seeing if the HD spring compressors will work. Dose the job in the past on some Discovery coils, dam long ones they were. Best had work any way.
I fitted the new wishbone and before hand i measured it ( the ball joint pin) and the old one is .65mm narrow than the new one.
I tried to tighten the old one up as much as possible but still didnt do the job.
So now new discs and pads and coils , just the axle when i can be bothered. easy as you guys have said, when i done the SWMBO`s Pug it was about a 4-5hr job. just a pin to do with having to swap all parts over.
That was the easy bit. Never liked torx fitting, male or female. dont see the dam point over a nut and bolt. Infact there is no point for them.
i did say there are two different pin sizes on the ball joint looks like someone previously fitted a wrong one
hope you get your springs sorted
FIL is a chugger, always changing up a gear before 2-2.5k rpm which really doesn't help but they are known for this judder, you can be sat on the motorway at 70 in 5th and it will start doing it. The wife has a Pug 306 that is the same basic engine but with different engine management bits on, I think her's uses Bosch where as the Berlingo uses something else but her Pug pulls smoothly from idle in any gear where as the Berlingo won't.
@W.olly feel free to post what you're doing on your Berlingo and I'll post any tips that I remember. The hub bearings are easy to do, just destroy the bearing then remove the inner race by slitting most of the way through it and then splitting it with a hammer and chisel in the slit. As for the outer race run a ring of weld around the inside of it and then cool with water and it will virtually fall out on it's own. Always watch that you don't pull a driveshaft out of the gearbox as it's very easy to when removing a hub.
Check the rear wishbone bush is okay, I can't remember if I've done them on FIL's Berlingo but I definately have done it on the wife's Pug as they are a known weak point that creates a knocking noise, there is a much stronger compatible part off the Pug Partner van that's a simple swop, IIRC only the mounting bolts are one size bigger and it's only a 2 min job to drill out the holes in the subframe.