money_one_four wrote on 31.12.2011 at 15:49:51:

a copper hammer and patience man..

will you take shaft right off or just one end and grovel underneath??
(make sure it aint the output shaft bearings giving you the vibes.. i felt em on the dash on mine.. they werre buggared but still past the MOT.. in eastbourne
happy new year man

Happy New Year Roly ,

I think the XJ8 set up is different to our old models ,I have been under there to do the shocks but I'm blowed if I can remember .

Al S.S.O.C

Hi to all ,
nobody left any helpfull advice so can only presume none of you have tackled this job , so I will leave some instead .

No special tools needed and it's just a straight forward job of undoing nuts and bolts to get the shafts out and the UJ's just knock out as normal .

One last tip , try to do this job on a warm day if working outside , -2 took all the fun out of it 

Alan S.S.O.C

Brian - I would suspect worn A frame bushes - soft but not slack enogh to fail MOT. Could also be the bushes in the diagonal tie rods - these soften and MOT testers hardly bother looking at them.
Alan - what was the torque on the driveshaft to hub nuts? - these are often too tight for 1/2 drive kit.
Cheers

Hi Roly – Mine looks something to your but with the added bonus of outboard brakes. Trouble is I have a bit of an issues with a noise which I cannot for the life of me pin down. One minute I reckon it’s a wheel bearing the next a pinion or diff issue. I’m hoping to get it on a lift this weekend to have a look.

How difficult/easy is it to drop the rear cradle? I’m assuming the worst in it being the diff!

Happy days

Hello to all you impatient people , seasons greetings (yes I know it's late)

Anyway , to answer the question did it stop the wobble , yes to a point , very much improved , however it has not cured it totally , I will be having new tyres and the 4 wheel tracking done next . Possibly the prop-shaft UJs might need replacing next if no luck .

Torque setting for the hub-nut , this was done by an educated guess , these can be found in the educated guess section of the manual you don't have 

Holidays NO Work Yes .

All the best

Alan S.S.O.C

Brian wrote on 25.01.2012 at 23:08:43:

Hi Brian , this tool that you have made for the bushes can we see a photo please , and can it be used without the need to remove the A-Frame ? .

Alan S.S.O.C

Al, will take some photos to-morrow, made tool from bits and pieces found in workshop, enables bushes to be removed installed without removing A frame. It took me about an hour once tool was made(each side)


Brian

here is a couple of photos of tool I made up to remove install A frame bushes on my X300, same as X308

OPPS will try to resize and post again  Brian....bloody mobile phones

another, the large threaded cylinder is a 4" pipe nipple, left over from a fitting job I did, the a bush fits inside this when extracted. the other tool pulls the bush  back into the frame,just tighten nut.

Al, I may live in Wisbech...but I am NOT a carrot cruncher !!the nearest I get to anything agricultural is a Range Rover, and then only under duress. Replaced the o/s A frame bush yesterday, the n/s was the one knocking, but having done one, might as well do the pair. This was much tighter than the n/s, just as well my tool was of the heavy duty variety, when pulling the bush out it is worth triming the rubber which protudes from the top of the bush before assembling tool, as this jams up as the bush squashes, have included a coupl of photos, the flash photos make the rust stand out, it does not look like that in 'real' life
Brian

here you can see where the rubber gets trapped, trim up and it then pulls through ok.

All back together

Nice job Brian , tell me what is all that white stuff ? never seen that in the countryside before 

Alan S.S.O.C